Charamida niseli

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Organized beaches in Lesvos

20 organized beaches in Lesvos: 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 Lesvos? These 20 organized beaches usually have facilities and easier access. Check wind and waves in CalmBeach before you go.

The beaches

  • Akti Tsamakia
    • Sand & pebbles
    • Easy road access
    • More sheltered from northerlies

    The pine-planted plaz below the castle — Tsamakia Beach sits at the edge of Mytilini, on Lesvos, just a few metres from the waterfront and below the town's castle, which makes it the closest…

  • Agios Ermogenis
    • Sand & pebbles
    • Easy road access
    • More sheltered from northerlies

    Essentially wild/semi-organized: no organized sunbeds, but with WCs, changing booths and showers, and a seaside fish taverna. It is named after the…

  • Vatera
    • Sandy
    • Easy road access
    • More sheltered from northerlies

    One of the longest beaches in Greece — Golden sand with shallow, gentle water and an easy entry — well suited to swimming and families — on the south coast. The sandy shore runs roughly 8…

  • Charamida niseli
    Charamida niseli
    • Sand & pebbles
    • Easy road access
    • More sheltered from northerlies

    The hidden pine cove just before Haramida — Niseli is a small beach just before Haramida, on the southeastern side of Lesvos, near Mytilini. It is also known as 'Karpouzi', after the cantina of…

  • Charamida
    • Sand & pebbles
    • Easy road access
    • More sheltered from northerlies

    The pebbled shore with the dunes and tamarisks — Haramida lies on the southeastern side of Lesvos, about 14 kilometres south of Mytilini, near the entrance of the Gulf of Gera. It is one of the…

  • Agios Isidoros
    Agios Isidoros
    • Sand & pebbles
    • Easy road access
    • More sheltered from northerlies

    Colourful pebbles near Plomari — A pebble beach (with rocky patches) at both shore and seabed, one of the longest on Lesvos, famous for its colourful pebbles. It is named after a…

  • Paralia Tsonia
    • Sand & pebbles
    • Easy road access

    The "red beach" of Lesvos — Reddish sand mixed with coarse pebbles — a genuinely unusual feature that earned it the island’s reputation as the "red beach"; the colour is…

  • Paralia Tarti
    • Sand & pebbles
    • Passable dirt road
    • More sheltered from northerlies
  • Ammoudeli
    • Sand & pebbles
    • Easy road access
    • More sheltered from northerlies
  • Xeres Evriakis
    • Pebbles
    • Easy road access
    • More sheltered from northerlies
  • Kalo Limani
    • Sandy
    • Easy road access
  • Paralia Nyfidas
    Paralia Nyfidas
    • Sandy
    • Easy road access
    • More sheltered from northerlies
  • Petalidi
    • Pebbles
    • Easy road access
  • Molyvos
    Molyvos
    • Sand & pebbles
    • Easy road access

    A swim below the medieval castle — Fine dark-toned pebbles at the shore that turn to a sandy seabed once you wade in a little; shallow, gentle water. The distinctive part: you swim…

  • Paralia Anaxou
    Paralia Anaxou
    • Sandy
    • Easy road access
  • Ampelia
    • Sand & pebbles
    • Easy road access
  • Plaz Kanoni
    • Sandy
    • Easy road access
  • Paralia Petra
    Paralia Petra
    • Sandy
    • Moderate access
  • Kochylia
    • Sand & pebbles
    • Easy road access
    • More sheltered from northerlies
  • Paralia Larisos
    • Pebbles
    • Moderate access
    • More sheltered from northerlies
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Good to know

Which beaches in Lesvos 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 20 of the beaches on this page, the open water in front of them is typically 0.43 m in June, 0.53 m in July and 0.54 m in August when the meltemi is at its strongest, and 0.47 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 20 of the beaches on this page the sea is typically 18.8 °C in May, 22.1 °C in June, 23.4 °C in July, 23.8 °C in August and 22.6 °C in September — mild at the height of summer, mild in June. By October it is 20.6 °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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