Number Fours Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what Number Fours is cooking up for us. It’s a reef setup that works best with a solid SSE direction, but for the next couple of weeks we’re mostly dealing with a long stretch of cross-off ENE winds and some pretty average conditions.

Right out of the gate, Tuesday the 25th through into the first week is a bit of a struggle. The wind is hangin’ in strong from the ENE, creating cross-off conditions and keeping things clean but the swell is coming from the wrong direction – ENE – with a short, weak period around 7 seconds. The swell hangs around the 5 feet mark, but with that period, it’s just not doing the reef any favours. You’re lookin’ at a combined energy in the moderate range (568–673). Wednesday the 26th afternoon into Thursday the 27th morning is the only blip where we get a whisper of S swell (4 ft at 17 seconds), but it’s still marginal thanks to the wind. Most days are scoring a 0 or 1 – honestly, it’s a tough stretch with not much to get excited about.

We hit a bit of a lull Friday the 28th and Saturday the 29th before things get a little bigger. By Monday the 1st of September, the ENE swell bumps up to 7 ft with a combined energy that jumps into the strong range (1006), but the period is still short (8 seconds) and the wind is cross-off fresh breeze. This is getting into expert territory size-wise for a short-period wave, so it’s gonna be a handful and not super user-friendly.

The real standout, though, is the morning of Wednesday the 9th of September. We finally see a shift: the wind drops to a gentle cross-off from the NNE, and we get a pulse of long-period S swell (2 ft at a very long 19 seconds) and the combined energy is moderate (490). It’s a small day, but that long period groundswell is pure quality – it will wrap into the reef perfectly with clean conditions, glassy potential. For a spot like Number Fours that likes a good S groundswell, this is the pick of the bunch. It’s late in the forecast, so it’s promising but you’ll want to keep an eye on it.

So, overall, there’s a big gap of mediocrity from now through to early September, then a few days of bigger, messier ENE swell, and then that one clean, small, long-period S swell morning. If you’re only paddling out once, make it that morning of the 9th.

Rusty, signing off.

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