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Arugam Bay
Arugam Bay. Photo: Nandun Narayana, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Arugam Bay

Surf and kitesurf town · Sri Lanka

Score a trip to Arugam Bay

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

Beds: 98 places

98 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 98 places to stay · Booking.com

Spots near here: 8 places in 2 sports

Surf · this week

  • Arugam Bay · about 5 min by car

    65 out of 100
  • Pottuvil Point · about 10 min by car · stays in Pottuvil

    63 out of 100
  • Whiskey point · about 15 min by car · stays in Pottuvil

    59 out of 100
  • Gaza Strip · about 5 min by car · stays in Pottuvil

    56 out of 100
  • Elephant rock · about 10 min by car · stays in Pottuville

    53 out of 100
  • Okanda · about 40 min by car

    41 out of 100
  • Peanuts Farm · about 15 min by car

    36 out of 100

Kitesurf · this week

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 Arugam Bay; a spot more than 20 km away stays here because Arugam Bay is the nearest town with beds.

Places to eat

6 near Arugam Bay

Places to eat near Arugam Bay

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 intermediates: green good, amber fair, pale red poor, as the key says. The dashed circle is 20 km from Arugam Bay.

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Photos of Arugam Bay

Arugam bay beach
Photo: Kondephy, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Arugam Bay, Sri Lanka - panoramio (2)
Photo: Luboš Holič, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Beach of Arugam Bay
Photo: Dennis Sylvester Hurd, CC0, Wikimedia Commons

About Arugam Bay

where it is, what is near

Arugam Bay is a town in Ampara District, Sri Lanka.

From Arugam Bay you can reach 7 surf spots and 1 kitesurf spot, 1 of the surf spots more than 20 km away.

The nearest is Arugam Bay, a kitesurf spot 0.8 km from the centre.

Overture lists 98 places to stay within 2 km of the centre.

The nearest airport is Batticaloa International Airport (BTC), 97 km away.

In Ampara District · Næ̆gĕnahira paḷāta · Sri Lanka

  • 98 places to stay within 2 km of the centre (Overture places)
  • Nearest airports: Batticaloa International Airport (BTC), 97 km, Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (HRI), 100 km, Koggala Airport (KCT), 192 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).