Noosa - Sunshine Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, grab your wettie. Rusty here, and I've been staring at the charts for the Sunshine Coast. Let me tell you, it’s a bit of a mixed bag, but we’ve got some windows if you’re patient.

The next few days look pretty ordinary as we head through the end of July. A strong southerly flow is keeping the surface all chopped up, with most days showing cross to cross-onshore winds. Thursday the 30th has some tiny, weak easterly energy (86), but it's just messy. Friday and Saturday the 31st and 1st of August see a bump in height to around 3.6 ft to 4.9 ft, but it’s short-period windswell with those gusty southerlies, so the water's going to be bumpy. Sunday the 2nd of August has a bit more size on the morning, 5.2 ft, but the direction is all wrong and it’s choppy. Honestly, there's nothing to get excited about for the first few days.

Then we get a shift. Monday morning the 3rd of August is our first real glimmer of hope. The wind swings to a clean cross-offshore from the SSW, and the swell from the SE settles to 2.6 ft with a nice 13-second period. The water is clean (combined energy 338). That’s the call for the early birds at Noosa - Sunshine Beach. It’s not huge, but it’ll be way better than the junk we’ve been looking at. The water temp is sitting at about 68.5°, which is pretty normal for this time of year.

Tuesday the 4th of August also dawns with glassy conditions and a light westerly, but the swell is dropping to 2.3 ft. That’s a small-wave board day for the patient crew. The rest of the first week into the second week looks like a lot of small, weak east swells with onshore winds—just blinky, ordinary conditions. There’s a clean morning on Wednesday the 5th with 2.6 ft from the E, but the wind shifts quickly.

The real standout, and I mean the one you circle on your calendar, is Wednesday the 12th of August in the morning. That’s a solid pulse of 6.9 ft from the SE with a clean cross-offshore SSW breeze. The energy is pumping (738). This is a big one. For many, that size and power will be expert territory only, and because it’s over 8.2 ft it's for experienced surfers. At a beach break like Sunshine Beach, that long-period SE groundswell (9 seconds is solid) could be a bit straight, but if you find the right bank, it’ll be a session to remember.

Thursday the 13th of August cleans up again in the morning with a lighter 3.9 ft swell and clean conditions. That’s a good follow-up session.

So, to sum it up: we have a very slow start, a couple of reasonable glassy mornings early in the first week of August, but the big prize is that Wednesday the 12th. Get your pass ready for that one, but be ready for a serious haul.

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