Wildwood Crest Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, folks, Rusty here. Let’s be straight with you. Looking at the next couple of weeks for the Wildwood stretch, it’s a bit of a quiet one. We got a lot of small, weak surf on the menu, and honestly, it's going to be a grind for anyone chasing proper waves. The water’s running a touch warmer than average right now, a degree or two up, so that’s a small win for the summer sessions.

The first few days are just poor. Tuesday the 11th, you’re looking at ankle-biters around 1ft with a weak 6-second wind swell. It’s clean in the morning with a light west breeze, but there’s just nothing to ride. The swell energy is barely registering, a paltry 10. It stays flat and weak through Wednesday and Thursday, with the swell bouncing between 1ft and 3ft, but it’s all short-period and messy. The energy is weak, below 50, and you’d be better off with a bodyboard or just hanging out.

Friday the 14th is still small, but we get a bit of a NW offshore wind in the afternoon that cleans things up, but the swell is still tiny at 1ft. The energy is still weak at 18. It’s one of those “maybe you’ll get a fun little one if you’re on a longboard” kind of days.

The weekend into early next week doesn't offer much redemption. Saturday the 15th is small and onshore, and Sunday the 16th gets messy, with a bigger cross-onshore breeze and a bump in the swell to 4ft from the south with a short, 4-second period. That's all chop and no power, energy at 48, and not worth the paddle out.

Now, here’s the first glimmer of hope. Monday the 17th of August, we finally see a little more life. The swell isn't big, coming in around 3ft, but it's from the south, and the NW offshore wind is blowing strong and clean. The energy is still only moderate at 76, and while the conditions will be clean, the waves will be very ordinary. It’s surfable, but only just. The morning looks better than the afternoon.

After that, it's back to the doldrums. We’ve got a stretch of poor conditions from the 18th right through the end of next week. There is a long-period groundswell showing up from the southeast on the 18th and 19th, with periods of 15-16 seconds, but it’s tiny at 1ft to 2ft. That long period at a beach break like this will likely just close out or be too weak to do anything with. The energy picks up on the 20th to 228, which is moderate, but the wind is onshore and choppy, so it’ll be a mess. That's a good week or so of not much happening, no real standouts.

The only other time we see anything surfable is on the 23rd of August, a Sunday. The swell is a bit better, at 3ft, but still from the SSE at 7 seconds. But the wind is light and cross-offshore, out of the west, which makes for a clean surface. The energy is still weak at 82, but after the run we’ve been having, a clean, rideable, small wave is something. It's still ordinary conditions, but you can get wet. Monday the 24th keeps that small clean wave going with 2ft surf and light west winds, but it fades out quickly.

So, to be honest, there’s no big standout day here. It’s a pretty flat, quiet period for Wildwood. The best bets are the morning of Monday, August 17th for the cleanest, most powerful (relatively speaking) surf, and then the morning of Sunday, August 23rd for a small, clean, fun, longboard wave. Everything else is either too small, too weak, or too messy to get excited about. It’s one of those stretches where you wait it out and hope the forecasts change, because this blank run is pretty normal for the area.

Keep an eye on the sky, and I’ll be back when something better rolls in.

Rusty

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