Pors Ar Ville Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here with the Pors Ar Ville lowdown. It's a lean run for the next 16 days, so don’t get your hopes up too high.

Water temp is a comfortable 65°, right about normal for this time of year.

The surf window starts off dead. Monday the 3rd of August is a total washout with tiny 2ft swell and a messy side-wind. Not worth the walk.

Things finally wake up on Wednesday the 5th. The morning brings some chest-high waves, around 5ft from the WNW, with the energy picking up to a solid moderate level. The cross-offshore wind from the W will keep it clean. By the afternoon, it inches up a bit to about 5ft from the WNW, still clean, with energy hitting 270. This is the best you’re going to see in this whole stretch, but it’s still rated as a marginal call. The swell period is short at 8 seconds, so don’t expect any long, grindy walls. It’s a beach and reef setup, so for a short-period wave this size it’ll be a bit dumpy and better for the experienced crew. Beginners will find 5ft a bit daunting on a short period.

After that, it’s a desert. Thursday the 6th through the next week and a half is just tiny, weak slop with onshore or side-onshore winds. There’s a gap of over a week with no worthwhile surf from the 6th to the 15th. The break is usually consistent, but this is a real down spell.

We get another pulse on the morning of Monday the 17th of August: 5ft from the NNW with moderate energy (186) and clean cross-offshore wind. That’s a long way off, so take it with a grain of salt. The period is short again at 7 seconds, so it won’t be a classic.

To be honest, with the weak swell and the persistent side winds across most of this period, this spot looks more like a kite-surfing setup than a paddle-surfing one for the majority of these 16 days. If you’re dead-set on a wave, pencil in Wednesday the 5th of August. If not, save your energy.

Rusty.

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