Bali Surf Report and Surf Forecast

Another perfect day for surfing, in the world’s best, and most consistent surfing island. Sunny with light offshore winds, the wave quality was world class, and perfect for intermediates and improvers. Plenty of head high waves with the occasional bigger set, there was enough waves for everyone to have a great session. Tourists are slowly returning to Bali since they reduced the quarantine requirements, but still plenty of elbow room in the line up, and today was the day to fill your boots with good waves. Swell forecast to be a bit smaller tomorrow, and by the end of the week, south coast breaks will be the place to get overhead waves.

Perfect conditions for intermediate surfers at Bali’s premier surf spot today. It is a common misunderstanding that November is wet and onshore on the west coast of the Bukit. Winds are light and variable this time of year and you can get clean conditions on East, West and South coasts. When the swell is tiny, the south coast if the place for bigger waves, but Uluwatu was perfect today for your average surfer who wants to ride long, clean, head high waves. Hot and sunny.

Very small surf today on the west coast, so we decided to cruise down to Nyang Nyang, which is always bigger than Uluwatu. During the dry season, Nyang Nyang is very wind exposed to the trade winds, but today the wind was very light. Set waves were well overhead and quite powerful. Makes a change to go right after surfing mostly lefts all season. We are now in the wet season, and from now until March next year, we will be varying our surfs between west, east and south coasts of Bukit.

Small today by Uluwatu standards, but many head high waves, and very clean conditions. Today was perfect for novice-intermediate surfers to get accustomed to riding a reef break. Reef breaks are so much better than beach breaks, as the waves are more predictable, and the rides tend to be longer. Ride time is very important to improve, and today was perfect for improvers, as many long rides, and light crowds. On a day like this, the best surfers tend to take a day off, so it was mostly intermediates in the line up.

We planned to surf Bingin today but the swell was smaller than expected, so went to always reliable Uluwatu, which is always at least head high. The wind was sideshore and a bit of a bump on the take off, but the wave was very clean down the line. For the first hour the waves were nearly perfect and very long. As the tide filled in, the wind picked up and it got more difficult to pick a good ride. Very light crowds and plenty of waves for everyone.

Our 2 guests from Jakarta had a great surfing experience at Padang Padang this morning. It was their first ever time surfing and they both got up on the board. Only 1 other person in the water at start of the session, but we were joined by a few more later in the morning. Swell size has dropped since yesterday and was good size for beginner and intermediate surfers. Hot, sunny with light winds.

Another solid swell arrived this morning. October has been epic, and we went again to our favourite surf spot. Very light winds, and perfect size for Bingin, but there was a bit of chop from the current running down from impossibles. Not many barrels today, but every wave at Bingin feels fantastic as so much power in the wave. A few more people in the line up today as it is a Sunday, but the groms stayed mostly on the inside catching the smaller waves.

Another perfect uncrowded session at Bali’s most fun wave. There were only between 6 and 8 people out the whole session and lots of waves for everyone. The forecast was for a weak 13 second period swell, but waves were well overhead and some barrels to be had. Today was not a day for 5’8″boards but towards the end of the session, local top gun Mega Semadhi paddled out and showed us how to take the sets on a very small board.