Virginia Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s coming up for our local stretch.

To be straight with you, the next 16 days are looking pretty bleak for any decent surf. We’ve got a long stretch of small, weak, and mostly messy conditions. The first real chance of anything rideable is a long way off, and even then it’s not much to write home about. The combined energy is low across the board, with values mostly in the 30s, 40s, and 50s, which is weak wave energy. There’s a big gap of nothing special until we get to the very end of the outlook.

Kicking off on Friday, July 24th, it’s a non-starter. Swell is tiny at 2 ft from the SE with a short period of 8 seconds, and the wind is a cross-onshore from the ENE at 15 km/h. The water temp is a warm 79°, which is about average for this time of year, but that’s the only good news. The surf is poor. That combo of small, weak swell and onshore wind sticks around through the weekend and into the next week. We see a slight bump on Saturday, July 25th, with swell hitting 4 ft from the ENE, but the period drops to 6 seconds and the wind is still a messy cross-onshore from the NNE at 20 km/h. It’s chopped up and ugly. Combined energy is only 98, which is still weak.

The pattern doesn’t change much. We get a few moments of clean-ish conditions, like on Tuesday afternoon, July 28th, with a light cross-offshore wind from the SSW at 15 km/h, but the swell is only 2 ft. It’s clean but tiny. Same again on Wednesday morning, July 29th, with a cross-offshore from the SSW at 20 km/h and swell at 1 ft. Clean but absolutely no power.

We drag through the rest of the week and into the start of August with nothing but small, weak, and often onshore wind-affected swell. The combined energy rarely gets above 50. It’s a grind.

Then, we get a little glimmer. On Monday, August 3rd, the morning looks glassy – a light W wind at 5 km/h – and the swell is small at 2 ft from the SE. It’s the best we’ll see, but it’s still a tiny wave. The energy is weak at 48. For a complete beginner, it might be a fun little paddle, but there’s no power.

The second week is more of the same. There’s a brief moment on Wednesday, August 5th, where the period jumps to 12 seconds, making it a groundswell, but the swell height is only 0.7 ft from the E. That’s barely a ripple. The energy is a pitiful 29. That long period on a tiny beach break like Virginia Beach won’t do you any favors; it’ll just be a slow, fat nothing. The rest of the week is small, short-period slop.

Honestly, there’s no standout session here. The closest thing to a recommendation is the glassy morning of Monday, August 3rd, but only if you’re desperate for a paddle and have zero expectations. The overall forecast quality is poor, and the inconsistency is a real drag. For the area, a blank run like this is not unusual, but it doesn’t mean it’ll last forever.

Rusty.

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