Watch the giant whales in whale watching season
Tours are fascinating experiences that allow you to see the whales up close. Various whale watching tours on yachts in spring, summer, and autumn, but you can also experience the jump aboard America's world-famous schooners. Boat trips are offered several times a day during the whale watching season to give the customers a perfect sight of the great whales. San Diego is consistently one of the most incredible places in the world to observe marine life.

In Northern California, the best time to see gray whales and orcas is from December to May. Humpback whales are migratory species, which means that they migrate year-round from the calm waters of the poles to subtropical waters. The whale season in San Diego begins in mid-December and runs until the end of April when 20,000 gray whales migrate through California waters. May and August are possible blue whale sightings in the summer months, as are humpback whales and other species.
Humpback whales spend their summers feeding in calm high latitude waters and building fat reserves, spend cold winters in tropical waters and mating, giving birth, and raising their calves and children in a safe environment away from natural predators. It makes them one of the most traveled mammals in the world. Migratory whales can be found all year round off the coast, but different whale species are more present depending on the season than others.
After giving birth to their young and watching them grow more robust in the warmer waters of Baja, they travel north in spring. The rich whale watching California coast becomes a feeding ground for 3,000 blue whales in the summer months. More than twenty thousand gray whales cover 16,000 km from Alaska to the Baja California lagoons every year. The average size of a gray whale is 30 to 50 feet long and weighs up to 35 tons.
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