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Organized beaches in Rethymno
27 organized beaches in Rethymno: 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 Rethymno? These 27 organized beaches usually have facilities and easier access. Check wind and waves in CalmBeach before you go.
The beaches
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PreveliThe palm grove at the river mouth — On the south (Libyan) coast, where the Megalopotamos river leaves its gorge, a palm forest and a freshwater stream form a channel you can swim up…
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Agia Galini
The harbour from which, the myth says, Icarus flew — The beach belongs to a seaside settlement and small harbour on the south coast of Crete, in the Agios Vasileios municipality of Rethymno, where the…
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TriopetraThe "Three Rocks" on the Libyan coast — The name means literally "three rocks", after the three large rocks rising at the shore. A small peninsula divides two beaches, on the south Libyan…
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Livadi beachBali's first, broad sandy beach — Livadi is the first and largest sandy beach at Bali, on the north coast of Rethymno in Crete. It spreads along an open bay at the entrance to the…
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Damnoni
The bay with hidden coves — A wide bay with turquoise water and coarse white sand, ~5 km east of Plakias. The western end is organised (sunbeds, sports, diving), while the…
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SchinariaThe little cove below Lefkogeia — Schinaria lies on the south coast of Rethymno in Crete, in the Lefkogeia community of the Agios Vasileios municipality, a few kilometres east of…
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SoudaWhere the river of palms meets the sea — Souda is the westernmost beach of the long Plakias shorefront, on the south coast of Rethymno in Crete. It forms at the mouth of a narrow, deep-green…
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SpiliesThe cove of the sea caves — Spilies, also known as Kitrenosis, lies on the north coast of Rethymno in Crete, in the remote area of Latzimas, just before Geropotamos. It forms at…
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KaravostasiThe natural anchorage in Bali's last cove — Karavostasi is the easternmost and last beach of Bali, on the north coast of Rethymno in Crete, about 33 km from the town. It forms in a small…
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Plakias
The resort at the foot of the gorge — About 1.3 km of fine golden sand shelving gently into the bay, backed by mountains and facing the Libyan Sea, ~21 km south of Rethymno. The name…
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KalypsoThe pirate fjord between the cliffs — Kalypso lies on the south coast of Rethymno, Crete, between Plakias and Preveli, about 33 kilometres from the town. It is a long, narrow rocky inlet…
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Paralia Episkopis
The long sands of the old bishopric — Episkopi beach stretches along the north coast of Rethymno, Crete, about 14 kilometres west of the town, in a fertile plain that runs down to the…
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Mikro AmmoudiThe little white cove of Plakias — Mikro Ammoudi, also known as Ammoudaki, is a small cove on the south coast of Rethymno, Crete, next to Damnoni and a few kilometres east of Plakias…
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Ammolofi Agiou PavlouThe great sand dunes of Cape Melissa — The Ammolofoi (Sandhills) of Agios Pavlos stretch along the south coast of Rethymno, Crete, on the western side of Cape Melissa, between the small…
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Photo credits
- Preveli: Olaf Tausch, CC BY 3.0
- Triopetra: Olaf Tausch, CC BY 3.0
- Schinaria: Uoaei1, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Souda: Olaf Tausch, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Spilies: corali-beach, CC BY 3.0
- Karavostasi: Александр Спиридонов, CC BY 3.0
- Kalypso: Olaf Tausch, CC BY 3.0
- Mikro Ammoudi: Olaf Tausch, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Ammolofi Agiou Pavlou: Olaf Tausch, CC BY 3.0
- Varkotopos: Yanemail, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Limni: Ttzavaras, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Paligkremnos: Olaf Tausch, CC BY 3.0
- Finikidia: Olaf Tausch, CC BY 3.0
- Rodakino: Olaf Tausch, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Sfagia: mcfr, CC BY 3.0
Good to know
Which beaches in Rethymno 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 27 of the beaches on this page, the open water in front of them is typically 0.47 m in June, 0.46 m in July and 0.43 m in August when the meltemi is at its strongest, and 0.46 m in September. August 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 27 of the beaches on this page the sea is typically 19.4 °C in May, 22.3 °C in June, 24.6 °C in July, 25.8 °C in August and 25.4 °C in September — ideal at the height of summer, mild in June. In October it is still 23.8 °C — warmer than June. August is the warmest month. Satellite measurements, 1995–2024, from a sea cell about 5 km offshore; shallow bays usually run warmer than this.
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