Balluta is the bay between Sliema and St Julian’s, with the church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and the Balluta Buildings standing over it. A strip of sand appears at the head of the bay in summer and is gone again by winter.
Most of the swimming happens off the rock either side, where the water is deeper and cleaner. Steps and handrails have been put in along much of the shore, which makes getting in easier here than at most rock entries in town. Everything else is a few steps away and the bus stops on the front.
Which winds this bay can take
It is sheltered from the north-east round to the north. There is no open water on those bearings for a wind to build a swell across. It is open to the north-north-east, where the sea runs for kilometres before it reaches this shore.
- NSheltered
- NNEOpen sea
- NESheltered
- ENESheltered
- ESheltered
- ESESheltered
- SESheltered
- SSESheltered
- SSheltered
- SSWSheltered
- 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
- Food
- Drinks
- Dives Nearby
- Showers
- BBQ's allowed
- Wifi
- Sunbeds available
- Umbrella
- Camping
- Water Sports
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.
