North Stradbroke Island Surf Report & Forecast

Surf Report and Surf Forecast

Current Surf Conditions

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Condition Rating

LOTUS Forecast
POOR TO FAIR

Surf Height

4-6FT+

Chest to 1ft overhead

LOTUS Forecast

Swell

7.1FT9s
E101º
1.8FT10s
SSE165º
LOTUS Forecast

Wind

11KTSESE

12kts gusts, Onshore

Model Forecast
Satellite map of location

Tide

3.5FT

Temperature

69°F

spotName Wind & Weather
68ºF

2mm wetsuit

Max Stanley-Jones

Gold Coast Forecast

Max Stanley-Jones •

Today

Light winds and more manageable clean surf. E'ly swell train continues to deliver across the points

Set to see those pesky SE winds back off completely, and with that, a morning worth scoping out those open stretches. The past few days will have mixed up plenty of banks across these beaches up North so there might be a search for some new zones.

We'll see calm offshore's from light SW winds and the chest to head high E swell continuing to deliver across the coast. Points are on again for another fun morning! Light onshores will texture the arvo so get out there for the early.

North Stradbroke Island Surf Forecast

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North Stradbroke Island Surf Guide

The source (of Straddie and its neighbor islands, Moreton and Fraser) is similar: ex-Ice Age meltdown and sea-level changes, helping to form sand barriers along a coastal fringe. Straddie is exposed to swell, particularly from the S-E -- an angle in which much of the Queensland coast tends to suffer. The epic wave on Stradbroke is Cylinders, a long, right point-style wave breaking along the northeast corner of the island and peeling for several hundred yards. Sand-bottomed and somewhat tidal, Cy... Read more