White Crest Beach (Wellfleet) Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here, and I’ve gotta be straight with you – the outlook for White Crest Beach (Wellfleet) over the next 16 days is a tough one. There’s not a single wave on offer that’s worth paddling out for. The whole forecast period, from Saturday the 1st of August right through to Sunday the 16th of August, is a flat, lifeless run. Every single entry in the data says “poor surf conditions,” and the scores are all zeros. It’s a real bummer.

The first few days are a no-go. Saturday the 1st kicks off with a tiny 2 ft swell from the SE, period of 8 seconds, and combined energy of a weak 37. The wind is light offshore in the morning, which would be clean, but there’s just no grunt in the water. By the afternoon, the wind picks up to 12 mph from the SW, cross-off, and the swell drops to 1 ft. Sunday and Monday follow the same sad pattern – max swell around 1 ft to 4 ft, but the 4 ft on Monday afternoon comes with a nasty 28 mph SW wind, which churns it up and makes it unsurfable. The combined energy rises to 184, which is moderate, but the wind is a strong breeze, and the quality is garbage.

The rest of the first week continues flat. The swell never gets above 2 ft, and the wind patterns are all over the place – cross-off, cross-on, onshore, glassy on the 14th morning, but it doesn’t matter because the combined energy is in the teens and twenties, barely registering. The water temperature is 68°F with a tiny anomaly of 0.3°F, so it’s about average for the time of year, but you won’t even get wet.

The second week, from the 9th to the 16th, is just as bleak. The swell heights are stuck at 0.7 ft to 2 ft, periods are mostly short (6-10 seconds), and the combined energy rarely tops 40. There’s a glassy moment on the morning of the 14th, but the swell is only 0.7 ft with a period of 10 seconds – that’s not enough to push a foamie. The wind stays light or moderate, but the ocean is basically asleep.

For a spot like a sandbar, exposed to the SE, this is a blank run. There’s no standout, no hidden gem, nothing. The setup is too small and weak for paddle surfing, and honestly, with the wind shifts, it’s not even interesting for kite surfers – there’s no power. I’d say hang up the board for now, keep an eye on the forecasts, but this one’s a washout. Rusty.

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