Surfside Pier Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here again, giving it to you in feet and miles per hour.

Look, I've got to be straight with you – this is a tough run for Surfside Pier. We're looking at a solid 16-day window, but the surf is almost non-existent for the first week and a half. The only glimmer of surfable energy is tiny, inconsistent, and the conditions are usually choppy or onshore. It's a real dry spell. The water temp is sitting around 85° on the Saturday morning, which is a touch warmer than normal for this time of year, so at least the air will be warm.

We don't really see anything worth paddling out for until Monday the 24th of August. Even then, it's just a brief window of small 3ft swell from the South with a short period of 5 seconds – barely enough to stand up on. The energy is weak (73). It's clean on the Monday morning, with a light WSW cross-off, so the surface will be smooth, but the waves themselves are just ordinary.

After that, we go back into a long stretch of tiny, weak surf. The wind is mostly cross-on or onshore, and the combined energy levels are pathetic, often dipping into the single digits or low double digits. There's nothing to get excited about for the rest of August. It's just day after day of poor surf conditions.

Things finally start to shift slightly as we head into the first week of September. The early morning of Wednesday the 2nd of September shows a bit more potential. We've got a 2ft swell from the SE, but the period is up to 11 seconds – that's a groundswell, which is a good sign. The energy is still weak (86), but with a WSW cross-off wind at 9 mph, it will be clean. It's still tiny, though. Not a standout, just the first real chance of a clean wave.

The best of the entire outlook, if you can call it that, falls on Friday the 4th of September. The morning is glassy – absolutely flat calm wind – and we have 3ft of South swell. The energy is weak (73), and the period is only 5 seconds, so it'll be a bit crumbly and weak. But it's the only morning in the whole 16 days where the wind is completely calm. For a complete beginner looking for a safe, clean little knee-high roller, that's your window. For anyone else, it's a major struggle to find anything rideable.

So, the honest truth? There are no proper standouts. The surf is consistently poor. The best bet for a total beginner looking for a flat, clean, tiny wave is the glassy morning of Friday the 4th of September. For anyone else, this is a kite-surfing window if the wind picks up, because the wave quality for a paddle surfer is just not here. It’s a quiet period, and that's just how it goes sometimes.

Rusty.

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