Naples Pier Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s take a good, hard look at what Naples Pier has in store for us over the next couple of weeks. I’ll be straight with you – the outlook is a tough one.

The overall pattern is the definition of flat and frustrating. We are looking at a massive gap right from the start, with essentially no rideable surf on offer for the entire 16-day window. From Saturday, August 15th, all the way through to the end of the month, the energy is just not there. There are multiple days in a row with nothing on the cards. It’s a long, dry spell.

Let’s run through it day by day. Starting Saturday morning, we’ve got a risk of thunderstorms with a cross-offshore breeze but no swell at all, giving us a combined energy of (0). The afternoon barely scrapes together a tiny 1 ft of swell from the SSE, but with a short period of 4 seconds and onshore wind, it’s a total write-off. Sunday and Monday are the same story – glassy mornings but zero swell (0). You’d be better off taking a paddleboard out or just enjoying the beach.

Tuesday through Thursday of the first week see tiny bits of swell, never more than 2 ft, all with very short periods (2-3 seconds) and messy onshore or cross-onshore winds. The wave energy sits in the (1) to (5) range, which is essentially no power at all. The following weekend, from August 22nd onward, the swell dies completely. We get some clean, cross-offshore mornings on the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, and 25th, but with zero swell (0) it’s just flat and glassy. The same pattern holds through the end of the month.

Now, if I have to pick the best of a very bad bunch, it would have to be the mornings where the wind goes offshore or glassy and we have at least a tiny pulse of swell. Look at Wednesday, August 26th: a gentle offshore breeze from the ENE at 9 mph in the morning, and then a slight offshore from the NE in the afternoon at 3 mph. But again, we have zero swell height and zero energy (0). It’s clean but flat. The only time we see any measurable swell in the second half of the month is on Thursday, August 27th afternoon, with a tiny 1 ft from the SSE (period 3 seconds) and a combined energy of (3), but it’s cross-onshore and basically unrideable for a surfboard. The same goes for the 28th – clean mornings but no waves.

For a beginner spot like this that is inconsistent, this run of no surf is a real bummer. With the swell being so small and the wind often onshore or cross-onshore, this is one of those periods where you just have to accept the situation. The forecast can change, but for now, the pier is a total write-off for waves.

Stay patient, check back in a few days, but for now, don’t bother paddling out.

Rusty.

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