Surfing spots in the South Pacific Coast of Costa Rica where you want to go are: Dominical Beach, Cabo Matapalo Beach, Pavones Beach, and Punta Burica Beach. Dominical Beach is a one and a half mile long beach that offers fifteen days of surfing each month. When surfing conditions are good at Dominical Beach there is left and right beach break that offer surfing for all abilities. The best time for surfing at Dominical Beach is when there is a mid tide. When the tide drops in Dominical Beach nice barrels can form. The problem about the high tide in Dominical Beach is that when the waves go too much overhead they tend to close out. In general Dominical Beach presents powerful and consistent beach break. Dominical Beach also receives south and west swells at the river mouth. Lefts and right breaks changes all the time at Dominical Beach.

Pavones Beach is considered one of the longest left point break beaches of the world. Pavones Beach has fast outstanding wave shapes but it takes and half hour boat ride to get to it. Surfing conditions at Pavones Beach is kind of inconsistent. Pavones Beach is a surfer destination that you want to visit from the months of April to October when there is a south swell. The rides Pavones Beach has are long, approximately a quarter of a mile long. Downside about Pavones Beach is the sharp rock after the end of the bay, so be careful when you are almost at that point.

Cabo Matapalos is a beach located right in front of Pavones Beach and is less likely to be packed with surfers as it is a very isolated Costa Rica Beach. Cabo Matapalo presents quality reef rock point break. Downside about Cabo Matapalo Beach is that is very rocky so be extra careful, it is best to surf at Cabo Matapalo Beach with a long board when the swell is very high. Cabo Matapalo Beach has three breaks, two right point surf breaks and one beach surf break. The breaks at Cabo Matapalo Beach can get really big and can pick up long west swells.

Punta Burica beach is a remote with reef breaks that can only be accessed by boat.