Mutriku Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s heading our way for Mutriku. It’s a bit of a slow burn, so don’t get your hopes up too soon.

Right, straight off the bat, we’ve got a couple of days of tiny, close-to-nothing waves. Wednesday the 19th is a write-off with a meagre 1ft swell, flat and glassy but useless. Thursday morning the 20th finally shows a pulse of life. We’re looking at a 4ft groundswell from the NW with an 11-second period, which is good, but the real beauty is the glassy conditions. It’ll be clean, but the report says “very ordinary conditions”, so don’t expect perfection. The combined energy is moderate at 338. This is about as good as it gets in this stretch.

Thursday afternoon and all of Friday the 21st see the swell bump up to 5ft and 6ft, but the wind swings around and messes it up. Friday morning’s 6ft (moderate-strong energy at 614) is blown out by a cross-shore wind. That’s more of a kite-surfing setup than a paddler’s dream. Too big and choppy for a beginner, and not clean enough for the experts.

After that, the surf drops off and stays poor through the weekend and into the start of the next week. We’ve got a long gap from late Friday right through until the morning of Wednesday the 28th where it’s just not worth paddling out. Thursday the 27th sees a spike back up to 6ft (moderate energy at 294), but again, messy cross-shore winds.

The next real standout comes on the morning of Friday, August 28th. The swell has dropped back to a clean 4ft from the NW (10-second period, moderate energy at 241). The wind goes glassy from the SE. That’s a beautiful, clean morning if you can get out. The same setup repeats on Saturday morning the 29th (4ft, NW, 8-second period, 154 energy, glassy). Both are “surfable but ordinary”, but glassy is glassy.

Into the start of September, the mornings look tidy. Monday the 31st of August has a clean 3ft (glassy, 203 energy), and Tuesday the 1st of September has a clean 4ft (cross-off wind, 197 energy). The standout here is Wednesday morning, September 2nd. You’ve got a 4ft NW swell with a 9-second period, glassy conditions, and moderate energy at 279. That’s the best looking morning in the whole second week.

Remember, Mutriku is a sheltered reef break, inconsistent, and it can get crowded. The water temp is pretty average for this time of year, nothing wild to report.

The big picture: this is a picky forecast with a lot of dud sessions. The only mornings worth circling on the calendar are Thursday the 20th, Friday the 28th, Saturday the 29th, and Wednesday the 2nd of September. Those are your best bets for clean waves.

Rusty.

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