Vilano Jetty Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, grab a coffee, this one's a bit quiet.

Right folks, Rusty here. Look, I'm not gonna sugarcoat it. We're looking at a real flat spell for the foreseeable future at Vilano Jetty. The forecast is a long stretch of tiny, weak swells with barely enough energy to get excited about. We're talking combined swell energy values mostly in the teens and twenties—that's weak juice, plain and simple. The dominant swell's coming in from the ESE, but it's just not packing any punch, with wave heights hovering around that knee-high 1 ft mark for the first week.

Starting off Sunday the 5th, it's poor. Cross-off wind in the morning giving way to a cross-shore chop in the afternoon. The surf is just not happening. Monday the 6th offers a brief glimmer with a clean, offshore WSW breeze at 6 mph in the morning, but the swell is a pathetic 1 ft with a combined energy of only 14. Not worth waxing the board for. That same pattern of knee-high slop continues right through the middle of the month. We see a few more afternoons with a bit of push up to 2 ft or 3 ft, but the period on those is short—around 3 to 9 seconds—and the wind swings onshore or cross-shore, turning it into a lumpy mess.

The best we can honestly point to is maybe the mornings where the wind goes light offshore. For instance, Wednesday morning the 16th sees a clean, offshore SSW breeze at 6 mph, but the swell is still only 1 ft from the NE with a combined energy of 29. It'll be clean, but you'll be fighting for a dribble. Friday the 17th's morning is similar, but it drops off to virtually nothing by the afternoon—a combined energy of just 2. The same goes for the glassy mornings on the 18th and 19th. Nice conditions, no waves.

Honestly, for the whole 16-day window, there isn't a single standout. It's a long gap of flat, clean conditions. If you're desperate for a paddle and can handle a long wait between tiny sets, any of those early morning clean windows when the wind is off the land (WSW or SSW) are your only real shot. But for proper surfing? There's nothing on the cards. The combined swell energy stays under 100 for the vast majority of the time, and only pushes weakly into triple digits on one afternoon. For a beach/jetty setup like this, that's just not enough to do anything with.

This run is a tough one. Vilano's just not firing. Keep the board in the car for a sunrise paddle, but don't expect any rideable waves.

Rusty.

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