Spanish Point Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s get straight into it. To be honest, looking at the next 16 days for Spanish Point, the outlook is a bit of a heartbreaker. This is a reef and point setup that usually needs a solid west swell to light up, but the forecast is a long, drawn-out tale of small, weak, and messy conditions. We’re starting now and there’s a stretch of poor surf that runs solidly from Wednesday the 29th of July all the way through to the end of the forecast period on Thursday the 13th of August. That’s a long gap with no real recommendations.

The first few days are the worst of it. Wednesday morning the 29th kicks off with a weak 3 ft swell from the west, but it’s a short period of 8 seconds and the wind is a cross-on SW breeze at 12 mph. The wave energy is poor (133), and the whole thing is just choppy and ugly. It doesn’t get any better that afternoon, with rain and a 4 ft west-northwest swell getting hammered by a 9 mph onshore wind. Thursday and Friday follow the same script: cross-on winds, bumpy conditions, and swell heights barely scraping 4 ft, with periods dropping to a pathetic 6-7 seconds. The combined energy is mostly in the low triple digits, but it’s all junk.

We finally get a flicker of hope on Sunday the 2nd of August. The morning shows a tiny 1 ft swell from the west-southwest, but the wind has swung around to a light offshore easterly at 6 mph. The energy is a very weak 59, but with the offshore wind, it’s clean. Then in the afternoon, the wind completely dies to glassy calm, with a 1.0 ft groundswell from the west. That’s the kind of clean surface you’d normally be frothing on, but the swell is just too small to push a proper wave at Spanish Point. It’s a tease.

From Monday the 3rd of August onward, we’re in the doldrums. The swell drops to 0.7 ft or 1.0 ft for days on end. The wind turns light and cross-offshore or cross-shore, making the surface clean, but there’s simply no energy – the combined energy reading drops to as low as 7 on the 7th of August. The water temperature is showing about 62°F, which is a notable 2°F warmer than average for this time of year, so you might as well cool off with a swim because there’s barely a ripple to surf.

The second week, from the 8th of August onwards, is more of the same, with a few pulses of 1 ft to 2 ft swell, but each one is accompanied by fresh cross-onshore winds picking up to 19 mph or more, just lumpy and messy. The longer period groundswells that show up (10-11 seconds) are pointing straight onshore again, making for a closed-out, bumpy mess.

For a reef and point break that loves an optimum west swell, nothing here lines up. The swell is too small, the wind is rarely in our favour, and the consistency is poor. There is no standout window in this 16-day run. Honestly, it’s looking more like a kiteboarding window than a paddle-surfing one through the middle of the second week when the wind is honking and the waves are small and choppy. Hang tight, forecast can always change.

Rusty.

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