16 Hawaii (Big Island) beaches ranked on mapped facilities — parking distance, toilets, showers, drinking water, food within walking distance and shoreline length.
Scores on the top 16 run from 9 down to 4 out of a possible 14. 16 of the 27 Hawaii (Big Island) 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.
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 46m from the sandtoilets 42mshowersdrinking waterBBQ5 places to eat within 1km
parking 32m from the sandtoilets 39mshowersdrinking waterlifeguard station mapped275m long
parking 39m from the sandtoilets 17mshowersdrinking water12 places to eat within 1km135m long
parking 173m from the sandtoilets 118m5 places to eat within 1km897m long
parking 161m from the sandtoilets 25mshowers12 places to eat within 1km478m long
parking 156m from the sandtoilets 55mshowers434m long
parking 169m from the sandtoilets 147mdrinking water4 places to eat within 1km456m long
parking 150m from the sandtoilets 59mshowers4 places to eat within 1km413m long
parking 30m from the sandtoilets 54mBBQ394m long
parking 358m from the sandtoilets 14mBBQ393m long
parking 195m from the sandtoilets 138m12 places to eat within 1km119m long
parking 40m from the sandtoilets 47mBBQ36m long
toilets 110mshowerslifeguard station mapped253m long
parking 248m from the sandtoilets 4mdrinking water210m long
parking 103m from the sandshowers5 places to eat within 1km98m long
parking 26m from the sandshowers48m long
The best-equipped beaches in Hawaii →
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.