No Pass Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Hey, it’s Rusty. Let’s talk about No Pass, a reef break that’s fairly consistent and intermediate-friendly.

Overall: The next 16 days have a lot of frustration early on, then a couple clean but small opportunities later. There’s no one big perfect session, but if you pick your moment, you’ll get some fun waves.

From 25 August through the first week, it’s a rough stretch. Swell hangs between 0.5ft and 1ft from the SW or SSW, but the wind is a constant cross-onshore from the NW or WNW, leaving everything choppy and poor. Combined wave energy stays in the low to moderate range (282 to 500 range). A slightly bigger 1ft swell with strong energy (1026) and a very long 18-second period shows up 29 August morning, but the cross-onshore wind ruins it.

The first shining moment arrives 5 September: Saturday afternoon turns glassy with a 1ft SSW swell and 16-second period, producing very good surf. Combined energy is 717 (moderate). Sunday afternoon (6 September) goes glassy again with 1.0ft swell and 14-second period—another clean, small window.

The absolute best bet is 8 September: Tuesday afternoon has zero wind, perfect glass, and a 0.6ft SSW swell. Combined energy is 446. It’s tiny, but it’s the cleanest wave of the whole outlook. The morning of that same day has a solid 21-second period groundswell at 0.5ft with a light cross wind, so it might offer better shape for the reef.

9 September finishes the outlook with a 2ft NW swell and short 8-second period, but it’s onshore and marginal.

No Pass can have crowds, so get ready for company on those glassy days. The optimum swell is from the WNW, not the SSW or SW we’re seeing, so the angle is a little off for the best waves.

Bottom line: first week is mostly a miss. Second week has a couple tiny glassy windows, and the best clean session is the zero-wind one on 8 September. Keep your hopes modest.

Rusty signing off.

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