18 Kauai beaches ranked on mapped facilities — parking distance, toilets, showers, drinking water, food within walking distance and shoreline length.
Scores on the top 18 run from 12 down to 4 out of a possible 14. 18 of the 34 Kauai 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 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 36m from the sandtoilets 40mshowersplaygroundpicnic tablesBBQ
parking 94m from the sandtoilets 54mshowersdrinking waterlifeguard station mapped912m long
parking 33m from the sandtoilets 27mshowers994m long
parking 195m from the sandtoilets 142mplayground12 places to eat within 1km759m long1 bus stops within 500m
parking 73m from the sandtoilets 78mshowers3,764m long
parking 66m from the sandtoilets 317m924m long
parking 69m from the sandtoilets 53m892m long
parking 36m from the sandtoilets 50mdrinking water8 places to eat within 1km485m long
parking 40m from the sandtoilets 54m3,943m long
parking 407m from the sandtoilets 349m7 places to eat within 1km2,093m long
parking 58m from the sandtoilets 48m4 places to eat within 1km455m long
parking 324m from the sandtoilets 342mdrinking water425m long
parking 66m from the sandtoilets 56m410m long
parking 87m from the sandtoilets 162m12 places to eat within 1km54m long
parking 84m from the sandpicnic tablesBBQ387m 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.