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Beach bars
Beaches with a beach bar in Heraklion
6 beaches with a beach bar in Heraklion: with a bar on the beach itself. Check live wind & waves for each beach on CalmBeach before you go.
- 6beaches
- 6organized
- 2with photos
Want a drink without leaving the sand in Heraklion? These 6 beaches are recorded as having a beach bar. Opening months and hours vary, so confirm locally — and check wind and waves in CalmBeach before you go.
The beaches
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KarterosThe shore of the general and ancient Amnisos — Karteros stretches about 7 kilometres east of Heraklion, on the western part of a long front of fine sand, where the river of the same name meets the…
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Photo credits
- Karteros: Olaf Tausch, CC BY 3.0
- Malia: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0
Good to know
Which beaches in Heraklion have a beach bar?
The beaches listed here are recorded as having a bar on the beach itself, not only a taverna in the village. Bars are seasonal and change hands, so confirm before making the trip.
Is a beach bar the same as an organized beach?
No. An organized beach has sunbeds and umbrellas, which a beach bar does not always come with — and some quiet beaches have a bar and nothing else. Open a beach to see exactly what it is recorded as having.
When is the sea calmest here?
Across 6 of the beaches on this page, the open water in front of them is typically 0.73 m in June, 0.85 m in July and 0.85 m in August when the meltemi is at its strongest, and 0.79 m in September. June is the calmest month of the season. We calculate these figures ourselves from European Copernicus wave-model data at 4.2 km resolution. They describe the sea offshore, not the shelter of an individual cove — a bay protected by a headland will usually be calmer than this.
How warm is the water, month by month?
Off 6 of the beaches on this page the sea is typically 19.6 °C in May, 23.1 °C in June, 25.4 °C in July, 26.2 °C in August and 25.3 °C in September — ideal at the height of summer, mild in June. By October it is 23.2 °C. August is the warmest month. Satellite measurements, 1995–2024, from a sea cell about 5 km offshore; shallow bays usually run warmer than this.
Wind and waves change every day. See live conditions for any of these beaches before you drive out.
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