Surfing in Mexico in June

Surfing in Mexico in June

June is Carrizalillo's best month, which is the useful thing to know about a town whose other wave is at its most serious.

  • For learning
    Good
  • The month
    Very good

June has the south swell properly established. Zicatela is working most days and the size steps up through the month, and the summer that follows is what the whole Oaxaca reputation rests on.

Underneath that, the number to carry is the cove's. Carrizalillo returns eleven clean days out of thirty in June, its best figure of the year, and that matters more to more people than anything Zicatela does. It means a first week in Puerto Escondido is a real proposition in June specifically, in the same town and the same month as a beach break that experienced surfers travel across the world to look at.

The two are ten minutes apart and the gap between them is the whole point of the place. The town sells both and will not tell you which one you booked.

Learning in June

  • For learning : Good

The month for the cove, with a school, and no reason at all to be on the beach break. Book the lesson before you book the room.

Where a beginner goes in June

These spots are reachable all year. What the month changes is the size of the waves, not the access.

For an experienced surfer

  • Surf : Very good

Full season on the beach break, with the size still short of what August does to it.

Where these figures come from

Air, rain and sunshine: WMO / NOAA 1991-2020 normals for Agadir Al Massira, a station some twenty kilometres inland and so a little warmer than the coast in summer. Swell, period and share of workable wind: Swell Archive and surf-forecast. Water temperature: seatemperature.org and weather-and-climate. Crowds and prices are an editorial judgement, not a measurement.

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