Non Nuoc Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, it’s Rusty.

Straight up, the next week and a half is a bit of a battle. We’ve got a pile of days with onshore junk and stormy skies, but there are a couple of windows that’ll have you frothing. It’s not a total dud, but you gotta be smart about when you paddle out.

Through Friday and Saturday, it’s all storm cells and a cross-onshore breeze wrecking the surface. The swell tries to build but it’s short-period and weak (11 to 21 on the energy scale), and it just looks like a mess. Not worth getting wet for.

Come Sunday the 13th, things start to calm down. The wind swings offshore in the afternoon, and we get some clean lines. The swell’s not big, around 5ft from the ENE with a 9-second period, and the energy is moderate (440). It’s surfable, but you’re looking for a clean ripple rather than an epic.

Monday morning is a similar story—a moderate offshore from the SW and 4ft of NE swell (276 energy). Clean, but small.

The standout is Tuesday the 15th. The afternoon goes dead glassy, wind dropping to nothing from the south. That 4ft of NE groundswell (10-second period, 406 energy) will be reeling down Non Nuoc (Son Tra). If you can sneak out then, that’s your session for the week. The morning is okay, but that glassy arvo is the one.

Wednesday the 16th morning is also a cracker—glassy, 5ft from the NE and the period jumps to 12 seconds (587 energy). That’s a serious groundswell, more push, and the surface will be like a lake. It’s a good one, but it gets chopped in the afternoon when the northerly breeze picks back up.

Later on, around Thursday the 17th and into Friday the 18th, there’s a bigger pulse—6ft to 7ft from the NE/N. The energy is strong, over 1000 on Thursday arvo, meaning a lot of water moving. But the wind is mostly cross-onshore, so it’ll be wild. Friday arvo the wind goes cross-off from the NW, and we’ve got 7ft of N swell (967 energy). That’s heavy—only for the experienced, and it could be a proper beast. Promising, but at that range, we keep it in the “wait and see” file.

After the 19th, it looks like it drops right off. A few days of small, short-period slop, with a lot of it poor. But there’s a little hint of life on the 21st and 22nd with some serious long-period energy (19-second period) from the ENE. That’s a deep water groundswell, and while it might be a bit straight for a sandbar, Non Nuoc could still offer up some fun. The Tuesday the 22nd morning looks glassy, so if that holds, you might get a sneaky clean one.

Bottom line: Tuesday arvo the 15th is your best bet this week. Those bigger North swells later on are promising but a gamble. You’ll be waiting it out, but it’s not all bad.

Rusty.

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