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Zofemat has pulled more than 6,500 tons off the coast in 2026, exceeding last year's total. Where the sargassum in Tulum went, and why the crews are still working at first light.
The sargassum season in Tulum is still running after 6,500 tons. Two forecasts put the low point around November, and one warns the break could be short.
Crews have hauled 6,500 tons of sargassum in Tulum off four public beaches since January, and the containers have made more than 1,800 trips. The arrivals have not stopped.
The 2027 sargassum budget allocates the Navy 1,866.9 million pesos for ships, a dock, and four buildings in Quintana Roo, and excludes the municipalities from the spending.
The arrival of sargassum in Tulum has dropped, and Playa Paraíso is clear again, ZOFEMAT says, after crews pulled more than 5,600 tons off the sand, above the total for all of 2025.
A sea turtle rescue in Tulum ended with firefighters carrying a green turtle across sargassum to the sea. It was the second turtle found in a pool this August.
Seasonal closing is off the table, the hotel association says, because sargassum lands eight or nine months a year. What Tulum hotels spend, and what they want covered.
Playa Conchita and Playa del Pueblo were audited in mid-August for their first Tulum beach certification. The evaluator graded glass, dunes, and lifeguards, not sargassum.
Zofemat says the sargassum cleanup in Tulum has spared most of the sand by using less machinery. What the crews still take, and what happens at Akumal.
Nafin and Bancomext are weighing sargassum plan financing for new collection ships and eroded beaches, with Quintana Roo hotels and small businesses in the same conversation.
Zofemat says Tulum beach erosion is not the fault of sargassum crews. A Caribbean study of removed seaweed found 61 percent of the volume was sand.
Tulum sargassum arrivals have thinned after days of rain, and the mayor plans beach videos every two days. Specialists say the improvement is real but far from uniform.
Water up to four degrees warmer and a record sargassum season have put hard numbers on the Riviera Maya climate crisis and on the limits of Mexico's cleanup plan.
Crews clear sargassum in Tulum daily at Playa Conchitas, where sea turtle nests share the shoreline and the state has logged its heaviest season on record.
Quintana Roo has pulled more than 105,000 tons of sargassum from its coast in 2026, already past last year's record. Tulum remains among the beaches with the heaviest accumulations.
Zofemat crews alone have hauled 4,880 metric tons off the sand this year, and the real Tulum sargassum total is higher once hotels and the navy are counted.
The Day Zero Tulum 2027 lineup lands with 30 artists across three stages, an all-Mexican bill at El Teatro, one guest still unnamed, and general release tickets on August 25.
Tulum beach hotels are studying whether to operate only outside the sargassum season, after cleanup costs, weak occupancy, and a 274,000-passenger drop at Cancún airport in June.
NASA satellite data ranks the 2026 Sargassum belt just behind 2025, while the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico both broke records and Quintana Roo crews removed 93,000 tons.
Two weeks after promising the governor a trust for the environmental sanitation fee, Tulum has yet to sign one, and the group pressing for it wants a citizen council to run the money.
The federal plan puts boats and 50 kilometers of barriers between the open sea and the shore. What does it change for sargassum in Tulum, where crews have already cleared 2,800 tons this year?
