Ventura / C Street
Ventura · near Ventura · Los Angeles / SoCal
Surfing
At a glance
- Skill level
- intermediate
- Best season
- Fall and winter · Oct–March for northwest groundswells
Worth knowing
- Good for a first timer
- No
Surfing detail
- Nickname
- Surfer's Point
- Break types
- point
- Swell
- Northwest · 3–8ft · Cobblestone point needs some size to work properly
- Tide
- Low-to-mid tide best · High tide covers the cobblestone and flattens waves
- Wind
- Morning offshore is ideal · Afternoon onshore degrades quality
- Crowd
- Uncrowded by SoCal standards. Ventura is underrated partly because it's overshadowed by Rincon 10 miles south — which is exactly why it's worth knowing about.
- Board
- Mid-length or longboard for smaller days · Shortboard on solid northwest swells
- Wetsuit
- 4/3mm Oct–April · 3/2mm rest of year
- Intl tip
- The Channel Islands National Park visitor center and ferry departure point are in Ventura Harbor. Combining a Ventura surf trip with a Channel Islands day trip (boats leave from here) is one of the best full-day California adventures.
The guide
Rincon gets all the attention because Rincon deserves all the attention — but Ventura is 10 miles away, a fraction of the crowd…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Ventura / C Street — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 34.2764, -119.3001