Velzyland Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s get into it. This is your local surf outlook for the Oahu North Shore area, specifically looking at Velzyland.

Alright, looking ahead over the next couple of weeks, it’s a pretty quiet stretch. We’ve got a long run of small, weak surf and tricky winds. For the first week, there’s very little to get excited about. Honestly, for a stretch from Sunday the 26th through to the end of July, it’s mostly small, weak, and messy. You’ll be looking at a lot of days where the combined energy of all swells is well under 100, often in the teens or 20s. The swell is tiny, with short, weak periods. The wind is often a problem, with moderate to fresh cross-onshore breezes making things choppy.

There’s a notable gap of poor to non-existent surf from Saturday the 27th of July all the way through to the morning of Monday the 5th of August. That’s over a week of almost nothing worth paddling out for. The few clean windows we get, like Monday morning the 27th with glassy conditions and a little 2ft SSE swell, are still just too small and weak to form a proper wave.

Things start to look a bit more promising as we move into the second week. Monday morning the 5th of August shows a change. We get a 3ft southeast swell with a period of 12 seconds, and a combined energy of 216. That’s moderate energy, with a longer period, which Velzyland can handle. The wind is a clean cross-offshore from the north at 12 mph. It’s described as marginal, but it’s the first hint of something with a bit of push and shape.

Then, on Thursday morning the 6th of August, the swell drops a touch to 2ft but the period stays at 11 seconds, and the energy is up at 244. Again, clean north cross-off wind. It’s still on the small side, but the energy is there for a potential sneaky session.

The standouts come on Friday the 7th of August and Saturday the 8th of August. Friday morning the 7th of August: we’ve got a clean, cross-offshore wind and a 3ft east swell with an 8-second period. The combined energy is a solid 303 – strong wave energy. The water temp is around 73°, which is about average for the time of year. A 3ft swell at Velzyland with clean offshore wind in the morning is a proper session. Saturday morning the 8th of August looks even cleaner, with glassy conditions and the same 3ft east swell, energy at 207. This is about as good as it gets in this outlook. The swell direction is east, and the optimum direction for Velzyland is from the south, so it’s not a perfect match, but the clean conditions and the size should still produce some fun, workable waves. It is an exposed reef break, and crowds are sometimes an issue when conditions are good. For the size, it’s fine for intermediates and above.

The following Sunday morning the 9th offers a similar look but is a little more marginal. After that, the energy drops away again and winds become onshore or cross-shore, so don’t plan on it.

So, for the whole forecast, the real highlight is Friday morning and Saturday morning, the 7th and 8th of August. Clean offshore and glassy conditions with a 3ft east swell. That’s the window.

Rusty.

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