Backdoor Surf Report & Forecast
Surf Report, Surf Forecast & Surf Cam
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Current Surf Conditions
Condition Rating
Surf Height
3-4FT
Waist to chest
Swell
Wind
7KTSENE
9kts gusts, Cross-shore
Tide
Temperature
79°F
1mm wetsuit
North Shore Oahu Forecast
Jax Richards •Today
Decent off-season NNW swell. Fun, generally clean surf and biggest day of the week.
Dawn-10am: Nice little pulse of NNW swell by June standards. Average breaks seeing waist-chest high surf, with top spots in the head high range. Strongest surf during the first half of the day. Fairly clean conditions with ENE trades.
Afternoon Outlook: Size slowly eases over the afternoon but continued waist-chest+ high surf all day. Trades stay up but direction looks pretty good: E-ENE. Likely a little bit of bump to the surf, but no complaints on a fun June swell.
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Backdoor Surf Forecast
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Backdoor Surf Guide
Backdoor was somewhat ignored during Pipeline's first golden days in the 1970s. It makes you wonder how many heaving barrels roared right off the peak before everyone kind of clicked on it. The wave relies on a slight breaking up of swell lines from the northwest (shorter to mid period swells are best, of a swell combo) and a thin channel between the Pipe reef and Off-The-Wall. The broken swell allows a tapering wall, which hits square on the shallowest part of first reef and creates an intense... Read more