Aerial view along a cliff coast of honeycombed rock, with a clifftop road, villas and a pool inland

region field guide

The Algarve

Southern Portugal’s limestone coast alternates open sand with coves cut between arches and cliffs.

Photo: Vitor Oliveira / Wikimedia Commons

Climate context

What changes through the year

Summer is dry; shoulder seasons are cooler and quieter. Cliff stability and sea state matter year-round.

Getting around

How the coast connects

Many coves require stairs or steep paths. Parking pressure is highly seasonal.

The coast itself

The Algarve in photographs

The coastline as it actually looks, from the places named on this page.

Golden limestone stacks and arches standing in clear water with small boats between them at Ponta da Piedade
Ponta da Piedade, Lagos, Algarve, PortugalThe limestone stacks and arches of Ponta da Piedade at the edge of Lagos.Photo: Dronepicr / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0 ↗
Sea cave openings in a pale limestone cliff above turquoise water near Benagil
Algar de Benagil, Lagoa, Algarve, PortugalThe sea-cave entrance of Algar de Benagil, east of Praia de Benagil, seen from the water.Photo: Kolforn / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗

Where and when

Position, and the shape of the year.

Both panels are drawn from facts the atlas holds: recorded coordinates and the latitude itself. Neither is a forecast.

Locator map of The Algarve: sourced beach coordinates around 37.090, -8.412, with the destination centre marked
975 sourced beach records inside a frame roughly 865 km wide, plotted server-side from the atlas index over Natural Earth land outlines (public domain). The marked point is the coordinate in this record; every other mark is a beach record you can open from the directory.
Hours between sunrise and sunset, computed from latitude 37.090 alone. This is astronomy, not weather: no temperature, swell, rainfall or “best month” claim is implied for The Algarve. Longest around Jun (14h 30m), shortest around Dec (9h 30m) — a 5.0-hour swing across the year.

Launch coverage

Beaches in The Algarve

Coverage grows by reviewed entities, not automatically generated locality pages.

Wide view of Praia da Marinha, Algarve, Portugal.
Europe

Praia da Marinha

Lagoa · Portugal

Sand
Golden
Water
Clear-looking Atlantic water;...

The rest of this coast

Sourced records nearby

250 beach records sit within 60 km of this coordinate. The nearest are listed below with their distance; most carry position and provenance only, and say so on the page.

  1. Praia do CarvalhoFaro, Portugal0.9 km
  2. Praia de AlbandeiraFaro, Portugal1.1 km
  3. Praia de BenagilFaro, Portugal1.2 km
  4. Praia da Senhora da RochaFaro, Portugal2.5 km
  5. Praia do Vale EspinhaçoFaro, Portugal2.5 km
  6. Praia da Cova RedondaFaro, Portugal3.0 km
  7. Praia dos TremoçosFaro, Portugal3.3 km
  8. Praia dos BeijinhosFaro, Portugal3.6 km
  9. Praia do Vale de CentianesFaro, Portugal3.9 km
  10. Praia do Vale do OlivalFaro, Portugal4.0 km
  11. Praia do CarvoeiroFaro, Portugal5.4 km
  12. Praia do ParaísoFaro, Portugal5.6 km
  13. Praia Grande de PêraFaro, Portugal5.8 km
  14. Praia da SalgadeiraFaro, Portugal6.1 km
  15. Praia do Padre VicenteFaro, Portugal6.2 km
  16. Praia da Cama da VacaFaro, Portugal6.6 km
  17. Praia dos SalgadosFaro, Portugal7.4 km
  18. Praia da Galé OesteFaro, Portugal8.0 km
  19. Praia do MatoFaro, Portugal8.4 km
  20. Praia da GaléFaro, Portugal8.5 km
  21. Praia dos CaneirosFaro, Portugal9.1 km
  22. Praia do TorradoFaro, Portugal9.3 km
  23. Praia do PintadinhoFaro, Portugal9.7 km
  24. Praia da AngrinhaFaro, Portugal9.7 km
  25. Praia do MolheFaro, Portugal9.7 km
  26. Praia Grande SulFaro, Portugal9.8 km
  27. Praia do EvaristoFaro, Portugal9.9 km
  28. Praia GrandeFaro, Portugal9.9 km
  29. Praia da CoelhaFaro, Portugal10.3 km
  30. Praia da Marina de PortimãoFaro, Portugal10.7 km
  31. Praia da RochaFaro, Portugal11.3 km
  32. Praia de São RafaelFaro, Portugal11.9 km
  33. Praia de ArrifesFaro, Portugal12.1 km
  34. Praia dos Três CastelosFaro, Portugal12.3 km
  35. Praia da BaleeiraFaro, Portugal13.3 km
  36. Praia do VauFaro, Portugal13.4 km
  37. Praia do Barranco das CanasFaro, Portugal13.8 km
  38. Praia de BoiãoFaro, Portugal13.9 km
  39. Praia de João de ArensFaro, Portugal14.1 km
  40. Praia do PenecoFaro, Portugal14.2 km

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Destination provenance

Sources

  1. Praia da MarinhaVisit Portugal ↗

    Official national tourism reference for setting and access context.