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Beach bars
Beaches with a beach bar in Kefalonia
16 beaches with a beach bar in Kefalonia: with a bar on the beach itself. Check live wind & waves for each beach on CalmBeach before you go.
- 16beaches
- 16organized
- 10with photos
Want a drink without leaving the sand in Kefalonia? These 16 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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AntisamosThe "Captain Corelli" beach — A white-pebble beach in a bay framed by vividly green, forested hills, just east of Sami.
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XiThe red sand of Paliki — A ~3 km strip of distinctive red-orange sand below clay cliffs, on the Paliki peninsula near Lixouri. The colour comes from iron released as the…
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MyrtosThe white pebbles below the cliffs — An arc of ~1.5 km of small, smooth white pebbles (marble from eroded limestone), below towering white cliffs reaching ~200 m. The bay was formed by…
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Makrys GialosThe long sandy shore of Lassi — Makris Gialos stretches along the Lassi area, a few kilometres south of Argostoli, on the western coast of Kefalonia. Its name, which literally means…
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Paralia SkalasThe long shore beside the Roman villa — Skala beach extends beside the resort village of the same name, at the southeastern tip of Kefalonia. It is one of the island's longest organized…
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Lourdata
The great bay below Mount Ainos — Lourdata (or Lourdas) lies on the southern coast of Kefalonia, about 17 kilometres southeast of Argostoli, in one of the island's largest bays, which…
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Platys GialosIt is fully organised — sunbeds, bars, taverna, showers — with shallow water and good snorkelling, family-friendly (Blue Flag). Close to Argostoli…
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Paralia AvythosThe long sandy sweep of Livathos — Avithos beach stretches along the south coast of Kefalonia, in the fertile Livathos district, near the village of Svoronata. It is a long ribbon of…
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Agios Thomas
The two coves beneath the little chapel — Agios Thomas lies on the southern coast of Kefalonia, near the village of Karavados and about 13 kilometres from Argostoli. It is in fact two small…
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GradakiaThe little sandy strip at Lassi — Gradakia sits in cosmopolitan Lassi, just outside Argostoli, next to Makrys Gialos and near Platys Gialos. It is a small, narrow strip of fine…
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PaliostafidaThe sandy shore named for the old currant trade — Paliostafida lies at Lassi, just outside Argostoli, on the western coast of Kefalonia. It is a fine-sand beach, also known as Bouka-Paliostafida, in…
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Photo credits
- Antisamos: Piet Horden, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Xi: Splendid entry, CC BY 3.0
- Myrtos: Matt Sims, CC BY 2.0
- Makrys Gialos: Sztudva Gyöngyi, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Paralia Skalas: Michael Xanthakis, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Platys Gialos: ChristinaKlg, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Paralia Avythos: Sztudva Gyöngyi, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Gradakia: Sztudva Gyöngyi, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Paliostafida: Helena Teresa, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Vatsa: Splendid entry, CC BY 3.0
Good to know
Which beaches in Kefalonia 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 16 of the beaches on this page, the open water in front of them is typically 0.56 m in June, 0.57 m in July and 0.54 m in August when the maistros is at its strongest, and 0.63 m in September. August 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 16 of the beaches on this page the sea is typically 19.0 °C in May, 22.4 °C in June, 24.5 °C in July, 26.1 °C in August and 25.2 °C in September — ideal at the height of summer, mild in June. In October it is still 23.0 °C — warmer than June. 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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