Vilassar de Mar Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s on the table for our local patch.

Honestly, it’s a grim stretch for the next couple of weeks. There’s no real surf to get excited about for a long, long time. We’re looking at a massive gap with absolutely nothing rideable until the second week of September, and even then, it’s barely a ripple. This is one of those spells where you might as well wax the board just for the smell of it, because you won’t be needing it.

The outlook kicks off on Saturday the 29th of August, but it’s a non-starter – tiny 0.6 ft windswell from the ESE with a period of just 5 seconds, and combined wave energy is a pathetic 5. That’s close to flat. The only positive is a glassy morning with light N winds of 3 mph, but you’d be surfing whitewash. By afternoon, the S wind kicks up cross-on at 9 mph and it’s a choppy mess. Sunday the 30th through to Friday the 4th of September is a total dead zone – zeros for wave energy across the board. Mornings are glassy or clean, but there is simply no swell to push.

The first tiny flicker shows up on Saturday the 5th of September in the afternoon – 1.0 ft from the SW with a 4 second period, straight onshore wind, combined energy of just 2. Not worth a paddle. Sunday morning the 6th is glassy again with 1.0 ft from the SW, but the period drops to 3 seconds – that’s just wind slop.

We get into the second week and things only improve by a hair. On Wednesday the 9th of September, there’s a morning with 1 ft from the E, 4 second period, glassy conditions (NNE wind at 3 mph), combined energy of 5. Still poor. The afternoon bumps up to 2 ft from the E, same short period, combined energy of 10, but cross-on SSW winds at 9 mph make it choppy. Thursday the 10th of September morning is cleaner with a light WSW cross-off breeze, 1 ft from the ENE, period of 5 seconds, energy of 7. That’s the best on offer in the whole 16 days – and it’s still very poor.

For Vilassar de Mar, our only break in the window, the optimum swell direction is ESE, and we get a tiny bit of that early on, but the size never cracks 2 ft. The water temp anomaly is not given, so I can’t call it unusual – assume it’s about average for late summer.

If the swell were bigger and the wind were right, Vilassar is an exposed beginner-friendly spot, and it can be inconsistent and sometimes crowded. But right now, none of that matters – there’s just no surf. For a beach setup like this, the conditions are more interesting for a paddleboard than a surfboard. The combined wave energy never breaks 10 the entire forecast, so it’s weak from start to finish.

So here’s the bottom line: don’t rush. Watch the forecast and hope it changes – it tends not to stay this flat for long, but this run is a proper drought.

Rusty.

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