Playa Bruja Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, I’ll tell ya straight up. It’s a real quiet spell ahead here at Playa Bruja. We’ve got a long stretch of mostly marginal, energy-less surf, with only a couple of flickers that might make it worth paddling out. Gotta be patient.

The water temp is sitting right around average for this time of year, nothing weird going on there.

The first few days, from Sunday the 5th through to the end of the first week, are pretty lackluster. We’ve got a long-period groundswell from the southwest, with periods pushing 14 to 18 seconds, which sounds promising on paper, but the wave energy is just moderate at best—hovering in the 600 to 1200 range (combined energy). The swell height is only running 3 ft to 5 ft, and the conditions are rarely clean. Most of the time we’re dealing with light cross-onshore breezes or a bit of chop from the wind, which messes up the face. It’s not a total write-off, but it’s hard to get excited about a wave that’s barely breaking and bumpy.

The real standout in this whole 16-day window looks to be Friday morning, July 10th. That’s the one time everything lines up. We get a glassy morning – wind from the WNW at just 3 mph, dead flat water. The swell holds at 4 ft from the southwest on a 15-second period, and the combined energy is around 492, still moderate but the clean conditions will make it rideable. It won’t be big, but it’ll be clean, and that counts for a lot. If you can sneak out then, that’s your best chance for a proper session at Playa Bruja.

After that, it gets a bit gray. Saturday the 11th and Sunday the 12th are still hanging on with small SW swell, but by Sunday the winds pick up and the quality drops off a cliff. From Monday the 13th all the way through to Saturday the 19th, it’s a dead run. Swell sizes drop below 3 ft, energy values dip into the 200s and 300s (weak), and the wind stays onshore or cross-onshore. There’s a patch of “poor surf conditions” stamped over most of those days.

There is one more blip right at the end though. On Sunday, July 19th, the surf starts to wind back up. The afternoon shows a jump to 5 ft from the SW on a 14-second period, with combined energy hitting 1342 (moderate to strong). The wind is light and onshore though, so it’ll be a bit bumpy. Still, it’s the biggest swell we see in the whole outlook, and for an experienced local who doesn’t mind a bit of texture, that afternoon could offer some fun, grunty sets. It's worth keeping an eye on, even if it's a week and a half away and the forecast confidence is lower.

So, the short version: Friday morning, July 10th is your glassy, clean pick for small but surfable waves. The Sunday afternoon, July 19th is the bigger, more powerful option, but it comes with onshore wind. Everything else is a whole lot of nothin’.

Stay patient. It’ll turn around.

Rusty

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