Crown Beach (Alameda)
San Francisco Bay (East Bay) · near Alameda / Oakland · SF Bay Area
Wind Sports
At a glance
- Difficulty
- beginner
- Best season
- April–September (afternoons)
- Water temperature
- Cool (upper 50s°F) — 4/3 wetsuit
What is here
- Amenities
- Mellow East Bay flatwater · Sandy beach launch · Beginner & family friendly · Schools nearby
- Best for
- Mellow East Bay learning & cruising
- Features
- Sandy beach, flatwater · East Bay's friendly learner spot · Family-friendly park · Lessons available
Worth knowing
- Hazards
- Shallow (tide-dependent) · Cold water · Swimmers in summer · Crowded launch
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
Guides, rentals and operators
- Lessons
- Yes
Wind Sports detail
- Discipline
- kite · wing · windsurf
- Conditions
- flat
- Venue
- bay
- Wind kt
- 17
- Wind
- W/SW, 12–22 kt summer afternoons — a mellow East Bay flatwater spot
- Intl tip
- The East Bay's friendly, sandy-beach learner spot — mellow 12–22 kt flatwater. Rare sandy launch (most of the bay is riprap). Tide-dependent (shallow at low). Cool water (4/3). Family park with summer swimmers — mind the crowds. Schools nearby. Gentler than the Peninsula spots. Great for learning or a relaxed cruise near Oakland/Berkeley.
The guide
Robert W. Crown Memorial State Beach in Alameda offers the East Bay's friendliest wind-sports launch — a long sandy beach on a …
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Crown Beach (Alameda) — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 37.758, -122.279