Surf City Pier Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. It’s been a tough stretch for waves at Surf City Pier, and honestly, looking at the next 16 days, there’s nothing to get excited about. The forecast is a real bummer, with flat, small, and choppy conditions dominating almost the entire period. The water is sitting at 83.1°, which is a touch warmer than normal for this time of year, but that’s about the only good news.

We start off on Saturday the 5th with a tiny 2.3 ft south swell, but it’s a weak, short-period windswell with a cross-shore breeze and risk of thunderstorms. The energy is a measly 30 (weak). It’s a total write-off. Sunday the 6th through the rest of the first week stays tiny, with waves between 1.3 ft and 4.6 ft, but almost always with a cross or cross-onshore wind, making it choppy and messy. The combined energy barely cracks triple digits a couple of times, hitting 106 on Monday morning the 7th and 136 in the afternoon, but the wind is junk.

The pattern is a long, frustrating gap of nearly two weeks of poor surf. There’s a brief moment on Friday the 11th where the wind goes glassy, but the swell is a pathetic 1.3 ft to 1.6 ft with a period of 8 seconds. It’s surfable but very ordinary. The next Sunday the 13th sees a bump in height to 5.2 ft, but it’s again cross-shore and cross-onshore, creating a chop. The energy hits 208 (moderate) in the morning, but the quality is just not there.

The second week is the same old story. The waves are small, the wind is onshore or cross-shore, and the combined energy drops back into the weak category. The only real standouts are the glassy moments on the mornings of Friday the 18th and Sunday the 20th, but the swell is still only 1.3 ft. Even on Monday the 21st, the wind goes clean and cross-offshore, but the 2.6 ft swell is just too small to do anything with.

The best of a bad bunch is probably Friday the 11th, September, when the wind is glassy. The waves are tiny, but it’s the cleanest it’ll get. For experts, the morning of Sunday the 13th has the most size at 5.2 ft, but the cross-shore chop will make it a paddle battle. Honestly, for the next 16 days, this is more of a kiteboarding or flat-water paddle setup than a surfing one. The swell is too small, the wind is wrong, and the consistency is poor. It’s been a blank run, and it doesn’t look like it’ll change. Forecasts can change, but right now, there’s nothing to recommend.

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