Explore Honalo, Hawaii, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Honalo, Hawaii. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Hawaii or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Honalo.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Honalo |
| State | Hawaii (HI) |
| County | Hawaii County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Hawaii Standard Time — no DST (Pacific/Honolulu) |
| Latitude | 19.581019 |
| Longitude | -155.898443 |
| Population | 996 |
| Density | 14.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 96725 |
| Area Code | 808 |
| County Seat | Hilo |
| School District | Hawaii Department of Education |
Honalo clings to the emerald slopes of the Kona district, where the air grows heavy with the scent of damp earth and blooming plumeria. It lies 56.2 miles west-southwest of Hilo, HI (from Hilo, HI: bearing 257°T), and is situated 2.3 miles southeast of Kahaluu-Keauhou. The landscape descends toward the Pacific Ocean, a vast expanse of blue that dictates the rhythm of the day, while the massive, brooding presence of Mauna Loa dominates the eastern horizon. Within the immediate vicinity, the terrain is managed by the State Department of Land State Resource Management Area, preserving a rugged character that feels untouched by the frantic pace of modern life. Sunlight filters through the canopy of the nearby Kahaluu Forest Reserve, casting long, shifting shadows across the volcanic soil that defines this particular stretch of the island.
Honalo maintains a quiet connection to the past, deeply rooted in the agricultural traditions that once favored sugarcane and pineapple, though the economy has shifted toward the cultivation of coffee and the quiet stewardship of the land. The sense of kuleana, or responsibility toward one’s home, lingers in the way residents tend to their taro lo'i and maintain the ancestral pathways that crisscross the island. While the Kaukahōkū Trail and the distant waters of Waiʻaha Stream and Holokaalele Pond mark the geography of the wider region, the daily life of the locality is defined by the slow, deliberate transition of light across the mountainside. It is a place where the weight of history and the physical reality of the earth exist in a steady, unforced balance, far removed from the bustle of the coast.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Honalo, Hawaii. Coordinates: 19.581019, -155.898443. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Honalo includes the ZIP code (96725), telephone area code (808), county seat of Hawaii County (Hilo), and school district assignment (Hawaii Department of Education).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |