White Rocks Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Hey folks, Rusty here. Let's have a look at what's shaping up for White Rocks over the next couple of weeks. Gotta be straight with you – it's a pretty bleak run for the most part, so don't be rushing to grab your board just yet.

White Rocks is an exposed spot, so it picks up swell, but the problem is the wind is nearly always in the wrong direction for the first week and a half. We start off with a Wednesday morning (22nd July), and honestly, it's a write-off. A weak 3ft NNW swell with a short, snappy 7 second period and a moderate cross-onshore breeze from the NNW is making a mess – the combined energy is weak at 98. This pattern of cross-onshore winds and poor surf drags on for days.

Thursday (23rd) is even smaller, with less than 3ft of NNW swell. Friday morning (24th) looks a little better on paper – we get a clean, cross-offshore breeze from the WSW, and the swell bumps up to 4ft from the NW with a longer 9 second period. The combined energy is moderate at 242. Still, it's only rated as marginal, so don't get your hopes up. Friday afternoon gets messy again.

The weekend (25th and 26th July) is a write-off. We've got some decent sized swell – 7ft from the NW on Saturday morning, with combined energy at a strong 867 – but it's accompanied by a strong cross-onshore breeze, making for lumpy, awful conditions. Big, but ugly.

Now, hold on. Monday morning (27th July) is the first real glimmer of hope. The wind swings around to a moderate offshore from the SSW, blowing clean. The swell is 4ft from the WNW with a solid 10 second period, giving a moderate combined energy of 302. This is the first window where it actually looks surfable. Given White Rocks breaks in exposed conditions, this is our standout for the entire forecast. For beginners though, at 4ft it might be at the upper end of comfortable.

After that, it's back to mediocrity for a few days. Tuesday (28th) stays clean but the swell drops. Wednesday (29th) and Thursday (30th) are tiny – under 3ft. By Friday (31st), it's just small, offshore waves that aren't breaking with enough power to be fun.

Heading into August, Saturday the 1st has a pulse of 4ft from the NNW, but it's cross-shore and choppy again. Skip it. Sunday the 2nd goes glassy in the afternoon with a 1ft swell, so you'd barely get a dribble.

The next real window arrives on Tuesday, 4th August. The afternoon looks promising: a clean cross-offshore breeze from the WSW, a solid 5ft NW swell with a 9 second period, and combined energy at a moderate 351. This is actually rated as good surf conditions – the second real standout, but it's a long way out. By Wednesday the 5th and beyond, it fades back to small, clean but weak.

In summary, there are two windows worth pointing the car at: Monday morning, 27th July, with a clean offshore and a punchy 4ft WNW swell; and the Tuesday afternoon, 4th August, for a cleaner 5ft NW swell. Everything else is either too small, too windy in the wrong direction, or both. The water temp is sitting at 58°F with a tiny positive anomaly of 0.5°F, so pretty normal for this time of year at White Rocks – not gonna be warm, but not unusually cold.

Stay patient, surfers.

Rusty

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