Cardiff & Del Mar (North County SD)
Encinitas / Del Mar · near Encinitas / Del Mar · San Diego
Wind Sports
At a glance
- Difficulty
- advanced
- Best season
- Spring–fall (afternoons)
- Water temperature
- Mild (60s°F) — shorty or 3/2
What is here
- Amenities
- North County wave riding · Milder water · Scenic bluff-backed beaches · Near the beach towns
- Best for
- North County SD wave riding
- Features
- North County SD wave riding · Mild water · Cross-shore over reef/beach swell · Scenic bluff coast
Worth knowing
- Hazards
- Shore break & reef · Crowded surf breaks · Rips · Kite restrictions (respect zones)
- Good for a first timer
- No
Guides, rentals and operators
- Lessons
- No
Wind Sports detail
- Discipline
- windsurf · wing · kite
- Conditions
- waves
- Venue
- ocean
- Wind kt
- 16
- Wind
- W/SW afternoon sea breeze, 10–20 kt — cross-shore over North County swell
- Intl tip
- Scenic North County SD wave riding — cross-shore W/SW sea breeze (10–20 kt) over reef/beach swell. Mild water (shorty/3/2). ADVANCED: shore break, reef, rips, crowded surf breaks (mind etiquette). Kiteboarding restricted on many beaches here — check/respect zones (windsurf/wing have more latitude). Lighter/variable wind. Near Encinitas/Del Mar.
The guide
The bluff-backed beaches of Cardiff and Del Mar in San Diego's North County offer scenic ocean wind-sports riding when a west-t…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Cardiff & Del Mar (North County SD) — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 33.015, -117.283