20 Maui 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 11 down to 7 out of a possible 14. 37 of the 53 Maui 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 27m from the sandtoilets 18mshowerspicnic tablesBBQ12 places to eat within 1km
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 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
parking 114m from the sandtoilets 102m12 places to eat within 1km937m long4 bus stops within 500m
parking 67m from the sandtoilets 54mshowers12 places to eat within 1km436m long4 bus stops within 500m
parking 108m from the sandtoilets 66mshowersdrinking water12 places to eat within 1km418m long
parking 126m from the sandtoilets 61mshowersdrinking water12 places to eat within 1km364m long
parking 63m from the sandtoilets 84mshowersdrinking waterpicnic tables70m long
parking 46m from the sandtoilets 68m7 places to eat within 1km1,323m long
parking 106m from the sandtoilets 59mpicnic tables968m long
parking 13m from the sandtoilets 105mshowerslifeguard station mapped588m long
parking 43m from the sandshowersdrinking water9 places to eat within 1km518m long3 bus stops within 500m
parking 111m from the sandtoilets 41mshowers8 places to eat within 1km271m long
parking 79m from the sandtoilets 41mshowers12 places to eat within 1km261m long
parking 227m from the sandtoilets 260mshowers12 places to eat within 1km252m long2 bus stops within 500m
parking 67m from the sandtoilets 41m12 places to eat within 1km152m long4 bus stops within 500m
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.