Pors Ar Ville Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s on the cards for Pors Ar Ville. I gotta be straight with you – this is one of those stretches where the ocean is playing hard to get. The whole 16-day window is a tough watch, with every single session flagged as poor surf conditions. We’ve got a long, quiet gap stretching from now all the way through, with no real standout days to get excited about. It’s a flat spell, plain and simple.

Let’s start with Sunday the 2nd of August. Early morning we’ve got a tiny 1ft swell out of the west, with a short period of 8 seconds and weak energy (30). Wind is a gentle breeze from the ENE, but it’s onshore, so the water’s gonna be messy. Through the afternoon the swell drops to 1.0ft, wind picks up to a moderate breeze from the NE, still onshore. Not worth paddling out.

Monday the 3rd shows a little more hope with a clean 2ft west swell, period 9 seconds, and light WNW winds creating a cross-off breeze. Combined energy is still weak at 40. It’s clean, but tiny. Afternoon turns cross-shore and choppy. Tuesday the 4th offers the best-looking conditions of the early week: morning has a clean 3ft west swell with offshore SW winds at 12 mph. That’s a decent combo for this spot, but the period is a short 8 seconds and energy only 82. It’s rideable, but you won’t be bragging about it. Afternoon gets a bit bumpier.

Wednesday the 5th sees the swell push to 3ft from the west, but period drops to just 7 seconds and energy hits 94 – still weak. Morning is clean with cross-off wind, but the afternoon gets a cross-shore chop. Thursday the 6th has similar 4ft swell from the NW, but again short-period slop with moderate cross-shore winds. No quality.

From Friday the 7th through to Saturday the 9th we’re looking at tiny waves, mostly under 2ft, with onshore or cross-onshore winds. The water temp is 65°F with a 1° anomaly – pretty much average for this time of year, nothing unusual there.

We get a slight bump on Sunday the 9th afternoon: 4ft from the NW, period 6 seconds, energy at 116 (moderate), but winds are gentle cross-shore. Still, with that period and the messy conditions, it’s not going to be clean.

The second week from Monday the 10th onward is more of the same: small 1.0ft to 3ft west or WNW swells, short periods mostly 5-8 seconds, and persistent cross or cross-off winds. There’s one window on Monday the 17th of August where a 3ft NNE swell rolls in with gentle offshore SW winds at 9 mph, producing a clean morning. But with the swell direction coming from NNE and the optimum being WNW, it’s not hitting the break right. Combined energy is 94, just under moderate. It’s the most promising of the whole run, but that’s not saying much.

Bottom line, folks: this is a brutal 16-day forecast. Every single session is rated poor. There are no standouts. If you’re desperate for a paddle, Tuesday morning the 4th and Monday morning the 17th are your least-worst options – clean conditions but tiny, weak swell. Otherwise, leave the board at home. When the surf goes this quiet for this long, it tends not to stay poor forever – forecasts change – but right now, it’s a waiting game.

Stay patient.
Rusty.

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