CalmBeach Greece
Beaches in Anafi
All 14 beaches in Anafi, in one list. 10 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
- Agii Anargyri Sand & pebbles - Difficult access (path)
- Vagia Pebbles - Passable dirt road
- Exo Roukounas Sand & pebbles - Easy path
- Kalagkathi Pebbles - Difficult access (path)
- Katalimatsa Sandy - Passable dirt road
- Katsouni Sandy - Easy path
- Klisidi Sandy - Easy road access
- Livoskopos Pebbles - Easy path
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Megas Potamos
Sand & pebbles - Easy path
A wild beach at a gorge mouth — A wild beach on the south coast, where the Megas Potamos gorge meets the sea — sand and white pebbles. It lies on the Chora–Zoodochos Pigi hiking…
- Mikros Roukounas Sandy - Easy path
- Prasies Pebbles - Passable dirt road
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Prassa
Pebbles - Passable dirt road
A beach at the island’s old port — A small (~40 m) pebble beach on the remote northwest side, where the depth increases quickly (water shoes help). Until 1970 this was the island’s…
- Roukounas Sandy - Easy road access
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Flamourou
Sand & pebbles - Difficult access (path)
A small south cove next to Katsouni — No road — a path from Klisidi/Katsouni (~10-15 minutes) or a swim around from Katsouni. Wild, with no facilities or shade; an informal naturist spot.
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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Snorkeling
Rockier seabed and clearer water, where there is something to look at underwater.
- Sandy
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Good to know
Which beaches in Anafi are more sheltered from the wind?
10 of the 14 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 14 of the beaches on this page, the open water in front of them is typically 0.80 m in June, 0.85 m in July and 0.82 m in August when the meltemi is at its strongest, and 0.80 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 14 of the beaches on this page the sea is typically 19.2 °C in May, 22.3 °C in June, 23.8 °C in July, 24.9 °C in August and 24.3 °C in September — ideal at the height of summer, mild in June. By October it is 22.3 °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.