Playa de San Xurxo Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, folks, Rusty here. Let’s have a good look at the charts for Playa de San Xurxo and see what the ocean has in store for us over the next couple of weeks. It’s a bit of a mixed bag, so let’s dig in.

Right off the bat, we’ve got a real slow start. The first few days are pretty ordinary, with small, weak swell and not much behind it. The water’s running at 63°, which is a solid 4° colder than normal for this time of year, so you’ll definitely want a thicker wetsuit if you're heading out. We’re looking at clean, glassy conditions on Wednesday morning with a tiny 1ft NW groundswell and only 53 units of energy. It’s surfable for a log, but you won’t be getting excited about it.

The swell builds a bit through Thursday and Friday, moving up to the 5ft to 6ft range with period around 10-11 seconds, and the energy kicks up into the moderate range (449-868). But the wind is the problem. It’s onshore or cross-onshore, making things choppy and messy. Thursday morning is a write-off with cross-on winds, and Friday morning, while having better swell, is also compromised. Not the time to be calling in sick.

The weekend gets blown out completely. Strong cross-shore winds, lumpy conditions, and dropping periods. Saturday and Sunday are not worth your time, with fresh to strong breezes and messy cross-chop. The swell stays around 4ft to 6ft, but the quality is terrible. Honestly, on Saturday, with that 6ft and strong cross-shore wind at a beach-and-point setup, it’s looking a lot more like a kite-surfing day than a paddle-surfing day.

We get a couple of cleaner mornings early next week, Monday the 24th and Tuesday the 25th have some cross-offshore winds, but the swell is small and weak. You’ve got ankle to knee-high waves at best. Then Wednesday the 26th turns to junk again with fresh winds and rain. It’s a frustrating stretch.

Now, here’s where things get interesting. Thursday morning, the 27th of August, is your standout window in this whole forecast. We finally get a proper clean session. The wind goes light and cross-offshore, the sky clears, and the swell is a solid 6ft from the NW with a 9-second period and strong energy at 560. That’s a good, fun size for an intermediate surfer, and the combo of clean conditions and a decent groundswell is the best on offer for the next two weeks. Get on it if you can.

After that, it’s a bit of a slide back into mediocrity. Friday the 28th is clean but smaller, and the following weekend is again ridden with onshore winds and rain. We see another pulse of swell on Sunday the 30th, with 7ft to 7ft from the WNW, but it’s short-period and onshore, so it’s going to be a closeout mess.

Looking further out, the big one arrives on Monday the 31st. The models are showing a serious jump in energy, with values over 1700. That’s a strong, powerful swell, with waves around 10ft from the NW at 10 seconds. But it’s coming with cross-onshore winds, so it’s going to be a stormy, chaotic day. This is serious size, over 8ft, so it’s expert-only territory. It’s promising, very promising, but the wind will have to play ball, and that’s a long way off, so treat it as a maybe.

After that big pulse, it settles back down. The first days of September look cleaner but much smaller, more in the 4ft to 5ft range. There’s one more little push on Thursday afternoon the 3rd, with 6ft from the WNW, but the winds are uncertain.

So, to sum it up: don’t waste your energy this week, have a crack on the 27th, and keep your fingers crossed for the 31st but expect a washing machine. Rusty, out.

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