CalmBeach Greece
Beaches in Kalymnos
All 20 beaches in Kalymnos, in one list. 6 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
- Exo Almyres Pebbles - Moderate access
- Chali Pebbles - Moderate access
- Kalimies Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
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Pezonta
Pebbles - Boat access only
A tiny cove (boat only) — A tiny cove (~70 m) of fine gravel in a secluded valley of rugged hills near Arginonta. Quiet, wild, with no facilities.
- Platys Gialos Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
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Tichi
Pebbles - Moderate access
Clear water for diving — A beach in the Vlychadia area on the south coast, sand-and-pebble with crystal water ideal for diving and snorkelling. Vlychadia hosts the private…
- Vizotos Pebbles - Difficult access (path)
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Kasonia
Sandy - Easy road access
The closest beach to Pothia — The closest beach to Pothia (on the road to Therma, behind the harbour): a large sandy beach with tamarisk trees for natural shade.
- Paralia Alexis Pebbles - Difficult access (path)
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Paralia Arginonta
Pebbles - Easy road access
Kalymnos’s best-known beach — The island’s best-known beach (~15 km from Pothia): a long pebble-and-partly-sandy shore in a green, sparsely inhabited bay, with turquoise crystal…
- Paralia Gefyra Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
- Paralia Elia Pebbles - Moderate access
- Paralia Therma Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
- Paralia Kantouni Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
- Paralia Linaria Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
- Paralia Megales Almyres Sand & pebbles - Boat access only
- Paralia Mikres Almyres Sand & pebbles - Boat access only
- Paralia Palionisos Pebbles - Easy road access
- Paralia Siki Sand & pebbles - Difficult access (path)
- Paralia Sykatis Sand & pebbles - Difficult access (path)
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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Secluded
Quieter and harder to reach — dirt track, a walk, or boat only.
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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 Kalymnos are more sheltered from the wind?
6 of the 20 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 20 of the beaches on this page, the open water in front of them is typically 0.90 m in June, 1.06 m in July and 0.98 m in August when the meltemi is at its strongest, and 0.88 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 20 of the beaches on this page the sea is typically 19.4 °C in May, 22.2 °C in June, 23.3 °C in July, 24.5 °C in August and 23.9 °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.