A jagged grey limestone cliff with trees mirrored in still water below

region field guide

Palawan

A long Philippine island province of limestone islands, reefs, fishing communities and long tropical beaches.

Photo: Fabio Achilli / Wikimedia Commons

Climate context

What changes through the year

Monsoon patterns materially affect rain, sea state and access; conditions vary between coasts.

Getting around

How the coast connects

Puerto Princesa and El Nido are principal gateways. Remote beach roads and boat access require local confirmation.

The coast itself

Palawan in photographs

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

Aerial view of a town beach with many outrigger boats anchored in a bay ringed by limestone islands
El Nido Town Beach, Bacuit Bay, Palawan, PhilippinesEl Nido town beach and Bacuit Bay from the Taraw Cliff canopy walk, outrigger boats anchored along the shore.Photo: Micluna / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
Limestone island rising steeply from calm green water with small boats in the foreground
Cadlao Island, Bacuit Bay, Palawan, PhilippinesCadlao Island across Bacuit Bay, seen from the Taraw Cliff canopy walk.Photo: Micluna / 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 Palawan: sourced beach coordinates around 11.322, 119.428, with the destination centre marked
76 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 11.322 alone. This is astronomy, not weather: no temperature, swell, rainfall or “best month” claim is implied for Palawan. Longest around Jun (12h 42m), shortest around Dec (11h 18m) — a 1.4-hour swing across the year.

Launch coverage

Beaches in Palawan

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

Wide view of Nacpan Beach, El Nido, Palawan.
Southeast Asia

Nacpan Beach

Palawan · Philippines

Sand
Pale golden
Water
Tropical open-water beach;...

The rest of this coast

Sourced records nearby

69 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. Seven Commandos BeachMimaropa, Philippines14.2 km
  2. Bulang BeachMimaropa, Philippines14.6 km
  3. Santa Monica BeachMimaropa, Philippines15.1 km
  4. Las Cabañas BeachMimaropa, Philippines17.7 km
  5. Basakar BeachMimaropa, Philippines22.5 km
  6. Lim BeachMimaropa, Philippines22.6 km
  7. Villagracia BeachMimaropa, Philippines22.8 km
  8. Samalague BeachMimaropa, Philippines22.9 km
  9. Palma BeachMimaropa, Philippines23.4 km
  10. Mirabel BeachMimaropa, Philippines23.4 km
  11. Parada BeachMimaropa, Philippines25.4 km
  12. Paduldolan BeachMimaropa, Philippines26.0 km
  13. Patatpat BeachMimaropa, Philippines26.6 km
  14. Badlang BeachMimaropa, Philippines26.8 km
  15. Basques BeachMimaropa, Philippines27.1 km
  16. Iloc BeachMimaropa, Philippines27.2 km
  17. Pigtayan BeachMimaropa, Philippines27.5 km
  18. Pinamalayan BeachMimaropa, Philippines27.8 km
  19. Bayo Bayo BeachMimaropa, Philippines28.8 km
  20. Patoltol BeachMimaropa, Philippines29.0 km
  21. Talisay BeachMimaropa, Philippines29.4 km
  22. South BeachMimaropa, Philippines30.9 km
  23. Matenlen BeachMimaropa, Philippines32.2 km
  24. Basakar BeachMimaropa, Philippines33.2 km
  25. Debangan BeachMimaropa, Philippines46.6 km
  26. Ombo BeachMimaropa, Philippines70.8 km
  27. Erawan BeachMimaropa, Philippines76.1 km
  28. Nagtulay BeachMimaropa, Philippines78.0 km
  29. Malcapuya Island BeachMimaropa, Philippines78.1 km
  30. Alemanguan BeachMimaropa, Philippines80.2 km
  31. Enarayan BeachMimaropa, Philippines85.8 km
  32. Pinagmangalokan BeachMimaropa, Philippines88.3 km
  33. Arton BeachMimaropa, Philippines89.4 km
  34. Penanindigan BeachMimaropa, Philippines89.9 km
  35. Makatombaten BeachMimaropa, Philippines91.9 km
  36. Sagboyin BeachMimaropa, Philippines95.4 km
  37. Tangdang BeachMimaropa, Philippines96.7 km
  38. Long BeachMimaropa, Philippines97.4 km
  39. Mahilamonen BeachMimaropa, Philippines98.3 km
  40. Naonao BeachMimaropa, Philippines99.4 km

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Destination provenance

Sources

  1. Nacpan Beach place recordOpenStreetMap contributors ↗

    Coordinate and locality record only; facilities and seasonal conditions are intentionally left unverified.