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{{Infobox body of water
| name               = Bay of Puck
| native_name        = {{Native name|pl|Zatoka Pucka}}
| image              = Plaża w Pucku - kitesurfers - beach in Puck (6).jpg
| caption            = Beach in [[Puck, Poland|Puck]], with [[Kitesurfing|kitesurfers]]
| image_bathymetry   = Zatoka Pucka mapa mini.png
| caption_bathymetry = Puck Bay, with inner shallow
| location           = [[Poland]]
| coordinates        = {{Coord|54.6667|N|18.5833|E|source:kolossus-plwiki|display=inline,title}}
| type               = [[Bay]]
| etymology          = [[Puck, Poland|Puck]]
| part_of            = [[Bay of Gdańsk]]
| inflow             =
| rivers             =
| agency             =
| designation        =
| area               = {{convert|364|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}} 
| depth              =
| max-depth          = {{convert|55|m|ft|abbr=on}} 
| volume             = <!-- {{convert|VALUE|UNITS}} must be used -->
| salinity           =
| shore              =
| cities             = [[Puck, Poland|Puck]]<br />[[Jastarnia]]<br />[[Hel, Poland|Hel]]<br />[[Władysławowo]]
| pushpin_map        = Poland#Baltic Sea
}}

The '''Bay of Puck''' or '''Puck Bay''' ({{Langx|pl|Zatoka Pucka}}; {{Langx|csb|Pùckô Hôwinga}}; {{langx|de|Putziger Wiek}}), is a shallow western branch of the [[Bay of Gdańsk]] in the southern [[Baltic Sea]], off the shores of [[Gdańsk Pomerania]], [[Poland]]. It is separated from the open sea by the [[Hel Peninsula]].<ref name="pwn">{{cite web | url = http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo.php?id=3964360 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130503235433/http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo.php?id=3964360 | url-status = dead | archive-date = May 3, 2013 | title = Pucka, Zatoka | work = Internetowa Encyklopedia PWN | publisher = [[Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN]] | access-date = 30 August 2014 | language = pl }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Bay of Puck |url=https://www.iopan.gda.pl/projects/puckbay/html/pkt_01p.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240527034423/https://www.iopan.gda.pl/projects/puckbay/html/pkt_01p.html |archive-date=2024-05-27 |access-date=2025-10-18 |website=www.iopan.gda.pl}}</ref>

The bay has an average depth of {{convert|2|m|ft|0|abbr=on}} to {{convert|6|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}. There is a shallow sand-bank from [[Rewa, Poland|Rewa]] to [[Kuźnica, Pomeranian Voivodeship|Kuźnica]] in the middle of Hel Peninsula. The bay is available only for small fishing boats and yachts, which have to stick to the strict deeper routes. There are deposits of [[Potash|potassium salt]] below the Bay of Puck. The main [[seaport|ports]] are [[Puck, Poland|Puck]], [[Jastarnia]], and [[Hel, Poland|Hel]].

The name has nothing to do with the sport of ice hockey. In Polish the word "puck" doesn't mean anything, and the sport is popular only in the southern part of the country, opposite to the coast.

<gallery caption="Location along Baltic Sea coast" widths="200px" heights="155px" >
Image:Hel peninsula landsat.jpg|Bay of Puck and Hel Peninsula as seen from [[Landsat]] satellite in 2000
Image:Hel Peninsula and Bay of Puck.png|Towns of Puck Bay and Hel Peninsula
</gallery>

==Geography==
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===Rivers===
*[[Gizdepka]]
*[[Płutnica]]

==See also==
*{{C|Bays of Poland}}

*[[Special Protection Areas in Poland]]
*{{C|Natura 2000 in Poland}}

==References==
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[[Category:Bays of Poland|Puck]]
[[Category:Bays of the Baltic Sea|Puck]]
[[Category:Natura 2000 in Poland]]