Urbiztondo Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s take a hard look at what’s coming up for the next couple of weeks.

Honestly, I gotta be straight with you—this is a rough stretch. The forecast is basically a long, drawn-out run of tiny, weak surf and messy conditions. For the first 11 days, from Thursday the 13th right through to Sunday the 23rd of August, we are looking at a near-total blank. There’s just nothing worth paddling out for. The swell is almost non-existent, with heights barely scraping 0.7 ft, and the combined energy levels are pitiful, mostly sitting between 2 and 26 (weak energy). To make matters worse, there’s a constant threat of thunderstorms and moderate rain, with winds regularly blowing 12 to 19 mph from the south or southwest, leaving things cross or cross-off at best. It’s clean sometimes, but with waves that small, clean doesn’t mean a thing. It’s just flat and clean.

There is a gap of several days with absolutely no surf at all, and then we finally get a tiny flicker of life on Monday the 24th of August. The afternoon shows a weak 2 ft swell from the west-northwest, with a period of 8 seconds, and the combined energy hits a moderate 101 (moderate wave energy). The wind turns light offshore from the east-southeast at just 3 mph, making for clean conditions. The wave comment says “surfable waves but very ordinary conditions,” and honestly, for this stretch, that’s the best we’ve got. It’s still nothing to get excited about—tiny, weak, short-period swell—but it’s the only window where you might actually get wet and catch a few.

Even then, the rest of the week after that stays poor. The swell tries to pulse a bit on the 26th with 2 ft from the west and energy up to 92, but the wind is a fresh 19 mph cross-shore, lumping it right up. Not good for paddle surfing, but honestly, with that wind and those tiny waves, the setup here at Urbiztondo Beach looks more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing.

The water temperature isn’t mentioned in the data, so I can’t give you a call on that.

Bottom line: This is a tough outlook. The only real standout is the afternoon of Monday the 24th of August, and even that’s a stretch. If you’re desperate, you might find a few little ones, but don’t expect much.

Rusty.

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