Nunggalan Beach

A twenty-minute walk to a shipwreck and nobody.

No photo yet. We don’t lie with pictures.

How we rated it: up one for a sourced find, a shipwreck rusting into the sand. The strong waves are in the catch.

The hang

Nunggalan takes about 20 minutes to walk down to and about 30 to walk back up from. At the bottom there is a long stretch of golden sand, an old shipwreck rusting into it, and almost no one else. There are no vendors and no beach clubs. The waves are often strong, and the emptiness that makes the beach is also the reason to be careful in the water: few people will be around if there is trouble. It also goes by Shipwreck Beach and Secret Beach.

The real intel

Best months · warmest sea: March (29.9 °C), then December and April. Coolest: August (27.7 °C). One year of data, 2025.
Best months · emptiest: No crowd data by month. It is described as having almost no one else around.
Getting there: On foot down a hiking path beside Villa Plenilunio. There is no Gojek or Grab pickup from the beach itself; you can get a ride at the entrance to the path.
Cost reality: IDR 5,000, given as parking.
The catch nobody tells you: The waves are often strong, and few people will be around if there is trouble.

The year at Nunggalan Beach

Warmest sea in March and December. Fewest wet days in April and August. Pick your fight.

Sea (°C)

29.4

29.7

29.9

29.8

29.6

27.9

27.7

28.1

29.3

29.6

29.9

Air (°C)

26.9

27.2

27.9

27.8

27.5

27.2

26.4

26.8

27.1

27.8

28.4

Sun (h/day)

7.6

9.1

9.5

10.8

10.4

10.3

10.8

11.2

10.3

Rain (days)

One year of data, 2025, from Open-Meteo at this beach's coordinates. A rain day is 1 mm or more. The red bar is the month to aim for in each row.

The neighbours

6 beaches within 6 km, as the gull flies. We have rated 2.

1.2 kmMak Mang Beach145 m of beach, measured. Not rated yet.
1.7 kmNyang NyangMore than 500 steps down, and the same back.WORTH A DETOUR
2.0 kmSamsara Beach87 m of beach, measured. Not rated yet.
3.8 kmPadang Padang BeachIDR 15,000 to squeeze through a rock.ONLY IF YOU'RE ALREADY THERE
3.8 kmThomas beach666 m of beach, measured. Not rated yet.
4.0 kmSuluban Surf Beach20 m of beach, measured. Not rated yet.

Straight-line distances from the mapped beach shapes (OpenStreetMap). Roads are longer, and in Bali they are much longer.

The crowd

A long stretch of golden sand with almost no one else around.

The receipts

No vendors and no beach clubs. Bring what you need.

The facts · we measured

Length: 1,835 m
Mean width: 32.1 m
Area: 58,915 m²
Warmest sea (2025): 29.9 °C in Mar
Coldest sea (2025): 27.7 °C in Aug
Sea by month, °C: Jan 29.4 · Feb 29.7 · Mar 29.9 · Apr 29.8 · May 29.6 · Jun 29.0 · Jul 27.9 · Aug 27.7 · Sep 28.1 · Oct 29.3 · Nov 29.6 · Dec 29.9