Playa del Socorro Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s be straight with you about Playa del Socorro. Looking at the whole 16-day window, I gotta tell you, it’s not looking good. The wind is pretty much locked in from the east-northeast or northeast, and it’s blowing onshore almost the entire time. That means the waves are going to be chopped up, messy, and just plain poor for surfing. The combined energy of all swells directed here is weak to moderate, mostly sitting in the double digits and low triple digits (86-419), but it doesn’t matter much when the wind is ruining the shape.

The water temp is about average for this time of year, so nothing wild there.

Tuesday the 4th of August kicks off with a tiny 2ft NW swell and a cross-on wind that’s making a mess of things. It’s just poor conditions. Wednesday the 5th is more of the same – onshore wind and small, weak swell. Thursday the 6th morning sees a bit of a bump to 5ft from the NE, but the period is only 8 seconds and the wind is straight onshore, so it’s still a write-off for a decent paddle. Friday the 7th through the rest of the first week and into the second week is a rinse and repeat of onshore winds and poor surf quality. The swell heights vary from 3ft to 6ft, but the wind never gives us a break.

We do see a little more size pop up around the weekend of the 15th and 16th of August, with swells getting up to 5ft and 5ft from the NE, and the period stretches to 8 or 9 seconds. But the wind is still onshore, so it’s just going to be a bumpy, blown-out mess. There is no standout window here, no day where the conditions line up. The whole period is a solid gap of poor surf.

For a beach and reef setup like this, with that consistent onshore wind and significant swell, this honestly looks more interesting for the kite surfers than for anyone on a paddle board. The conditions are just not playing ball for us.

Keep the head up, though. Forecasts can change.

Rusty.

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