The Goat’s Surf Forecast
Surf forecast issued Thursday 20 March 2025: Seven day outlook for Sydney
Beaut day. Lovely sunshine, pleasant breeze, nice water temp, and some ok smallish waves at places open to dead South.
Surf outlook is for several days of smallish surf, before a southerly starts to bring up some swell around Thursday.
Conditions are looking good for keen ocean swimmers who want to avoid the traffic on Sunday and Swim Around the Bilgola Bends from Newport to Avalon. It’s Avalon Beach surf club’s 100th Anniversary, so you can feel part of history
Details here
Friday: around 1-1+ metres at dead South spots
Saturday: around 1 metre or less then around 1 metre East South East
Sunday: around 1-1+ metres dead South
Monday: 1 metre or less dead South
Tuesday: ditto
Wednesday: 1-1+ metres South East
Thursday: starting to come up into the 1-2 metre range at places open to the South, with wind.
The Bureau forecasts possible showers for some days…But warm pleasant temps.. And if you’re going in the water for a surf or to Swim Around the Bends you’re going to get wet anyway, right! And you’ll have a gentley caressing southerly swell to help carry you forward>>>
TG.
Up in the Air
http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/charts/4day_col.shtml
Winds
https://www.windy.com/-33.850/151.220?-34.364,151.221,8,p:wind
Down in the Sea
Water temp is around 22
Tides
https://www.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-06/tide-tables-24-25-nsw.pdf
Weather from the Bureau
Forecast issued at 4:20 pm EDT on Thursday 20 March 2025.
Forecast for the rest of Thursday
- Summary
- Clear.
- Chance of any rain: 5%
Sydney area
Mostly clear. The chance of a thunderstorm in the outer west early this evening. Winds northeasterly 15 to 25 km/h becoming light in the late evening.
Sun protection recommended from 9:40 am to 4:10 pm, UV Index predicted to reach 8 [Very High]
Friday 21 March
- Summary
- Min 21
- Max 28
- Shower or two.
- Possible rainfall: 0 to 7 mm
- Chance of any rain: 70%
Sydney area
Partly cloudy. High chance of showers, most likely in the afternoon and evening. The chance of a thunderstorm in the west. Light winds.
Fire Danger – Moderate
Sun protection recommended from 9:40 am to 4:10 pm, UV Index predicted to reach 8 [Very High]
Saturday 22 March
- Summary
- Min 20
- Max 27
- Shower or two.
- Possible rainfall: 0 to 1 mm
- Chance of any rain: 50%
Sydney area
Partly cloudy. Medium chance of showers. Light winds becoming southerly 15 to 20 km/h in the morning then tending southeasterly in the middle of the day.
Sun protection recommended from 9:40 am to 4:20 pm, UV Index predicted to reach 8 [Very High]
Sunday 23 March
- Summary
- Min 20
- Max 26
- Shower or two.
- Possible rainfall: 0 to 3 mm
- Chance of any rain: 60%
Sydney area
Partly cloudy. Medium chance of showers, most likely in the morning and afternoon. Light winds becoming southeasterly 15 to 20 km/h during the afternoon then becoming light during the evening.
Sun protection recommended from 9:40 am to 4:10 pm, UV Index predicted to reach 8 [Very High]
Monday 24 March
- Summary
- Min 19
- Max 27
- Shower or two.
- Possible rainfall: 0 to 2 mm
- Chance of any rain: 50%
Sydney area
Partly cloudy. Medium chance of showers. Light winds becoming east to southeasterly 15 to 20 km/h during the afternoon then becoming light during the evening.
Tuesday 25 March
- Summary
- Min 20
- Max 27
- Shower or two.
- Possible rainfall: 0 to 3 mm
- Chance of any rain: 50%
Sydney area
Partly cloudy. Medium chance of showers. Light winds becoming southeasterly 15 to 20 km/h during the day.
Wednesday 26 March
- Summary
- Min 20
- Max 28
- Shower or two.
- Possible rainfall: 0 to 5 mm
- Chance of any rain: 60%
Sydney area
Partly cloudy. Medium chance of showers, most likely later in the day. The chance of a thunderstorm. Light winds becoming easterly 15 to 20 km/h during the day.
Thursday 27 March
- Summary
- Min 19
- Max 25
- Shower or two.
- Possible rainfall: 0 to 15 mm
- Chance of any rain: 70%
Sydney area
Cloudy. High chance of showers. Winds southerly 15 to 25 km/h turning southeasterly