Tiririca Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let's have a look at what Tiririca’s got cookin’ over the next couple of weeks. It’s a bit of a mixed bag, honestly. There’s swell on the charts, but the wind’s gonna be a persistent pain in the neck for most of this run, so you’ll have to pick your moments carefully.

Right off the bat, the outlook is pretty bleak for the first few days. Wednesday the 29th through to Thursday the 30th, you’re lookin’ at tiny, weak surf with onshore winds. Not worth paddling out for.

Friday morning the 31st is where we see a glimmer of light. The breeze swings to the south, giving us a light offshore at Tiririca. The swell is small, about 2ft from the E, with a short 7-second period, and very low energy (48). It’s not gonna get your heart racing, but it’s rideable and clean. That’s the one session that looks even remotely workable in this first week.

The weekend comes in, and we get a bump in size. Saturday August 1st and Sunday the 2nd see the swell push up to around 4ft from the E. The energy picks up a bit too, hitting moderate levels (143-230). But here’s the rub, the wind stays cross-onshore, messing up the surface. It’s going to be choppy and bumpy, not the clean lines we’re after.

That pattern pretty much holds firm all through the following week. From Monday the 3rd to Monday the 10th, we’ve got persistent chest-to-shoulder-high swell (3-4ft) rolling in from the east, with the energy staying solidly in the moderate range. But it’s the same story every day: cross-onshore or onshore winds. There are a couple of brief windows where the wind eases, like the morning of Tuesday the 4th and Wednesday the 5th, but the conditions are still described as marginal at best. Thursday morning the 6th actually looks *glassy* for a hot second, with a 4ft E swell, but it's just one morning and the rest of that day gets blown out again.

Forget about the weekend of the 9th and 10th—more chop and onshore flow. The standout blip in the whole 16-day window is that glassy morning on Thursday, August 6th. The swell is 4ft from the east, and the wind is off. It won't be epic, but it'll be the cleanest wave you find in this entire stretch. Crowds might be a factor at Tiririca since it's listed as 'sometimes' busy, so get out early.

A quick heads up for the very end of the run: on Thursday the 13th, the swell drops right off to 2ft, but the period bumps up to 15 seconds—that's a very long period groundswell from the SSE. That energy reading (267) is still moderate, but that kind of long-period swell can be tricky at a beach break; it often shuts down and walls up. Wouldn't bank on it.

So, overall, it’s a tough two weeks. The one to circle on the calendar is that glassy morning on August 6th. Otherwise, you’re battling the wind everywhere else.

Stay patient, and keep an eye on those forecasts.

Rusty.

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