Villefranche sur Mer Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, this is a tough one to call, but I’ll be straight with you. The next 16 days are looking like a proper flat spell for the Riviera.

Villefranche sur Mer is a reef setup that’s rarely breaking, and for the whole forecast window, the energy just isn’t there. We’re talking almost no surf to speak of. The best we see is a tiny pulse of 3ft coming from the east on Thursday morning, with a period of only 5 seconds – that’s just a weak, short-period windswell, not much push. The wind is light and cross-shore, so it’d be clean, but there’s barely enough height to ride. The combined energy sits at a low 37 (weak energy), telling you the ocean just isn’t firing.

The water is sitting at 79°, which is 5° warmer than the long-term average for this time of year. That’s very unusual, probably feels like a bath, but it doesn’t help the waves.

We do get a morning of glassy conditions on Sunday the 30th of August, with only 2ft of swell from the southwest. It’s clean, but the swell is tiny and the period is a super short 4 seconds, so the wave quality will be pretty poor. You’d be scratching for a ride.

Frankly, there’s nothing here that qualifies as a standout. This is a classic blank run for this area. The reef rarely breaks, and when it does, it needs a proper swell from the south. We aren’t getting that in this window. For a stretch of over a week, from the end of August well into the first week of September, the combined energy shows zeros or single-digit numbers. It’s just not happening.

We get a few more mornings with glassy or clean conditions in the second week, but with swells of 0.7ft to 1ft and periods of 3 to 4 seconds, it’s not going to be worth paddling out. The ocean is basically asleep. If you’re desperate for a splash, you could check the morning of Sunday the 30th, but don’t expect much.

Rusty.

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