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Ballito

Surf, kitesurf and windsurf town · South Africa

Score a trip to Ballito

Surf, kitesurf and windsurf, 6 nights from tomorrow, from your nearest start point: scored, planned and costed. Try another search

Beds: 108 places

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108 places to stay within 2 km.

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 108 places to stay · Booking.com

Spots near here: 13 places in 3 sports

Surf · this week

All 11 surf spots
  • Umdloti · about 30 min by car · stays in Umdloti

    14 out of 100
  • umdloti tidal pool · about 30 min by car · stays in Umdloti

    14 out of 100
  • La Mercy · about 25 min by car · stays in Umdloti

    13 out of 100

Kitesurf · this week

  • Ballito · 0.6 km · stays here

    60 out of 100

Windsurf · this week

  • Ballito · 0.6 km · stays here

    63 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 Ballito.

Places to eat

6 near Ballito

Places to eat near Ballito

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

Map

the town and every place near it

Each place is ringed by its best day this week, a surf spot for experts: green good, amber fair, pale red poor, as the key says. The dashed circle is 20 km from Ballito.

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Photos of Ballito

Ballito Beach - Granny pool - panoramio
Photo: Hendrik van den Berg, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Street vendor, Ballito 01
Photo: Ossewa, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Ballito Main Beach storm damage during May 2007 - panoramio
Photo: Hendrik van den Berg, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

About Ballito

where it is, what is near

Ballito is a town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

From Ballito you can reach 11 surf spots, 1 kitesurf spot and 1 windsurf spot.

The nearest is Salmon Bay, a surf spot 0.2 km from the centre.

Overture lists 108 places to stay within 2 km of the centre.

The nearest airport is Pietermaritzburg Airport (PZB), 80 km away.

In KwaZulu-Natal · South Africa

  • 108 places to stay within 2 km of the centre (Overture places)
  • Nearest airports: Pietermaritzburg Airport (PZB), 80 km, Richards Bay Airport (RCB), 123 km, Margate Airport (MGH), 168 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).