Pu‘U Ola‘I (Small Beach) is a saltwater beach in Maui County, Hawaii. Across 28 bacteria samples collected between 2021 and 2022 at nearby monitoring stations, it earns a Beach Safety Grade of A — Excellent.
About 0.0% of samples at Pu‘U Ola‘I (Small Beach) exceeded the EPA Beach Action Value of 104 CFU/100 mL for Enterococcus — the threshold at which water managers typically post a swimming advisory. In practice that means the safe-swimming limit was almost never crossed here over the monitored period. Bacteria samples almost never exceed the safe-swimming threshold.
Read this grade as directional rather than settled: it draws on a single monitoring station, rests on only 28 samples and has no results reported since 2022. That is enough to classify how the water has behaved, but not enough to separate this beach from another a grade away — a beach graded from thousands of samples at several stations is a firmer read. As more results are reported, the grade may shift.
Pu‘U Ola‘I (Small Beach) was not under a swimming advisory in the most recent EPA snapshot. Conditions can change quickly after heavy rain or high runoff, so it's still worth checking the current advisory the day you go.