On the western coast of the Big Island of Hawaii is Kona Coffee Country, also known as the Kona Coffee Belt, a prime coffee-growing area that is about 30 miles long and two miles wide at elevations from about 500 feet above sea level to 3,000 feet above sea level.
Though most of Hawaii’s premium gourmet coffee comes from Kona, there is also an increasing amount of specialty Hawaii coffee being grown in other districts of the Big Island including Kau in the south of the island, Hamakua in the northeast, and Puna in the southeast.
The Kona region now has nearly 800 coffee farms with a handful of coffee farms on the rest of the island. On the other Hawaiian Island there are also some scattered small coffee farms as well as a large plantation on Molokai and another on Kauai.
In the state of Hawaii overall there are nearly 8,000 acre of coffee growing, and the average yield per acre is about 1,400 pounds of coffee. The state of Hawaii produces about 9 million pounds of coffee annually.
For a comprehensive list of Kona Coffee Farms see Kona Coffee Farms, Tours, and Coffeehouses.