Mawgan Porth Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let's chew the fat on what's coming up for Mawgan Porth over the next couple of weeks. I'll be straight with you – it looks pretty lean for a while.

We're kicking off with sweet FA on the cards. From now through the end of this week, the swell is tiny and the wind's all wrong. Monday the 6th and Tuesday the 7th are a total write-off – weak, onshore slop. Wednesday the 8th morning *almost* gives us a look-in, with a glassy surface and a weak 0.7m W swell (9 sec period, energy 90). It's rideable, but only just – "very ordinary" is being generous. Thursday the 9th morning is a similar deal – clean with a 0.7m W swell (9 sec, energy 91) and cross-offshore wind, but it's just too small to bother with. Friday the 10th morning is the best of a bad bunch – glassy again, 0.9m W swell (9 sec, energy 147), but we're talking knee-high dribble. If you're a beginner and you really need to get wet, these might give you a few, but for anyone else, it's a hard pass.

Then we hit a real flat spell from Saturday the 11th all the way through to the 17th of July. There's a moment on Sunday the 12th afternoon with a clean 0.7m NNE swell (energy 59), but the period is a pathetic 5 seconds – that's just wind-bumps with no grunt. It's basically flat for the best part of a week. Yeah, that gap from the 11th to the 16th is a dead zone for any real surfing.

Now, I gotta flag what's lining up for the 18th and 19th of July. There's some serious swell on the horizon. On Saturday the 18th, we see a 5.6ft WNW swell (7 sec period, energy 243) in the afternoon, and then on Sunday the 19th morning, it jumps to a 7.2ft NW swell (7 sec period, energy 515). That's a lot of water and the energy is pumping. But here's the rub: it's all being hammered by strong, fresh cross to cross-onshore winds. The wave report says "poor surf conditions" every time. That much juice with that wind just turns it into a lumpy, blown-out mess. For a beginner, that's way too big and dangerous in those winds. For the experts, it's just a washing machine. Honestly, at a river-mouth break like this, that setup might be more interesting for kite surfers than paddle boarders.

The last couple of days, the 20th and 21st of July, just keep the same story: moderate to strong swell with strong, messy cross-shore winds. The water temp is about normal for this time of year, nothing out of the ordinary.

So the bottom line: there are no true standouts. Your best bet is a tiny, clean wave on the morning of the 10th of July. Later on, the 18th and 19th have the size but are completely trashed by the wind. Keep checking the forecast, but right now, it's a waiting game. Anchors away.

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