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Beaches with a beach bar in Rethymno
12 beaches with a beach bar in Rethymno: with a bar on the beach itself. Check live wind & waves for each beach on CalmBeach before you go.
- 12beaches
- 12organized
- 10with photos
Want a drink without leaving the sand in Rethymno? These 12 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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SoudaWhere the river of palms meets the sea — Souda is the westernmost beach of the long Plakias shorefront, on the south coast of Rethymno in Crete. It forms at the mouth of a narrow…
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SpiliesThe cove of the sea caves — Spilies, also known as Kitrenosis, lies on the north coast of Rethymno in Crete, in the remote area of Latzimas…
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KaravostasiThe natural anchorage in Bali's last cove — Karavostasi is the easternmost and last beach of Bali, on the north coast of Rethymno in Crete, about 33 km from the town. It forms in a small…
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Plakias
The resort at the foot of the gorge — About 1.3 km of fine golden sand shelving gently into the bay, backed by mountains and facing the Libyan Sea…
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Mikro AmmoudiThe little white cove of Plakias — Mikro Ammoudi, also known as Ammoudaki, is a small cove on the south coast of Rethymno, Crete…
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Ammolofi Agiou PavlouThe great sand dunes of Cape Melissa — The Ammolofoi (Sandhills) of Agios Pavlos stretch along the south coast of Rethymno, Crete, on the western side of Cape Melissa…
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Photo credits
- Souda: Olaf Tausch, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Spilies: corali-beach, CC BY 3.0
- Karavostasi: Александр Спиридонов, CC BY 3.0
- Mikro Ammoudi: Olaf Tausch, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Ammolofi Agiou Pavlou: Olaf Tausch, CC BY 3.0
- Limni: Ttzavaras, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Finikidia: Olaf Tausch, CC BY 3.0
- Sfagia: mcfr, CC BY 3.0
Good to know
Which beaches in Rethymno 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 12 of the beaches on this page, the open water in front of them is typically 0.52 m in June, 0.56 m in July and 0.56 m in August when the meltemi is at its strongest, and 0.56 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 12 of the beaches on this page the sea is typically 19.6 °C in May, 22.8 °C in June, 25.3 °C in July, 26.2 °C in August and 25.4 °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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