Organized beaches in Lefkada — CalmBeach

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Organized beaches in Lefkada

14 organized beaches in Lefkada: with sunbeds, umbrellas and facilities. Check live wind & waves for each beach on CalmBeach before you go.

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Prefer sunbeds, umbrellas and a beach bar in Lefkada? These 14 organized beaches usually have facilities and easier access. Check wind and waves in CalmBeach before you go.

The beaches

  • Kathisma
    Kathisma
    • Sand & pebbles
    • Easy road access

    The organised beach with paragliders — One of the longest beaches on Lefkada (~1 km), wide, with fine white sand and pebbles, on the west coast below green cliffs. Fully organised and…

  • Ammousa
    Ammousa
    • Pebbles
    • Easy road access
    • More sheltered from northerlies

    The small pebble bay among the olive groves — Ammoussa lies in southern Lefkada, near the village of Marantochori and a few kilometres from Vasiliki, a small pebble bay about seventy metres long…

  • Kavalikevta
    Kavalikevta
    • Pebbles
    • Passable dirt road

    Giant rocks and little coves — Kavalikefta lies on the west coast of Lefkada, below the village of Kalamitsi and about fifteen kilometres south of the main town. Also called…

  • Agios Ioannis
    Agios Ioannis
    • Sand & pebbles
    • Easy road access

    The long shore with the windmills — Agios Ioannis, also called Ai Giannis, stretches just outside the town of Lefkada, a long shore of coarse sand and pebbles running some three…

  • Afteli
    Afteli
    • Pebbles
    • Easy road access
    • More sheltered from northerlies

    The little pebble cove below Evgiros — Afteli is a small pebble cove on the south coast of Lefkada, below the village of Evgiros and between Nidri and Vasiliki. At around twenty metres it…

  • Pevkoulia
    Pevkoulia
    • Sand & pebbles
    • Easy road access

    The beach with the pines — A long beach of sand and pebbles near Agios Nikitas (west coast), with pine trees offering natural shade — the name evokes the "little pines".

  • Mikros Gialos
    • Pebbles
    • Easy road access
    • More sheltered from northerlies

    The bay below Poros — Mikros Gialos lies on the southeast coast of Lefkada, in the deep bay of Poros and also known as Rouda Bay or Poros beach, about thirty kilometres…

  • Avali
    • Sand & pebbles
    • Passable dirt road

    The hidden cove beneath the cliffs — Avali is a secluded cove on the west coast of Lefkada, below the village of Kalamitsi, with white pebbles and coarse sand. It sits about 25…

  • Pasas
    • Pebbles
    • Easy road access
    • More sheltered from northerlies

    The narrow shore beside Perigiali — Passa is a narrow pebbly beach on the east coast of Lefkada, next to the village of Perigiali, between Nikiana and Nydri. On some maps it appears as…

  • Gaidaros
    Gaidaros
    • Sand & pebbles
    • Passable dirt road
  • Gialos
    • Sand & pebbles
    • Easy road access
    • More sheltered from northerlies
  • Breath of Zorbas beach
    • Sand & pebbles
    • Easy road access
  • Lygia
    • Sand & pebbles
    • Easy road access
  • Ai Giannis (Levkada)
    • Moderate access
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Good to know

Which beaches in Lefkada are organized?

The beaches listed here are marked as organized, usually with sunbeds, umbrellas and food or a beach bar nearby. Facilities can change by season, so confirm locally.

Are organized beaches less windy?

Not necessarily. Facilities do not change the wind or waves — check live conditions in the app and compare less exposed beaches on windy days.

When is the sea calmest here?

Across 14 of the beaches on this page, the open water in front of them is typically 0.53 m in June, 0.58 m in July and 0.53 m in August when the maistros is at its strongest, and 0.54 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 14 of the beaches on this page the sea is typically 19.5 °C in May, 23.1 °C in June, 25.0 °C in July, 26.3 °C in August and 24.9 °C in September — ideal at the height of summer, mild in June. By October it is 22.8 °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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