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Sayulita sandbar

  • beginner
  • beach break, lefts and rights
  • 4 min walk

The soft sand-bottom waves in front of the fishing pangas where nearly every Sayulita surf lesson happens. Slow, small and friendly, but packed with learners by mid-morning.

Live · updated in the last 10 min

Sayulita sandbar, right now

1.5–2.5 ft

Knee to waist Good

Knee to waist and calm, glassy. Best look today around 7 am.

NESW
swell that worksswell nowoffshore windwind now
Swell
2.1 ft at 11 s from the SW, plus 1.1 ft WSW
Wind
6 km/h calm, glassy
Tide
0.6 m, falling low 8:19 am, 0.6 m
Water
31°C · 87°F boardshorts and a rash vest
Light
7:03 am – 6:26 pm

The week at Sayulita sandbar

Now1–2 ftFairlight cross-shore wind, 9 km/h from the NNEtide 0.2 m, rising · high at 4:43 am

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  • Wave faces at the spot; the band is the range
  • Rating, flat to great
  • offshore cross onshore wind
  • night

Every year on the main beach

The Sayulita Longboard Contest

Once a year the town's longboard contest takes over the main beach for three days: stylish longboarding in the Open and Junior heats, the Kahuna division, an aerial show and heats after dark under lights, with half the town watching from the sand.

The 2026 contest ran October 16–18

The 2026 divisions

  • Open1,499 pesos · cash prizes
  • Junior499 pesos · cash prizes
  • Kahuna499 pesos · prizes in kind
  • Aerial show499 pesos · cash prizes
  • Night heats999 pesos · cash prizes

Every division is open to women and men, and every entry comes with a competitor's kit.

The contest's siteIn the calendar

It moves around the calendar (the 2025 edition ran December 11–13); next year's dates go up on the contest's site first.

  • A surfer in a green contest jersey launches off the lip on a yellow board
  • A longboarder in yellow arches through a turn on a wooden board
  • A night heat: a surfer in pink throws spray, lit against the dark town
  • A surfer in a pink jersey carves through whitewater on a longboard
  • A young surfer in green trims along a small wave in evening light
  • A grey-haired surfer in red rides a longboard across the face

Photos and film from the 2024 contest by Sabino, from the contest's own site and YouTube. Three days of the 2024 contest in a few minutes: long rides on the main beach, the crowd on the sand and the heats after dark.

Sports & adventure around the bay: the year's contests and races, and everything else to do outdoors.

About Sayulita sandbar

When it works

Swell
NW–N, small
Wind
SE–E, light (morning)
Tide
mid, rising
Size
1–4 ft faces
Season
All year; May–Oct is smaller and gentler

Before you go

Getting there
4 min walk
Bottom
sand
Watch for
crowds and loose boards, rips on bigger days, stingrays in warm months, brown river water after rain
Crowd
very busy
On the beach
board rental, surf schools, restaurants, toilets

Tips

  • Go early; it fills up by mid-morning
  • Very high or very low tide can make it close out or go flat
  • Shuffle your feet when wading in warm months
  • Flat too small to ride
  • Poor small, or messy wind
  • Fair surfable, with a catch
  • Good clean, the right size for the spot
  • Great clean and solid: the spot at its best