Browse beaches by clicking on a county

Great beaches in UK

Jeff Tomlinson
Photo: Jeff Tomlinson CC BY-SA 2.0
Blyth South Beach Blyth South Beach is a gently sloping sandy resort beach at the southern end of the Northumberland coast. The designa...
Simon Carey 
Photo: Simon Carey  CC BY-SA 2.0
Brighton Kemptown Brighton is a large resort situated on the Sussex coast of the English Channel. Brighton Kemptown beach is east of Br...
Simon Carey
Photo: Simon Carey CC BY-SA 2.0
Pagham Beach
Derek Harper
Photo: Derek Harper CC BY-SA 2.0
Weymouth Greenhill Beach
Philip Halling
Photo: Philip Halling CC BY-SA 2.0
Botany Bay, Broadstairs Botany Bay, between Margate and Broadstairs in Kent has over a kilometre of sandy beach above an extensive wave-cut r...
Alex Liivet from Chester United Kingdom
Photo: Alex Liivet from Chester United Kingdom CC0
Gaddings Dam
DS Pugh
Photo: DS Pugh CC BY-SA 2.0
Seaton Carew North Seaton Carew is a small resort on Tees Bay to the south of Hartlepool. Seaton Carew North is the northern end of an e...
Robert Cuthill
Photo: Robert Cuthill CC BY-SA 2.0
Swansea Slipway Beach
Nigel Homer
Photo: Nigel Homer CC BY-SA 2.0
Porthcawl Trecco Bay Porthcawl Trecco Bay beach lies in Bridgend, 2 kilometers east of Porthcawl.
William Pugh
Photo: William Pugh CC BY-SA 2.0
Tywyn Beach
Basher Eyre
Photo: Basher Eyre CC BY-SA 2.0
Middleton-on-Sea Beach
Anne Burgess 
Photo: Anne Burgess  CC BY-SA 2.0
St Davids Beach
Jonathan Billinger
Photo: Jonathan Billinger CC BY-SA 2.0
West Cross Beach
wfmillar
Photo: wfmillar CC BY-SA 2.0
Irvine Beach
Ian Rushin
Photo: Ian Rushin CC BY-SA 2.0
Pevensey Bay Pevensey Bay is a resort beach on the Sussex coast between Eastbourne and Hastings. The small town of Pevensey backs ...
Dorcas Sinclair
Photo: Dorcas Sinclair CC BY-SA 2.0
Sandside Bay
Oxyman
Photo: Oxyman CC BY-SA 2.0
Hampstead Heath (Mixed Pond) The Mixed Pond is one of a series of ponds in the south-west corner of Hampstead Heath formed by the damming of the H...
Nigel Chadwick
Photo: Nigel Chadwick CC BY-SA 2.0
Hampton Pier East Beach
Evelyn Simak
Photo: Evelyn Simak CC BY-SA 2.0
Sea Palling Sea Palling is a small coastal hamlet and has a wide sandy beach with a series of shallow bays formed by man-made ree...
Willie Duffin 
Photo: Willie Duffin  CC BY-SA 2.0
Portrush East Strand Beach Portrush East Strand Beach is 500 meters east of Portrush in the county of County Antrim.
Beach explorer UK Source for water samples and information: the Environmental Protection Agency, users of the site and local municipalities.
Source for weather data: Met Éireann© (CC BY 4.0) Disclaimer: Met Éireann does not accept any liability whatsoever for any error or omission in the data, their availability, or for any loss or damage arising from their use.
Source of satellite-read water temperature: Copernicus Sentinel satellite data from the European Space Agency.