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Beaches with a beach bar in Zakynthos
12 beaches with a beach bar in Zakynthos: with a bar on the beach itself. Check live wind & waves for each beach on CalmBeach before you go.
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- 12organized
- 5with photos
Want a drink without leaving the sand in Zakynthos? 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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Banana
The golden strand shaped like a crescent — Banana Beach is one of the longest sandy beaches on Zakynthos and the largest on the Vasilikos peninsula, on its northeastern side. It unrolls in a…
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Agios Nikolaos Vasilikou
The saint's sandy beach beneath the pines of Vasilikos — Agios Nikolaos lies at the northeastern tip of the Vasilikos peninsula in southeastern Zakynthos, a broad sandy beach near the cape that closes off…
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Porto RoxaThe rocky diving cove on the western coast — Porto Roxa is a rocky cove on the western coast of Zakynthos, near Agios Leon, carved into the imposing cliffs that define this side of the island…
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Xygkia
The beach with sulphur springs — A small cove beneath white cliffs and pines on the north coast, where natural sulphur springs well up into the sea, giving a milky-turquoise colour…
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Alykanas
The sandy beach named after the salt pans — Alykanas lies in northern Zakynthos, next to Alykes, a long sandy beach that is essentially a continuation of the neighboring shore. Its name betrays…
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Laganas
The long sands at the heart of the National Marine Park — Laganas stretches along the southern coast of Zakynthos, one of the island's longest sandy beaches, its fine sand running the length of the bay that…
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TsiliviThe organized sands of Planos — Tsilivi spreads along the northeastern coast of Zakynthos, a few kilometres northwest of the town, a large organized sandy beach. It is also known as…
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Photo credits
- Porto Roxa: Andreas Alexandris, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Tsilivi: Kell Kell, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Plaka/Perivolakia: Andreas Alexandris, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Alykes: RIPSTIKwizard, CC BY 3.0
- Porto Kaminia: Andreas Alexandris, CC BY-SA 3.0
Good to know
Which beaches in Zakynthos 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 0.49 m in June, 0.55 m in July and 0.51 m in August when the maistros is at its strongest, and 0.46 m in September. September 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 19.2 °C in May, 22.8 °C in June, 25.2 °C in July, 26.6 °C in August and 25.4 °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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