The Peak Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here, and I gotta be straight with you – it’s a tough outlook for The Peak, mate. We’re looking at a long run of pretty ordinary conditions stretching out over the next 16 days, and there’s hardly a decent wave on the cards. The swell is tiny, and what we do get is getting messed up by the wind. We’re looking at a real quiet spell, so if you’re hanging for a paddle, you might be waiting a while.

Let’s take it day by day.

Sunday the 5th kicks things off with a west swell around 4ft, period 9 seconds, coming from the W, and the wave energy is moderate-ish at 215. But the cross-shore wind from the SW to WSW is just chopping it up. It’s poor, and the combined energy is there but wasted. That theme pretty much sets the tone all the way through to Tuesday the 7th – same sort of 4ft to 4ft swell, but cross and cross-onshore winds keep it messy. Not worth paddling out.

Come Wednesday the 8th, we get a bit of a tease. Early morning there’s glassy conditions – 3ft swell from the west, 9 seconds, and a light SSW wind. The wave energy is 130, so it’s weak, but with the glass it’s surfable, just very ordinary. That same glassy window shows up again on Thursday the 9th morning – 3ft, 9 seconds, 127 energy – but again, it’s not giving you anything to write home about. By the afternoon, the wind swings onshore and it’s back to poor.

From Friday the 10th onward, things drop off a cliff. The swell dwindles to 2ft and smaller, with periods mostly around 8 to 10 seconds, and the wind stays onshore or cross-onshore nearly all the time. The wave energy dips to weak two-digit numbers – 60, 55, 39 – just tiny, weak surf. There are a couple of glassy moments on Monday the 13th and Tuesday the 14th mornings, but the swell is only 1ft to 2ft, so you’re just bobbing around. The water temp is a notable 63° – that’s 6° warmer than normal for this time of year, so it feels like a bit of a bath out there.

By the second week, from the 15th all the way to the 20th, it’s a desert. Swell barely reaches 1ft most days, with the combined energy staying under 40. There’s one little moment on the morning of the 16th with a clean 1ft swell from the W and a light SE offshore wind – 22 energy – but honestly, that’s not worth getting wet for. The only standout from the whole outlook is maybe the glassy windows on the 8th and 9th, but they’re so weak you’d be better off on a longboard or just waiting for the next proper groundswell.

No standout options here at all. The break is fairly consistent but the size and wind are just not cooperating. It’s one of those stretches where the ocean’s having a nap.

Rusty.

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