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Sunset beaches in Naxos
23 west-facing beaches in Naxos: that look out toward the sunset. Check live wind & waves for each beach on CalmBeach before you go.
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Want to watch the sun go down over the sea in Naxos? These 23 west-facing beaches look out toward the sunset. Time your visit for late afternoon — and 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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Mikri Vigla - Notia plevraThe side the wind picks — Mikri Vigla is a rocky headland separating two beaches. The south side is the one that takes the meltemi head-on, which is why the island’s windsurf…
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Hawaii
The name that stuck — It is not organised and has no shade; below the dunes stand the abandoned concrete shells of a hotel that was never finished, now covered in graffiti.
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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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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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Agiassos
The end of the western sand — Agiassos is the wide sandy bay at the southern end of the west coast, where Naxos’s run of big beaches stops.
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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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OrkosThe coves between two big beaches — Orkos is not one beach but a series of small sand-and-rock coves between Plaka and Mikri Vigla on the west coast.
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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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Glyfada
Beside the Alyko cedar forest — Glyfada belongs to the string of small sandy coves around the Alyko peninsula, where the largest cedar forest in the Cyclades comes down to the dunes.
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Chilia Vrysi
A thousand springs — The name Chilia Vrysi — "a thousand springs" — comes from the water that runs down here, unusual for a Cycladic shore, where fresh water is the rule…
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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.
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Kedros
Where the cedars reach the sand — Kedros takes its name from the forest around it: the Alyko peninsula holds the largest coastal cedar wood in the Cyclades, planted to hold the dunes…
Photo credits
- Agios Prokopios: Carlo Pelagalli, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Mikri Vigla - Notia plevra: brunobarbato, CC BY 3.0
- Orkos: brunobarbato, CC BY 3.0
- Vintzi: Snowflakeblues, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Kampos: Tango7174, CC BY-SA 4.0
Good to know
Which beaches in Naxos face the sunset?
The beaches listed here face west or southwest, so the sun sets over the water in front of you. Arrive before sunset to find a spot and enjoy the light.
Anything to know for an evening visit?
Wind can pick up or drop in the evening, and remote beaches have no lights. Check live wind and waves in the app and bring a torch for the walk back.
When is the sea calmest here?
Across 23 of the beaches on this page, the open water in front of them is typically 0.88 m in June, 1.11 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 23 of the beaches on this page the sea is typically 18.7 °C in May, 21.7 °C in June, 23.3 °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 21.5 °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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