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Indonesia · Bali · #4 of Bali's ten by fame

Padang Padang Beach

IDR 15,000 to squeeze through a rock.

How we rated it: up one for the way in through the rock, down one because its source lists it among the island's most dangerous beaches for swimming, for the rip where people wade in. Photo: TMFalkner · CC BY-SA 4.0

The hang

Padang Padang, also called Labuan Sait, is a small cove we measured at 147 metres long and 17 wide. You pay IDR 15,000 in cash, then walk down roughly 120 steps on a narrow stone staircase that winds through a crevice in the rock. Going down is fine; the guide says the climb back up is what gets people. The beach is small and ringed by cliffs, so it fills quickly. A narrow channel through the rock funnels water in and out and makes a strong, predictable rip in the exact place where visitors wade in.

The real intel

Best months · warmest sea: April (29.9 °C), then December and March. Coolest: August (27.7 °C). One year of data, 2025.
Best months · emptiest: No crowd data by month. It is small and fills up quickly, and the car park fills fast at weekends.
Getting there: The car park is small and fills up fast, especially at weekends.
Cost reality: Entrance IDR 15,000 for adults and IDR 10,000 for children. Scooter parking IDR 2,000. Cash only.
The catch nobody tells you: A narrow channel through the rock creates a strong, predictable rip right where people wade in.

The year at Padang Padang Beach

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

Sea (°C)

29.5

29.7

29.8

29.9

29.6

27.7

28.2

29.3

29.5

29.9

Air (°C)

27.3

27.9

27.6

27.3

26.5

26.9

27.2

27.9

28.1

28.5

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 1.

669 mThomas beach666 m of beach, measured. Not rated yet.
700 mImpossibles Beach142 m of beach, measured. Not rated yet.
1.2 kmBingin Beach259 m of beach, measured. Not rated yet.
1.7 kmSuluban Surf Beach20 m of beach, measured. Not rated yet.
2.0 kmDreamland BeachThe dream has a resort around it now.OVERRATED
3.0 kmBalangan Beach613 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

Small and surrounded by cliffs, so the space fills up quickly.

The receipts

A few toilets, outdoor rinse showers and small food stalls. No lockers and no proper changing rooms.

Video: Global Walks on YouTube. It plays from their channel.

Padang Padang Beach in pictures

The facts · we measured

Length: 147 m
Mean width: 17 m
Area: 2,499 m²
Warmest sea (2025): 29.9 °C in Apr
Coldest sea (2025): 27.7 °C in Aug
Sea by month, °C: Jan 29.5 · Feb 29.7 · Mar 29.8 · Apr 29.9 · May 29.6 · Jun 29.0 · Jul 28.0 · Aug 27.7 · Sep 28.2 · Oct 29.3 · Nov 29.5 · Dec 29.9