Tallebudgera Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, it’s Rusty here.

Well, we’re in for a proper test of patience if you're chasing waves over the next couple of weeks. The pattern is pretty ordinary for a while, with a whole lot of wind-affected, cross-shore slop and not much else. The water temp here is sitting right around 68°, which is pretty much normal for this time of year, so no surprises there.

The first real chance of anything decent doesn’t come around until Wednesday the 19th. Before that, from Saturday the 15th right through to Tuesday the 18th, it’s just a mess – bumpy, cross-shore winds and lumpy, weak surf in the 4ft to 7ft range. The energy is all over the place, and it’s not worth getting wet for, honestly.

Then on Wednesday morning, things finally ease off a touch. The wind goes light and cross-offshore, and that lumpy mess cleans up. There’s a 5ft southeasterly swell running with a very long 11-second period, and the combined energy reading is a solid 683. It’s not big, but it’s clean and it might just be the best of a pretty average bunch. The break at Tallebudgera is a bit of a specialist spot anyway – it’s a breakwater that’s fairly consistent, but it’s got an advanced rating and can get pretty crowded. It’s a long-period swell, which can be a bit tricky on a setup like this, but the clean conditions will make it more user-friendly. The afternoon on Wednesday loses a bit of that shine as the wind swings cross-on, so get on it early if you can.

After that, we slip back into the doldrums for the rest of that week and into the next. Thursday the 20th and Friday the 21st are back to poor, weak, and short-period junk. The weekend of the 22nd-23rd is a bit of a mixed bag – Saturday morning is clean but tiny, then Sunday gets blown out again with a cross-onshore breeze and a jump in size to 6ft, but it’ll be messy.

The start of the following week, Monday the 24th, has a tiny window with glassy conditions and a knee-high wave, but it’s not really surfable. We’re looking at a pretty grim stretch from the 20th through to the 27th, with a lot of small, wind-blown days that just aren't doing anything.

The next real glimmer of hope shows up a bit further out, around Friday the 28th of August. The morning is still pretty average, but by the afternoon the wind eases and a 6ft easterly-southeasterly swell rolls in with a decent 8-second period and a strong energy reading of 424. It’ll be cleaner, and that could be a fun one, but it’s a week away so I wouldn’t be setting your alarm just yet.

Then the following weekend, the 29th and 30th, actually looks promising in a modest way. Saturday the 29th has clean conditions with light offshore winds, and there’s a 5ft southeasterly swell with a nice long 11-second period – that one’s got some push behind it. Sunday the 30th starts off glassy with a clean 4ft wave, but the wind swings onshore in the arvo, so again, mornings are the move.

So, to be honest, there’s no epic swell in this window. The standout is that Wednesday the 19th morning – it’ll be the cleanest, most organized waves of the stretch. The following Friday the 28th afternoon and Saturday the 29th are the long-range hopefuls – promising, but a long way out. Everything else is a whole lot of nothing. Hang in there.

Rusty.

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