Sugarloaf Mountain rising above a bay filled with moored boats, with city blocks in the foreground and hills across the water

city field guide

Rio de Janeiro

An urban beach city where neighborhood life, mountains, surf and dense transit meet directly at the sand.

Photo: Fwellisch / Wikimedia Commons

Climate context

What changes through the year

Heat, rain, swell and water-quality notices can shift quickly; daily official checks are essential.

Getting around

How the coast connects

Metro, buses, cycling routes and taxis reach the beachfront; parking is rarely the simplest choice.

The coast itself

Rio de Janeiro in photographs

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

Evening light on the wide sand of Copacabana beach with city buildings and a headland behind
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilSunset along Copacabana, city front on one side and open Atlantic on the other.Photo: Rjcastillo / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
View from a rock over the Ipanema and Leblon beachfront toward the twin peaks of Morro Dois Irmaos
Ipanema and Leblon from Pedra do Arpoador, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilIpanema and Leblon from the Pedra do Arpoador, with Morro Dois Irmaos closing the bay.Photo: Rafaelkatz / 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 Rio de Janeiro: sourced beach coordinates around -22.984, -43.204, with the destination centre marked
404 sourced beach records inside a frame roughly 346 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 -22.984 alone. This is astronomy, not weather: no temperature, swell, rainfall or “best month” claim is implied for Rio de Janeiro. Longest around Dec (13h 24m), shortest around Jun (10h 36m) — a 2.8-hour swing across the year.

Launch coverage

Beaches in Rio de Janeiro

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

Wide view of Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro.
South America

Ipanema Beach

Rio de Janeiro · Brazil

Sand
Pale tan
Water
Open Atlantic water; surf and...

The rest of this coast

Sourced records nearby

289 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 ArpoadorRio de Janeiro, Brazil1.3 km
  2. Praia do DiaboRio de Janeiro, Brazil1.5 km
  3. Praia do LeblonRio de Janeiro, Brazil1.6 km
  4. Praia do VidigalRio de Janeiro, Brazil3.0 km
  5. Copacabana BeachRio de Janeiro, Brazil3.1 km
  6. Praia do LemeRio de Janeiro, Brazil4.1 km
  7. Praia de BotafogoRio de Janeiro, Brazil4.9 km
  8. Praia VermelhaRio de Janeiro, Brazil5.1 km
  9. Praia da UrcaRio de Janeiro, Brazil5.8 km
  10. Praia de São ConradoRio de Janeiro, Brazil6.1 km
  11. Praia da GáveaRio de Janeiro, Brazil6.5 km
  12. Praia do ForteRio de Janeiro, Brazil6.5 km
  13. Praia de São JoãoRio de Janeiro, Brazil6.6 km
  14. Praia do FlamengoRio de Janeiro, Brazil7.1 km
  15. Praia da JoatingaRio de Janeiro, Brazil9.5 km
  16. Praia do ImbuíRio de Janeiro, Brazil10.3 km
  17. Praia da EvaRio de Janeiro, Brazil10.3 km
  18. Praia dos AmoresRio de Janeiro, Brazil10.3 km
  19. Praia do AdãoRio de Janeiro, Brazil10.4 km
  20. Praia CanalRio de Janeiro, Brazil10.7 km
  21. Praia de JurujubaRio de Janeiro, Brazil10.8 km
  22. Praia da VárzeaRio de Janeiro, Brazil10.8 km
  23. Praia FundaRio de Janeiro, Brazil11.2 km
  24. Praia BravaRio de Janeiro, Brazil11.3 km
  25. Praia Boa ViagemRio de Janeiro, Brazil11.5 km
  26. Praia da Areia GrossaRio de Janeiro, Brazil11.8 km
  27. Praia da TijucaRio de Janeiro, Brazil11.9 km
  28. Praia das FlechasRio de Janeiro, Brazil12.1 km
  29. Praia de PiratiningaRio de Janeiro, Brazil12.3 km
  30. Praia de IcaraíRio de Janeiro, Brazil12.6 km
  31. Praia CharitasRio de Janeiro, Brazil12.7 km
  32. Praia de São FranciscoRio de Janeiro, Brazil13.4 km
  33. Praia do SossegoRio de Janeiro, Brazil14.1 km
  34. PRAIA DA BARRARio de Janeiro, Brazil14.5 km
  35. Praia de CamboinhasRio de Janeiro, Brazil15.1 km
  36. Praia da AmendoeiraRio de Janeiro, Brazil16.1 km
  37. Praia de ItaipuRio de Janeiro, Brazil16.3 km
  38. Praia de RamosRio de Janeiro, Brazil16.8 km
  39. Praia BravaRio de Janeiro, Brazil17.0 km
  40. Praia de ItacoatiaraRio de Janeiro, Brazil17.2 km

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Destination provenance

Sources

  1. IpanemaWikipedia contributors ↗

    Used for geographic identity and urban context; daily water and surf conditions are not inferred.