The Big Board · Bali · October 2026 · 3 min
How Many Beaches Does Bali Have? 132 on the Map, 74 With a Name
We counted every patch of sand drawn on the map of Bali. The answer depends on what you call a beach, so here are all the answers.
On 13 October 2026 the open map of the world showed 132 separate patches of beach on Bali and its small neighbouring islands. 74 of them have a name. That is the honest answer, and it comes with three footnotes.
| What we counted | Number |
|---|---|
| Patches of beach drawn on the map | 132 |
| Of those, with a name | 74 |
| Named beaches on the main island, once pieces of the same beach are merged | 51 |
| Named beaches on Nusa Penida, Lembongan and Ceningan | 22 |
| Unnamed patches bigger than 1,500 square metres | 49 |
| Beach names on the map as a point, with no sand drawn within 250 metres | 25 |
OpenStreetMap, read on 13 October 2026.
Footnote one: a beach is not one patch
Lovina is drawn as three patches and is one beach. Seminyak is one patch and carries several names along its length: Double Six, Petitenget, Batu Belig. Count patches and you over-count Lovina. Count names and you over-count Seminyak.
Footnote two: the famous ones are not always drawn
Green Bowl, Keramas and Medewi are well-known names. On the map each is a point, or an unnamed stretch of sand, and the two are not joined. The beach at Uluwatu, Suluban, is drawn, and measures 93 square metres.
Footnote three: the extremes
The biggest is Nusa Dua: 4.7 km long and about 219,500 square metres of sand. The smallest named beach is 77 square metres, which is smaller than a tennis court.
Ask how many beaches Bali has and the right reply is: counted how?
Why we bother
Every number on this site starts here. A beach has to be on the map and measured before we rank it or rate it, and this month the map we had been using was missing some of the island's best-known sand. We print the count so you can see what the rankings are standing on.
Asked
- How many beaches are there in Bali?
- It depends how you count. The open map shows 132 patches of beach across Bali and its neighbouring islands, 74 of them named. Merging pieces of the same beach leaves 51 named beaches on the main island and 22 on the Nusa Penida group.
- What is the biggest beach in Bali?
- By mapped area, Nusa Dua: about 219,500 square metres of sand along 4.7 km.