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Beach bars
Beaches with a beach bar in Messinia
14 beaches with a beach bar in Messinia: 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 Messinia? 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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Stoupa
A family beach with a "Zorba" link — Two main sandy beaches (Stoupa and nearby Kalogria) with fine sand and shallow, gentle water — well suited to families; Stoupa is organized with…
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KalogriaKalogria, in Zorba's footsteps — Kalogria unfolds at Stoupa, in the Messinian Mani, a beach of fine sand at the foot of Mount Taygetos. It is the best known and most organized shore…
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DivariDivari, the Golden Beach — Divari, also known as the Golden Beach, stretches along the Bay of Navarino near Gialova, a long sandy beach that reaches 4 kilometres. It separates…
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Paralia Kalamatas
The Kalamata seafront — The beach of Kalamata is the city's central urban shore, running along Navarinou Street, about 2.5 kilometres long with pebbles and coarse sand. It…
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Lampes
Lampes, between Methoni and Finikounda — Lampes is a sandy beach on the road between Methoni and Finikounda, in southern Messinia. It is one of the first shores you come across driving…
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Peroulia
Peroulia — Peroulia lies in western Messinia, a few kilometres north of Koroni and close to the village of Vounaria. It is a broad stretch of sand about 1,200…
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Paralia Santovas
Santova — Santova beach lies at Avia, about 12 kilometres south of Kalamata, on the road towards the Messinian Mani. It is a narrow shore of pebbles and coarse…
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Photo credits
- Kalogria: Angelo Pantazis angepant06, CC0
- Divari: Theodoros Alexandropoulos, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Zagka: Kris Sliver, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Paralia Methonis: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Chelonaria: Jack globetrotter, CC BY-SA 3.0
Good to know
Which beaches in Messinia 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 0.39 m in June, 0.34 m in July and 0.32 m in August when the meltemi is at its strongest, and 0.42 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 14 of the beaches on this page the sea is typically 19.1 °C in May, 22.6 °C in June, 25.4 °C in July, 26.8 °C in August and 25.7 °C in September — ideal at the height of summer, mild in June. In October it is still 23.6 °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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