Browse beaches by clicking on a county

Great beaches in UK

Gordon Hatton 
Photo: Gordon Hatton  CC BY-SA 2.0
Ardalanish Beach The beach is perfectly stunning, and on a bright day, one could easily mistake it for a beach in Barbados. To reach t...
Dr Neil Clifton
Photo: Dr Neil Clifton CC BY-SA 2.0
Polurrian Cove Polurrian Cove is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a rural sandy cove, approximately 330 metres wide, surrounded...
Oast House Archive
Photo: Oast House Archive CC BY-SA 2.0
Pevensey Bay
Peter Eckersley
Photo: Peter Eckersley CC BY-SA 2.0
Seascale The bathing water is a gently sloping, shingle beach giving way to a large, flat sandy area towards the sea. There is...
Pauline Eccles
Photo: Pauline Eccles CC BY-SA 2.0
The Cwm Nestled within a secluded area lies The Cwm, a charming beach that boasts a unique and rustic touch with a disused li...
Sue Adair
Photo: Sue Adair CC BY-SA 2.0
Meols Meols beach at Dove Point is an undulating sandy beach with sand banks visible from the shore at high tide. The beach...
Robin Webster 
Photo: Robin Webster  CC BY-SA 2.0
Chapman's Pool
Ben Gamble
Photo: Ben Gamble CC BY-SA 2.0
Frensham Great Pond The designated bathing area is situated on Frensham Great Pond's northern edge. Bathing is restricted to a marked san...
Roger Crowther
Photo: Roger Crowther CC BY-SA 2.0
The Gannel Estuary Enjoy the natural beauty of the Gannel Estuary, a tidal river that can be discovered during low tide. This estuary, o...
Roger Cornfoot
Photo: Roger Cornfoot CC BY-SA 2.0
Teignmouth Town Beach
Mick Garratt
Photo: Mick Garratt CC BY-SA 2.0
Seaton Carew North Beach
Nick Andrews
Photo: Nick Andrews CC BY-SA 2.0
Brandy Cove Brandy Cove beach is in Swansea, 1 kilometers south east of Bishopston.
M J Richardson 
Photo: M J Richardson  CC BY-SA 2.0
Fionnphort Bay (Port of the White Sands) This beautiful beach offers a unique view of the distinctive split rock and the historic Iona Abbey located in the di...
chris lovelock
Photo: chris lovelock CC BY 2.0
Plymouth Hoe East Plymouth Hoe East is near the centre of Plymouth on the south coast of Devon. It is a shingle and rock beach approxim...
Tim Elliott
Photo: Tim Elliott CC BY-SA 2.0
Southsea West Beach
Jeff Buck 
Photo: Jeff Buck  CC BY-SA 2.0
Barkby beach
albharms
Photo: albharms CC BY 3.0
Jersey Victoria Pool Beach
Alison Rawson
Photo: Alison Rawson CC BY-SA 2.0
Littlestone Littlestone-on-Sea is a resort beach in the middle of a 20 kilometre (km) stretch of beach in Hythe Bay, Kent. Hythe ...
Dave Smethurst
Photo: Dave Smethurst CC BY-SA 2.0
Ardwell Bay Ardwell Bay beach is a beach in Dumfries and Galloway.
Charles Leventon
Photo: Charles Leventon CC BY-SA 2.0
Pembrey Beach
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.