CalmBeach Greece
Beaches in Alonissos
All 39 beaches in Alonissos, in one list. 20 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
- Elia Pebbles - Moderate access
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Gerakas
Pebbles - Moderate access
Access is long and rough: ~20+ km from Patitiri, with a rough final stretch. Wild, with a tiny fishing harbour and perhaps a seasonal food truck.
- Paralia Patitiriou Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
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Agii Anargyri
Pebbles - Easy path
A pebble cove below a Byzantine church — Pebbles and clear water on the north coast, ~4 km north of Patitiri. On the cliff above stands a 13th-century Byzantine chapel of the Holy…
- Agios Petros Sand & pebbles - Easy path
- Vampakies Pebbles - Moderate access
- Vasili Bampakies Pebbles - Moderate access
- Vrysitsa Sand & pebbles - Passable dirt road
- Glyfa Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
- Gyalia Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
- Kalyvia Alexiou Pebbles - Moderate access
- Kalyvia Stamatiou Pebbles - Passable dirt road
- Katerinas Vala Pebbles - Moderate access
- Kentrorema Pebbles - Moderate access
- Kokkinokastro Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
- Lena Pebbles - Moderate access
- Lefto Gialos Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
- Megali Ammos Pebbles - Difficult dirt road
- Milia Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
- Mourtitsa Pebbles - Moderate access
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Nikola Vala
Pebbles - Passable dirt road
A wild cove (mainly by boat) — A small, secluded cove on the northeast coast near Steni Vala, within the National Marine Park of Alonissos — the first in Greece, protecting the…
- Paralia Votsi Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
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Paralia Vythisma
Sand & pebbles - Difficult access (path)
Access by a steep ~300 m path (uneven — good shoes) or by boat. Wild, with no facilities.
- Paralia Megalos Mourtias Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
- Paralia Mikros Mourtias Sand & pebbles - Passable dirt road
- Plakes Rocky - Easy path
- Rousoum Gialos Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
- Spartines Pebbles - Difficult access (path)
- Splithari Pebbles - Easy road access
- Stou Malathriti Bampakies Pebbles - Moderate access
- Strovili Rocky - Passable dirt road
- Tzortzi Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
- Tourkoneri Pebbles - Difficult access (path)
- Tsoukalia Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
- Alonnisos Milia Pebbles - Moderate access
- Chrysi Milia Moderate access
- Megali Ammos Passable dirt road
- Elias Cove Moderate access
- Lechouni (Peristera) Moderate access
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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Family beaches
Organised, not hard to reach, and recorded as shallow in our data.
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Snorkeling
Rockier seabed and clearer water, where there is something to look at underwater.
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Organized
Sunbeds, umbrellas and somewhere to eat or drink nearby.
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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 Alonissos are more sheltered from the wind?
20 of the 39 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 39 of the beaches on this page, the open water in front of them is typically 0.42 m in June, 0.46 m in July and 0.52 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 39 of the beaches on this page the sea is typically 18.3 °C in May, 23.1 °C in June, 25.6 °C in July, 26.3 °C in August and 24.5 °C in September — ideal at the height of summer, mild in June. By October it is 21.4 °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.