CalmBeach Greece
Beaches in Kimolos
All 17 beaches in Kimolos, in one list. 9 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
- Agioklima Sand & pebbles - Difficult access (path)
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Agios Minas
Pebbles - Moderate access
A cove at the end of the asphalt — A small bay in a deep, fjord-like inlet, with sand and pebbles and clear blue-green water. Kimolos is a small volcanic island, akin to Milos, that…
- Athinia Sand & pebbles - Moderate access
- Vromolimni Pebbles - Moderate access
- Gioni Pebbles - Moderate access
- Ellinika Sand & pebbles - Passable dirt road
- Kalamitsi Sandy - Easy road access
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Klima
Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
A fishing-village beach with tamarisks — A small fishing-village beach of sand and big pebbles, shaded by many tamarisk trees. Medium depth. It faces southeast, but is best avoided on days…
- Lakos Sand & pebbles - Passable dirt road
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Makropounta
Sand & pebbles - Moderate access
A remote beach with a hard hike — A remote beach on the northwest coast, of sand, small stones and rocks; medium depth. The route passes abandoned threshing floors and ruined…
- Mavrospilia Sand & pebbles - Passable dirt road
- Monastiria Sand & pebbles - Difficult dirt road
- Bonatsa Sandy - Easy road access
- Paralia Pigados Pebbles - Easy path
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Prassa (Agios Georgios)
Sandy - Easy road access
Prassa: Kimolos' white-sand shore — Prassa, also known as Agios Georgios, stretches along the north-eastern tip of Kimolos and is considered the island's best-known beach. Its fine…
- Soufi Sandy - Difficult dirt road
- Psathi Sandy - Easy road 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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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.
- Sandy
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Good to know
Which beaches in Kimolos are more sheltered from the wind?
9 of the 17 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 17 of the beaches on this page, the open water in front of them is typically 0.79 m in June, 0.97 m in July and 1.03 m in August when the meltemi is at its strongest, and 0.93 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 17 of the beaches on this page the sea is typically 19.0 °C in May, 22.6 °C in June, 24.4 °C in July, 25.0 °C in August and 24.3 °C in September — ideal at the height of summer, mild in June. By October it is 22.2 °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.