Spanish House Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here. Let me tell you straight up – the next sixteen days at Spanish House are looking flat and frustrating. We’ve got a long, quiet stretch ahead with barely anything worth paddling out for. The only time the waves get close to surfable are a couple of brief windows early on, and even then, it’s super marginal.

The first bit of action – if you can call it that – comes Friday morning, July 3. We’ve got a tiny 2ft NE swell rolling in, period of 7 seconds, so it’s weak and windswelly. Wave energy is low at 62. But here’s the thing: the wind is glassy out of the NE at 3 mph, so it’ll be clean. The water is 82°, which is about average for this time of year. It’s a beginner wave at best, and the break is inconsistent and exposed to NNE swells, which this little bump isn’t matching. Honestly, it’s not much to get excited about – just surfable but very ordinary.

After that, the outlook drops off a cliff. From Friday afternoon July 3 right through to the end of the forecast on July 18, every session is either poor surf conditions or worse. The swell stays tiny – never getting above 2ft – and the period is short, mostly 8 seconds, so there’s no push. Wind is onshore, cross-onshore, or just messy for the vast majority of the time. The combined swell energy barely cracks 50 most days, hanging around 14–66. It’s a long, flat grind.

Saturday July 11 morning is the only other moment that gets a “surfable” mention: 2ft E swell with 8-second period, and clean offshore wind from the W at 6 mph. But the energy is still weak at 46, and the break is inconsistent. Worth a look if you’re desperate, but don’t expect much.

There’s a couple of other mornings – July 9, July 12, and July 13 – where the wind goes clean or offshore, but the swell is way too small (1–2ft) to do anything. You’d be bouncing on a sandbar.

In short: this 16-day window is a write-off for any kind of decent surf. The area tends to have these flat spells, so it’s not a huge shock. If you’re a kite surfer, the afternoons with moderate cross-onshore wind and chop might look more interesting. For us paddle surfers? Leave the boards in the shed for a couple of weeks.

Rusty.

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