Mooloolaba Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here. Let’s be straight up – if you’re hanging out for a proper session at Mooloolaba over the next couple of weeks, you’re gonna need some patience. It’s a pretty flat and messy run for the most part, with only a few brief windows of something surfable. The water temp is sitting at 68°, which is a bit colder than normal for this time of year, so you’ll want a good steamer.

We kick things off on Wednesday the 26th of August. Morning is cloudy with a light 3 mph cross-off breeze out of the SW. Swell is a weak 3 ft from the ENE at 8 seconds, and the combined energy is only 117 – not much punch. It’s clean and surfable, but very ordinary. That afternoon clears up and goes glassy with a 3 mph NE breeze, same small swell. It’s about as good as it gets this week, but honestly, it’s barely a paddle.

Thursday the 27th and Friday the 28th are both write-offs. Wind picks up hard from the SSE, 16 mph, with poor conditions and tiny 2 ft to 3 ft swell. Saturday the 29th has a brief respite – morning sees a light 6 mph SSE cross-off and 3 ft ENE swell (113 energy). Clean but unexciting. The weekend goes downhill fast: Sunday the 30th gets slammed by a 19 mph SSE cross-off, swell jumps to 6 ft–7 ft, but it’s short-period 6-second slop with energy climbing to 277. That’s all chop and no shape – more for kites than paddles.

Monday the 31st through to Friday the 4th of September is a long stretch of poor surf. Swell stays around 3 ft–4 ft, but winds are mostly cross or onshore, and energy is moderate but messy. Nothing worth getting out of bed for.

Saturday the 5th of September morning offers a tiny glimmer – 3 ft ENE swell with a light 3 mph SSE cross-off, clean, but only 102 energy. That’s about it. After that, it’s dead until Wednesday the 9th of September afternoon when a 12 mph SW offshore breeze cleans up a 2 ft E swell. Small, but the offshore wind will make it glassy. Energy is only 77 though.

The best of a very average bunch might be Thursday the 10th of September morning. Wind goes glassy with a 3 mph SSE breeze, 3 ft E swell at 8 seconds, and combined energy of 141. It’s clean, tiny, and ordinary, but it’s the cleanest wave you’ll see in the whole run. The afternoon sees a cross-onshore pick up, so if you’re gonna go, make it the morning.

No real standout sessions here, folks. It’s a quiet period with a lot of gaps. Even the best day is just “surfable but very ordinary.” Keep the board in the car, but don’t drive too far.

Rusty.

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