Puaena Point Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Right, listen up. Rusty here.

Look, it’s a bleak fortnight ahead for the North Shore. Puaena Point is the only spot on the menu, and it’s not exactly firing. We’re staring down a long gap of nothing much, with the first decent suggestion not popping up until Tuesday the 8th of September. For over a week before that, it’s all “poor surf conditions” with messy, cross-off winds and weak, short-period windswell. Not worth paddling out for.

The water’s sitting right on 80.4°, which is bang average for this time of year, so no drama there.

Now, for the one true standout. The morning of Tuesday the 8th of September is your best bet. We get a clean, cross-off breeze with a modest 3.3ft of swell from the Northeast, showing moderate energy levels (296). The setup looks cleaner and more organized than anything else in the window. It’s a beginner reef break that’s inconsistent and often crowded, so expect company, but with those light winds, it’s the pick of a grim bunch. The afternoon fades to marginal.

Following that, the morning of Wednesday the 9th of September has a similar story – clean cross-off wind and a 3.6ft swell, but this time from the West-South-West with a much longer 12-second period (365 energy). That’s more of a groundswell pulse, which can offer better shape, but for a spot facing Northeast, that swell direction is a bit awkward. It’ll be surfable but not as lined-up as the Tuesday morning.

After that, it dries right up again. The long-range shows a couple of glimmers around the 15th of September with another long-period Southwest groundswell (19 seconds!), but the swell height is tiny at just 1.6ft. The energy numbers (209, 221) are moderate, but that’s a lot of period for not much wave. It’d be a clean, glassy day but for the longboard and maybe a fun little ripple. Nothing to get excited about.

Overall, if you’re desperate, Tuesday the 8th of September morning is the session. The rest of it... save your wax.

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