Playa El Palmar Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s on the cards for Playa El Palmar over the next 16 days.

Frankly, it’s a tough stretch ahead. Almost the entire 16-day window shows only poor surf conditions and very small, weak swell. There’s a real gap starting from Monday the 31st of August running all the way through to the morning of Saturday the 12th of September with nothing worth paddling out for. The waves just aren’t showing up. The combined swell energy is nearly all well under 100 (mostly single digits or low tens) – that’s weak, barely any push at all. Swell heights sit between 0.3ft and 2ft, with short periods around 5 to 9 seconds, so it’s all windslop and tiny bumps. The water’s a bit colder than normal for this time of year at 70° – about 3° cooler than average.

That said, the wind is often offshore or clean through many of those days, which is usually a good sign, but with next to no swell, it’s like having wax on a board with no waves. The only hint of something slightly better comes on the morning of Saturday the 12th of September when the swell bumps up to 2ft from the WNW with light offshore easterly winds, clean and glassy-looking. Combined energy climbs to 32 – still weak, but the best of a poor bunch. Even then, it’s only really a waist-high option for beginners on a longboard.

Moving into the second week, the morning of Sunday the 13th of September has a glassy calm with a 1ft groundswell from the west at 10 seconds, combined energy at 47 – again, the standout only by comparison. It’s still tiny, but clean. After that, the pattern repeats with tiny swell and clean but very weak conditions through to the 15th.

So the only real mention is the Saturday morning (12th September) and Sunday morning (13th September) as the best on offer – and that’s saying more about the rest of the period than about those sessions. Expect small, clean, waist-high dribblers. Not one for the quiver.

Rusty.

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