Saturday looks good for surfing at Aguadilla / Crash Boat, the pick of the weekend. Ten events are on across the island this weekend, in San Juan, Juncos, Guaynabo and one more town. The sun is up at 6:21 AM and down at 5:56 PM.
Saturday is the day to be in San Juan. Miramar Food Truck Park in Santurce is marking its 10th anniversary with live music, Casa de la Plena Tito Matos on Saturday and Sonosfera on Sunday, and the Sinfónica Hall at the Centro de Bellas Artes has Samson et Dalila the same night. If you would rather be out in a plaza, Cayey’s San Isidro Labrador Agricultural Festival fills the Ramón Frade León plaza on Saturday, and Quebradillas keeps its patron-saint feast for Saint Raphael Archangel that same day. For a slower pick, Verde Mesa in Old San Juan and the Museo del Café in Ciales both suit a drizzly afternoon.
The surf forecast for Saturday and Sunday looks good at every spot we track, with the best of it at Aguadilla / Crash Boat, 5.2 ft, 11-second swell, light offshore wind. That is a forecast rather than a reading from the water, and the West Coast sky is the catch: thunderstorms are forecast there, so watch the clouds if you chase the swell. Dorado on the north coast has a similar swell, 4.7 ft and 11 seconds on Saturday, under drizzle rather than thunder. Across the island the weekend leans wet, with rain chances around 47 percent in San Juan, so plan your outdoor hours in pieces and keep Rincón Beer Company’s downtown plaza in mind as a good place to wait out a shower.
What’s on
| Day (The day of the weekend the event falls on) | What | Town | Where (The venue as the listing gives it) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday | 31st National Prescription Drug Take Back Day | — | 30 sites across Puerto Rico |
| Saturday | Día de La Siembra | — | Several Puerto Rico towns |
| Saturday | Encuentro: no hay que esperar a que las piezas estén completas | San Juan | Galería Delta de Picó |
| Saturday | Halloween Wired Night | Juncos | Coliseo Boxístico de Juncos |
| Saturday | La Pro Fan Fest | Guaynabo | Liberty Square in San Patricio Plaza |
| Saturday | Miramar Food Truck Park 10th Anniversary – Casa de la Plena Tito Matos (live music) | San Juan | Miramar Food Truck Park |
| Saturday | Samson et Dalila | San Juan | Sinfónica Hall of the Centro de Bellas Artes in Santurce |
| Saturday | San Isidro Labrador Agricultural Festival | Cayey | Ramón Frade León plaza |
| Sunday | Encuentro: no hay que esperar a que las piezas estén completas | San Juan | Galería Delta de Picó |
| Sunday | Miramar Food Truck Park 10th Anniversary – Sonosfera (live music) | San Juan | Miramar Food Truck Park |
| Sunday | Transitando el Duelo Gestacional, Perinatal y Neonatal | San Juan | Le Parc Condominium |
The weekend weather
| Town (One town for each stretch of the island) | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|
| San Juan | Drizzle87°F 47% rain | Drizzle89°F 48% rain |
| Arecibo | Thunderstorm87°F 78% rain | Thunderstorm88°F 78% rain |
| Mayagüez | Thunderstorm89°F 65% rain | Drizzle89°F 70% rain |
| Ponce | Thunderstorm86°F 82% rain | Drizzle86°F 73% rain |
| Fajardo | Thunderstorm85°F 95% rain | Thunderstorm86°F 89% rain |
On the water
| Day (The day of the weekend the forecast is for) | Spot | For (The activity the spot is scored for) | Why (The wave height, period or wind speed behind the grid's verdict) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday | Aguadilla / Crash Boat | Surf | 5.2 ft, 11-second swell, light offshore wind |
| Saturday | Culebra / Flamenco Beach | Surf | 4.3 ft, 7-second swell, moderate cross-shore wind |
| Saturday | Dorado | Surf | 4.7 ft, 11-second swell, light cross-shore wind |
| Saturday | Jobos & Shacks, Isabela | Surf | 5.2 ft, 11-second swell, light cross-shore wind |
| Sunday | Aguadilla / Crash Boat | Surf | 4.5 ft, 11-second swell, light offshore wind |
| Sunday | Culebra / Flamenco Beach | Surf | 4.3 ft, 7-second swell, moderate cross-shore wind |
| Sunday | Dorado | Surf | 4 ft, 11-second swell, light cross-shore wind |
| Sunday | Jobos & Shacks, Isabela | Surf | 4.5 ft, 11-second swell, light cross-shore wind |
Where to go
- Beaches & Chill: Playa Esperanza, Vieques
- On the Water: Laguna del Condado, San Juan
- Outdoors & Adventure: Yokahú Tower, El Yunque National Forest
- Culture & Events: Museo del Café, Ciales
- Eat & Drink: Verde Mesa, Old San Juan
- Nightlife & Music: Rincón Beer Company, Rincón
One in-season place of each kind, rotated each week.
Fiestas
Quebradillas keeps Saint Raphael Archangel on October 24. A town’s fiestas patronales usually run the days around the feast and move the biggest nights to the nearest weekend, so the date is the anchor rather than the whole of it.
The same weekend, with every event and every scored spot, is on the weekend page.
This is the 6th Weekend Watch (the previous one is here).
Sources: events from 787daily’s own reporting and Ticketmaster’s public listings; the patron-saint calendar; the Saturday and Sunday outlook from Open-Meteo’s marine and wind forecasts, scored the same way the conditions pages score them; sunrise and sunset computed for San Juan.