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Beds: 3 places

3 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 3 places to stay · Booking.com

Spots near here: 11 surf spots

Surf · this week

Chocks · about 15 min by car · stays in Hilo
54 out of 100
Bayfront · about 15 min by car · stays in Hilo
53 out of 100
Hakalau · about 25 min by car · stays in Hakalau
53 out of 100
Kolekole · about 20 min by car · stays in Honomu
53 out of 100
Secrets · about 20 min by car · stays in Honomu
53 out of 100
Hilo Breakwall · about 10 min by car · stays in Hilo
51 out of 100
Honolii · about 10 min by car · stays in Hilo
50 out of 100
Tombstones · about 10 min by car · stays in Hilo
50 out of 100

All 11 surf spots

Papaikou Mill · about 5 min by car
48 out of 100
4 Miles · about 20 min by car · stays in Hilo
41 out of 100
Richardsons · about 20 min by car · stays in Hilo
41 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 Papaikou.

Map

the town and every place near it

Papaikou on Google Maps

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 Papaikou.

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Photos of Papaikou

ISS007-E-12354 - View of Hawaii — Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons

ISS027-E-27204 - View of Earth — Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons

2021-10-10 13 56 33 View south along Old Māmalahoa Highway just south of Hanawī Stream in Onomea, Hawaii County, Hawaii — Photo: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

About Papaikou

where it is, what is near

Papaikou is a town in Hawaii, United States.

From Papaikou you can reach 11 surf spots.

The nearest is Papaikou Mill, a surf spot 1.5 km from the centre.

Overture lists 3 places to stay within 2 km of the centre.

The nearest airport is Hilo International Airport (ITO), 9 km away.

In Hawaii · West · United States

3 places to stay within 2 km of the centre (Overture places)
Nearest airports: Hilo International Airport (ITO), 9 km, Waimea Kohala Airport (MUE), 65 km, Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keāhole (KOA), 100 km

Forecast updated Sun 1 Nov, 15:16 UTC. 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).