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Half Moon Bay. Photo: F ASTILY, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Half Moon Bay

Surf, kitesurf and windsurf town · United States

Score a trip to Half Moon Bay

Surf, kitesurf and windsurf, 6 nights from tomorrow, from your nearest start point: scored, planned and costed. Try another search

Beds: 10 places

10 places to stay within 2 km, 2 of them campsites.

Prices are our estimate of the country's average double room of each kind that month: not this town's price, and not a quote.

Room photos are examples, not these hotels (credits).

All 10 places to stay · Booking.com

Spots near here: 16 places in 3 sports

Surf · this week

  • Sharp Park · about 30 min by car · stays in South San Francisco

    48 out of 100
  • Linda Mar · about 25 min by car · stays in Pacifica

    44 out of 100
  • Pedro Point · about 25 min by car · stays in Pacifica

    44 out of 100
  • Rockaway Beach · about 30 min by car · stays in Pacifica

    44 out of 100
  • Roosevelt Beach · about 5 min by car

    40 out of 100
  • Venice Beach · about 5 min by car

    39 out of 100
  • Francis Beach · about 5 min by car

    38 out of 100
  • Gray Whale Cove · about 20 min by car · stays in Pacifica

    36 out of 100
All 14 surf spots

Kitesurf · this week

Windsurf · this week

Each score is the next week's out of 100, the mean of its best days, as on its own page. Green clears the bar. Distances are from the middle of Half Moon Bay.

Places to eat

6 near Half Moon Bay

Places to eat near Half Moon Bay

Within 2 km of the town centre, listed by how complete the listing is (website, opening hours, cuisine) and whether two sources name it. Not a judgement of the food: we have no reviews. Listings © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Overture Maps Foundation. Credits

Map

the town and every place near it

Each place is ringed by its best day this week, a surf spot for intermediates: green good, amber fair, pale red poor, as the key says. The dashed circle is 20 km from Half Moon Bay.

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Photos of Half Moon Bay

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Photo: F ASTILY, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

About Half Moon Bay

where it is, what is near

Half Moon Bay is a town in California, United States.

From Half Moon Bay you can reach 14 surf spots, 1 kitesurf spot and 1 windsurf spot.

The nearest is Venice Beach, a surf spot 0.5 km from the centre.

Overture lists 10 places to stay within 2 km of the centre, 2 of them campsites.

The nearest airport is San Francisco International Airport (SFO), 17 km away.

In California · West · United States

  • 10 places to stay within 2 km of the centre, 2 of them campsites (Overture places)
  • Nearest airports: San Francisco International Airport (SFO), 17 km, San Carlos Airport (SQL), 18 km, Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport (OAK), 33 km

Forecast updated . Forecast data: ECMWF, DWD, Météo-France and NOAA, served by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Changed by us. Generated using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information.

Scores are the conditions only: the journey, the price and the partners never change them (how we score, how we earn).