New Brighton Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let's have a look at what's cookin' for our stretch of coast.

First off, I gotta be straight with you – the next sixteen days are looking like a bit of a drought for any kind of decent wave. We've got New Brighton Beach as the only spot on the radar, but it's a tough ask.

The water is sitting at about 51°, which is a touch warmer than normal for this time of year. That's one small mercy, I guess.

We start on Saturday the 12th of September with a bit of hope, but it fades fast. The morning shows a clean 2 ft swell from the SSE, with a very long 16-second period. That long period means quality, but for a beach break like New Brighton, it can cause things to close out a bit. Still, there’s some moderate wave energy (243) and a light cross-off breeze, so you might find a couple of fun ones if you're a keen beginner. The afternoon turns poor as the wind swings onshore.

Sunday the 13th sees the swell drop right off to a tiny 1.0 ft with moderate energy (62). The morning has a clean offshore, but honestly, there's hardly enough water moving to bother. The rest of that week is just brutal – day after day of poor conditions. We're talking flat, messy, or just plain wrong winds. Monday the 14th is glassy but ankle-deep. Even with a glassy surface, 0.7 ft of swell with weak energy (13) on Tuesday the 15th is a write-off.

The pattern holds for days. We get a couple of mornings with a clean offshore, like Thursday the 17th, but the swell is barely a ripple at 0.3 ft. It’s just not happening.

The only hint of a pulse comes on Friday the 18th of September, when the combined energy jumps up to a moderate 109 by the afternoon, but that's from a 1.0 ft swell with a howling 22 mph onshore wind. That's not a surf forecast, that's a kite surfer's dream, and even then it'd be messy.

Saturday the 19th gives us another clean offshore morning with a 1.0 ft swell that's slightly more organised (78 energy), but again, it's tiny. Sunday the 20th has a weird one: a moderate cross-off breeze with a 3 ft swell but a period of only 4 seconds – that's just wind chop. The afternoon turns glassy but the swell is gone.

After that, it's more of the same. We get a glassy Monday morning the 21st, but only 1 ft of short-period swell. Wednesday the 23rd has a clean offshore but the swell is tiny. We even get a glassy morning on Sunday the 27th of September, but again, it’s a 0.3 ft ripple.

Honestly, there's no standout here. The best of a bad bunch would be the early morning of Saturday the 12th of September, with that long-period groundswell and clean conditions, but it's inconsistent and the size is marginal. For a beginner, it might be a fun paddle, but don't expect much. For the rest of us, it's a waiting game. This kind of flat run is normal for the area when the patterns are like this.

Stay patient. Forecasts can change. But right now, leave the board in the garage.

Rusty.

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