Newport Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s get this out there. I’ve been staring at the charts for Newport Beach, and I gotta be straight with you – it’s looking pretty flat and sad for a good long stretch. Nope, I’m not stoked. It’s one of those periods where you’re better off finding something else to do for a while. The water temp is sitting at 71.1°F, which is over two degrees warmer than usual for this time of year. That’s a big deal, feels like a warm bath out there.

So, for the next week and a half, we’re looking at swell heights that barely tickle the 2.9ft mark, and that’s the best of it. Most days are even smaller, dropping down to 1.3ft. The energy in the water is weak, mostly in the 170 to 400 range, just not enough push to get anything going. The winds are all over the place, mostly cross and cross-on, which only adds to the mess. Thursday the 10th and Friday the 11th are write-offs. The weekend, the 12th and 13th, the swell just fades away. There’s no quality to be found, the wave comment just says “poor surf conditions” over and over. It’s a bummer.

We finally see a little bump in energy around the 19th and 20th, with the combined energy climbing into the 500s. That’s more like it, but the swell size is still small, hovering around 1.9ft to 2.6ft. The winds finally die down a touch, and we get a few periods with light offshore or straight-on winds. The 20th and the morning of the 21st look like the first real chances to get a few crumbly ones, maybe 2.6ft to 2.9ft of SW swell, with some clean conditions. Don’t get too excited, it’s still a marginal call, but it’s the best we’ve got. After that, it looks like it drops back off again into the small stuff for the rest of the window.

Honestly, the standout days, if you can call them that, are the 20th and 21st. It’s the most swell we’ll see, and the wind looks like it might be light enough to make it somewhat clean. It’s a river break, so the SW groundswell with that long period could wrap in okay, but don’t expect any barrels, just some soft shoulders. Crowds are always a possibility at Newport, so be ready for that if you do paddle out. It’s not going to be epic, but it’s the only game in town.

The rest of the week after that just looks like small, junky waves with onshore winds messing things up. A few days have that cross-on chop, which is a total buzzkill. The swell energy picks back up a bit around the 24th and 25th, even hitting 2.9ft again, but the wind is back to being cross-on. There’s just no consistency to get excited about.

So, bottom line: this forecast is a real snoozer. There are no proper standouts, just a couple of marginal days where you might get a few grovelly ones if you’re desperate. If nothing picks up, it’s going to be a very flat couple of weeks.

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