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Beaches in Thasos
All 58 beaches in Thasos, in one list. 27 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
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Atspas
Sandy - Easy road access
The little bay with sugar-fine sand — Atspas, also known as Sugar Beach, is a small sandy bay on the western coast of Thasos, at Skala Marion. It forms like an opening between two rocky…
- Agios Antonios Sandy - Easy road access
- Agios Ioannis Loukas Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
- Agia Anna Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
- Agia Paraskevi Sandy - Easy road access
- Alexantra Sandy - Easy road access
- Alykes Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
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Arsanas
Sand & pebbles - Difficult access (path)
The monastery's old boatyard — Arsanas is a small beach of sand, pebbles and rock at the southeastern tip of Thasos, beside Livadi and below the monastery of Archangel Michael. Its…
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Astris
Sandy - Easy road access
The cove named for its starlit sky — Astris, also called Astrida, lies on southern Thasos, in an area with a long farming and fishing tradition. Tradition holds that the name came from…
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Thymonia
Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
The rocky shore with the ancient tower — Thymonia is a sandy and rocky shore at the southeastern tip of Thasos, between Aliki and the monastery of Archangel Michael. Its setting is made of…
- Kalami Pebbles - Moderate access
- Kekes Sand & pebbles - Moderate access
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Livadi
Sand & pebbles - Passable dirt road
The cove below the Monastery of the Archangel — Livadi is a beach of coarse sand, pebbles and rock on the southeast coast of Thasos, in a picturesque cove below the Monastery of the Archangel…
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Limenaria
Sandy - Easy road access
The town beach below the Palataki — Limenaria is the long beach of the town of the same name, the second largest on Thasos, on the island's southwest coast. It stretches in front of the…
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Metallia
Sand & pebbles - Easy path
The beach below the old mines — Metalia is a beach of fine sand and pebbles on the southwest coast of Thasos, directly in front of the old mining installations of Limenaria. Its…
- Mikri paralia Pebbles - Easy road access
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Notos
Sandy - Easy road access
The little cove beside Rosogremos — Notos is a small sandy beach on the south coast of Thasos, a few kilometres east of Potos and just past Rosogremos, from which it is separated by a…
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Paradisos
Sandy - Easy road access
The Makryammos of Kinira that became 'Paradise' — Paradeisos (Paradise Beach) stretches along the eastern coast of Thasos, in an enclosed bay near the village of Kinira, with fine sand and a…
- Pevkari Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
- Platana Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
- Potos Sandy - Easy road access
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Rosogkremos
Sandy - Easy road access
The bay with the Russian name — Rosogremos lies on the southern coast of Thasos, about two kilometres east of Potos, a long and wide stretch of sand framed by dense pines that reach…
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Salonikios
Sand & pebbles - Passable dirt road
The sands on the Astris cape — Salonikios is a sandy beach at the southernmost tip of Thasos, in the Astris area near Potos. It takes its name from the cape of the same name on…
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Skala Marion
Sandy - Easy road access
A fishing village with three beaches — Skala Marion on the southwest coast is a lively fishing village with three beaches: the central harbour beach (sand turning pebbly at the shore)…
- Skidia Pebbles - Easy path
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Smaragdenia Paralia
Sand & pebbles - Easy path
An emerald cove (hard to reach) — A small cove near Skala Marion, with sand and fine gravel, a rocky seabed (water shoes help) and emerald-turquoise water that gives it the name.
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Trypiti
Sandy - Easy road access
The beach of the pierced rock — Tripiti spreads out west of Limenaria, on the southwestern coast of Thasos, a large sandy beach with rocky edges and organized sections. It owes its…
- Fari Sand & pebbles - Difficult access (path)
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Psili Ammos
Sandy - Easy road access
The strand named for its powder-fine sand — Psili Ammos lies on southern Thasos, a few kilometres east of Potos and far from Limenas, in a bay open to the southwest. Its name describes it…
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Blue Lake
Sandy - Moderate access
A pool-and-bar venue by the sea — Free entry and parking, with road access. (The idea that it is a flooded quarry is unverified — descriptions cover only the modern pool/bar.)
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Hara
Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
The little strand at Platana — Hara is a small beach of coarse sand and pebbles on the northwest coast of Thasos, in the area of Rachoni and Platana, a few steps from Platana…
- Ilio Mare Sandy - Easy road access
- Paralia Glyfada (Thasos) Sandy - Easy road access
- Agios Vasilios Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
- Ormos Agiou Ioannou Sand & pebbles - Moderate access
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Vathi
Sand & pebbles - Difficult dirt road
The remote cove among the pines — Vathi is a secluded cove on the northeast coast of Thasos, between Skala Panagias and Saliara, tucked into dense pine forest. Its shore of sand and…
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Glykadi
Sandy - Easy road access
Pines to the sand, close to Limenas — Glykadi is a sandy beach on the northern coast of Thasos, a few kilometres from Limenas, the island's capital. Dense pines descend almost to the sand…
- Glyfada Sandy - Easy road access
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Glyfoneri
Sandy - Easy road access
The little cove of brackish water — Glyfoneri is a small sandy cove on the northwest coast of Thasos, near Skala Rachoniou, the harbour settlement of the mountain village of Rachoni…
- Dasyllio Sandy - Easy road access
- Karnagio Rocky - Easy road access
- Klisma Pebbles - Easy road access
- Kinyra Sand & pebbles - Easy road access
- Limanaki Sandy - Easy road access
- Makryammos Sandy - Easy road access
- Nisteri Sandy - Easy road access
- Papalimani Sandy - Easy road access
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Pachys
Sandy - Easy road access
The wide sandy stretch among the pines — Pachis lies on the northwestern coast of Thasos, in the area of Skala Rachoniou, a few kilometres west of Limenas. It is a large sandy beach with a…
- Porto Vathy Pebbles - Passable dirt road
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Saliara
Pebbles - Passable dirt road
The shore of white marble — Saliara, known internationally as Marble Beach, lies on the northern coast of Thasos, between Makryammos and Vathy, a few kilometres from Limenas…
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Skala Kallirachis
Sandy - Easy road access
The fishing hamlet below the 'fair ridge' — Skala Kallirachis stretches along the western coast of Thasos, looking out over the open sea, the mountains of Kavala and, in the distance, Mount…
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Skala Prinou
Sandy - Easy road access
The island's second port, with its boatyard and pine grove — Skala Prinou sits on the northwest coast of Thasos, about fifteen kilometres from Limenas, and is the island's second port after the capital, with a…
- Skala Rachoni Sandy - Easy road access
- Skala Sotiros Sandy - Easy road access
- Tarsanas Pebbles - Easy road access
- Chrysi Akti Sandy - Easy road access
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Chrysi Ammoudia
Sandy - Easy road access
The longest beach on Thasos — Fine golden sand with a shallow seabed that runs far out — the classic family beach, on the northeast coast below Panagia/Potamia. At ~3 km it is the…
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Giola
Rocky - Easy path
'Aphrodite's Tear' carved into the rock — Giola is a natural rock pool on the southeastern coast of Thasos, near the settlement of Astris, carved into the seaside cliffs above the open…
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.
- Sandy
- Beach bars
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Good to know
Which beaches in Thasos are more sheltered from the wind?
27 of the 58 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 58 of the beaches on this page, the open water in front of them is typically 0.30 m in June, 0.30 m in July and 0.33 m in August when the meltemi is at its strongest, and 0.39 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 58 of the beaches on this page the sea is typically 18.5 °C in May, 22.9 °C in June, 25.6 °C in July, 26.1 °C in August and 24.1 °C in September — ideal at the height of summer, mild in June. By October it is 20.5 °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.