Wailea
Wailea, and the smaller Makena to the south, are resort areas on the south side of Maui, Hawaii, immediately south of the town of Kihei. They are known for their luxury resort hotels and condos, upscale restaurants, fancy shopping center and expensive golf courses.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 5,940 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States of America
- Also known as: “Wailea, Hawaii” and “Wailea, HI”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Polo Beach and Mōkapu Beach.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mākena.
Mākena
Hamlet
Photo: Travisthurston, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mākena is a census-designated place in the extreme southwest of the island of Maui in Maui County, Hawaiʻi, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 196, up from 99 in 2010. Mākena is situated 2 miles south of Wailea.
Wailea
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: Maui County, Maui, Hawaii, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
20.6872° or 20° 41′ 14″ northLongitude
-156.439° or 156° 26′ 21″ westPopulation
5,940Elevation
56 feet (17 metres)United Nations Location Code
US W8IOpen location code
73G5MHP6+V9OpenStreetMap ID
node 6984025291OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Wailea” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Wailea”
- Cebuano: “Wailea”
- Chechen: “Вайлия (Гавай)”
- Chechen: “Вайлия”
- Chinese: “懷勒亞”
- Dutch: “Wailea”
- French: “Wailea”
- Gilaki: “وایلیا (هاوايي)”
- Gilaki: “وایلیا”
- Irish: “Wailea”
- Italian: “Wailea”
- Japanese: “ワイレア”
- Korean: “와일레아”
- Ladin: “Wailea”
- Mazanderani: “وایلیا”
- Persian: “وایلیا، هاوایی”
- Persian: “وایلیا”
- Polish: “Wailea”
- Russian: “Ваилеа”
- Serbian: “Vajlea”
- Serbian: “Wailea”
- Serbian: “Вајлеа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wailea, Hawaii”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wailea”
- South Azerbaijani: “وایلیا، هاوایی”
- Spanish: “Wailea”
- Swedish: “Wailea, Hawaii”
- Swedish: “Wailea”
- Tatar: “Вайлия (Гавай)”
- Tatar: “Вайлия”
- Ukrainian: “Вайлія”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Wailea”. Photo: Theskuj, CC BY-SA 4.0.