The rocky point at the end of the Qawra peninsula, below the Ta' Fra Ben tower. It is flat rock with ladders and it catches the wind from three sides.
Sheltered today. The wind is WNW at 18 km/h.
Qawra Point is the tip of the peninsula between St Paul’s Bay and Salina, and the promenade runs right around it. The rock is flat and wide enough for a considerable crowd, with ladders at intervals and the Ta’ Fra Ben tower standing behind.
It is a point rather than a bay, so the sea reaches it from most directions. One side is usually sheltered when the other is not. Use it that way. Kiosks, sunbeds and toilets are spread along the promenade, and parking is a short walk inland.
It is sheltered from the north-east to the east-north-east and the south-south-west 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 east to the east-south-east and the north-west round to the north-north-east, 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.
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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