
Halifax
Surf, dive, climbing and mountain biking town · Canada
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Beds: 53 places
53 places to stay within 2 km.
Budget 2-star · Booking.com£75 a night
Mid-range 3-star · Booking.com£90 a night
Luxury 4-star · Booking.com£115 a night
Prices are our estimate of the country's average double room of each kind that month: not this town's price, and not a quote.
Room photos are examples, not these hotels (credits).
All 53 places to stay · Booking.comSpots near here: 30 places in 4 sports
Surf · this week
Lawrencetown · about 35 min by car · stays in Dartmouth Nova Scotia
21 out of 100Left Point · about 35 min by car · stays in Dartmouth Nova Scotia
20 out of 100Lawrencetown - Plan B · about 35 min by car · stays in Dartmouth Nova Scotia
19 out of 100Point Pleasant Beach Park · about 10 min by car
17 out of 100Cow Bay - Moose Rocks · about 25 min by car
16 out of 100Minutes · about 25 min by car · stays in Dartmouth Nova Scotia
16 out of 100osbourne · about 25 min by car
15 out of 100Forevers · about 55 min by car
12 out of 100
Dive · this week
Wellesly Rock · 9 km · stays here
60 out of 100Western Reef · 10.5 km · stays here
55 out of 100American (Virginia) brig, name unknown (1824) · 6.6 km · stays here
–, no scoreBritish tanker Kars (1942) · 4.7 km · stays here
–, no scoreCN Barges (3), c. 1941 · 4.6 km · stays here
–, no scoreDominion Coal Company barges Freeman (date unknown) and Lucia P. Dow (1957) · 7.6 km · stays here
–, no scoreHudson bomber plane (1944) · 5.5 km · stays here
–, no scoreMetahead Bank · 19.5 km · stays here
–, no score
All 13 dive sites
Norwegian barque Tordenskjold (1879) · 6.6 km · stays here
–, no scoreRoyal Canadian Navy gate vessel HMCS Ypres (1940) · 6.6 km · stays here
–, no scoreSchooner Gertrude de Costa (1950) · 4.3 km · stays here
–, no scoreSchooner Reaper (1899) · 4.3 km · stays here
–, no scoreSea Fury fighter bomber plane (1952) · 5.8 km · stays here
–, no score
Climbing · this week
Virginia Slab · 14.7 km · stays here
75 out of 100Heart Break Boulder · 8.8 km · stays here
74 out of 100Snack Wall · 3.5 km · stays here
74 out of 100Owls House · 19.3 km · stays here
73 out of 100Polly's Cove Climbing Warm Up Area · 29.8 km · stays here
69 out of 100Sorrow's End · 21.5 km · stays here
68 out of 100Chebucto Head Climbing · 16.6 km · stays here
63 out of 100CFB Fearwater · 11.4 km · stays here
48 out of 100
Mountain biking · this week
Williamswood Bike Park · 14.3 km · stays here
61 out of 100
Each score is the next week's out of 100, the mean of its best days, as on its own page. Green clears the bar. Distances are from the middle of Halifax; a spot more than 20 km away stays here because Halifax is the nearest town with beds.
Places to eat
6 near Halifax
Places to eat near Halifax
- Lou Pecou PizzeriaPizza · 0.4 km from the centre
- The Hungry BowlHealth food · 0.4 km from the centre
- Greco PizzaPizza · 0.5 km from the centre
- Randy's PizzaPizza · 0.5 km from the centre
- Ratinaud French CuisineFrench · 0.5 km from the centre
- Burrito MexicaMexican · 0.6 km from the centre
Within 2 km of the town centre, listed by how complete the listing is (website, opening hours, cuisine) and whether two sources name it. Not a judgement of the food: we have no reviews. Listings © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Overture Maps Foundation. Credits
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the town and every place near it
Each place is ringed by its best day this week, a surf spot for intermediates: green good, amber fair, pale red poor, as the key says. The dashed circle is 20 km from Halifax.
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About Halifax
where it is, what is near
Halifax is a town in Nova Scotia, Canada.
From Halifax you can reach 8 surf spots, 13 dive sites, 8 climbing areas and 1 mountain bike area, 1 of the surf spots more than 20 km away.
The nearest is Point Pleasant Beach Park, a surf spot 3.2 km from the centre.
Overture lists 53 places to stay within 2 km of the centre.
The nearest airport is Halifax / Stanfield International Airport (YHZ), 27 km away.
In Nova Scotia · Eastern Canada · Canada
- 53 places to stay within 2 km of the centre (Overture places)
- Nearest airports: Halifax / Stanfield International Airport (YHZ), 27 km, Greater Moncton Roméo LeBlanc International Airport (YQM), 184 km, Charlottetown Airport (YYG), 186 km
Forecast updated . Forecast data: ECMWF, DWD, Météo-France and NOAA, served by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Changed by us. Generated using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information.
Scores are the conditions only: the journey, the price and the partners never change them (how we score, how we earn).