Playa de Traba Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here, lookin' at the charts for Playa de Traba and the next 16 days.

First off, it's a bit of a slow start. We're lookin' at a few days of pretty average conditions. The water's a bit cooler than usual for this time of year, sittin' around 63.7°, so you might want a spring suit. The first proper session to get excited about isn't until Sunday, the 30th of August. Before that, there's a few marginal days with the wind and swell not quite lining up, but from Sunday morning, things start to get interesting.

Sunday the 30th morning, we've got a clean 5.2ft NW swell with a light breeze. It's a good one to ease back into. But the real standout window is Monday the 31st of August, morning session. We're talkin' a glassy 5.9ft NW groundswell with a period of 9 seconds. The energy is solid (539), and with that north wind dropping to glass, it's gonna be clean, punchy, and fun on the beachies. That's the pick of the first week.

The next week keeps chuggin' along. Wednesday the 2nd of September morning is another glassy one with a 5.2ft NW swell – a solid runner-up. The swell builds a bit through the start of September, but the wind starts to mess with it.

Now, for the long-range stuff, and this is a bit of a promise, but we gotta keep our cool. Saturday the 6th of September morning is showin' a glassy 5.2ft NW swell – that's a beauty. But then Sunday the 7th morning, the swell jumps to 7.2ft from the NW with a period of 12 seconds. That's a big, powerful groundswell (energy is 1395). The wind is light, so it could be absolutely on, but that's a wedge of swell. For a beach break like Traba, it's gonna be a big, raw, powerful wave. That's for experienced surfers only. The real monster is lookin' at Tuesday the 8th of September morning, with a 5.9ft WNW swell and a 15-second period. That's a very long-period groundswell (energy is 1943). That kind of energy is gonna wrap in and make the walls stand up, but at a beach break, it might be a bit too straight and fast. It's a surfer's wave, but it requires a cool head. It's a promising swell, but it's a long way out, so don't hold your breath.

The last few days of the outlook, the swell drops back down and the wind gets messy. There's a few clean windows, but nothin' that screams "drop everything." The early part of the month is the real window here.

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