Perranporth Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, grab a coffee, let’s have a look at what we’ve got for Perranporth over the next couple of weeks. Honestly, it’s a bit of a tough stretch. We start off this Saturday, September 5th, with some lumpy and cross-onshore conditions. Sure, there’s a bit of swell in the water at about 5ft out of the WNW, and a period of 11 seconds, which gives the waves a bit of push (combined energy sits at 485), but the wind just spoils it. It’s messy. Not the clean, peeling walls we dream of.

Sunday is a drop-off, swell size tumbles to 2ft. The wind is offshore, which sounds good, but there’s just not enough water moving to make it worthwhile.

Then Monday, September 7th. Now that’s a spike. We see a jump in swell height, up to 8ft from the west, with a nice long period of 13 seconds. The energy reading pumps up to 1783, so there’s some serious grunt behind it. But here’s the heartbreaker – the wind is cross-onshore and choppy. It’s going to look fat and ragged. At 8ft, that’s getting into expert territory, but the onshores will turn it into a mess. It’s a pass for most of us.

The rest of that first week into the second week is pretty grim reading. We get a pulse of 7ft on Thursday the 10th, but again, cross-onshore wind wrecks the quality. Every single entry through to the 19th is flagged as poor surf conditions. You’ll see daily waves from 1.0ft up to 6ft, but it’s all accompanied by moderate to fresh onshore or cross-onshore breezes, just chopping everything up.

There is a brief window of cleaner conditions on Sunday the 13th and Monday the 14th, with cross-offshore and offshore winds from the east and northeast. But, the swell is tiny, only 1ft to 2ft. The energy is weak, just 30 to 104. Too small to ride.

For a standout, we’d need to look at that Monday the 7th as the only real size event, but wind makes it ugly. Nothing else gets close. We’re looking at about a 14-day stretch of either too small, too windy, or just plain poor.

The water temp is unremarkable for the time of year, nothing out of the ordinary. There’s no single day that screams ‘drop everything and go’.

So, honestly, Perranporth is quiet. The setup for most of the time, especially with bigger swell and strong cross-onshore winds, looks more like a day for the kite surfers than paddle surfing. It's a blank run, but that happens here. Forecasts can change, so keep an eye out, but for now, I’d be giving the board a rest.

Rusty.

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