Millers Landing Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, this is Rusty, and I gotta be straight with you—looking at the whole 16-day window for Millers Landing, it's a pretty grim run. There’s not a single session that’s worth paddling out for. The models are showing nothing but "poor surf conditions" across every single morning and afternoon, and the scores are all zeros. That’s a tough one to swallow.

The first day with any recorded swell starts on Tuesday, July 14th, but don’t get excited. We’re looking at tiny 1ft leftover energy from a long-period WSW groundswell (18 seconds), but with a light cross-onshore breeze from the W, it’s just messy and weak. The combined energy is only 108 (moderate), but with that wind and tiny size, it’s not gonna stack up.

The water temp is sitting at 70°, which is a touch warmer than normal for this time of year, with a 3° anomaly. That’s notable, but it doesn’t change the fact that there’s no surfable wave.

Wednesday and Thursday (July 15-16) are more of the same—tiny 1ft, with the wind switching between light onshore and cross-onshore. The energy drops to 86 (weak) and 61 (weak) on those mornings. It’s a total write-off.

We get a slight bump in size on Friday, July 17th, with 2ft from the WNW, but the period drops to only 9 seconds (short-period, sloppy), and the wind is still cross-onshore. The energy is up to 195 (moderate), but the quality is just not there. This is a beach and point setup that wants a clean W swell, but it’s getting the wrong direction and dirty wind.

The weekend of July 18-19 sees energy numbers climb into the 200s and even 300s (moderate to strong), but the swell height stays tiny at 1ft. The wind stays stubbornly cross-onshore, so it’s all chop and no shape. Even with the longer period returning on the 18th (18 seconds), the size is too small to do anything with.

The entire second week, from July 20th through to the 29th, is a dead loss. The swell height never gets above 3ft, the wind is consistently cross-onshore or cross, and the energy levels fluctuate but never translate into a clean wave. The best we see is 3ft on Saturday, July 25th afternoon, but with a moderate breeze from the NW and a 14-second period, it’s likely just a bumpy, closed-out mess.

Honestly, for Millers Landing, this is a total drought. The break is consistent, but it’s not getting any love from the swell or the wind. It’s one of those blank runs that’s more normal for this area when the alignment is off. All we can do is hope the forecasts change, because right now, it’s not looking like it’ll turn around.

- Rusty

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