CalmBeach Greece
Beaches in Skopelos
All 22 beaches in Skopelos, in one list. 13 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
- Glysteri Pebbles - Easy road access
- Limnonari Sandy - Easy road access
- Agios Ioannis Pebbles - Easy road access
- Elios Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
- Armenopetra Sand & pebbles - Difficult dirt road
- Vathias Sand & pebbles - Moderate access
- Velanio Sand & pebbles - Easy path
- Glyfoneri Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
- Ekatopenintari Sand & pebbles - Boat access only
- Kastani Sand & pebbles - Passable dirt road
- Milia Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
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Neraki
Sand & pebbles - Passable dirt road
A pine-fringed cove with deep water — Golden sand with white pebbles and notably deep, crystal-clear water, with pines reaching the waterline — one of the loveliest coves on Skopelos…
- Paralia Panormou Skopelou Pebbles - Easy road access
- Plaka Pebbles - Easy path
- Spilia Sand & pebbles - Easy path
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Stafylos
Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
A beach with a Minoan tomb — Fine grey-silvery sand with small pebbles and blue-green water, framed by large rocks, ~4-5 km south of town. On the cape above, a 1936 excavation…
- Trachili Pebbles - Passable dirt road
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Ftelia
Sand & pebbles - Passable dirt road
A small cove for sunsets — A small cove (~70 m) of sand and small pebbles with deep, very clear water and pines down to the sea — famous for its sunsets.
- Chovolo Sand & pebbles - Easy path
- Angeletou beach Passable dirt road
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Perivoliou Beach
Passable dirt road
A sandy beach with sea caves — One of the few genuinely sandy beaches on Skopelos, with clear turquoise water and steep cliffs that give natural shade; sea caves open in the rock…
- Plaka (Chora Skopelou) 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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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 Skopelos are more sheltered from the wind?
13 of the 22 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 22 of the beaches on this page, the open water in front of them is typically 0.38 m in June, 0.41 m in July and 0.45 m in August when the meltemi is at its strongest, and 0.49 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 22 of the beaches on this page the sea is typically 18.4 °C in May, 23.1 °C in June, 25.7 °C in July, 26.4 °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.