Onjuku Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, this is Rusty, and I’m looking at the next couple of weeks here. Honestly, it’s a pretty quiet stretch for the most part. We’ve got a small window of half-decent waves, but you’ll have to be patient.

The first few days are a write-off. Tuesday the 14th through to Friday the 17th are all poor surf with onshore winds and weak, messy little waves. Nothing worth paddling out for.

Things finally start looking up on Saturday the 18th. The wind swings around to a cross-offshore breeze from the ENE, and the ocean cleans right up. The swell is a modest 3 ft from the SE, with a period of 10 seconds, and the combined swell energy is a moderate 261. It’s not huge, but it’s clean and surfable.

The best of the lot looks like the morning of Sunday the 19th. We’ve got that same clean cross-offshore wind, light breeze at 10 km/h, with a 3 ft swell from the east (8 seconds). The combined energy is a solid 219. It’s the only time in the whole run where the conditions line up properly for a decent session. If you’ve got a shortboard, that’s your window.

After that, it’s back to onshore slop and average conditions. The wind turns onshore again from the 20th onwards, and the surf quality drops right off. There’s a bit of a clean-up on the 24th and 25th with glassy mornings, but the swell is tiny – 2 ft to 1 ft – so it’s really only for the longboard or a foiler.

The last few days (27th to 29th) see a bit more energy, with a clean cross-offshore wind, but the swell is small and the periods are long, which means it’ll be a bit tricky to find a proper wave. The combined energy on the 27th afternoon hits 394, which is decent, but it’s a longer period groundswell, so it might be better suited to a point or reef than this beach break. It’s a maybe, not a guarantee.

Overall, the standout is the Sunday 19th morning session. That’s your best bet. Everything else is a bit of a gamble or just not worth the hassle.

Rusty.

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