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Imperial Beach. Photo: RightCowLeftCoast, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Imperial Beach

Surf, kitesurf and windsurf town · United States

Score a trip to Imperial Beach

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

Beds: 12 places

12 places to stay within 2 km, 1 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 12 places to stay · Booking.com

Spots near here: 37 places in 3 sports

Surf · this week

  • Baja Malibu · about 35 min by car · stays in Playas de Rosarito

    72 out of 100
  • Imperial Beach · about 5 min by car

    69 out of 100
  • Rosarito Beach Pier Southside · about 50 min by car · stays in Rosarito

    66 out of 100
  • O.B. Jetty · about 45 min by car · stays in San Diego

    65 out of 100
  • Playas de Tijuana · about 10 min by car · stays in Tijuana

    65 out of 100
  • Sloughs · about 10 min by car

    65 out of 100
  • Avalanche · about 40 min by car · stays in San Diego

    64 out of 100
  • Ab · about 35 min by car · stays in Coronado

    63 out of 100
All 35 surf spots
  • Bird Shit · about 40 min by car · stays in Coronado

    63 out of 100
  • Garbage · about 35 min by car · stays in Coronado

    63 out of 100
  • Ian's Reef · about 35 min by car · stays in Coronado

    63 out of 100
  • Newbreak (Nubes) · about 35 min by car · stays in Coronado

    63 out of 100
  • No Surf · about 40 min by car · stays in Coronado

    63 out of 100
  • O.B. · about 40 min by car · stays in San Diego

    63 out of 100
  • OB pier · about 40 min by car · stays in San Diego

    63 out of 100
  • Pescedero (Pesky) · about 40 min by car · stays in San Diego

    63 out of 100
  • Pianos · about 35 min by car · stays in Coronado

    63 out of 100
  • Sunset Cliffs - Osprey · about 40 min by car · stays in Coronado

    63 out of 100
  • Birdrock · about 55 min by car · stays in San Diego

    59 out of 100
  • Diamond Street · about 50 min by car · stays in San Diego

    59 out of 100
  • Hennemans · about 55 min by car · stays in San Diego

    59 out of 100
  • Law Street · about 50 min by car · stays in San Diego

    59 out of 100
  • PB Pier · about 50 min by car · stays in San Diego

    59 out of 100
  • PB Point · about 50 min by car · stays in San Diego

    59 out of 100
  • Soft Cocks · about 55 min by car · stays in San Diego

    59 out of 100
  • Tourmaline · about 50 min by car · stays in San Diego

    59 out of 100
  • Vietors · about 50 min by car · stays in San Diego

    59 out of 100
  • Bruticus Maximus-WAVE HOUSE · about 45 min by car · stays in San Diego

    58 out of 100
  • Devils · about 55 min by car · stays in San Diego

    58 out of 100
  • El Carmel Point · about 45 min by car · stays in San Diego

    58 out of 100
  • Little Makaha · about 55 min by car · stays in San Diego

    58 out of 100
  • Mission Beach · about 45 min by car · stays in San Diego

    58 out of 100
  • Santa Clara Court · about 45 min by car · stays in San Diego

    58 out of 100
  • South Mission beach · about 45 min by car · stays in San Diego

    58 out of 100
  • Coronado · about 25 min by car · stays in Coronado

    55 out of 100

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 Imperial Beach.

Places to eat

6 near Imperial Beach

Places to eat near Imperial Beach

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 30 km from Imperial Beach.

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Photos of Imperial Beach

Beach by the pier (Unsplash)
Photo: Dakota Corbin thedakotacorbin, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
View of wooden pier pillars (Unsplash)
Photo: Ruben Lopez Jr. sdruben, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
Otay River - October 2017
Photo: RightCowLeftCoast, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

About Imperial Beach

where it is, what is near

Imperial Beach is a town in California, United States.

From Imperial Beach you can reach 35 surf spots, 1 kitesurf spot and 1 windsurf spot.

The nearest is Imperial Beach, a surf spot under 0.1 km from the centre.

Overture lists 12 places to stay within 2 km of the centre, 1 of them campsites.

The nearest airport is General Abelardo L. Rodriguez International Airport (TIJ), 14 km away.

In California · West · United States

  • 12 places to stay within 2 km of the centre, 1 of them campsites (Overture places)
  • Nearest airports: General Abelardo L. Rodriguez International Airport (TIJ), 14 km, San Diego International Airport (SAN), 18 km, McClellan-Palomar Airport (CLD), 63 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).