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Ekas Bay

West Nusa Tenggara · Lombok · Kec. Sandubaya · Ekas

also known as Awang Bay, Pantai Kaliantan, Kaliantan Lagoon

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On this page

The spot
Wind
Forecast
Month by month
Water
Level
The scene
Launch
Schools
Tips
Getting there
FAQ

Riding essentials

Season

Feb, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep

Months riders and schools name

How windy

15-25 kt

Character: mixed

Room to launch

access rules on record, below

Water

mixed

27.5 °C in summer

Hazards

Reported by riders

Level

Beginner to advanced

With a caveat: see Your level

BeginnerIntermediateAdvanced

Crowds

low crowds · busy Jun Jul Aug

Schools

named at this spot

From the airport

Lombok International Airport (LOP)

Transfer times under Getting there

When it fills in

The trade wind gets up from late morning and keeps blowing until sunset. Mornings are the calm half of the day, which is why surf and kite fit into the same 24 hours here.

Nearbystraight-line distance

Kaliantan Beach5 km

Backup spotsWhere riders go when the wind doesn't work here.

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The spot

Ekas Bay is a real Lombok kite destination, but the practical launch is Pantai Kaliantan rather than the inner Ekas surf bay, and most current kite-school evidence points the same way. The setup is a sandy beach and a shallow lagoon protected by reef: flat water inside, reef waves outside when tide and swell line up.

Conditions

The best-supported wind window is May to September, with February in some listings and the season stretched wider in others. Expect easterly to southeasterly trade and thermal wind, commonly around 15-25 kt, though forecast pages disagree with each other and light days happen.

Riding and access

Lessons, freeride and wave riding all work here, but reef, coral, tide and remoteness mean a beginner should be riding with the school rather than alone.

It is quieter than Kuta Lombok or Bali, and that cuts both ways: away from the resorts and the school there is very little, no clinic and no cover on the days the school is shut.

The wind

locals call it Southeast/easterly trade wind

Direction

cross-onE to SE

Direction to shore

cross-on

Dominant direction

E to SE, with usable S-sector directions reported at Kaliantan

Kite sizes

567891011121314151617

metres · typical quiver highlighted

The quiver, in words

In the ordinary 15-20 kt a 75-85 kg rider is on 10-12 m. July and August regularly push 25 kt and above and the same rider wants 8-9 m; lighter riders cover the season on 7-10 m. Bring the small kite: a 10 m has been too much on a strong August afternoon here.

Character

mixed

When it fills in: see above ↑

Average strength

15-25

Typical strength

15-25 kt, with 25-28 kt days at the strong end.

Generally consistent in the dry-season trade-wind months, but forecast pages show day-to-day model spread and lighter days also occur.

Estimates vary. February plus May-September appears in some records, April-September in others, and May-October or near year-round riding elsewhere, with thermal wind stacking on the trade. May-September is the best-supported core season.

Forecast

Live forecast

Windguru Windfinder Windy

Month by month

5 ktJan29°
5 ktFeb28°
4 ktMar29°
5 ktApr29°
6 ktMay28°
7 ktJun28°
7 ktJul27°
7 ktAug27°
7 ktSep27°
6 ktOct28°
5 ktNov29°
5 ktDec29°

avg knots per month · water °C below · season highlighted

Monthly averages. Highlighted: the months riders and schools name (May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Feb, Sep).

Measured at Praya, ~30 km from the spot (~1980-2016 (MERRA-2 reanalysis)).

Every figure, month by monthKnots · Wind from · Air · Water

Month	Knots	Wind from	Air	Water
Jan	5.4 kt	W	27.2 °C	28.9 °C
Feb	5.1 kt	W	26.7 °C	28.3 °C
Mar	4.4 kt	W	26.7 °C	28.9 °C
Apr	4.9 kt	E	27.2 °C	28.9 °C
May	5.9 kt	E	26.7 °C	28.3 °C
Jun	6.6 kt	E	26.1 °C	27.8 °C
Jul	7 kt	E	25.6 °C	27.2 °C
Aug	7.1 kt	S	25.6 °C	26.7 °C
Sep	6.6 kt	S	26.1 °C	27.2 °C
Oct	6 kt	S	27.2 °C	27.8 °C
Nov	5 kt	S	27.2 °C	28.9 °C
Dec	5 kt	S	27.2 °C	28.9 °C

How this was measuredmeasured · ~1980-2016 (MERRA-2 reanalysis)

A ground station recorded this, at the distance the page names.

A station this far away — often inland or at an airport — can understate accelerated local wind. The typical daily max and the direction are columns of the table above, month by month. Highlighted months are the riding season from the spot record.

Praya · WeatherSpark · ~1980-2016 (MERRA-2 reanalysis)

The water

Type

mixed

Standing depth

Shallow enough to stand across much of the inside near shore, which is why the lagoon carries the lessons, and deepening on a tack out toward the reef. No measured depth by tide state is published, and at spring low tide parts of it are too shallow to ride at all.

Tides

Low tide turns the lagoon into flat freestyle water.As it fills the inside gets choppy and the reef outside starts working with swell. Spring lows drain enough of it that the rideable area shrinks, so a stay booked around neaps, or one where low water lands in the morning before the wind, gives the most time on the water.

Temperature

27.5 °C summer · 28.7 °C winter

Modelled monthly average: 27–29 °C

Wetsuit

Boardshorts or rash vest; a shorty/top only for riders who chill easily in wind.

Currents

Tidal water moves through the gaps in the reef, and a rip runs in the channel beside the reef break outside the lagoon strong enough to be intimidating on a first visit. The wider bay flushes well, which is exactly why it carries seaweed and lobster farming. Nobody has surveyed the current inside the lesson area.

Conditions

The riding area is a large flat-water lagoon behind a long reef line, with chop and small-to-big reef waves outside depending on tide and swell. Reef and coral are the main underwater issue. No reliable current pattern has been established for the kite lagoon.

Your level

BeginnerIntermediateAdvanced

Beginners ride the shallow flat lagoon and should stay with school support, because reef, tide and remoteness all bite here. Intermediates get the whole lagoon. Advanced riders go outside for the reef waves.

The scene

What riders come here for

intermediateflat waterwavesbeginner lessonsfreeridefreestylewave ridinguncrowded sessions

Who it suitsbeginner

Remote, quiet and still lightly developed next to Kuta Lombok and Bali. The surf breaks fill up when they are good; Kaliantan and Ekas stay uncrowded.

Launch and rules

three ways on to the water, and what each one asks of you

With a school or a boat

3 schools name this spot

See who they are

On your own

Room to launch: ok

Read the access rules

Somewhere else

1 spot nearby

Kaliantan Beach5 km

The one spot within 40 km is under Nearby

Rescue

A jetski is kept for rescues and lessons by the kite operation on the beach, and lifeguard cover is reported at the camp. There is no municipal rescue service, no clinic on the beach and nothing that runs on days the school is closed, so a rider turning up alone is self-rescuing.

Launch

Sandy launch on Pantai Kaliantan, the beach the kite operations actually use and the one the Ekas resort names as its kite spot, 10-15 minutes by road from Ekas village.It is wide with room to rig, and the lagoon behind the reef runs roughly 500 m out and several kilometres along the coast. Seaweed farming occupies part of the lagoon, so the main shoreline is not the beginner launch; the currently favoured spot is east of the main beach near Pantai Cemara, reached on a rough track past Tampah Boleq.

Hazards riders report 13 reported

Crowds and zones

boat access needed from Awang Harbour
Other beach users during the main visitor season
Fishing boats, fish cages and mariculture activity in wider Ekas Bay

Bottom

outer reef line

Waves and currents

Tide-dependent shallow reef exposure
Paradise Beach near Ekas is reported by a travel guide to have dangerous current, so do not assume every nearby beach is swimmable
Paradise Beach near Ekas reportedly has dangerous current, so do not assume every nearby beach is swimmable

Protected areas and rules

Reef and coral inside/outside the lagoon
Seaweed farm lines and stakes occupying part of the lagoon, which is why the main shoreline is not the beginner launch
Rip current in the channel by the reef break outside the lagoon
Spring low tide drains enough of the lagoon to shrink the usable riding area

Other

Remote area with limited facilities outside the resort/school setup
No public rescue service, lifeguard or clinic; cover exists only while the kite school is operating

Rules & access

1 min read

2026: no kite-specific permit, zone or seasonal restriction is published. Pantai Kaliantan sits in Dusun Kaliantan, Desa Seriwe, Kecamatan Jerowaru, East Lombok; as of 2024 it charged no entry ticket and kept no official opening hours, and it is still reported free, though the beach management or the district can change that at any time.

What to bring

Visitors are asked to carry their rubbish out. Ekas Beach nearby carries 08:00-17:00 visiting hours and an entrance charge that is never quoted.

Marine activities

Seaweed and lobster farming in the bay is licensed activity, so ride around the lines rather than through them, and ask locally before launching somewhere new.

Access rules drift faster than anything else we hold — check locally, and propose an edit if this has changed.

Schools that ride here

Rider tips

Put Pantai Kaliantan into the map app, not Ekas: Ekas is where you sleep, 10 minutes up the road, and Kaliantan is where you ride.
Ask the kite centre or your accommodation which beach they are launching from that day, because the Ekas Bay, Awang Bay and Kaliantan names get mixed up.
Check tide and swell together: low tide flattens the lagoon but also exposes reef, so bring reef-safe footwear if the locals suggest it.
Book around neap tides if you can, since springs drain enough of the lagoon to cut the riding area.
Rig around midday, because the wind gets up late morning and the morning is better spent on a surf, a coffee or the drive in.
Pre-arrange gear, transport and school support, and bring sun protection and water; this coast is remote and exposed, with little shade and few facilities.

Getting there

Airport

Lombok International Airport (LOP)

Route

Reach Ekas/Kaliantan by private car or scooter from Lombok International Airport, Kuta Lombok or other Lombok towns. Ekas Surf Resort can arrange vehicle transfers; wider Ekas surf breaks may use short resort/local boats from Ekas or Awang, but the kite beach itself is road-accessible.

Transfer

About 60-90 minutes from LOP depending on route and traffic; estimates run from 1 h 06 min to about 1.5 h.

Cost level

Medium for Lombok: Ekas Surf Resort listed vehicle transfers to and from the airport at IDR 500,000 per vehicle per way in 2026, while IDR 200,000 in 2025 bought a private driver, so prices vary by operator and by negotiation.

Staying

Stay in Ekas village/resorts or surf camps; Ekas Surf Resort, Ombak Resort/Ekas-area surf accommodation and local homestays are options, and most accommodation is in Ekas about 10 minutes from Kaliantan.

No-wind days

Surf Inside/Outside Ekas, snorkel or dive around Ekas Bay, visit white-sand beaches and Pink Beach, use resort wellness/yoga/massage facilities, or do local hiking/cultural tours.

FAQ

Is Ekas Bay good for beginners?

Yes, the shallow flat lagoon supports lessons with school backup, though beginners should stay clear of the reef and outer waves.

When is the best time to kite?

May through September is the best-supported core season, with 15-25kt E to SE wind.

Where do you actually launch?

Most current kite-school evidence points to Pantai Kaliantan rather than the inner Ekas surf bay itself.

What are the hazards?

Outer reef and coral, tide-dependent shallow exposure, and boat access needed from Awang Harbour for some surf breaks.

Are there kite schools nearby?

Ekas Kite Center is the main current operator; Kaliantan Kitesurf is reported as closed.

The bigger pictureEverything about Lombok

Last updated: August 2026