West Wittering Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let's have a straight look at what we've got on offer for West Wittering over the next couple of weeks.

Honestly, it's a tough stretch for the south coast. The whole 16-day window is a bit of a struggle. There’s no real surf to get excited about at all. We start with a flat spell and we're basically looking at a big gap of nothing until the very end. The wind and swell just aren't lining up for paddle surfing. Most of the period is dominated by onshore and cross-onshore winds from the west and southwest, chewing up whatever tiny bits of energy sneak in. Combined wave energy figures are consistently weak, mostly in single or low double digits, so the ocean is just not producing.

For a sheltered beach/groyne setup like West Wittering, you need the conditions to be just right, and they’ve been all wrong. The majority of the forecast is a write-off for anything ridable. The glassy conditions on Saturday the 26th of September are a massive tease, with a combined energy of just 17, but the swell is a pathetic 0.3 ft. You’d be floating, not surfing.

Look, for any actual surf, we have to wait a long time. The standout, and really the only potential session to even mention, is very late in the game. On Tuesday the 22nd of September, we finally see a shift. The morning brings in a north-easterly, giving us some rare offshore wind at West Wittering. The wind report says “moderate offshore and clean,” which is gold for this break. However, the swell is still tiny at 0.3 ft from the SW with a long period of 10 seconds.

Wednesday the 23rd of September morning and afternoon has a clean, cross-offshore wind from the east. Again, there is no size to speak of, but the ocean will look like a lake.

The water temperature is sitting around 67°F, which is over 5 degrees warmer than normal for this time of year. It’s a weirdly warm bath out there, but sadly that's the only highlight.

Because the swell energy is so weak and the wind is nearly always messy, the setup here looks far more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing. There’s just nothing to ride on a surfboard for almost the entire 16 days. A blank run like this is more normal for this area when the wind stays stuck in the west.

Rusty.

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