Bali Surf Spots

Buitan is a consistent, uncrowded reef break on East Bali's coast with fun left and right waves over a rocky bottom, suitable for intermediates and up.

Sumbul is a quiet, versatile beach break with multiple peaks and a relaxed vibe on Bali’s remote west coast near Medewi, offering fun waves with fewer crowds.

Kuta Beach is Bali's iconic, beginner-friendly beach break featuring consistently mellow waves along a long sandy stretch and a lively atmosphere.

Seminyak is a popular and accessible beach break on Bali's west coast offering consistent waves suitable for all skill levels and lively crowds.

Serangan is a consistent wet season reef break with shifting peaks over shallow coral, best for intermediate and advanced surfers and known for its crowd.

Padang Galak is a black sand beach break near Denpasar with variable waves, ideal for beginners and improvers.

Balangan is a scenic left-hand reef break on Bali's Bukit Peninsula, offering consistent long waves year-round that are suitable for all skill levels, with steep open-faced walls and occasional barrels under ideal conditions.

Dreamland is a popular surf spot on Bali’s Bukit Peninsula featuring consistent reef and beach breaks with fun waves suitable for all skill levels and accessible year-round.

Thomas Beach is a semi-secret, beginner-friendly surf spot on Bali's southern coast featuring mellow reef waves, strong currents, scenic views, and a relaxed atmosphere.

Berawa is a less crowded beach break in Canggu featuring mellow left and right waves over mixed reef and sand, popular among surfers of all levels.

Legian Beach is a popular, sandy beach break in Bali with consistent waves for all levels and easy access.

Nelayan Beach in Canggu, Bali, is a tranquil spot with consistent left and right waves breaking over a mixed reef and sand bottom, suitable for beginners and intermediates.

Playgrounds is the most user-friendly a-frame reef break on Nusa Lembongan, offering mellow, rippable walls over a sharp live coral reef.

Hyatt Reef is a boat-access reef break over a kilometre off the southern end of Sanur, offering long, hollow right-handers for confident intermediates and up.

Echo Beach is Canggu's best known left, a fast reef ledge in front of the restaurant strip that barrels on the mid tide and is never uncrowded.

Keramas is a world-class, high-performance right-hand reef break on Bali's east coast known for its powerful barrels and heavy crowds.

Masceti is a powerful, consistent right-hand river-mouth beach break in southeast Bali with a boulder bottom and generally uncrowded waves, ideal for experienced surfers.

Shipwrecks is a renowned powerful right-hand reef break on Nusa Lembongan featuring fast barrels and long, rippable walls over sharp coral.

Pererenan is a popular right-hand reef break near Canggu known for barrelling waves and performance walls, offering fun, rippable waves ideal for all-day sessions, especially at high tide.

Sandbar is a powerful sandy-bottomed beach break in Canggu with fast, challenging lefts and a lively surf scene suited for experienced surfers.

Yeh Leh, also called Truck Stops, is a quiet high tide wave midway between Medewi and Balian, with a mellow left and a shorter right over sand and rock.

Ceningan is a swell-magnet point break on Nusa Ceningan featuring fun, approachable waves with strong currents and scenic island views.

Tanah Lot is a short, fast left-hand reef and sand break in a narrow bay beside Bali’s famous sea temple, best suited to intermediate and advanced surfers.

Airports Left is a well-known left-hand reef break near Kuta, Bali, accessed by boat and offering long, fast, and consistent waves close to Ngurah Rai Airport.

A powerful river-mouth break with long lefts and shorter rights, offering consistent waves in all tides and decent size year-round.

Ketewel is a challenging right-hand reef break on Bali's east coast, featuring hollow, fast, and powerful waves ideal for advanced surfers.

Kuta Reef is a world-class left-hand reef break just offshore from Bali's famous Kuta Beach, popular with both locals and tourists.

Jasri Beach offers a long, mellow right-hand point on Bali’s east coast, popular among intermediate surfers.

Pulukan Right is a punchy right-hander over sand, rock and cobblestone just east of Medewi, and it comes into its own on the low tide when the point drains out.

Bingin is a world-class left-hand reef break on Bali's Bukit peninsula known for its powerful barrels and crowded lineup.

Honeymoon, also known as Jump Off, is a left tucked into the far south-western corner of Jimbaran Bay beside the rock that gives it its second name. It only breaks on a very big swell, which is exactly why it matters: it is one of the few options intermediates can rely on when the dry season trades and a big Indian Ocean swell have made the Bukit unsurfable.

Lacerations is a powerful right-hand reef break on Nusa Lembongan with fast, hollow barrels breaking over a shallow reef, suited for experienced surfers only.

Padang Padang is Bali’s premier left-hand reef break known for its hollow barrels.

A world-class, powerful left-hand reef break at Uluwatu featuring heavy double-up barrels, multiple peaks, long rides, and scenic limestone cliffs, best with a south swell.

Sanur Reef is an advanced-only outer reef right on Bali’s southeast coast, a fast and hollow wave that needs a large south to south-southwest swell and a rising to high tide.

Sindhu Right is a versatile right-hand reef break in Sanur, Bali, featuring playful walls at high tide and heavy barrels at low tide.

Tanjung Sari Left, known locally as Jantuk, is a short, fickle left over shallow coral in Sanur, soft and forgiving when it is small and a heavy top-to-bottom barrel when it is not.

Black Stone breaks on the south side of the Nusa Gede headland at Nusa Dua, where backwash off the rock wedges the peak into a steep, fast take-off. It is mostly lefts with a short right off the peak, it wants mid tide and a small to medium wet season swell, and it holds something for every level from whitewater on the inside to overhead sections out the back.

Yeh Gangga is a consistent black sand beach break in Bali with multiple peaks that provide a range of waves from mellow rides to heavy barrels depending on tide and swell.

Impossibles is a fast, world-class left-hand reef break on Bali’s Bukit Peninsula featuring long walls and barrels, ideal for experienced surfers.

Green Bowl is an exposed right-hand reef break beneath limestone cliffs on Bali's southern coast, known for its powerful waves and strong currents.

Nyang Nyang is a south-coast Bukit reef with a fast, punchy right-hander that needs a high tide and the rare northerly wind to come good.

A shifting black sand peak west of the Pig Stone headland, giving a good left and a shorter right when the bank lines up.

A left-breaking wave over rock and sand in front of Pig Stone's headland, best for intermediates and up.

Mushroom Rock is a fast right-hander breaking off the southern isthmus at Nusa Dua, Bali. It is strictly a high-tide break and comes alive in the wet season, offering short, steep, hollow rides over coral and rock for confident intermediates and advanced surfers.

Geger Left is the left at the southern end of the Nusa Dua reef, on the corner of reef off Pura Geger. Three peaks line up outside the channel and grow in size and power the further out you go, from an intermediate inside section to an outside peak that jacks up on the edge of the Lombok Strait. It is a wet season wave, cleanest when a west or north-west wind blows offshore.

A long, powerful right-hand offshore reef break in Bali with a big swell window, offering consistent rides and occasional barrels in offshore trades.

Sri Lanka in Bali is a powerful, fast right-hander breaking over sharp reef, best suited for experienced surfers.

Airport Rights is a renowned but fickle right-hand reef break near Bali's airport that delivers long, powerful, world-class waves when large swells and favorable winds align.