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Beds: 18 places

18 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 18 places to stay · Booking.com

Spots near here: 9 surf spots

Surf · this week

Sands · about 5 min by car
47 out of 100
Devereux · about 5 min by car
46 out of 100
Depressions · about 5 min by car
40 out of 100
Haskells · about 10 min by car
37 out of 100
Rockpile · about 10 min by car
37 out of 100
Campus Point · about 5 min by car · Not for intermediates
–, no score
Driftwoods · about 15 min by car · Not for intermediates
–, no score
Goleta Rock · about 5 min by car · stays in Goleta · Not for intermediates
–, no score

All 9 surf spots

More Mesa · about 10 min by car · stays in Goleta · Not for intermediates
–, no score

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 Isla Vista; a spot more than 5 km away stays here because Isla Vista is the nearest town with beds.

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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 5 km from Isla Vista.

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Photos of Isla Vista

Sunset in Isla Vista — Photo: Glenn Beltz from Goleta, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

Sandpipers in Isla Vista — Photo: Glenn Beltz from Goleta, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

Isla Vista Sunset 1 — Photo: Glenn Beltz, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

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About Isla Vista

where it is, what is near

Isla Vista is a town in California, United States.

From Isla Vista you can reach 9 surf spots, 1 of the surf spots more than 5 km away.

The nearest is Depressions, a surf spot 1.2 km from the centre.

Overture lists 18 places to stay within 2 km of the centre, 2 of them campsites.

The nearest airport is Santa Barbara Municipal Airport (SBA), 2 km away.

In California · West · United States

18 places to stay within 2 km of the centre, 2 of them campsites (Overture places)
Nearest airports: Santa Barbara Municipal Airport (SBA), 2 km, Santa Maria Public Airport Captain G Allan Hancock Field (SMX), 77 km, San Luis County Regional Airport (SBP), 116 km

Forecast updated Sun 1 Nov, 21:16 UTC. 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).