Whale Watching in San Diego

A Guide To Whale Watching

From December through March, visitors to San Diego have the unique opportunity to glimpse one of nature’s most extraordinary events - the migration of California gray whales from the chilly Alaskan seas to the warm water lagoons of Baja California where they birth and rear their young.

Each winter, tens of thousands of these “peaceful giants of the sea” come within a few miles of the San Diego coast on their 5,000-mile southern journey, the longest known distance any mammal migrates on an annual basis. With 70 miles of coastline, San Diego makes an ideal location for viewing this impressive parade. During the peak migration season in mid-January, as many as 200 whales per day have been counted off of San Diego’s shores.

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