San Francisco Beach Break Surf Spots
Beach Break Surf Spots
San Francisco
San Francisco
San Francisco does have surf thanks to a few novelty spots like Fort Point right at the Golden Gate bridge and a top-notch beach break: Ocean Beach may be heavy and downright dangerous during winter, long-period swells that throw waves up to 20 feet due to its continually shifting sandbars and northwest exposure.
Beach Break
Areas in the ocean where the waves break over a sandy bottom are known as beach breaks. The waves at beach breaks are constantly changing because the sand is often shifting because of tides, currents, and storms. You can be surfing flawless peeling lefts one day and close-out waves the next at the same surf spot. The surf break could be in one location one day and 200 yards along the shoreline the next. The constantly shifting bottom produces a very unpredictable and dynamic surf break. Because they have a softer and safer bottom than reef breaks, beach breaks are excellent places for beginning surfers to practice.
