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Beaches in Corfu usually better when the maistros blows
38 sheltered beaches in Corfu, oriented away from the maistros. Check live wind & waves on CalmBeach before you go.
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The maistros blows from NW/W, and the split shows up clearly in the data. Of the 105 beaches we have modelled, 38 take no open water toward NW/W; they cluster on the east coast, facing an arc of NE–S. The most reliable of them are listed below. The other 51 sit wide open to it.
The reason is the shape of the coast itself: these beaches have land behind them on the side the wind comes from. They are not necessarily enclosed bays — they simply sit in the wind shadow of the shore opposite.
The trade-off, plainly: the same east coast is open to the opposite wind. On days the wind swings from the east, the shelter reverses and the far side is the better call. So this list narrows the choice — it does not replace the forecast; check live wind and waves on the beach page before you go.
The beaches
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Porto TimoniThe double beach of Corfu — Corfu’s most famous "double" beach: two back-to-back bays sharing a thin neck of land, on a wild headland below the village of Afionas.
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Paralia Agios SpyridonasPaleokastritsa's main sandy bay below the monastery — Agios Spiridon is the central and largest sandy beach of Paleokastritsa, on the northwest coast of Corfu, about 25 kilometres from Corfu Town. It…
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Moraitika BeachThe resort beside the Messonghi river — Moraitika beach lies on the southeast coast of Corfu, at the seaside village of the same name, with a shore of sand and pebbles. A small river…
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Benitses beach
The fishing village with the Roman baths — Benitses sits on the southeast coast of Corfu, a way south of Corfu Town, with a beach of pebbles and coarse sand at the edge of the old fishing…
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Nissaki Beach
The little cove at the foot of Pantokrator — Nissaki lies on the northeast coast of Corfu, a small pebble-and-rock cove at the foot of Mount Pantokrator, in the stretch of coast running from…
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Paralia Kerasia
White pebbles beneath the green hills of the north — Kerasia stretches along the northeast coast of Corfu, between the fishing hamlet of Agios Stefanos Sinion and the resort of Kassiopi, its white…
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Paralia Kontokaliou
The captain's sandy shore beside Gouvia marina — Kontokali beach lies at Kontokali, a suburb about 7 km north of Corfu Town, on a headland that separates the gulf from the natural harbour and marina…
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Paralia Bouka
At the mouth of the Lefkimmi canal — Bouka beach, also known as Melikia, lies in southern Corfu at Lefkimmi, where the canal-river of Lefkimmi meets the sea. The word 'bouka' itself…
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Alipa beachThe shore beside Paleokastritsa's little marina — Alipa lies on the western coast of Corfu, in Paleokastritsa, within the same bay as the little marina of the same name. It is a small shore of about…
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Dassia Beach
The long shore among the trees — Dassia lies about 12 kilometres north of Corfu Town, on the island's eastern coast, with a long organized shore of pebbles and coarse sand. Its name…
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KalamiDurrell's bay, with the white house at the end of the pebbles — Kalami is a small bay on the northeast coast of Corfu, about 30 km from the town and 7 km from Kassiopi, between Agni and Kouloura. Its shore is a…
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Photo credits
- Porto Timoni: dronepicr, CC BY 2.0
- Paralia Agios Spyridonas: Дмитрий Мозжухин, CC BY 3.0
- Moraitika Beach: Hombre, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Alipa beach: Trish Hartmann from Tampa, Florida, USA, CC BY 2.0
- Gouvia: Marc Ryckaert (MJJR), CC BY 3.0
- Notos: Ardfern, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Kalami: Kubajdaa22cz, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Dafnila Beach: R-E-AL (talk, contribs | Gallery) (German Wikipe | CC BY-SA 3.0
- Glyfa Beach: Alex Alishevskikh, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Galiskari Beach: "dronepicr", CC BY 2.0
- Akoli (Kerkyra): maczopikczu, CC BY 3.0
Good to know
Which beaches in Corfu may be better when the maistros blows?
The bays listed here are shielded from the maistros in the exposure model, so they may be more comfortable when it blows. Local conditions still vary, so confirm wind and waves before you go.
Does this guarantee low waves?
No. Shelter shows which coasts are shielded from a wind direction, not guaranteed calm or low waves. On strong-wind days follow local flags and check live wind and waves in the app.
When is the sea calmest here?
Across 38 of the beaches on this page, the open water in front of them is typically 0.20 m in June, 0.21 m in July and 0.18 m in August when the maistros is at its strongest, and 0.23 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 38 of the beaches on this page the sea is typically 19.7 °C in May, 23.1 °C in June, 24.8 °C in July, 26.1 °C in August and 24.8 °C in September — ideal at the height of summer, mild in June. By October it is 22.5 °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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