Seal Beach
Orange County · near Seal Beach · Los Angeles / SoCal
Wind Sports
At a glance
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Best season
- Spring–fall (afternoons)
- Water temperature
- Mild (60s°F) — 3/2 wetsuit or shorty
What is here
- Amenities
- Open-beach riding · Mild OC water · Chop & small waves · Convenient OC access
- Best for
- OC open-beach sessions
- Features
- Open OC beach riding · Mild water · Chop & small waves · Convenient location
Worth knowing
- Hazards
- Shore break & rips · Pier hazard · Crowds/swimmers · Boat traffic (river mouth)
- Good for a first timer
- No
Guides, rentals and operators
- Lessons
- No
Wind Sports detail
- Discipline
- kite · wing · windsurf
- Conditions
- chop
- Venue
- ocean
- Wind kt
- 16
- Wind
- W/SW, 10–22 kt afternoons — open-beach chop and small waves
- Intl tip
- Open-beach OC riding — W/SW afternoon breeze (10–22 kt), chop and small waves for bump-and-jump. Mild water (3/2/shorty). More open-ocean feel than Belmont Shore's flats. Shore break, rips, pier and river-mouth hazards, summer crowds. Convenient for OC/Long Beach riders. Intermediate. A handy open-beach complement to the nearby flatwater spots.
The guide
Seal Beach, at the northern end of Orange County, offers open-beach wind-sports riding for the OC and Long Beach crowd — a stra…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Seal Beach — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 33.741, -118.105