Oceanside
Oceanside (North County San Diego) · near Oceanside · San Diego
Surfing
At a glance
- Skill level
- intermediate
- Best season
- Year-round · Consistent beach break north and south of the pier
Worth knowing
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
Surfing detail
- Break types
- beach
- Swell
- NW and SW · 2–7ft · Multiple peaks along a long beach
- Tide
- Works across tides
- Wind
- Morning offshore best
- Crowd
- Long beach spreads the crowd. Beginner-friendly sections plus more powerful peaks near the pier and jetties.
- Board
- Shortboard, fish, or longboard depending on conditions
- Wetsuit
- 3/2mm most of the year · 4/3mm mid-winter · Water 58–66°F
- Intl tip
- Oceanside is the northernmost city in San Diego County, gateway to Camp Pendleton and the Trestles zone just north. The California Surf Museum here is worth a visit — it houses Bethany Hamilton's board among other icons of the sport.
The guide
Oceanside offers miles of consistent beach break around its long wooden pier and harbor jetties — a reliable, unpretentious wav…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Oceanside — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 33.1959, -117.3831