Mexico has 9,330 kilometers of coastline (over 6,000 miles), width the the best surfing breaks and wave action being found on the Pacific side. This stretch of coast is covered with beach breaks, point breakss, reefs and river mouths, affording an enormous variety of prime surfing spots all up and down it’s extension, and waves of all types and configuration from slow rollers to gnarly, hollow tubes. Many of the more accessible surf spots can get crowded, both with local surfers and those coming in from foreign parts, but Mexico still has a lot of remote surf spots where you can get in the water and have plenty of space for just your own self.
The Mexican Pacific has very favorable surf spots in Baja California, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan, Guerrero,Oaxaca and Chiapas, with many of them being in the high-performance range. There’s at least one good surf spot near almost any major vacation destination such as Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta, Manzanillo, Ixtapa, Acapulco or Huatulco.
South-facing beaches along the Mexico Pacific coast gets surf generated, for the most part, from storms off New Zealand and Antarctica. The best time for this wave action is from May through October. West-facing beaches tend to get better surf action from Arctic storms during the winter months, from December through March.
