Lead Coverage
The postcard is back in Tulum this week
Zofemat says sargassum in Tulum has dropped off for days, with 7,300 tons hauled this year and the hotel zone expected to be practically clean by week’s end.
Tulum Sargassum Updates and Beach Conditions
Live seaweed conditions, cleanup updates, forecasts, and practical beach planning across Tulum and the Riviera Maya.
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Riviera Maya Travel
A new sargassum landing puts Tulum’s coast back under red
The sargassum in Tulum returned this week, three weeks after the water cleared, and Quintana Roo’s record 2026 haul has already passed 138,000 tons.
Environment & Nature
Turquoise returned to Tulum's beaches in September, after a record 6,500 tons of sargassum
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.
Environment & Nature
How long will sargassum last in Tulum this year?
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.
Environment & Nature
Roughly seven container loads of sargassum leave Tulum's beaches every day, holidays included
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.
Environment & Nature
The Navy will operate 1,867 million pesos against sargassum in 2027
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.
Riviera Maya Travel
Tulum got its turquoise water back while some of its hotels sat closed
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.
Environment & Nature
A 220 kilogram turtle in a Tulum hotel pool, and it was not the last one
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.
Businesses
Tulum's hotel association rules out closing through sargassum season
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.
Environment & Nature
One official decision stands between Tulum's two free beaches and their first Platino certificate
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.
Environment & Nature
Clearing sargassum with the wrong machine is how a Tulum beach starts losing sand
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.
Environment & Nature
Who pays for the next sargassum ship? Mexico's development banks are working on it
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.
Environment & Nature
Crews haul sargassum off Tulum beaches. A study says 61 percent was sand
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.
Environment & Nature
The Mayor Says Tulum Beaches Are Almost Clean, Monitoring Data Tells a Messier Story
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.
Politics
Tulum charged the world for a feeling. Now it finds out who still buys
Tulum tourism fell through 2026 while Mexico posted record arrivals. Airport routes, room rates, sargassum, and rents explain a correction that the winter schedule will finally measure.
Politics
"Tulum has not gone dark"
Hotel occupancy has fallen more than 20 percent since May. The municipal tourism office is staking the Tulum tourism recovery on 40 cenotes, four winter routes and a Michelin pitch.
Environment & Nature
90,500 tons of sargassum float offshore, and the Riviera Maya climate crisis explains why
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.
Environment & Nature
Sargassum crews and turtle nests now share the same sand on Tulum's public beaches
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.
Environment & Nature
Which Quintana Roo beaches are still clean, and how long the sargassum lasts
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.
Environment & Nature
Tulum Has Cleared 4,880 Tons of Sargassum, and That Count Excludes the Hotels
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.
Art & Culture
Damian Lazarus names 30 artists for Day Zero Tulum 2027 and holds one back
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.