The beaches in town and the day trips along the coast, surf beaches included. Where you can swim, where you can surf and at what level, how to get there and what is open at each one.
In Puerto Escondido 6
West to east, the same walk the town makes.
Punta Colorada
No swimmingSurf: experts
The reddish cliff point west of Bacocho, next to the airport. Its wave is a fast, closing beach break that Puerto treats as a bodyboard spot rather t…
Aeropuerto 1 place
Playa Bacocho
No swimmingSurf: experts
A mile and a half of open Pacific sand: the longest beach in town and the emptiest. The surf is heavy and the current pulls, so people come here to w…
Bacocho 60 places
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Playa Carrizalillo
Safe to swimSurf: beginners
Puerto’s postcard: a small turquoise bay tucked between cliffs, with palapas, ceviche and beginner surf lessons. You go down about 170 steps, and bac…
Carrizalillo 136 places
Playa Principal
Safe to swimSurf: beginners
The town’s own bay, right below El Adoquín: fishing boats pulled up on the sand, fish sold in the morning and the sunset everyone photographs. The pi…
El Adoquín 191 places
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Playa Zicatela
No swimmingSurf: experts
The Mexican Pipeline: two miles of sand and a wave that barrels over a sandbank very close to shore. From November to March it is a world-class show,…
Zicatela 322 places
La Punta (Punta Zicatela)
Swim with careSurf: intermediate
The southern end of Zicatela, with its own village of dirt streets, cafés and yoga. It has a long left that breaks off the rocky point: friendlier th…
La Punta 255 places
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Near Puerto 2
Day trips, with the road distance from downtown.
Mazunte
Swim with careSurf: beginners
A Pueblo Mágico of sandy streets, home to the Mexican Turtle Center and Punta Cometa, the southernmost point of Oaxaca and the best sunset on the who…
65 km east · 1 h 15 min
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Zipolite
No swimming
Mexico’s nude beach: long, bohemian and very beautiful. It also has one of the strongest currents on the coast — there is a reason volunteer lifeguar…
70 km east · 1 h 20 min
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- Almost no beach in Puerto has lifeguards. A red flag is not decoration.
- Rip currents (the ones pulling out to sea) cause nearly every accident. If one catches you, do not swim against it: swim sideways, parallel to the shore, until you are out.
- Zicatela, Bacocho and La Punta are not swimming beaches, however inviting the water looks.
- Ask at your hotel or at the palapa about the day’s conditions: they change with the tide.
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