Rossbeigh Strand Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Right, folks, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s cookin’ for the next couple of weeks.

Honestly, the first week is a bit of a dog. We’ve got a long stretch of small, weak, and messy waves. For the first several days, from Sunday the 19th right through to the end of the month, the swell is tiny and the conditions are just ordinary. You’ll be fighting cross-shore breezes and seeing barely any energy in the water. The combined swell energy is often in the piddly two-digit range (like 41, 20, 37), which is a dead giveaway that there’s nothin’ to get excited about. It’s a real flat spell, and I’d say save your energy for something better.

The one bright spot that actually shows up in the data is a bit of a promise for the second week. Things start to change around Sunday the 26th. You’ll see a pulse of swell build, with the combined energy jumping to 469 on the Sunday morning, and then really cranking up to 720 on Monday the 27th. That’s moderate to strong energy, and the swell height is around 6ft, which is a proper size. But here’s the rub: the wind is cross-onshore from the WSW, and the surf is marked as “marginal.” It’s not a total washout, but it’s not clean.

The real standout, if you can wait, is looking like Saturday the 1st of August. The morning session is your best bet. We’ve got a 5ft swell from the West, with a period of 9 seconds, which is a decent little groundswell. The combined energy is a solid 318, and the wind is a light, cross-offshore breeze from the NNE. That’ll put a clean face on the waves. The water is a balmy 66°, which is much warmer than normal for this time of year, so you can leave the thick wetsuit at home.

Rossbeigh Strand is the only break showing, and it’s a consistent spot, fairly exposed to a WSW swell. For a beginner-friendly beach break, that 5ft on Saturday morning is a good size—not too big, not too small. The wind is light, the waves will be clean, and it’s a solid, if not epic, choice. Crowds are “sometimes” a thing here, so you might have some company, but on a Saturday morning like that, it’ll be worth it.

After that, the swell drops off again into the next week, with smaller, weaker surf returning by Monday the 3rd.

So, to sum it up: the first week is a write-off. The second week has a few windows of proper swell, but the best of the cleanest, most user-friendly waves is on the morning of Saturday the 1st of August. That’s your window.

Rusty.

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