The inlet is a narrow cut in the cliffs where the Blue Grotto boats tie up. You swim off the rock and concrete on either side of them. The water is deep from the first step, so this suits confident swimmers and nobody else.
The boats leave for the grotto whenever the sea allows. If they cannot go, the swell inside the inlet is usually too rough for swimming as well. There is parking on the road above, a couple of places to eat looking down on the inlet, and toilets by the car park.
Day trips covering the grotto with Marsaxlokk or the southern temples can be booked in advance. That saves planning a morning around the quay. You can book a Blue Grotto trip through Klook.
Which winds this bay can take
It is sheltered from the west-north-west round to the east-south-east. There is no open water on those bearings for a wind to build a swell across. It is open to the south-east round to the south-south-west and the west-south-west to the west, where the sea runs for kilometres before it reaches this shore. A wind out of the south-west has some water to work with but not the full run.
- NSheltered
- NNESheltered
- NESheltered
- ENESheltered
- ESheltered
- ESESheltered
- SEOpen sea
- SSEOpen sea
- SOpen sea
- SSWOpen sea
- SWPart open
- WSWOpen sea
- WOpen sea
- 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
- Parking
- Toilets
- 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.
