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Family beaches in Naxos
8 shallow, organised beaches in Naxos: all with easy access, picked for young children. Check live wind & waves for each beach on CalmBeach before you go.
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Travelling with young children in Naxos? We picked these 8 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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Agios ProkopiosGolden sand and the Red Lake — About 1.5 km of soft golden sand with turquoise shallows — one of Naxos’s most popular and organised beaches. Behind it lies a wetland with salt pans…
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Plaka
The wild dunes of Naxos — The longest (~4 km) of the chain of beaches south of the town, with soft white-gold sand and natural dunes dotted with sea cedars and tamarisks;…
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Panormos
On the remote south-east corner — Panormos sits on the south-east corner of Naxos, off the axis of the west-coast tourist beaches — the drive from Chora is long, which is why it stays…
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Pyrgaki
Where the beach road stops — Pyrgaki is the last organised beach on the west coast, past Alyko — beyond it the road turns inland.
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Mikri Vigla
The granite cape for windsurf & kite — A cape of golden granite divides two beaches. The name means "small watchtower", after a lookout that once guarded the coast against pirates.
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Agios Georgios
The town beach of Naxos — It is fully organised and among the busiest; its shallow, breezy southern end is a well-known windsurf-instruction spot.
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Kastraki
The quiet continuation of the west coast — Kastraki is a long ribbon of fine sand between Mikri Vigla and Alyko — the same sea as Agios Prokopios, with far fewer people.
Photo credits
- Agios Prokopios: Carlo Pelagalli, CC BY-SA 3.0
Good to know
Which beaches in Naxos 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 8 of the beaches on this page, the open water in front of them is typically 0.88 m in June, 1.10 m in July and 1.11 m in August when the meltemi is at its strongest, and 0.97 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 8 of the beaches on this page the sea is typically 18.7 °C in May, 21.7 °C in June, 23.4 °C in July, 24.0 °C in August and 23.6 °C in September — mild at the height of summer, mild in June. By October it is 21.6 °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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