13th Ave South Surfside Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s be straight with you—this is a tough one. The next 16 days for 13th Ave South Surfside are looking pretty grim for any decent paddle surfing. The swell is tiny, the wind is mostly wrong, and the whole setup just isn’t cooperating.

The first half of the outlook is a write-off. From Monday 27 July all the way through to Sunday 9 August, the surf is poor. The swell heights are barely scraping 3 ft to 3 ft on a few afternoons, and the periods are short, mostly 4 to 8 seconds. That’s weak, wind-driven junk. The combined wave energy is almost always in the single digits or low double digits (16, 14, 7, 26), meaning there’s just no power behind it. Winds are cross-on or onshore from the SSE or S, chopping everything up. Even on Wednesday 29 July when the wind goes offshore from the NNW in the morning, the swell is only 1 ft with a 6-second period—hardly worth paddling out for. There’s a glassy moment on Friday 31 July morning, but the swell is a pathetic 0.7 ft.

The gap before anything even remotely surfable appears is nearly two weeks. You’ll be waiting until Monday 10 August. That morning, finally, the wind is clean, cross-off from the north (9 mph), and the swell ticks up to 3 ft from the SSW with a 6-second period. The combined energy gets to 82 (moderate) and the wave comment says “surfable waves but very ordinary conditions.” It’s the only session in the entire 16 days that gets any kind of score. But it’s still nothing to get excited about—short period, small, and inconsistent at this break. The crowd factor is “sometimes,” so you might have the place to yourself, but that’s because there’s barely anything to ride.

The rest of the second week continues the same story: tiny swell, wrong wind, and poor quality. The water temperature anomaly isn’t given, so we can’t say much about that, but the conditions are just flat or messy.

Look, this spot is exposed to SE swell, and the optimum direction is SE, which is what we get sometimes, but the size and period are never there. It’s a beach break, inconsistent, and for beginners, but even a beginner won’t have fun on this. With the poor quality and stronger winds on some days (like Sunday 2 August with 19 mph cross-on), this setup honestly looks more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing.

It’s a blank run, and for this area, that’s not unusual. Forecasts can change, but right now, I’d leave the board at home.

Rusty.

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