St Agnes Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s get stuck into the next 16 days for St Agnes.

Right off the bat, I’ve gotta be straight with you – this is a tough run. The whole stretch is practically wall-to-wall “poor surf conditions” in the data, with only a couple of brief moments that are even surfable, and even then it’s nothing to write home about. There’s a real gap of nothingness from the start all the way through to the end of the first week, and then again most of the second week. Let’s break it down.

The first bit of halfway decent looking surf shows up on Tuesday morning, July 28. St Agnes is seeing a small 3 ft swell out of the WNW with a period of 9 seconds, so it’s a short-period windswell. The combined energy is moderate at 116, but the water is a touch warmer than normal at 65°, about 3° above average. The wind is a light 9 mph from the SSW, cross-off, and the conditions are described as clean. The waves are surfable, but the conditions are very ordinary. It’s a small, weak wave for a patient intermediate.

From Tuesday afternoon onward, it’s a downward spiral. The rest of July and all of the first week of August are a write-off. The swell drops to 2 ft or 1 ft, periods get shorter, and the wind is mostly cross, cross-on, or onshore, with moderate breezes chopping everything up. There’s a day on Thursday, July 30, with a 3 ft swell but it’s a 6-second period and a strong onshore wind – that’s just messy, white water. The combined energy is weak, dropping to 37 or 23 at times. Honestly, it’s more of a kite-surfing setup than a paddling one.

Moving into the start of August, the second week doesn’t look much better. There’s a bit more oomph in the swell around Tuesday, August 4, with a 5 ft – 5 ft swell from the WSW, but the period is still short at 7-8 seconds, and the wind is cross-shore with a moderate breeze. The energy jumps to 256-287, which is moderate, but the conditions are still poor with a cross-chop. It’s not clean, and it’s not well-shaped. That’s still a pass for me.

The real standout – if you can call it that – is Monday, August 10. We’ve got a 6 ft swell from the west with a 9-second period, and the combined energy is a strong 521. But the wind is a fresh 22 mph from the WSW, cross-shore, leaving a lumpy cross-chop. That’s a lot of energy, but it’s going to be a bumpy, walled-up mess. It’s an expert-only session if you’re desperate, and even then, it’s more about survival than quality. There’s a 5 ft in the afternoon, but it’s still lumpy.

The very last entry on Wednesday, August 12, shows a tiny improvement in conditions. The morning has a 2 ft swell from the WSW, 8-second period, with a clean cross-off wind from the SE at 12 mph. The conditions are described as “surfable waves but very ordinary conditions.” It’s small, but it’s clean. The energy is weak at 78. The afternoon is similar. That’s the best of a bad bunch and it’s two weeks out.

So, to sum it up: there are no true standouts here. The best bet is the morning of Tuesday, July 28, for a tiny, clean but weak wave, or the morning of Wednesday, August 12, for a similar small, clean wave. For the rest of the period, pack the kite or the fishing rod. The swell is there, but the wind and quality just aren’t cooperating.

Rusty.

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