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Family beaches
Family beaches in Kalymnos
7 shallow, organised beaches in Kalymnos: all with easy access, picked for young children. Check live wind & waves on CalmBeach.
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Travelling with young children in Kalymnos? We picked these 7 beaches because they are organised, not hard to reach, and recorded as shallow. How quickly the water deepens varies from beach to beach, so check wind and waves in CalmBeach before you go.
The beaches
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Paralia Arginonta
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…
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Kasonia
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.
Photo credits
- Paralia Kantouni: Egmontaz, CC BY-SA 3.0
Good to know
Which beaches in Kalymnos are family-friendly?
Every beach on this list meets three criteria: it is organised, it has no difficult access, and our data records its water as shallow. How fast the seabed drops away underfoot is not something any map can guarantee — for small children, pick a calm, sheltered day as well.
How do I compare sea conditions?
CalmBeach checks wind, waves and exposure, so you can compare less exposed beaches and more comfortable visiting times.
When is the sea calmest here?
Across 7 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 7 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 22.4 °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.
Wind and waves change every day. See live conditions for any of these beaches before you drive out.
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