Ponta da Belina Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Right, grab a seat, I’m Rusty, and I’ve been staring at the charts for the Ponta da Belina area. Gotta be straight with you, it’s a rough outlook for the next couple of weeks. There’s a real long stretch of nothing to get excited about.

We’re looking at Ponta da Belina, a reef break that’s fairly exposed to the swell. The water temp is sitting at 73°F, which is bang on average for this time of year, so no surprises there.

The first few days are a write-off. Wednesday the 5th through to Saturday the 8th? Forget it. We’ve got tiny, short-period windswell, maybe 0.3ft to 4ft, but the wind is all over the shop – onshore, cross-shore, and just messy. The combined swell energy is mostly weak, with a reading of just 6 on Saturday morning. There’s absolutely nothing worth paddling out for.

We get a tease on Sunday the 9th morning. The wind goes clean, cross-off from the north, but the swell is tiny at 1ft. It’s a long period groundswell from the SSE (14 seconds), which pumps up the energy reading to 159 (moderate). But 1ft? That’s a lake, not a wave. You’d be floating more than surfing.

The pattern continues. Through the whole first week, the best you’ll see is “surfable waves but very ordinary conditions” on Thursday the 13th morning. It’s glassy, with 2ft of SE swell (12 second period), giving a moderate energy of 179. It’s slightly surfable, but it’s not a standout, just the least bad of a bad bunch.

The best on offer – and I’m being generous here – is the morning of Saturday the 15th. We’ve got a clean, cross-off breeze from the SSW, with 2ft of E swell. The period is a solid 13 seconds, and the combined energy cranks up to 438 (strong). It’s still a small wave, but the conditions will be the cleanest we’ve seen. The only other decent-looking window is the morning of Sunday the 16th, with 3ft of SSE swell and a 14-second period, giving a massive 713 energy reading (strong). But the wind is light cross-onshore, which will put a bit of a crinkle on the face. For a more advanced crew, the swell on the 16th morning might offer some punchy, lined-up waves, but it’s not for beginners.

Honestly, there’s a solid 10-day gap from the start with no real surf. It’s a tough run. For the second week, the mornings of the 19th and 20th offer clean, 4ft to 4ft E swell, but the period is short at 7 seconds. It’ll be weak and crumbly.

If you’re desperate, the morning of the 15th (Saturday) is the pick for a small, clean wave. The morning of the 16th has more energy but a bit of wind. It’s all pretty marginal.

Rusty.

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