Cabrillo Beach (San Pedro)
San Pedro / Los Angeles Harbor · near San Pedro / Long Beach · Los Angeles / SoCal
Wind Sports
At a glance
- Difficulty
- beginner
- Best season
- Spring–fall (afternoons)
- Water temperature
- Mild (60s°F) — 3/2 wetsuit or shorty
What is here
- Amenities
- Protected flatwater inner beach · LA's learn-to-ride spot · Milder water · Outer beach for waves
- Best for
- Learning in the LA area
- Features
- Protected flatwater inner beach · LA's main learner spot · Outer beach for waves · Schools & mild water
Worth knowing
- Hazards
- Harbor/boat traffic · Water quality (inner beach — check advisories) · Crowds/beachgoers · Rips (outer beach)
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
Guides, rentals and operators
- Lessons
- Yes
Wind Sports detail
- Discipline
- windsurf · kite · wing
- Conditions
- flat
- Venue
- bay
- Wind kt
- 16
- Wind
- W/SW, 10–20 kt afternoons — protected inner beach (flat) + outer beach (chop/waves)
- Intl tip
- LA's main LEARN-TO-RIDE spot — the protected inner beach is sheltered flatwater (schools operate here); the outer beach has waves for advanced riders. W/SW 10–20 kt afternoons. Mild water (3/2/shorty). Harbor boat traffic; check inner-beach water-quality advisories. Convenient to LA. Great for beginners, with an ocean option next door.
The guide
Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro, tucked inside the Los Angeles Harbor breakwater, is the LA area's main learn-to-ride spot — its pr…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Cabrillo Beach (San Pedro) — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 33.708, -118.281