Ħondoq looks straight across the channel at Comino. On a clear day the water is the same colour as the Blue Lagoon, without the boats. There is a short strip of sand, a long apron of flat rock either side, and a slipway that swimmers share with the occasional boat.
It is popular with divers and with people who like jumping from the rocks. A development on the site has been proposed, refused and appealed for nearly twenty years. The bay is still unchanged.
This is a dive site as well as a swimDive centres run guided shore dives here for qualified divers and beginners alike.
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Which winds this bay can take
It is sheltered from the south-west round to the east-north-east. There is no open water on those bearings for a wind to build a swell across. It is open to the east to the east-south-east and the south-south-west, where the sea runs for kilometres before it reaches this shore. A wind out of the south-east round to the south has some water to work with but not the full run.
- NSheltered
- NNESheltered
- NESheltered
- ENESheltered
- EOpen sea
- ESEOpen sea
- SEPart open
- SSEPart open
- SPart open
- SSWOpen sea
- SWSheltered
- WSWSheltered
- WSheltered
- WNWSheltered
- NWSheltered
- NNWSheltered
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.
What is there
- Sunbeds available
- Food
- Drinks
- Umbrella
- Water Sports
- Dives Nearby
- Parking
- Accessibility
- Toilets
- Boat Friendly
- BBQ's allowed
- Wifi
- Camping
- Dog Friendly
- Showers
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.
