Shida Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here, checking in on your local surf. We’ve got a bit of a waiting game on our hands. The first week or so is mostly a write-off, but there’s a serious pulse of energy on the horizon for the brave and the patient.

Right now through most of the first week, it’s ugly out there. We’re looking at small, choppy, cross-onshore slop with combined wave energy barely cracking 200–300 (weak). The wind is just all wrong, and it’s rain on and off. Honestly, nothing is worth paddling out for. Shida is a no-go. There’s a solid run of poor to marginal days from the 1st right through to the 7th of September. You can pretty much write off that entire first chunk.

But then, things change. Tuesday the 8th of September is our first real standout. Shida wakes up proper. The morning session is glassy – dead calm wind (0 mph) – and we’ve got a solid groundswell pushing in from the SSE at 8 ft with a 10-second period. The wave energy is strong (1412). That’s expert-level size, but if you’ve got the skills, it’s going to be clean, powerful, and empty. The water temp here is 82°, which is a touch warmer than normal for this time of year, so you can get away with a shorty.

After that, the swell pumps up even bigger – we’re talking 10 to 13 ft+ from the SSE from the 9th through the 11th – but it gets messy with strong cross-onshore winds and it’s just too big for Shida (energy readings up around 4000-4700). That’s strictly for chargers on the right craft, or maybe consider it more of a kitesurfing setup if you’re into that.

Then we get a bit of a lull. The 12th and 13th of September drop back to around 6 to 7 ft with cleaner conditions as the wind swings cross-off from the SE. The energy is moderate (700-1300 range). It’s surfable, not epic.

Now, the real long-range promise. On the 15th of September (Tuesday), we get a monster pulse: a very long period groundswell from the ESE at 18 ft with a 14-second period. That wave energy reading is off the charts – 11864 – but that’s way too big for this spot. Only for the most experienced. The wind is offshore though, so it would be clean, just massive. The morning of the 16th looks more manageable, dropping to 7 ft from the NE, still clean, but still a solid expert wave.

The only real pick for most of us is Tuesday the 8th of September morning at Shida – glassy, big, and clean. It’s a short window before it gets too wild. Keep an eye on that one.

Stay salty.

Rusty

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