20 Hawaii beaches ranked on mapped facilities — parking distance, toilets, showers, drinking water, food within walking distance and shoreline length.
Scores on the top 20 run from 13 down to 8 out of a possible 14. 107 of the 180 Hawaii beaches here scored at least 4 and are ranked; the rest have too little mapped to place fairly. A low score often means nobody has mapped the beach in detail rather than that there is nothing there. The top 20 splits 7 on Oahu, 7 on Maui, 5 on Kauai, 1 on Hawaii (Big Island) — that is where the mapped facilities are, not a view about scenery.
Every beach here is scored on what is actually recorded at it: how close you can park, whether toilets, showers and drinking water are mapped, picnic tables and playgrounds, how many places to eat sit within a kilometre, and how much shoreline there is. It ranks how well SET UP a beach is for a day out — not how photogenic it is, and not how anyone feels about it. The evidence behind each position is printed under it, so you can disagree with the weighting and still use the facts.
parking 82m from the sandtoilets 23mshowersdrinking waterplaygroundpicnic tables
parking 94m from the sandtoilets 45mshowersdrinking waterplaygroundpicnic tables
parking 159m from the sandtoilets 22mshowersdrinking waterplaygroundpicnic tables
parking 82m from the sandtoilets 43mshowersdrinking waterplaygroundpicnic tables
parking 27m from the sandtoilets 148mshowersdrinking waterplaygroundpicnic tables
parking 37m from the sandtoilets 49mshowersdrinking waterplayground12 places to eat within 1km
parking 10m from the sandtoilets 39mshowersdrinking waterpicnic tables12 places to eat within 1km
parking 27m from the sandtoilets 18mshowerspicnic tablesBBQ12 places to eat within 1km
parking 36m from the sandtoilets 40mshowersplaygroundpicnic tablesBBQ
parking 65m from the sandtoilets 79mshowersplayground7 places to eat within 1km4,612m long
parking 37m from the sandtoilets 13mshowerspicnic tables12 places to eat within 1kmlifeguard station mapped
parking 77m from the sandtoilets 57mshowerspicnic tables12 places to eat within 1kmlifeguard station mapped
parking 61m from the sandtoilets 278mshowersdrinking water12 places to eat within 1kmlifeguard station mapped
parking 94m from the sandtoilets 54mshowersdrinking waterlifeguard station mapped912m long
parking 46m from the sandtoilets 42mshowersdrinking waterBBQ5 places to eat within 1km
parking 114m from the sandtoilets 195mshowersplayground12 places to eat within 1km469m long
parking 41m from the sandtoilets 5mshowersdrinking waterBBQ10 places to eat within 1km
parking 65m from the sandtoilets 38mshowersdrinking waterBBQ8 places to eat within 1km
parking 60m from the sandshowersBBQ12 places to eat within 1km2,112m long2 bus stops within 500m
parking 63m from the sandtoilets 46mshowers12 places to eat within 1km1,658m long
Facilities, parking and shoreline data come from OpenStreetMap, and a beach can only be ranked on what somebody has mapped — "not mapped" is not the same as "not there". Distances are measured to the nearest point of the beach itself.