A small cove of greenish sand below a crumbling layered cliff, with blue surf rolling in

island field guide

Hawaiʻi Island

A geologically young island with black, green and pale sand shorelines shaped by lava, surf and living reef systems.

Photo: Pedro Szekely / Wikimedia Commons

Climate context

What changes through the year

Conditions change sharply by coast, elevation and season. Shorebreak and currents demand beach-specific judgment.

Getting around

How the coast connects

A car is the practical default outside the main resort areas. Distances are larger than the map can suggest.

The coast itself

Hawaiʻi Island in photographs

The coastline as it actually looks, from the places named on this page.

Dark lava shoreline and open ocean at Kealakekua Bay on the west side of Hawaii Island
Kealakekua Bay State Historical Park, Hawaii Island, United StatesThe lava shoreline at Kealakekua Bay State Historical Park on the island's Kona coast.Photo: dronepicr / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 ↗
Green sea turtle resting on dark rock beside white surf at Punaluu Beach
Punaluu Beach, Hawaii Island, United StatesA green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) on the rocks at Punaluu Beach.Photo: Frank Schulenburg / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 ↗

Where and when

Position, and the shape of the year.

Both panels are drawn from facts the atlas holds: recorded coordinates and the latitude itself. Neither is a forecast.

Locator map of Hawaiʻi Island: sourced beach coordinates around 19.135, -155.505, with the destination centre marked
71 sourced beach records inside a frame roughly 432 km wide, plotted server-side from the atlas index over Natural Earth land outlines (public domain). The marked point is the coordinate in this record; every other mark is a beach record you can open from the directory.
Hours between sunrise and sunset, computed from latitude 19.135 alone. This is astronomy, not weather: no temperature, swell, rainfall or “best month” claim is implied for Hawaiʻi Island. Longest around Jun (13h 06m), shortest around Dec (10h 54m) — a 2.2-hour swing across the year.

Launch coverage

Beaches in Hawaiʻi Island

Coverage grows by reviewed entities, not automatically generated locality pages.

The rest of this coast

Sourced records nearby

68 beach records sit within 60 km of this coordinate. The nearest are listed below with their distance; most carry position and provenance only, and say so on the page.

  1. Keone‘ele‘eleHawaii, United States0.6 km
  2. Kōloa BeachHawaii, United States1.1 km
  3. Kamehame BeachHawaii, United States4.2 km
  4. Naalehu BeachHawaii, United States12.7 km
  5. KamiloHawaii, United States20.8 km
  6. Mahana BeachHawaii, United States26.7 km
  7. Wai‘ahukini BeachHawaii, United States29.2 km
  8. Ka‘iliki‘i Beach (historical)Hawaii, United States29.3 km
  9. Halapē BeachHawaiʻi Island, United States30.3 km
  10. Pōhue BeachHawaii, United States33.7 km
  11. Pebbles BeachHawaiʻi Island, United States44.8 km
  12. Kalāhiki BeachHawaii, United States48.7 km
  13. Keālia BeachHawaii, United States50.1 km
  14. Kamokuna (historical)Hawaii, United States52.6 km
  15. Ke‘ei BeachHawaii, United States57.1 km
  16. Kapahukapu Manini BeachHawaii, United States57.5 km
  17. Kalapana Beach (historical)Hawaii, United States60.7 km
  18. Kaimu Beach (historical)Hawaii, United States61.4 km
  19. Kehena BeachHawaii, United States66.8 km
  20. Makolea BeachHawaii, United States68.9 km
  21. Magic Sands BeachHawaii, United States70.8 km
  22. Honl's BeachHawaiʻi Island, United States74.7 km
  23. Kamakahonu BeachHawaii, United States76.3 km
  24. Baby Pond BeachHawaii, United States76.5 km
  25. Old Kona Airport BeachHawaii, United States77.8 km
  26. Black Sand BeachHawaiʻi Island, United States78.2 km
  27. Kea‘au BeachHawaii, United States78.7 km
  28. Beans BeachHawaii, United States78.7 km
  29. Ha'ena BeachHawaiʻi Island, United States78.7 km
  30. ‘Alula BeachHawaii, United States80.7 km
  31. 'Ai'ōpio BeachHawaiʻi Island, United States80.9 km
  32. Honokohau BeachHawaii, United States80.9 km
  33. Bakers BeachHawaii, United States81.0 km
  34. Honokohau Harbor BeachHawaiʻi Island, United States81.4 km
  35. Honoli‘i BeachHawaiʻi Island, United States81.4 km
  36. KahonuaHawaii, United States82.4 km
  37. Machida BeachHawaii, United States83.0 km
  38. Ooma BeachHawaiʻi Island, United States85.2 km
  39. Wawaloli BeachHawaii, United States86.1 km
  40. Makolea BeachHawaii, United States90.6 km

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Destination provenance

Sources

  1. Punaluʻu Black Sand BeachHawaiʻi Tourism Authority ↗

    Used for beach character and wildlife-respect guidance; never approach or touch resting turtles.