Leo Carrillo State Beach
Malibu · Los Angeles County · California
Visibility Breakdown
Visibility by position
Solid = diver report · outlined = our reading
Break Zone: The range of water where the waves break and sediment is stirred up.
Post Break: The range past where any waves are forming, where the water starts to have a significant increase in visibility. There might be some sediment here, but swell energy is diffused and the water is calmer.
Open Water: This zone is far out enough from the shore that the water is at its clearest. It’s deep enough that sediment is not disturbed by the wave energy at the surface. Haze can sit near the surface, so the water is usually clearer the deeper you go.
Through the day
Today's visibility readings at this spot, shown at the hour each one was taken.
Every bar is a reading for the Post Break zone.
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Coastal Bulletin
About Leo Carrillo State Beach
Why it reads 4–8 ft
Medium confidence
7-Day Forecast
Today is the live headline above. Tomorrow onward is the algorithm's forecast from predicted swell, wind, and rain, updated each morning and at 6 PM Pacific.
Map and parking
Malibu, CA 90265
Paid State Park lot at 35000 West Pacific Coast Highway, $12 per day, open 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. The lot fills on summer weekends and holidays. A campground sits across Pacific Coast Highway from the beach, so foot traffic crosses the highway to reach the sand.
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About Leo Carrillo State Beach
Leo Carrillo State Beach stretches for about 1.5 miles along northwestern Los Angeles County, close enough to the Ventura line that the adjacent County Line Beach falls under the same park unit. Sequit Point, a rocky headland near the middle of the park, splits the frontage into North Beach and South Beach, the latter also called Arroyo Sequit after the creek that reaches the ocean there. The point holds extensive tidepools, rock arches, and sea caves; the caves and some of the arches are best reached on foot at low tide rather than by water, because surge inside the openings runs strong and no lifeguard covers them. Most divers enter at the stair cove just left of Sequit Point near Lifeguard Tower 3, with Tower 2 as an alternate. Established in 1953, the park takes its name from Leo Carrillo, an actor who served 18 years on the California Beach and Parks Commission.
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Researched habitat and range candidates. A listed species may be seasonal or depth-limited; this is not a confirmed sighting at this location.
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