Short Spring Break Destinations

San Francisco may well be warm - we've been having an atypically warm and dry winter. It was in the 70s this weekend. And if your bar for "warm" is 60, we'd be around that anyway. Our beaches, however, are mostly not for lying around and sunbathing. They are for bundling up and walking along. Four days would be fine here if you plan carefully and don't try to do Everything. You can still eat and drink many good things, walk around and look at stuff, walk across the Golden Gate Bridge, and so on. Closer to you (and almost definitely warmer): New Orleans. It almost feels like being in a non-American city. There aren't beaches to speak of right there, but when you have so many delicious things to eat and drink, and such wonderful architecture to walk around and look at (or sit in a cafe and contemplate), you might not miss a beach.

Bermuda. It's ridiculously close and warm and beaches. And sufficiently different that when you get back, you feel like you've been away for longer.

Culebra (off the coast of PR), hands down. It's so deserted that you can actually swim naked on some beaches because you won't see a single other human all day long (Zoni Beach is where I did that).

Bermuda is very close--but beware. Bermuda is fairly far north and the weather in March is not really warm. The average high temperature in March is 68 and the average low is 60. And the water temperature in March averages 65. That is chilly. So if you go, don't expect warm sunny 85 degree weather and tropical 80 degree water to swim in. That happens in summer in Bermuda...but not in March.

I lived in San Francisco for years and had many out of town visitors to entertain over long weekends. I'd say SF is one of the more ideal places in the USA for a four day getaway. There are tons of interesting things to do in a very compact area, good food at any price point, great bars and coffee shops, beautiful scenery nearby, etc. Also, this year it is very likely it will have better weather than the southeast in March. One caveat is, although San Francisco has a beach, it isn't really a beach destination. The beach is COLD. It's more of a "walk around and look at all this stuff" destination than a lounge at the beach destination. Another idea is westside LA. I stayed in a great Airbnb in Venice Beach last March and had a blast. LA beaches are much more beach-y than San Francisco beaches. The downside is that if you want to leave the westside, transit eats up a lot of time.

Denver! No spring breakers (except on the slopes), the weather is generally warm (above 60 yesterday) and there is a ton to do.