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Beach bars
Beaches with a beach bar in Lakonia
14 beaches with a beach bar in Lakonia: with a bar on the beach itself. Check live wind & waves for each beach on CalmBeach before you go.
- 14beaches
- 14organized
- 6with photos
Want a drink without leaving the sand in Lakonia? These 14 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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Paralia SimosThe exotic double beach of Elafonisos — Note: it is on the island of Elafonisos, reached only by ferry from Pounta (~10 minutes). A natural, unorganized setting within a protected zone.
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AmpelakiaSand lilies beneath the castle — Ambelakia stretches a few kilometres south of Monemvasia, on the Lakonia coast, with the great rock of the castle-town dominating the horizon. It is…
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MarmariTwo sandy coves at the edge of Tainaron — Marmari lies at the southern tip of Mani, near Cape Tainaron, in Lakonia. It is in fact two neighbouring coves of fine golden sand, tucked between…
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Paralia KotronaThe heart of eastern Mani — Kotronas beach lies in the largest seaside village of eastern Mani, built at the head of a bay, in Lakonia. Pebbles and coarse sand make up the…
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Vathy
Vathy: the long sands near Gythio — Vathy is a large sandy beach near Gythio in Lakonia. It spreads across the bay of the same name on the Mani coast, with fine and coarse sand along…
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Paralia Selinitsas
A Blue-Flag beach with turtles — A long (~1,400 m) beach ~5 km from Gythio, with fine golden sand and small pebbles, organized (umbrellas, sunbeds, a beach bar) and Blue Flag-awarded.
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Photo credits
- Paralia Simos: Stelios tsikas, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Paralia Simos: Stelios tsikas, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Ampelakia: Golfisaggelos, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Marmari: Zigomitros Athanasios, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Paralia Kotrona: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Pori: Egerváry Gergely, CC BY 3.0
- Paralia Sarakiniko: Angela Stefanoni, CC BY 3.0
Good to know
Which beaches in Lakonia 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 14 of the beaches on this page, the open water in front of them is typically 0.32 m in June, 0.28 m in July and 0.28 m in August when the meltemi is at its strongest, and 0.36 m in September. July 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 14 of the beaches on this page the sea is typically 18.9 °C in May, 22.6 °C in June, 25.8 °C in July, 26.6 °C in August and 25.7 °C in September — ideal at the height of summer, mild in June. In October it is still 23.4 °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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