CalmBeach Greece
Beaches in Thessaloniki
All 17 beaches in Thessaloniki, in one list. 10 of them are not exposed to the summer wind, which gives them the better odds on a windy day. Open any of them for live wind and waves.
The beaches
- Plaz Aretsous Sandy - Easy road access
- Akti Siamo Sandy - Passable dirt road
- Paralia Agias Triadas Sandy - Easy road access
- Giatrou Tsairi Sandy - Easy road access
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Paralia Stavrou
Sandy - Easy road access
The Strymonic Gulf sands with the plane-tree forest at the water — Paralia Stavrou stretches along the Strymonic Gulf, at the eastern edge of the Thessaloniki regional unit, west of the town of Stavros, about eighty…
- KAAv Asprovaltas Sandy - Easy road access
- Kroustali Sandy - Easy road access
- Kyani Akti Sandy - Easy road access
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Milies
Sandy - Easy road access
Fine sand with dunes near the city — Part of the Epanomi coast — a large beach of fine sand with clean, shallow water, family-friendly; a Blue Flag beach. It is the closest…
- Navagio Epanomis Sandy - Difficult dirt road
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Paralia Neas Michanionas
Sandy - Easy road access
A fishing-port beach with seafood — A large, shallow beach ~30 km south of Thessaloniki on the Thermaic Gulf, mostly sand with darker/pebbly patches; a Blue Flag beach. Partly…
- Paralia Neon Vrasnon Sandy - Easy road access
- Patoma Sandy - Easy road access
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Paralia Peraias
Sandy - Easy road access
The urban Thermaikos waterfront facing Thessaloniki — Paralia Peraias stretches along the southern shore of the Thermaikos Gulf, in front of the town of Peraia in the Municipality of Thermaikos, about…
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Paralia Serraiki Akti
Sandy - Easy road access
An award-winning shore on the Strymonic Gulf — A sandy beach in the Volvi municipality, on the Strymonic Gulf near Stavros, northeast of Thessaloniki — with a Blue Flag continuously since 2005…
- Trapezi Sandy - Easy road access
- Paralia Angelochoriou Moderate access
Pick by what you are looking for
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Summer wind 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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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 Thessaloniki are more sheltered from the wind?
10 of the 17 face away from the summer wind, 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 16 of the beaches on this page, the open water in front of them is typically 0.20 m in June, 0.21 m in July and 0.24 m in August when the summer wind is at its strongest, and 0.26 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 16 of the beaches on this page the sea is typically 19.4 °C in May, 23.7 °C in June, 26.2 °C in July, 26.8 °C in August and 24.2 °C in September — ideal at the height of summer, mild in June. By October it is 20.7 °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.