Playa de San Xurxo Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, it’s Rusty.

Well, it’s a bit of a frustrating stretch ahead for Playa de San Xurxo, to be honest. We’ve got a solid run of days where the ocean just isn’t playing nice. For the first week, there’s really nothing that gets the heart racing. The wind’s mostly cross or cross-onshore, with a bunch of that junky short-period swell, nothing over 8 seconds, and it’s all over the place in size. It’s going to be a choppy, lumpy mess for the most part. The water’s sitting at 64.2°, which is a bit colder than normal for this time of year—a touch over a degree off the average, so you’ll notice it in a shorty.

We get a bit of a breather on Wednesday morning the 19th, with a tiny 1.3ft NW swell, glassy and calm, but it’s barely a ripple and not worth the paddle. The better windows start to show up around Thursday the 20th, as the swell builds to the 4.9ft range, but the period jumps to 12 seconds and the energy picks up significantly (678). It’s still got that cross-chop, so not perfect, but you can see it’s trying to sort itself out.

Thursday afternoon the 20th is your best bet in this first stretch. The swell is 4.9ft from NNW with that 12-second pulse, and there’s a bit of life in it (678). The wind is just a gentle cross-shore, so it’s not terrible, but it’s not clean either. That’s about the only decent window until the very end of the month.

After that, it’s a whole lot of cross-onshore junk and lumpy conditions through the 24th and 25th. It’s a dead week, to be fair. It’s only when we get to Sunday the 30th that things turn around, and honestly, it’s the standout session of the whole outlook. Sunday afternoon the 30th, we’ve got 4.6ft from NNW with a 9-second period, and the wind drops right out to glass (419). It’s clean, it’s glassy, and it’s the first time you’ll actually get a proper, smooth wave face. It’s still moderate in size, and the energy is decent, so for an intermediate, it’ll be a really fun, uncrowded surf. A proper highlight, rare as hens’ teeth around here lately.

Now, looking into the second week, the last couple of days of the forecast get interesting for the crew who can handle it. On the 1st of September, the swell jumps to a solid 7.5ft from the NW with an 11-second period, and the energy is pumping (1154). The wind is cross-off and clean, but at that size, and with that power, it’s only for the well-experienced surfers. It’s not the cleanest, as there’s still that slight cross-chop, but the power is there. The 2nd of September morning has similar size, 7.2ft, but the wind gets lighter, and it’s a bit more cross-shore. Still a big, powerful swell.

Remember the 1st of September is a week away, so treat that as a promising lead, not a locked-in classic. But for a solid, clean, fun surf, Sunday the 30th is the pick of the bunch by a long way.

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