Tourmaline Surf Park (San Diego)
Pacific Beach, San Diego · near San Diego · San Diego
Wind Sports
At a glance
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Best season
- Spring–fall (afternoons)
- Water temperature
- Mild (60s°F) — shorty or 3/2
What is here
- Amenities
- Mellow wave windsurfing · Milder water · Classic SD windsurf spot · Pacific Beach setting
- Best for
- Mellow wave windsurfing in San Diego
- Features
- Longtime SD windsurf spot · Mellow cross-shore wave riding · Mild water · Pacific Beach convenience
Worth knowing
- Hazards
- Shore break & rocks · Crowded (surf spot) · Rips · Kiteboarding not permitted (windsurf/SUP zone)
- Good for a first timer
- No
Guides, rentals and operators
- Lessons
- No
Wind Sports detail
- Discipline
- windsurf · wing
- Conditions
- waves
- Venue
- ocean
- Wind kt
- 15
- Wind
- W/SW, 10–20 kt afternoons — mellow cross-shore over gentle swell
- Intl tip
- San Diego's classic OCEAN windsurf spot — mellow cross-shore W/SW breeze (10–20 kt) over gentle swell, friendlier than NorCal's power. Mild water (shorty/3/2). NOTE: kiteboarding generally NOT permitted here (windsurf/SUP/surf zone — kiters use Mission Bay/Fiesta Island). Shore break, rocks, rips, crowds. Convenient Pacific Beach. Good mellow wave riding for windsurf/wing.
The guide
Tourmaline Surf Park in Pacific Beach is San Diego's classic ocean windsurfing spot — a mellow point where a cross-shore west-t…
In the Guidebook
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Getting there
- Coordinates
- 32.803, -117.262