Redondo Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s see what’s cookin’ for the next couple of weeks.

First off, I gotta be straight with you – the surf outlook for Redondo Beach is a tough one to get excited about. We're lookin' at a really long stretch of small, weak, and often choppy conditions. The wait for anything worth paddling out for is a solid nine days of just marginal to poor surf. The first real glimmer of hope doesn’t show up until Saturday the 1st of August.

The water is warmin’ up, comin’ in at 72°F, which is a whopping 7°F warmer than usual for this time of year. That’s a full-on tropical anomaly, so you’ll be in boardies for sure.

The whole period is dominated by small, inconsistent swells. The energy is mostly weak, hitting a moderate range only a few times, like around 570 (Friday morning the 24th) and 590 (Monday morning the 27th), but those are still just moderate energy and the swell heights are tiny. The swell direction is mostly SSW, which is fine, but the size just isn’t there.

The only day that even looks remotely interesting is Saturday morning, August 1st. We’ve got a 3ft swell from the S, with a period of 13 seconds. That’s a groundswell. The real beauty is the wind – a light SSE cross-offshore breeze. That’s gonna keep the surface clean as a whistle. The energy is moderate at 364, so it’s not gonna be a world-beater, but it’s the best we’ve got. The crowds at Redondo Beach are something you’ll have to deal with sometimes, especially on a weekend morning with clean conditions.

Before that, forget it. The morning of Tuesday the 28th of July shows a clean window with light SSE cross-offshore breeze and a 3ft SSW swell, but the energy is still moderate and the size is tiny. It’s surfable, but not a standout.

From Sunday the 2nd of August onward, the swell drops off a cliff. The period shortens, the height plummets to 1ft, and the energy gets weak – dipping into the double digits. There’s a morning on Tuesday the 4th of August with a 1ft SW swell and a 16-second period, which is a very long period, but the energy is a measly 118. That’s the kind of swell that’s gonna be too weak to push in at a beach break and might just show up as a clean, glassy bump. But it’s not gonna be a wave you can really ride.

Honestly, for the next two weeks, Redondo Beach is a tough call. The setup is more interesting for a kite surfer than a paddle surfer on most days, given the onshore or cross-onshore winds through the afternoons. If you’re desperate for a paddle, the Saturday morning of August 1st is your one and only window for a clean, if small, session.

Rusty.

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