The rock shelf along the Sliema front at Fond Għadir. It is ladders, flat rock and the promenade behind you, and it is the swim most of Sliema uses.
Some chop. The wind is NNW at 17 km/h.
There is no sand here and there never was. Sliema swims off flat limestone, with ladders bolted into the rock and the promenade behind. Fond Għadir is the stretch below the Surfside end.
The rock is level enough to lay a towel on and the water gets deep quickly, which is why regular swimmers use it. It works all year, and in winter almost everybody swimming here lives within walking distance. Cafés and toilets are on the promenade a few steps away, so nothing has to be carried down.
It is sheltered from the south-east round to the west-north-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 round to the east-south-east, where the sea runs for kilometres before it reaches this shore. A wind out of 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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