Noosa - Sunshine Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Righto, Rusty here. Looking at the next stretch for the Sunshine Coast, and I gotta be straight with you – it’s a bit of a flat, messy run for a while. The first week and a half is mostly junk: onshore winds, lumpy surf, or just no size at all. The swell energy is weak, barely scratching triple digits some days (46), and the conditions are doing us no favours. We’ve got about ten days of this ordinary stuff to get through before things finally line up. You’re gonna want to save your energy.

Wednesday the 16th sees a bump in size but it’s coming with a fresh cross-onshore breeze, pushing 8ft of wind-slapped slop – that’s a mess, not a surf. Through Thursday, Friday, and into the weekend, the wind stays messy and the surf dribbles away. The only half-decent moment in that first block looks like Saturday morning the 19th. A clean 3ft pulse from the ESE with a light offshore – you might find a couple of corners on the points. But honestly, it’s small and the energy’s weak (91), so it's just something to wet the line.

Then we go flat. Sunday the 20th through to Friday the 25th is a real desert – the swell drops right out, with energy readings down in the teens and thirties. We’re talking 0.3ft to 4ft of wind chop and essentially nothing worth paddling out for. This is a proper flat spell, my friends.

As we head into the last week of September, a long-period groundswell finally starts to fill in. It builds slowly – 5ft on the 26th, then 6ft, and by Monday the 28th we’re looking at a solid 7ft of east swell with a 9-second period. The energy is finally pumping (617). But the wind is still on it, so it's going to be lumpy and tough to handle.

The standout, and the only real wave of this whole outlook, is the Tuesday morning of the 29th. That’s the one. We get 6ft of east swell, energy up at 608, but the headline act is that it’s glassy. Zero wind. The combination of a decent sized, powerful swell with absolutely clean conditions is rare, and this is the pick of the entire 16 days. Sunshine Beach (Noosa - Sunshine Beach) is going to be the spot, but so will everyone else, and the crowds are gonna be a factor. It’s an exposed beach, so this long-period east groundswell (9s) could be a bit straight, but with the conditions that good, you’ll find a bank. After that, the energy fades back down again, and the wind swings around onshore again in the afternoon.

So, in short – don’t waste your time for the next week and a half. Mark Tuesday the 29th on the calendar. That’s the one to get excited about. It’s a long way off, so treat it as promising but not guaranteed, but for now, it’s our only real hope.

Rusty.

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