Suruga Bay Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here with a look at the next 16 days for Suruga Bay. I've got the charts open, and honestly, it's a bit of a slow burner.

Right off the bat, the best window is this Monday morning, the 10th of August. We’ve got a nice 3 ft SW groundswell rolling in at a quality 11 second period. The water is sitting at 81°, bang on average for this time of year. But the real story is the wind – or lack of it. Glassy conditions, dead calm. That makes for a super clean morning at the breakwater. The combined energy is moderate at 392, so there's enough push to have some fun on a longboard or a funshape. It’s very consistent here and being a beginner-friendly break, Monday morning is your standout. Just a heads up, it can get busy here sometimes, so grab it while it's clean.

Things go downhill pretty fast after that. Monday afternoon the wind swings cross-shore and picks up to 9 mph from the SSW, turning it into a bit of a bumpy mess. Then from Tuesday the 11th right through to the end of the weekend on the 16th, it’s a pretty grim run. We’re looking at a mix of onshore slop, cross-chop, and dropping swell energy with mostly poor conditions. You'll see the combined energy drop from the low 200s down to around 100 (130 to 146 range), which is weak to moderate. Very ordinary.

There are a couple of tiny windows where it cleans up. Saturday the 15th morning has a clean, light cross-offshore wind from the NNE, but with only 1 ft of swell and very weak energy at 129, it's barely going to break. Similarly, Sunday the 23rd morning looks glassy, but again, we're talking about 2 ft of weak energy (80). Not much to get excited about.

Looking a little further out, there is a flicker of hope around the start of the second week. Late on Saturday the 22nd, we get glassy conditions again with a 2 ft S swell and a period of 9 seconds, with combined energy just creeping back up to 100. It’s surfable but very ordinary. After that, it's back to poor conditions with very weak energy readings in the 50s and low 80s. Swell direction wants to be from the SE for optimum shape, and while we see a bit of SE wind on the 18th morning under glass, the swell period drops to a dismal 4 seconds and the energy falls to just 39.

So, the bottom line: Monday morning is the clear winner. If you can’t get out then, there’s a long, quiet stretch ahead with only a few clean but extremely small windows. For this area, a quiet run like this isn't totally unusual.

Rusty.

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