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The water is indeed cold most places here. But once you get down to Santa Barbara or better yet Long Beach you can find the occasional beach with warm water. I
by Fatnino 4y ago
The water is indeed cold most places here. But once you get down to Santa Barbara or better yet Long Beach you can find the occasional beach with warm water.
It's some combination of the very deep water being rather near shore and beaches that get directly blasted with the cold water streaming down the coast from Alaska. Remove/minimize those 2 factors and you can start finding warm water.
- holler 4y agoIn San Diego around late August / early Sept you can find some really warm water relatively speaking. Particularly I used to enjoy going down to La Jolla cove and snorkeling around that time, with temps reaching up to 75f, which feels like bath water for the Pacific Ocean. Fairly certain I've experienced warmer than that a few times growing up.