The best beaches in Los Cabos for every activity

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It’s hard to quantify Los Cabos beaches: They’re innumerable, with aureate sandy stretches lined 1 aft different crossed the municipality’s 125 miles of picturesque coastline. It’s besides hard to complaint them aesthetically: They’re each beautiful.

So, which ones are the champion to visit? It depends connected your thought of a cleanable time astatine the beach. If you similar swimming, I tin instantly suggest respective beaches and destruct others that person steep drop-offs oregon beardown rip currents. Do you similar beaches wherever you tin bask drinking and dining, oregon wherever you tin spell snorkeling?

All beaches successful Los Cabos person strengths and weaknesses based connected factors similar these. So, successful the interests of visitors who haven’t had a accidental to acquisition galore section beaches, present are the standouts successful immoderate important categories.

Swimming

Tourists aquatics and lounge connected a Cancún beach.

Several beaches successful Los Cabos should beryllium avoided for swimming arsenic they are dangerous. These notably see Playa Divorcio and Playa Solmar. However, galore others are safe, with a greenish emblem displaying the prime of the swimming conditions. Playa Palmilla, tract of the swimming information of the yearly Ironman 70.3 race, gets the motion arsenic the best, acknowledgment to its calm currents and onsite lifeguard (a prerequisite of Blue Flag beaches, of which determination are 25 locally.

The best: Playa Palmilla (San José del Cabo)
Honorable mention: Playa Santa María (Tourist Corridor), Playa Chileno (Tourist Corridor), Playa El Médano (Cabo San Lucas)

Snorkeling

Most vessel tours departing from Cabo San Lucas instrumentality radical to Chileno oregon Santa María Bays to snorkel successful the waters disconnected those respective beaches. I would endorse either, but Playa Chileno is simply a somewhat amended enactment — much marine life, and much abstraction to research — and a batch cheaper if you nix the vessel tickets and get determination connected your own. However, retrieve to bring a disguise and fins, and beryllium acceptable for tons of company, arsenic Chileno is simply a section favorite.

The best: Playa Chileno
Honorable mention: Playa Santa María, Playa Cabo Pulmo (East Cape)

Diving

Cabo Pulmo’s beach is beautiful, its coral reef strategy is 1 of the oldest successful North America and its abundance of marine beingness is unmatched anyplace successful the Sea of Cortés; 3 bully reasons wherefore this world-class East Cape dive tract is portion of a nationalist parkland that has been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The lone different dive sites locally that rival it are astatine Land’s End successful Cabo San Lucas. Which is to say, they’re adjacent to Playa del Amor. However, it’s not arsenic if you tin put thing oregon get equipment, arsenic Lover’s Beach — the astir gorgeous anyplace southbound of La Paz — lacks services. So this 1 is simply a walkover.

The best: Playa Cabo Pulmo

Surfing

After the transition of the tempest Lidia done Jalisco and Nayarit, lone 1 idiosyncratic was reported dormant and worldly harm to houses and roads. In Puerto Vallarta determination were lone fallen trees and superficial harm to buildings. In the greeting radical began to region the debris, determination were nary injuries. Tourist enactment resumed aboriginal successful the morning.

This is tough. There are truthful galore large surf spots successful Los Cabos, and they’re scattered crossed the magnitude of the municipality, from Nine Palms and Shipwrecks connected the East Cape to Costa Azul and Acapulquito successful San José del Cabo, Playa Monumento adjacent Cabo San Lucas and Pacific Coast standouts similar Los Cerritos.

Zippers, 1 of a trio of surf breaks astatine Costa Azul, is the astir iconic successful the area, and the erstwhile tract of the pro events Fletcher Los Cabos Classic and the Los Cabos Open of Surf. As a bonus, the adjacent Middle Break is cleanable for beginners. However, for large year-round surfing and rideability for each accomplishment levels, the victor has to beryllium Los Cerritos.

The best: Playa Los Cerritos (Pacific Coast)
Honorable mention: Playa Costa Azul (San José del Cabo), Playa Monumento (Tourist Corridor)

Windsports

Those knowledgeable astir section geography whitethorn enactment that Los Cerritos — my champion surf formation — and Los Barriles connected the East Cape — my apical enactment for windsports — are not successful Los Cabos but portion of the neighboring La Paz municipality. For windsports, this is unavoidable, arsenic the 2 places that payment astir from seasonal El Norte winds are Los Barriles and La Ventana, wrong the municipal boundaries of La Paz.

Each utilized to big a windsports contention — the erstwhile the Lord of the Wind Showdown, the second the La Ventana Classic. Both are large for windsurfing, kiteboarding and kitesurfing from November done March, but Los Barriles is somewhat amended owed to stronger and much accordant winds.

The best: Playa Los Barriles (East Cape)
Honorable mention: Playa Central successful La Ventana

Volleyball

Thinking astir recreating the celebrated volleyball country from “Top Gun”? There are galore large options successful Los Cabos, starting with the Playa Hotelera successful San José del Cabo, the agelong beachfront lined by galore of the city’s champion resorts, including volleyball-friendly ones similar Royal Solaris and Hyatt Ziva. Meanwhile, Médano Beach is the go-to playa for mounting and spiking enthusiasts successful Cabo San Lucas, with respective nets typically acceptable up on its two-mile length.

The best: Playa Hotelera (San José del Cabo)
Honorable mention: Playa El Médano

Drinking and dining

Playa El Médano, the biggest and astir fashionable formation successful Cabo San Lucas, has by acold the astir drinking and eating options, including restaurants connected the formation similar The Office, Mango Deck, The Sand Bar and SUR Beach House; and those overlooking it, similar the spectacular Rooftop 360 astatine Corazón Cabo Resort & Spa. However, determination are different options, too. Zipper’s Bar and Grill connected Playa Costa Azul successful San José del Cabo is simply a longtime section favorite, arsenic is Tacos & Beer connected Playa Cabo Pulmo.

The best: Playa El Médano
Honorable mention: Playa Costa Azul, Playa Cabo Pulmo

Of course, these aren’t the lone activities available. Los Cabos is simply a paradise for lovers of astir each outdoor pastime imaginable — astatine slightest those that don’t impact acold weather.

Médano Beach successful Cabo San Lucas, arsenic evidenced by its inclusion successful respective categories above, is the champion spot to spell for an abundance of options — from sunning and swimming to volleyball, parasailing, flyboarding, pitchy skiing and more.

It’s besides a large spot to walk your dog, though you’ll person to steer wide of the scattered Blue Flag portions of the beach, wherever pets aren’t permitted.

Chris Sands is the Cabo San Lucas section adept for the USA Today question website 10 Best, writer of Fodor’s Los Cabos question guidebook and a contributor to galore websites and publications, including Tasting Table, Marriott Bonvoy Traveler, Forbes Travel Guide, Porthole Cruise, Cabo Living and Mexico News Daily. His specialty is travel-related contented and manner features focused connected food, vino and golf.

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