Surfing Costa Rica

Welcome to Surfing Costa Rica!

Costa Rica is a surfers paradise and a must travel destination for surfing travel enthusiasts.  Surfing Costa Rica is your surf travel resource for researching and planning your next surf trip to Costa Rica.  We hope you enjoy our website!

Costa Rica has some of the best waves in Central America.  The quality and variety of surf that breaks along Costa Rica’s over 700 miles of surfable coastline make it easy to see why Costa Rica has become such a popular surfing destination over the years.

Costa Rica has two international airports. 

San Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO) in Alujuela near San Jose, Costa Rica, which serves the central and south pacific regions, as well as, the Caribbean region.  

Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (LIR) in Liberia, Costa Rica serves the north pacific region, also known, as the Guanacaste Province, or Nicoya Peninsula.

What makes Costa Rica the perfect travel destination for surfers?

  • Year round surf, swells and warm water
  • Over 700 miles of coastline on two coasts
  • Two international airports with flights from all over the world
  • Friendly local surfers who love meeting new people
  • Lots of empty beaches to find waves without crowds

A note from the team at Surfing Costa Rica.

We decided to build surfingcostarica.com, because we believe that you need up to date surfing travel information to help you make decisions on where to surf, stay and what to do in Costa Rica on your surfing vacation. 

As we continue to add new features at Surfing Costa Rica, including surf reports, surf video / photo galleries, surf maps, hotel / vacation rental booking engine and much more, we hope that you will help us make Surfing Costa Rica the surfing travel guide of choice for planning your next surf trip to Costa Rica.

We encourage you to provide us with suggestions and feedback on how to make our site better for you!  If you have any questions about surfing and traveling in Costa Rica, please feel free to contact us anytime. 

Our email address is info@surfingcostarica.com.

Pura Vida,

The Surfing Costa Rica Team