Nimitz Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Righto, surfers, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s on the cards for the next couple of weeks.

To be straight with you, the next few days are a bit of a write-off. We’re looking at a stretch of rough, messy conditions to start, with strong cross-onshore winds and poor surf. That’s the story for Sunday the 16th and into Monday. The swell energy is high, clocking in at 1786, but it’s all wind-affected junk. Honestly, not worth paddling out for.

Things start to clean up from Tuesday morning, the 18th, with a cleaner look to the waves, but the swell is still tiny—around 3 ft—and the energy is weak (475). Not much to get excited about, just small, clean little waves for a beginner session.

The real gem in this forecast is the morning of Thursday the 20th. Nimitz Beach is setup for a glassy session. The wind is dead calm, the swell is a clean 2 ft from the southwest with a very long period of 18 seconds. That’s proper groundswell energy (397), and it’ll be offering up some nicely shaped, glassy lines. This is about as good as it gets in this window. The water temp is about average for this time of year, so nothing to note there.

After that, we drift back into a pattern of small, marginal waves. The rest of the week and into the next sees a mix of cross-off winds and clean conditions, but the swell stays stubbornly small, rarely cracking 3 ft. The energy is moderate at best, bouncing around 300-500.

There’s a bit of a pulse building around the 28th and 29th of August. Swell size picks up to 7 ft to 10 ft from the east, but the period is short (8-9 seconds), making it a messy, lumpy windswell. With strong cross-off winds, it’ll be clean but pretty roly-poly. At 10 ft, it’s strictly for experts only. This one is worth keeping an eye on, but it’s far out, so treat it as a promising possibility rather than a firm booking.

Overall, Thursday the 20th morning is your standout. Everything else is a waiting game for small, clean slop or a distant, raw swell.

Rusty

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