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Beaches in Agios Efstratios
All 12 beaches in Agios Efstratios, in one list. 5 of them are not exposed to the meltemi, which gives them the better odds on a windy day. Open any of them for live wind and waves.
The beaches
- Agios Dimitrios Sand & pebbles - Passable dirt road
- Agios Antonios Sand & pebbles - Passable dirt road
- Agios Nikolaos Sand & pebbles - Difficult access (path)
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Alonitsi
Pebbles - Passable dirt road
The big beach with Natura-protected dunes — The island’s largest beach (~2 km) on the northeast side, with sand, some pebble and shallow water. Its genuine highlight is a protected sand-dune…
- Gournia Pebbles - Difficult access (path)
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Lidario
Sand & pebbles - Passable dirt road
The "most beautiful" beach, shaded by oaks — Widely called the island’s most beautiful beach: large, with sand and fine black volcanic pebbles, on the west side. Unusually for the island, it has…
- Mouroulia Sand & pebbles - Easy path
- Trigari Sand & pebbles - Passable dirt road
- Trypiti Pebbles - Passable dirt road
- Fragkou Sand & pebbles - Passable dirt road
- Ftelio Sand & pebbles - Passable dirt road
- Rodokali Pebbles - Boat access only
Pick by what you are looking for
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Meltemi options
The coves that face away from the prevailing wind — the shortlist for a windy day.
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Sunset
West-facing, so the sun goes down over the water in front of you.
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Good to know
Which beaches in Agios Efstratios are more sheltered from the wind?
5 of the 12 face away from the meltemi, meaning less open water in front of them for a wave to build across when it blows. It is not a guarantee — the same beach changes character when the wind turns. Check the live reading before you drive out.
How is this list ordered?
By how well known each beach is, not by a score of ours. Which beach is good on a given day changes hour by hour and cannot be printed on a static page — so this page carries the list and the things that do not change, and the live map carries the conditions.
When is the sea calmest here?
Across 12 of the beaches on this page, the open water in front of them is typically 0.65 m in June, 0.71 m in July and 0.77 m in August when the meltemi is at its strongest, and 0.79 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 18.0 °C in May, 22.0 °C in June, 24.0 °C in July, 24.2 °C in August and 22.5 °C in September — ideal at the height of summer, mild in June. By October it is 20.2 °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.
Weather and sea conditions change. CalmBeach uses the app view for live beach recommendations.