Yonabaru Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here, and let's get into it for Yonabaru. Honestly, the next couple of weeks are looking pretty grim for a proper paddle session. We've got a long, quiet spell before anything remotely worthwhile shows up.

For the first couple of days, the surf is tiny and unexciting. Monday afternoon offers up a 2ft ESE swell with a long 16-second period, but the combined energy is weak and the wind is a messy cross-off. Not worth suiting up. Tuesday morning is even more of a flop, with a cross-shore breeze making things ugly. The saving grace comes Tuesday afternoon – we see a 4ft SE swell, period pumping at 17 seconds, and a light cross-off breeze from the NW. That’s clean. The combined energy is moderate. For a beginner-friendly, fairly consistent spot like this, that's the standout of the whole run. Good luck keeping it to yourself though; it can get a bit crowded here.

From Wednesday onward, it all goes downhill fast. The swell builds quickly, hitting 7ft on Wednesday morning and 8ft that afternoon, but it’s under a strong cross-onshore NE wind. That’s choppy and ugly. For beginners, 7ft is already too much, and by 8ft it’s expert territory at best, but the wind ruins it anyway. Then the weather turns nasty with thunderstorms, and we get a massive 13ft SE swell on Thursday, but it’s under a howling 22 mph onshore wind. The combined energy is extremely strong, but you’d be a fool to paddle out. This is kite-surfing madness, not surfing.

Then, from Friday the 10th through to Saturday the 18th, the guidance mostly shows "poor surf conditions" with no swell at all or tiny, weak waves. There’s a long drought of over a week with no recommendations. You get a few glimpses of 2ft on the 14th and 3ft on the 18th, but the wind is always onshore or cross-onshore. Even when the water temp is a balmy 83° on that Monday, which is pretty average for this time of year with that slight negative anomaly, it doesn’t help the quality.

The only other flicker of life is on Saturday the 18th morning, where we see a clean 3ft E swell with a 11-second period and a light cross-off breeze from the SSW. Combined energy is weak, so it’s small, but it’s clean. That’s a maybe, if you’re desperate. The rest of the period into the 21st just keeps delivering poor surf conditions under stormy skies.

So, bottom line: if you want the best wave, your window is Tuesday afternoon the 7th of July. After that, there’s a dead run of over a week before a tiny, clean option shows up on the 18th. Keep an eye on it, but don’t hold your breath.

Rusty.

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