Browse beaches by clicking on a county

Great beaches in UK

Trish Steel
Photo: Trish Steel CC BY-SA 2.0
Marazion Mounts Bay is on the south coast of Cornwall. There are four designated bathing waters located around the bay - Wherr...
Julieanne Savage
Photo: Julieanne Savage CC BY-SA 2.0
Southend Three Shells Beach
Lewis Clarke
Photo: Lewis Clarke CC BY-SA 2.0
Budleigh Salterton Budleigh Salterton is at the mouth of the River Otter on the south coast of Devon. It is a pebble beach resort, appro...
Alan Bowring
Photo: Alan Bowring CC BY-SA 2.0
St. Marys Well Bay
Dave Dunford
Photo: Dave Dunford CC BY-SA 2.0
St Bees The beach is steeply sloping and pebbly leading to a large area of flat sand closer to the sea. There are steep cliff...
Bob Embleton
Photo: Bob Embleton CC BY-SA 2.0
St Ouen\'s Bay Le Port Beach
Evelyn Simak
Photo: Evelyn Simak CC BY-SA 2.0
Horsey Beach
Chris Downer 
Photo: Chris Downer  CC BY-SA 2.0
Blackwaterfoot Beach Blackwaterfoot Beach is in North Ayrshire, 100 meters south west of Blackwaterfoot.
Steve Daniels 
Photo: Steve Daniels  CC BY-SA 2.0
Bispham Bispham bathing water is mainly sandy with some patches of rocks and pebbles. It slopes slightly to the sea at low w...
pep
Photo: pep CC BY-SA 3.0
Portelet Beach Portelet Beach is located 3 kilometers south east of St. Brelade in the county of Jersey.
Pierre Terre
Photo: Pierre Terre CC BY-SA 2.0
Norton Beach
william
Photo: william CC BY-SA 2.0
Southend Thorpe Bay Thorpe Bay is a sandy/shingle beach that stretches from Eastern Esplanade by Southchurch Park through to Thorpe Bay Y...
Pierre Terre
Photo: Pierre Terre CC BY-SA 2.0
Bournemouth Hengistbury West Bournemouth Hengitsbury West forms part of the 15 kilometre coastline of Poole Bay on the Dorset coast. It is a shing...
Dylan Moore
Photo: Dylan Moore CC BY-SA 2.0
Gwbert Beach
Steve Daniels 
Photo: Steve Daniels  CC BY-SA 2.0
Great Yarmouth South Denes Beach
Mark Pilbeam
Photo: Mark Pilbeam CC BY-SA 2.0
Watershoot Bay The secluded rocky beach can be found by traversing a complex network of footpaths from Old Blackgang Road Car Park, ...
OLU
Photo: OLU CC BY-SA 2.0
Trebarwith Strand Beach
John Rostron 
Photo: John Rostron  CC BY-SA 2.0
Pentle Bay
Anne Burgess 
Photo: Anne Burgess  CC BY-SA 2.0
St Davids Beach
Christine Matthews
Photo: Christine Matthews CC BY-SA 2.0
Cromer Cromer is a popular resort on the North Norfolk coast. The beach has a promenade behind and the town on low cliffs ab...
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.