Maravi Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here with a look at what’s on the cards for the next 16 days. I’ve got to be straight with you – it’s a bleak run for Maravi. We’re looking at a solid blank period straight through. There’s not a single day in the whole 16-day window that I’d even bother paddling out for. The energy just isn’t there. The combined swell energy barely breaks out of the weak range, sitting at a paltry (50) at its absolute best on the morning of the 9th of September, and it pretty much just fades away into nothing after that. The wave comment on every single forecast is "poor surf conditions". That’s the long and short of it.

It’s one of those times where the ocean just goes quiet. The water temp at the start is sitting at 85°, which feels a touch warmer than normal for the time of year, but that’s small comfort when there’s nothing to ride.

We’ve got tiny slivers of swell – maybe 2ft at best on Wednesday the 9th and again on Monday the 15th – but with a short period of only 7 to 8 seconds, it’s gutless and disorganised, plus the wind is onshore or cross-onshore for nearly all the afternoons. Mornings are occasionally glassy, but there's literally no swell to take advantage of it.

To give you a sense of how quiet it is: from Wednesday morning the 9th right through to Thursday the 24th, hundreds of miles north-east of the equator, the surf is basically flat for paddle surfing. For that final stretch around the 22nd and 23rd, the swell height drops to 1ft with periods of 5 seconds. That’s barely a ripple. With the wind looking fresh to strong onshore on the weekend of the 19th and 20th, a spot like this is more interesting for kite surfing than trying to paddle a surfboard.

Sometimes the ocean just shuts down for a bit. Conditions like this are normal for the area when the charts go quiet. Hang in there, keep an eye on the forecasts, because it won’t stay poor forever.

Rusty.

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