A red sand beach on the north coast of Gozo, below Nadur. The last stretch is a steep walk down and back up, which keeps the crowd smaller than at Ramla.
Some chop. The wind is NNW at 15 km/h.
The sand at San Blas is the same red-brown as Ramla, ground out of the same clay. The bay is a third of the size. The last few hundred metres keep it quiet. The road ends well above the beach and the descent is steep. The walk back up in the afternoon is hard work.
A jeep runs up and down in season for anybody who would rather not do it twice. There is a kiosk on the sand in summer and nothing at all outside it.
It is sheltered from the east round to the 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-north-east, where the sea runs for kilometres before it reaches this shore.
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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