Baja California is the road-trip surf frontier — a thousand-kilometre peninsula of empty Pacific points and Sea of Cortez glass. Scorpion Bay (San Juanico) strings together multiple right-hand point sections. Airports: Los Cabos (SJD), Tijuana (TIJ), and La Paz (LAP).
September – November (south swell wraps the points; summer is the warmest, most consistent).
Beginners surf the forgiving cobblestone point at Scorpion Bay's inside sections and the mellow Cabo beaches; advanced surfers chase the long right-hand points of San Juanico and the heavy reef at Todos Santos Island.
The Pacific points peak September to November when southern-hemisphere swell wraps around the cape, paired with the warmest water of the year. The Todos Santos big-wave reef works on winter NW swells and is cold and serious.
Parts of it. The inside sections at Scorpion Bay and the gentler beaches around Cabo San Lucas offer friendly waves, but much of Baja is remote and better suited to self-sufficient intermediate surfers.
Scorpion Bay is a remote village on Baja's Pacific side famous for connecting right-hand point breaks that can link into very long rides on a good south swell.