Takegashima Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here, lookin’ at the charts for Takegashima. Let’s be straight with you – the next couple of weeks are a bit of a mixed bag, and you’ll be waiting a while for anything worth paddling out for.

For the first week and a half, from July 15th right through to the morning of July 24th, it’s pretty much a write-off. The swell is tiny, barely a ripple at 1ft to 1ft, with a weak combined energy bouncing between 19 and 48. The reports are all calling it “poor surf conditions,” and I’m not gonna argue with that. The water is a bit colder than normal for this time of year, sittin’ at 78°F.

Now, the first real sign of life shows up on the afternoon of July 24th. We get a jump in period to 18 seconds – that’s proper groundswell energy – and the combined energy climbs to 130. The swell is still small, only 1.0ft from the SE, but the wind goes offshore from the SW, making it glassy. It’s only rated as “surfable but very ordinary,” so don’t get your hopes up too high, but it’s the first flicker of something.

The real standout, the one you should circle on your calendar, is the afternoon of July 25th. The swell holds at 1ft from the SE, but the period is a solid 16 seconds, and the combined energy jumps to 216. That’s moderate energy, and the wind is light and cross-offshore from the SSE, keeping it clean. The report says “expect good surf conditions,” and for this reef, that’s your best bet in the whole run. The take-off will be clean, but with that long period, the sets will have some gap between them.

The week after that, from July 27th onwards, the swell size starts to creep up – 3ft to 4ft from the SE – but the period drops back to 8-10 seconds, so it’s a bit more of a windswell feel. The combined energy gets into the 200s (227-253), and the wind stays mostly cross-offshore, so it’s clean. But the quality is only “marginal” or “surfable but ordinary,” so it’s not the same as that Saturday afternoon blip. Keep an eye on the morning of the 27th and the 30th, which have glassy conditions, but the swell direction is swinging around to the S and SW, which isn’t the optimum E direction for this break.

All in all, Takegashima is a reef that’s consistent, but it’s just not firing in this window. The one true moment of magic is that Saturday afternoon, July 25th. For the rest, you’re sitting on the beach watching the horizon.

Rusty.

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