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View all search resultsBali flooding prompts tourist evacuation
Intense rains triggered flooding since late Monday across several Bali districts and the provincial capital city of Denpasar, said local disaster mitigation agency senior official I Gede Agung Teja Bhusana Yadnya.
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A hotel guest carries his suitcase as he wades through the water on an inundated street amid floods following heavy rain at Legian Kuta near Denpasar, Bali on February 24, 2026. (AFP/Sonny Tumbelaka)
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looding in parts of Bali prompted hundreds of people, including dozens of tourists, to seek safety, a local disaster official said Tuesday.
Intense rains triggered flooding since late Monday across several Bali districts and the provincial capital city of Denpasar, said local disaster mitigation agency senior official I Gede Agung Teja Bhusana Yadnya.
There were no fatalities, he said.
Waters inundated facilities such as cafes and gas station in the Badung district and forced some tourists to be evacuated on rubber boats.
"We are here to visit Bali Zoo... so we were trying to visit the elephants but due to this condition we couldn’t do this," 28-year-old Mexican national Briana Palacios told AFP.
Gede told AFP that about 30 foreign tourists were evacuated from the flooding on Tuesday, noting that some tourists moved to other hotels or later returned to their accommodations.
In total, about 350 people temporarily sought safety amid rising waters Tuesday, Gede said, adding that most of the people returned to their homes as waters receded.
Torrential rains also forced two international flights to Bali’s airport to be diverted earlier Tuesday, while three other departures from the airport were delayed, an airport spokesman said in a statement.
In September, a flash flood that struck parts of Bali killed at least 18 people and left four missing in what the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said was the island’s worst flood in a decade.
Last year's flash flooding also struck East Nusa Tenggara province's Flores island on Monday, cutting road access and phone services in 18 villages.
The annual monsoon season in Indonesia, typically between November and April, often brings landslides, flash floods and water-borne diseases.
