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Glide across calm bays, lagoons, and sheltered coastlines.
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Glide across calm bays, lagoons, and sheltered coastlines.
16 beaches found
The Blue Flag central Limassol city beach with offshore breakwaters that keep the sea calm, Seatrac wheelchair-accessible water entry, and full amenities including a children's playground, shaded benches, and lifeguard service April through October.
The 800-metre village beach at the heart of Cala Gonone on Sardinia's east coast, with calm shallow water for kids, easy access from the port, and the boat launches that take visitors out to the rest of the Gulf of Orosei's famous cliff-and-cove beaches.
Cavtat's beaches are pebble, not sand, but the water is some of the clearest near Dubrovnik. Rat for the scene, Zal for families, plus the bus 10, the ferry and the best time to swim.
A 12-mile stretch of powder-white sand and impossibly clear turquoise water on Providenciales, consistently voted the world's best beach but backed by an unbroken wall of luxury resorts.
The Kauai North Shore bay where the Kalihiwai River meets the ocean. A crescent of gold sand backed by ironwood trees, a calm summer swim, an expert winter surf break, a kayakable river running inland, and almost no facilities. The North Shore's quietest accessible beach.
The Marjan peninsula pebble beach 20 minutes from Split's Old Town, with the cleanest water in central Split, pine-tree shade, a trendy beach club at one end, and the parking lot fills by 10am problem that Bolt rides from the Old Town solve.
Albania's answer to the Greek islands, Ksamil offers turquoise water, tiny swim-to islands, and white sand beaches at a fraction of Mediterranean prices. Located near Butrint National Park in southern Albania.
The Blue Flag wide-sand beach 15 minutes from Ostuni's white-washed old town, with high dunes covered in centuries-old Mediterranean junipers, shallow water for kids, and protected status as part of the Parco delle Dune Costiere regional reserve.
The 1.5-kilometre Blue Flag beach midway between Limassol and Paphos, with the white cliffs of Cape Aspro on either end and a sand-and-pebble shore that holds up against everything either bigger town puts forward. Clear water, year-round lifeguards in season, family-friendly swim, and no resort dominance.
The Guanacaste crescent that reopened its marina in 2023 after a 19-year closure, where the name has nothing to do with flamingos and the sand is not actually pink. What every 2020 guide still gets wrong about Costa Rica's north Pacific showpiece.
Grand Cayman's famous stretch of powdery white sand and impossibly clear water, where Caribbean luxury comes with a price tag to match and cruise ship crowds arrive like clockwork.
The bay-side Orleans beach where a 9-foot tide swing turns one patch of sand into four different beaches a day, and where the Cape Cod Chamber ranks the sunset second-best on the whole Cape.
The 1.5-kilometre east-coast Rhodes beach below the Tsambika monastery, with shallow water that extends 30 metres from shore (the best family swim on the island), full amenities, and a 300-step pilgrimage climb to the mountaintop monastery for sweeping Aegean views.
The east Crete Blue Flag beach in Istron with fine golden sand, shallow turquoise water, and the half-moon shape that makes it the consistent family pick for visitors based in Agios Nikolaos. Locally called Golden Beach for the soft sand that almost no other Crete coast section delivers.
The Blue Flag 3-kilometre sand-and-pebble beach an hour east of Thessaloniki, where Macedonia's mainland coast meets the Aegean. Shallow water for kids, organised loungers and beach cafes, and a quiet resort-town pace that day-trippers from Thessaloniki use as the city's nearest swim.
Hawaii's most famous beach is a narrow strip of partly imported sand backed by a wall of high-rise hotels and fronted by warm, gentle Pacific waves perfect for beginner surfers. Iconic, crowded, expensive, and still somehow worth seeing at least once.
