Zambujeira do Mar Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s take a look at what we’ve got cookin’ at Zambujeira do Mar for the next couple weeks. I’ll level with ya – it’s a rough patch.

Right from the start, we’re lookin’ at a long stretch of nothin’. From now all the way until the morning of Tuesday, July 14th, the surf is a big fat zero. The swells are puny, the wind’s all kinds of wrong, and the wave energy is barely a whisper. There’s a few days in that first week where you might see a ripple, but the quality is garbage and the score is a flat zero. Save your wax.

The one little spark in the darkness comes on the morning of Tuesday, July 14th. We’ve got a tiny swell creepin’ in at about 2ft from the WNW with a period of 11 seconds. That’s a long-period groundswell, so it’ll have some oomph for its size, and the real beauty is the wind. It’s glassy. Dead flat. That’s a special thing. The water temp is right where it should be for this time of year, nothin’ weird. The combined energy is moderate, sittin’ at 141.

With those conditions, Zambujeira do Mar itself might dish up a few clean, tiny little peelers on the inside. It’s a very consistent spot, wide open to the WNW, so it’ll grab whatever’s out there. The crowd factor is “sometimes,” so you might see a few other heads bobbin’ but not a full-on zoo. For an intermediate surfer, it’s a decent little session if you’re itchin’ to get wet. After that morning glass-off, the wind switches onshore in the afternoon and it’s back to junk, so you gotta be on it early.

Lookin’ further out, the next week shows a bit more size. By the morning of Sunday, July 19th, the swell bumps up to about 5ft from the NW with a 10-second period. That’s a bigger, more energetic groundswell, with combined energy hitin’ 433 – that’s moderate energy but on the high side. The problem is, the wind is a steady cross-onshore breeze from the NW at 15 km/h (about 9 mph). That’ll put a little chop on the face. It won’t be clean like that Tuesday morning, but it’ll be rideable for an intermediate surfer. It ain’t a standout, just the best of a bad bunch. Don’t get your hopes up.

So overall, it’s a quiet forecast. If you’ve got a longboard and some patience, that Tuesday, July 14th morning is your only real shot at clean, glassy waves. The rest is wind-affected or just plain tiny.

Rusty.

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