Tourist hotspots along Mexico’s Caribbean coastline, especially in Quintana Roo and the Riviera Maya, are facing a crisis as an unprecedented sargassum seaweed surge blankets beaches from Cancún to Tulum. Satellite observations and official reports signal that the summer of 2025 is shaping up to be the worst sargassum season ever recorded.
Satellite Data Shows Record-Breaking Spread
In May alone, the University of South Florida’s Optical Oceanography Lab detected a staggering 37.5 million metric tons of sargassum floating across the Atlantic basin — the highest quantity since its monitoring began in 2011. Additionally, a giant belt of seaweed stretching thousands of kilometers is expected
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