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Experience year-round sunshine, sugary white-sand beaches and translucent seas teeming with marine life, including schools of gray and humpback whales.

Overview

Baja is that knobbly finger of desert stretching 1,300km south from California, separated from the Mexican mainland by the Sea of Cortés. Arid, sun-scorched and cut through by canyons, it is sparsely populated: the interior is peppered with colonial Jesuit missions and cave paintings, but it’s the southern coast, with its chalk-white sand beaches and translucent aquamarine seas, which attracts most of the visitors. The attractive Gulf coast colonial town of Loreto is unspoilt and a great holiday base, as is La Paz.

With between 300-360 days of sunshine per year it’s a magnet for winter holidays. It’s during this season too that gray and humpback whales congregate to breed in the lagoons here.

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The weather in Baja California is wide and varied

Baja California offers year-round sunshine, sugary white-sand beaches and translucent seas teeming with marine life, including nurseries of gray and humpback whales from January to March. With 300-360 days of sunshine per year, this is a magnet for winter holidays. Temperatures hover in the 20°Cs, which feels comfortable for outdoor activities including horse riding, hiking, golf and kayaking. There is a possibility of hurricanes between June - November, with August - October as the most active time for tropical storms.

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