A made beach on the Buġibba front, built out from the promenade with imported sand. It is shallow, central and busy, and everything you might want is a.
Exposed today. The wind is NW at 36 km/h.
The beach was built out from the promenade rather than natural. Imported sand is held behind a low wall, in the middle of the Buġibba sea front. It is small and shallow, and a ramp takes wheelchairs the whole way to the water, which is rare here.
St Paul’s Islands are the view. Everything else, from food to sunbeds to buses, is within a minute, because the beach is effectively part of the town. It faces north, so a northerly puts the swell straight in and the sand narrows.
It is sheltered from the north-north-east round to the west-south-west. There is no open water on those bearings for a wind to build a swell across. It is open to the north-north-west to the north, where the sea runs for kilometres before it reaches this shore. A wind out of the west round to the north-west has some water to work with but not the full run.
Measured as metres of open water on each bearing out from the shore. This is the bay’s own geography and it does not change; whether it is swimmable this afternoon is the reading at the top of the page, which also weighs how hard the wind is actually blowing.
Struck through means it is not there. Facilities at a Maltese bay are seasonal more often than not, so treat summer as the best case.
The nearest alternatives, which usually face a different way.
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