Tocones

Best Surf Season (May - June & October)

Tocones is a north-facing beach break where the ideal recipe calls for N to NNW groundswell and a SSW to SW offshore wind. The climatological reality, however, is that the regional wave and wind roses are dominated by E/ESE trades. These produce short-period windswell averaging only 2.5-3ft (0.8-0.9m) most of the year, while true N-NNW swell is essentially absent from the annual data. As a result, the surf calendar is less about big seasonal energy and more about wind texture. The best months are May, June and October, when favorable wind percentages reach their annual highs (46%, 44% and 42%) and the trade winds become less aggressive. Swell size is still small, but the cleaner surface turns those small E/ESE waves into genuinely ridable, often longboard-friendly surf.