20 Oahu 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 6 out of a possible 14. 34 of the 59 Oahu 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 23mshowersdrinking waterplaygroundpicnic tables
parking 94m from the sandtoilets 45mshowersdrinking waterplaygroundpicnic tables
parking 159m from the sandtoilets 22mshowersdrinking waterplaygroundpicnic tables
parking 10m from the sandtoilets 39mshowersdrinking waterpicnic tables12 places to eat within 1km
parking 65m from the sandtoilets 79mshowersplayground7 places to eat within 1km4,612m long
parking 61m from the sandtoilets 278mshowersdrinking water12 places to eat within 1kmlifeguard station mapped
parking 114m from the sandtoilets 195mshowersplayground12 places to eat within 1km469m long
parking 78m from the sandtoilets 132mshowers1,566m long6 bus stops within 500m
parking 11m from the sandtoilets 13m12 places to eat within 1km943m long12 bus stops within 500m
parking 106m from the sandtoilets 46mshowerspicnic tables6 bus stops within 500m
parking 112m from the sandtoilets 53mplayground12 places to eat within 1km4 bus stops within 500m
parking 101m from the sandtoilets 79m1,211m long6 bus stops within 500m
parking 151m from the sandtoilets 335m12 places to eat within 1km435m long6 bus stops within 500m
parking 40m from the sandtoilets 7m12 places to eat within 1km339m long8 bus stops within 500m
parking 338m from the sandtoilets 66mshowers12 places to eat within 1kmlifeguard station mapped282m long
parking 109m from the sandtoilets 14mshowersdrinking water198m long4 bus stops within 500m
parking 107m from the sandtoilets 300mshowersplayground1 bus stops within 500m
parking 217m from the sandshowers6 places to eat within 1km1,824m long12 bus stops within 500m
parking 174m from the sandplayground1,161m long12 bus stops within 500m
parking 120m from the sandpicnic tables4 places to eat within 1km1,021m long12 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.