Peru / La Libertad
Malabrigo
Malabrigo is a coastal resort area in La Libertad, Peru. Its longest mapped beach stretches about 1.9 km. The sea averages 22.0 °C in February, its warmest month, and 16.9 °C in October; it is 21 °C or warmer in February–March.
Average sea surface temperature by month. Current month outlined.
OpenStreetMap shows no lifeguard station within 1 km. Seasonal lifeguard posts are often unmapped, so check on site.
Services in the resort
- 12Restaurants, cafés & bars
- –Public toilets
- –Showers
- 1Car parks
- –Lifeguard stations
- 17Hotels & guesthouses
- 1Historic sites
Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 10 restaurants and 2 cafés. Accommodation: 17 hotels and guesthouses.
Counted within 1 km of the beach (bus stops 1.5 km) from OpenStreetMap features and Overture Maps places, release of 2026-10. Unmapped does not mean absent.
Month by month
October at Malabrigo
Beach-day index 6.4/10 · Peru median 6.0
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sea °C | 20.7 °C | 22.0 °C | 21.8 °C | 20.0 °C | 19.3 °C | 18.6 °C | 17.8 °C | 17.4 °C | 17.1 °C | 16.9 °C | 17.7 °C | 19.1 °C |
| High °C | 25° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 25° | 25° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 23° | 23° | 24° |
| Low °C | 19° | 20° | 20° | 19° | 18° | 17° | 16° | 16° | 16° | 16° | 16° | 17° |
| Rain mm | 19 | 18 | 31 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 15 |
| Cloud % | 69 | 73 | 76 | 63 | 59 | 63 | 61 | 64 | 65 | 70 | 66 | 68 |
| Wind m/s | 3.1 | 3.0 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 3.2 |
| Daylight h | 12.5 | 12.4 | 12.2 | 11.9 | 11.8 | 11.7 | 11.7 | 11.9 | 12.1 | 12.3 | 12.5 | 12.6 |
| Record high/low | 29°/17° | 30°/19° | 30°/19° | 29°/17° | 30°/15° | 29°/15° | 29°/14° | 28°/14° | 28°/14° | 28°/13° | 27°/14° | 28°/15° |
| Beach index | 8.4 | 8.8 | 8.6 | 8.3 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 6.9 | 6.4 | 6.7 | 7.6 |
Long-term monthly averages: air from NASA POWER (2001–2020), sea from NOAA OISST (1991–2020); records are the extremes of 2001–2020. How the index works.
When to go
The beach-day index peaks in January–April; February scores 8.8/10 with highs of 26 °C, sea at 22.0 °C and 18 mm of rain.
In February that is 1.0 points above the median of the 340 beaches in Peru covered by this atlas.
At its warmest the water here is 0.5 °C warmer than the Peru median for February (21.5 °C).
Across the year the sea averages 19.0 °C, warmer than 53% of the coastal beaches in the atlas.
March is the wettest month (31 mm) and August the driest (1 mm); the yearly total is about 150 mm.
Daylight runs from 11.7 hours in June to 12.6 hours in December; in mid-February the sun rises at 06:21 and sets at 18:42 local time.
Orientation, sun and shore
The shore faces north-west (310°). Open water fills about 25% of the horizon close by, which makes it an open stretch of shore.
The sun sets over the sea in March–September; in mid-June it goes down at 18:08 local time on a bearing of 293°.
Straight out to the north-west there is open water for more than 2,000 km, so the beach is exposed to long ocean swell.
The sea floor is still within the shallow coastal margin 1 km out; 3 km offshore the depth is about 1 m. Behind the beach the ground is about 10 m above sea level 500 m inland and 16 m at 1.5 km.
Within 1 km, the land is 68% bare ground, sand or rock and 30% built-up land (satellite land-cover map, 2021): a partly built-up setting. Water makes up 24% of that circle.
- Bare 68%
- Built 30%
Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m). Orientation from OpenStreetMap land polygons sampled in 36 directions; depths and heights from the GEBCO 2020 grid (about 450 m cells), indicative only.
Getting there
| Airport | Code | Distance | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capitán FAP Carlos Martínez de Pinillos International Airport Trujillo | TRU | 55.6 km | south-east |
| Capitán FAP José A. Quiñones González International Airport Chiclayo | CIX | 110 km | north-west |
| Mayor General FAP Armando Revoredo Iglesias Airport Cajamarca | CJA | 122 km | north-east |
Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.
Local transport: 1 mapped car park within 1 km.
No town of 1,000+ people lies within 10 km; within 30 km there are 3 (about 53.5K).
Reference
Malabrigo also called unofficially Puerto Chicama, is a port and small coastal city in northwestern Peru, located in La Libertad Region, some 70 km north of Trujillo city. The town is home to the Chicama wave, the first legally protected wave in the world, as well as the world's longest left-breaking wave—see External Links.
Wikidata item Q7258550 · classified as village.
Around the beach
Historic sites
- Malecon Turístico De Puerto Malabrigo monument 230 m W
Lighthouses & piers
- Muelle de Malabrigo pier 770 m N
When people look it up
The EN Wikipedia article was read 1,661 times in the 12 months to August 2026. Interest peaks in January (182 views), 1.7× the quietest month.
Map
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Data on this page
- Air temperature, rain, cloud, wind, humidity: NASA POWER climatology 2001–2020, 0.5° grid.
- Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 monthly normals 1991–2020, nearest ocean cell 20.4 km away.
- Beach outline, surface, rules and public facilities: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), feature w1379000367; restaurants, cafés, bars and lodging: Overture Maps places (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).
- Water body, status and length: Wikidata (CC0).
- Towns and time zone: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Airports: OurAirports (public domain). Sunrise and sunset: NOAA solar equations.
- Satellite view: Copernicus Sentinel-2 (ESA), scene S2B_17MPM_20260614_0_L2A.
- Orientation: OpenStreetMap land polygons (ODbL). Depth and terrain: GEBCO 2020 grid.
- Settlements: GeoNames places with 1,000+ inhabitants.
- Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021, 10 m (CC BY 4.0).
- Search popularity: about 880 Google searches a month for the name (KeywordTool, October 2026).
Data compiled 2026-10-13. Something wrong? Report a data error.