Zuma Beach and Malibu Events Calendar 2027
Four 2027 fixtures are published for Zuma Beach and the city of Malibu, and all four are on this page: the City's powwow in April, both LA County junior lifeguard sessions on the sand at Zuma, and Malibu's race weekend in October. Malibu announces the rest of its year a few weeks to a few months ahead, so a month with nothing dated says so rather than listing something you cannot turn up to.
Zuma is a Los Angeles County beach rather than a venue, and the junior lifeguard sessions are the County's own programming. Chumash Day is the City of Malibu's and happens off the beach, at Malibu Bluffs Park on Pacific Coast Highway; the race weekend starts and finishes in Zuma's parking Lot 12.
Three of the four are Learn & Do listings: the powwow and both sessions. The October race is Watch & Listen. Nothing dated for 2027 is a food, drink, market or shopping event — Eat & Drink and Buy & Browse have nothing to list.
If your dates are already fixed
| Date | What it is | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday, April 3 – Sunday, April 4, 2027 | Chumash Day Native American Powwow | Malibu Bluffs Park* |
| Monday, June 14 – Friday, July 9, 2027 | LA County Junior Lifeguard Program, Session I | Zuma Beach |
| Monday, July 12 – Friday, August 6, 2027 | LA County Junior Lifeguard Program, Session II | Zuma Beach |
| Saturday, October 23 – Sunday, October 24, 2027 | Malibu Moves race weekend: half marathon, 10K, 5K, 1-mile Zuma Dash, 1K kids' run | Zuma Beach parking Lot 12 |
* 24250 Pacific Coast Highway — the venue the City used for the 2026 edition. No 2027 venue statement has been issued.
April 2027
One listing this month, and it is the City of Malibu's rather than the beach's.
Chumash Day Native American Powwow
📅 Saturday, April 3 – Sunday, April 4, 2027
The City of Malibu runs this one itself, and it is the only fixture on this page that is not at Zuma at all: two days of Native American dancing and drumming on the bluffs above Pacific Coast Highway, and the one weekend of the year when Malibu's Chumash history is the main event rather than a plaque on a wall. The City has published the two dates and nothing else — no 2027 times, no entry price, no program. Its event page should carry the times nearer the weekend, so check it again a few weeks out.
📍 Location: Malibu Bluffs Park, 24250 Pacific Coast Highway — the venue the City used for the 2026 edition; no 2027 venue statement has been issued
🏷️ Categories: Learn & Do, Cultural festival, Family
🌐 More Information: City of Malibu — Special Events
June 2027
The County's junior lifeguard school starts on the second Monday of the month and runs into July.
LA County Junior Lifeguard Program, Session I
📅 Monday, June 14 – Friday, July 9, 2027
🕒 Class times: 8:30–11:30am and 1:30–4:30pm
Session I is the first of the County's two four-week blocks at Zuma, when the beach doubles as a lifeguard school: classes on the sand and in the water, run by the lifeguards who work this coastline. Two days inside the block are off — Friday, June 18 for Juneteenth and Monday, July 5 for Independence Day. The program warns that not every location runs afternoon classes or Session II, so if you are enrolling a child, confirm Zuma's listing before you plan around a 1:30pm session.
📍 Location: Zuma Beach — one of the program's listed locations
🏷️ Categories: Learn & Do, Beach program, Youth
🌐 More Information: LA County Fire Department — Junior Lifeguard Program FAQ
July 2027
Session II picks up the Monday after the first block ends and runs into August.
LA County Junior Lifeguard Program, Session II
📅 Monday, July 12 – Friday, August 6, 2027
🕒 Class times: 8:30–11:30am and 1:30–4:30pm
The second block rather than a repeat of the first: Session I ends on July 9 and this one opens the following Monday and runs four weeks to August 6. One day in the block has no junior lifeguards at all, for the program's Regional Competition — that date is not published yet. Same class times and the same beach, and the same caveat as June: not every location runs both sessions or an afternoon class.
📍 Location: Zuma Beach — one of the program's listed locations
🏷️ Categories: Learn & Do, Beach program, Youth
🌐 More Information: LA County Fire Department — Junior Lifeguard Program FAQ
October 2027
The month the County lot at Zuma becomes a race village.
Malibu Moves
📅 Saturday, October 23 – Sunday, October 24, 2027
Malibu's race weekend, and it starts and finishes on Zuma's own lot. The half marathon, the 10K and the 5K, a 1-mile Zuma Dash and a 1K kids' run are spread over a Saturday and a Sunday, in the shape the organizers ran in 2026: Saturday for the kids' races and the expo at Lot 12, Sunday morning for the longer distances. No 2027 timetable has been published, so no start times are given here. Registration for 2027 had not opened when this page was checked on November 7, 2026; the organizer says it opens the week after race weekend, at the lowest price of the year.
📍 Location: Zuma Beach parking Lot 12, 30050 Pacific Coast Highway — start and finish
🏷️ Categories: Watch & Listen, Race, Family
🌐 More Information: Malibu Moves — event guide
Parking and getting there
Parking at Zuma is charged at the County rate. Attended lots close at 8:30pm from April to October and 6:30pm from November to March, and the summer Saturday and Sunday rate is $15. The full grid, including weekday bands, is in the Zuma Beach parking guide.
Zuma sits on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. The transportation guide covers the drive from Los Angeles, LAX and Santa Monica and the alternatives, and the opening hours page covers when the beach gates are open.
Months without a date of their own
Eight months have no entry of their own: January, February, March, May, August, September, November and December. Three are worth a note now.
- March 2027 — Chumash Day ran on March 28–29 in 2026. The City's 2027 date is April 3–4, so it is listed under April.
- August 2027 — Session II runs to August 6, and nothing else in the month has a 2027 date.
- September 2027 — the month to come back to. The Zuma Beach Triathlon and the Malibu Chili Cook-Off both ran in September 2026 — their organizers were still selling those editions when this page was checked — and neither has published a 2027 date. One event-listing site prints 2027 dates for both and describes them as projected from the previous edition, so they are not listed here.
The other five months have nothing published at all: no beach event, no City fixture, no race.
Where these dates come from
Each date on this page is published by the body that runs the event: the City of Malibu for Chumash Day, the LA County Fire Department for the junior lifeguard sessions, and the race organizer for Malibu Moves. The only independent publisher carrying any of them is a marathon listing site, which prints the two October dates and labels its own entry unconfirmed, so it is not counted as a second source here. The page was checked on November 7, 2026.
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