Sao Pedro Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s get into it. Honestly, it’s been a flat spell for São Pedro, and the next 16 days aren’t offering much hope. We’re looking at a long stretch of tiny, clean waves and a lot of flat spells. There’s a big gap in the middle where there’s nothing at all, and then some small, long-period pulses show up late in the second week, but they’re just not big enough to surf.

From Wednesday the 9th through the weekend, it’s all about ankle-biters. Wednesday morning has a 30 km/h N wind, cross-off, but the swell is only 0.3 ft out of the west, with a combined energy of just 4. Thursday and Friday are completely flat. Saturday morning is glassy calm with a slight breeze from the NE, but again, no wave height. The water is 68°F, which is about 2°F cooler than normal, so nothing crazy.

We hit a real dead zone from the 11th to the 14th, with only the faintest 0.3 ft southerly pulses showing up. The energy is in the single digits. Sunday the 13th has a little cross-shore wind, but it’s still tiny. Monday the 14th is glassy in the morning, which is nice, but the swell is still just 0.3 ft.

Things get a bit more interesting around the 18th and 19th of September. We get a 0.3 ft swell from the southwest, but the period jumps to 15 seconds. That’s a very long period groundswell, and the energy is still weak, only 9. The wind is offshore on the morning of the 19th from the NNE at just 5 km/h, so it’s clean. But the break is a sheltered point, and it rarely breaks, so you’re really hoping that swell makes it in. It’s a tease, not a goer.

The very end of the window, around the 24th of September, shows a 0.3 ft south swell with a 15-second period and a combined energy of 10. The wind is light and glassy in the morning. It’s clean, but it’s still just a tiny pulse. The optimum swell direction for São Pedro is SW, so the SW swells in the second week are in the right ballpark, but the size is way too small.

There’s no standout session at all. The whole 16-day window is a washout. The combined swell energy never gets above 10, which is well below weak. For a point that rarely breaks, this is a pretty normal dry spell for the area. Keep the board in the car, but don’t expect much. Forecasts can change, but this one is looking pretty grim.

Rusty.

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