Algarve beaches map

This is the last beach on the west coast before Cape St Vincent, near Sagres.

A beach on the west coast of the Vila do Bispo municipality, between Cape St Vincent and Praia do Castelejo, surrounded…

A small cove with difficult access near Cabo de São Vicente.

A golden-sand beach of about 250 m at Sagres, in a bay ringed by deeply gullied limestone cliffs within the Southwest…

A wild beach north of Sagres, with tall cliffs and consistent waves.

Praia de Sagres lies near the south-westernmost point of mainland Portugal, a few kilometres from Cabo de São Vicente.

An extensive wild beach within the Parque Natural do Sudoeste Alentejano e Costa Vicentina, near Vila do Bispo.

A beach on the west coast of Vila do Bispo, at the end of a broad green valley north of Praia da Cordoama.

A calm beach in a sheltered bay near Sagres, with little swell and good views across the valley.

A wild beach on the Costa Vicentina, in the Vila do Bispo municipality, between Praia da Cordoama and Praia do Amado…

Small beach at the entrance to a valley of tall juniper scrub and limestone outcrops, between pale cliffs, with a small…

A small shell-shaped beach with about 60 m of golden sand in the Southwest Alentejo and Vicentine Coast Natural Park.

A hidden beach in the south-western Algarve, near Vila do Bispo, with good surf conditions and access via an unpaved…

Small beach east of Praia do Zavial, at the mouth of a stream and facing south-west.

A beach in the parish of Budens, west of Praia da Salema.

The beach of the fishing village of Salema, with more than 1 km of sand framed by ochre cliffs.

A quiet beach at the mouth of streams, between Salema and Almádena, where a small lagoon sometimes forms.

Beach near Burgau, bounded by rugged limestone cliffs, which narrows at high tide.

A village beach in Burgau, set in a small cove about 350 m long and sheltered from the prevailing winds.

A vast beach at the mouth of the Rio Bordeira, near Carrapateira.

Praia do Amado is one of the surf landmarks of the Costa Vicentina — a wide, open sandy beach fully exposed to the…

A wild Atlantic beach near the village of Carrapateira, on the Costa Vicentina.

A long stretch of sand on the Costa Vicentina, set in a valley ringed by low hills and bounded to the north and south…

Tucked into a rocky cove sheltered by dark cliffs and steep profiles, Praia da Arrifana is part of the wild coastline…

A pebble beach south of Arrifana, looking out to the Pedra da Agulha sea stack, at the mouth of a valley cut by a…

Praia de Monte Clérigo is on the north-west coast of the Algarve, within the territory of the Costa Vicentina — a…

Beach at the mouth of the Aljezur stream, in the Southwest Alentejo and Vicentine Coast Natural Park, with a huge…

A wild beach on the Costa Vicentina near Rogil, north of Praia da Amoreira, inside the Southwest Alentejo and Vicentine…

Wide, quiet beach on the Vicentine plateau near Rogil, framed by tall schist cliffs, with about 500 metres of sand that…

Praia de Odeceixe is one of the most unusual stretches of the Portuguese coast — the Seixe stream separates the…

Praia da Luz is the beach of the village of the same name, a few kilometres west of Lagos.

A wide beach at the mouth of a valley, about 2 km from Lagos, flanked by high cliffs: grey to the west and ochre to the…

A narrow, secluded strip of sand just east of Praia de Porto de Mós, set between jagged ochre and red cliffs.

A golden cove in Lagos with limestone cliffs and clear water.

A small sandy cove between limestone cliffs near Ponta da Piedade, in Lagos.

Praia da Batata lies a few metres from the historic centre of Lagos, between the Bensafrim river breakwater and Praia…

A small beach in Lagos, just south of Praia da Batata and a few minutes' walk from the historic centre.

Meia Praia stretches for several kilometres east of Lagos, one of the longest sandy stretches on the western Algarve…

Praia de Alvor sits at the mouth of the Alvor estuary, where the calm waters of the ria meet the open Atlantic.

Sheltered bay between rocks at the eastern tip of the long Alvor beach, which runs for about 7 km.

Prainha lies east of Praia dos Três Irmãos in Alvor, by the Ponta João d'Arens headland.

Better known as Praia do Alemão, it sits between the Ponta João d'Arens headland to the west and Praia do Vau to the…

Praia do Vau lies west of Praia da Rocha, in a section of coast with lower urban density and a more irregular character…

A golden-sand beach just east of Praia do Vau, on the stretch of tall cliffs that runs to Praia da Rocha.

A golden-sand beach, about 245 m long, west of Praia da Rocha, beside the headland of the Três Castelos viewpoint, from…

Praia da Rocha is one of the most visited beaches in the Algarve — a long sandy stretch flanked by imposing limestone…

A small golden-sand beach, about 140 m long, in the Arade estuary south of Portimão Marina, within the port authority…

A small estuary beach at the foot of Ferragudo, on the east bank of the Arade river, north of the São João do Arade…

Praia de Ferragudo sits on the southern bank of the Arade estuary, with a direct view across to Praia da Rocha and the…

A small beach in Ferragudo by the eastern breakwater at the mouth of the Arade, next to Praia do Pintadinho.

This is the first ocean beach in the Lagoa municipality after the mouth of the Arade river, in Ferragudo.

A beach near Ferragudo framed by high cliffs banded in ochre, pink and white, with caves at their base and, to the…

A small shell of sand west of Carvoeiro village, about 300 m from Praia do Carvoeiro, wedged between tall cliffs.

Praia de Carvoeiro is a cove beach set between cliffs, with the village of Carvoeiro looking directly out to sea from…

A beach near Carvoeiro, flanked by imposing cliffs with sea-carved caves and a boardwalk running along the sand.

A small cove between Carvoeiro and Benagil, about 500 m west of Praia de Benagil.

Praia de Benagil is world-renowned for the Algar de Benagil sea cave — a limestone chamber with a natural oculus in its…

Nestled between golden limestone cliffs sculpted by the Atlantic, Praia da Marinha presents a setting of natural rock…

A small beach at Caramujeira, between Praia da Marinha and Praia de Albandeira, about 650 m east of Marinha and next to…

A small beach at Caramujeira, on the edge of Porches, about 1 km east of Praia da Marinha.

A beach in Porches just west of the Nossa Senhora da Rocha chapel, with about 300 m of sand below a continuous line of…

Praia da Senhora da Rocha lies between Armação de Pêra and Porches, in a cove bounded by limestone cliffs with a small…

A small bay in Porches, east of Praia da Senhora da Rocha, also known as Praia das Gaivotas or Vilalara beach, after…

A small cove in Porches, between Praia da Cova Redonda and Praia do Vale do Olival.

A small beach at Alporchinhos, in Porches, also called Praia das Quintas, close to Armação de Pêra.

A golden-sand beach in the municipality of Lagoa, west of Armação de Pêra beach (Silves), from which it is separated by…

Praia de Armação de Pêra is one of the longest beaches on the central Algarve — a wide, well-equipped sandy stretch…

A beach of more than 2 km between Armação de Pêra and Salgados, in open landscape bounded by the Alcantarilha salt…

A beach east of the Lagoa dos Salgados, a wetland visited by migratory birds, with dunes and an extensive boardwalk…

Praia da Galé lies west of Albufeira, beyond the area of greatest urban concentration, in a section of coast with…

A small golden-sand cove, about 150 m long, at Galé west of Albufeira, sheltered by cliffs and deeply indented rock…

A small beach between low, jagged cliffs west of Albufeira, with large algae-covered boulders at the waterline and…

A small golden-sand beach, about 120 m long, set among cliffs and rock formations that create little coves and nooks…

A small cove sheltered by tall, warm-coloured cliffs, with marine fossils, caves and well-preserved coastal vegetation…

A quiet cove between golden cliffs near Albufeira.

A small cove of golden sand, about 150 m long, surrounded by low cliffs heavily sculpted by rain and waves, with…

Praia do Peneco is the beach closest to the historic centre of Albufeira, accessible on foot from the old town through…

Praia dos Pescadores is Albufeira's town beach, right in front of the old town and just east of Praia do Peneco.

An intensively used town beach in Albufeira, with about 274 m of golden sand between Praia do Peneco to the west and…

Beach east of Praia do Inatel in Albufeira, with a more natural setting than the beaches to the west, lower and more…

A small golden-sand beach, about 80 m long, just east of the rocky headland that closes Albufeira bay, with views along…

A beach of almost 1 km in the Areias de São João area, with low, jagged cliffs.

A fine-sand beach near Albufeira, with good sun exposure, sheltered water and solid support infrastructure.

A wide beach framed by warm-coloured cliffs with hollows, sinkholes and arches, and pine woodland around it.

The beach of the fishing village of Olhos de Água, named after the freshwater springs that rise from the sand, visible…

A wide golden-sand beach, about 540 m long, east of Olhos de Água, where the limestone cliffs give way to soft, deeply…

Praia da Falésia stretches for several kilometres of sandy beach between Vilamoura and Olhos de Água, flanked by…

A wide beach east of Praia da Falésia, where the red cliffs drop away and give way to dunes, with the Vilamoura marina…

Praia de Vilamoura sits alongside the marina complex that gave its name to one of the Algarve's largest tourist resorts.

More than 2 km of sand right in the town, divided by concrete groynes about 300 m apart.

A golden-sand beach, about 470 m long, at the eastern end of Quarteira, next to the last groyne of the town beach and…

Beach east of Quarteira where the reddish cliffs give way to the mouth of the Almargem stream.

A golden-sand beach with dunes, about 410 m long, east of Quarteira and south-east of the lagoon that forms at the…

A beach beside the Vale do Lobo resort, marked by deeply gullied ochre and red cliffs and by pine woods with golf…

At Garrão the cliffs give way to broad dune fields close to the Ria Formosa.

A beach at the western end of the Ria Formosa, inside the Natural Park, with salt marsh, stone pine and cork oak…

The beach of the Quinta do Lago resort, inside the Ria Formosa Natural Park.

Praia de Faro sits on a barrier island in the Ria Formosa, accessible by bridge or by boat from the city of Faro.

An uninhabited barrier island in the Ria Formosa, with about 11 km of sand across its sea and lagoon beaches.

Ocean beach at the Farol settlement on Culatra Island, next to the 46-metre Cabo de Santa Maria lighthouse, in the Ria…

Ilha da Culatra is a barrier island within the Ria Formosa, accessible only by boat from Olhão or Faro.

Bathing area on the lagoon side of Armona Island, by the quay where the boats from Olhão arrive after a 15 to 20-minute…

The ocean-facing beach of Armona Island in the Ria Formosa, reached on foot from the jetty through the village and the…

Small lagoon beach in the heart of the Ria Formosa salt marsh, next to a cluster of fishing and shellfish storehouses…

An island beach within the Ria Formosa, accessible by ferry from Fuseta.

Praia da Fuseta-Mar is the ocean side of the barrier island opposite Fuseta, at the eastern end of Ilha da Armona…

Praia do Homem Nu takes up the western tip of Ilha de Tavira, between Praia do Barril and the Fuseta inlet, inside the…

A beach on Ilha de Tavira, reached by a footbridge over the lagoon and then about 1 km on foot or by the small tourist…

A barrier island accessible by ferry from Tavira.

Beach on Tavira Island at the narrowest point of the sand barrier separating the Ria Formosa from the sea, about 50…

A barrier island within the Ria Formosa, accessible by ferry from Tavira.

A beach on Ilha de Cabanas, a narrow barrier island in the Ria Formosa about 7 km long, opposite the fishing village of…

A beach on a barrier island of fine white sand at the eastern end of the Ria Formosa, opposite Cacela Velha and the…

A quiet beach at the eastern tip of the Algarve, alongside the Ria Formosa.

A golden-sand beach about 710 m long with low dunes and their typical flora, east of Manta Rota in the parish of Vila…

A sandy beach beside the town of Monte Gordo, one of the Algarve's earliest tourist resorts, with a seafront avenue and…

Stretch of sand by the mouth of the Guadiana that runs for about 3 km to Monte Gordo, with calm, warm water.

Praia da Altura is in the eastern Algarve, close to the Spanish border, in a zone with lower tourist density than the…

A bathing area on the Odeleite dam reservoir, in the interior of the municipality of Castro Marim, officially opened in…

Praia do Verde Lago, also known as Verdelago, Praia da Vala or Praia do Braço, lies on the continuous stretch of sand…

Praia Verde is in the eastern Algarve, near Castro Marim, in a zone where the pine forest comes close to the beach and…

A golden-sand beach, also known as Retur, with about 780 m of wide sand and dunes with their typical flora, within the…

A river beach in Alcoutim, in a deep pool of the Cadavais stream near where it meets the Guadiana, surrounded by dense…