Trincomalee Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, this is Rusty here, and I gotta be straight with you about Trincomalee. The outlook for the next couple of weeks is, well, pretty damn quiet. There's not much on the table right now. The whole forecast is a run of small, weak surf, and it's gonna be a long stretch before anything worth paddling out for shows up.

Through the start, all we're looking at is tiny, short-period windswell from the southeast. Heights are barely scraping 2 feet, with periods mostly around 8 seconds. The wave energy is very, very weak, sitting mostly in the low double digits (like 49 or less). There's a persistent cross-off wind from the WSW that won't give us much relief. It's clean but just not surfable.

Then we hit a gap of several days from the 10th all the way through to the end of the first week. Nothing here is recommended — it’s all poor surf conditions, day after day. Swell stays tiny, barely 0.7 feet to 2 feet, and the wind just keeps blowing from the WSW, making it a struggle. It's not looking good at all.

The only real glimmer comes around July 22nd. That Wednesday afternoon, we finally get a bit of a pulse with combined energy hitting 109 — that’s moderate, actually the most we’ll see. The swell is still only about 2 feet, period around 10 seconds from the SE, but the wind turns magical. We get glassy conditions from the NW at 3 mph, which would normally be a dream, but the wave height is so small. It’s a stand-out just because it’s the cleanest and most hopeful moment in a very flat forecast, but honestly, it's still on the ankle-to-knee side.

After that, the energy starts easing backward, sinking back to the 80s and 90s, with more of the same small swell and fresh cross-off breezes.

For the second week, into July 25th, it's more of the same. Small 2-foot swell from the SE, period around 10-11 seconds. A light offshore on the 25th afternoon offers a brief clean window, but that's about it.

Trincomalee is a point break that rarely breaks, and this forecast proves it. It's very sheltered, and for the best part of 16 days, we just don’t have the juice. If you’re a beginner, there’s nothing here for you, and with waves under 5 feet, it's a glass-off for the logs and longboards only. Even so, I’m not shouting from the rooftops.

Stay tuned — forecasts can change. But for now, it’s a quiet time on the east coast.

Rusty.

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