Blue water dotted with forested islands, seen over palms and rooftops on a hillside

region field guide

The Whitsundays

A Queensland island group where protected reef waters, silica sand and sailing routes meet.

Photo: Tony Hisgett / Wikimedia Commons

Climate context

What changes through the year

Tropical marine conditions vary by wet and dry season; current wind, marine warnings and stinger guidance should be checked before travel.

Getting around

How the coast connects

Access is primarily by boat, ferry or aircraft through the Whitsunday coast. Individual beach access varies by operator and park rules.

The coast itself

The Whitsundays in photographs

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

Aerial view of white sandbars curving through turquoise water at Hill Inlet, Whitsunday Island
Hill Inlet, Whitsunday Island, AustraliaHill Inlet at the northern end of Whitsunday Island, where tidal currents move white silica sand through turquoise shallows.Photo: rheins / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0 ↗
View from a wooded headland over pale sand and calm turquoise water in Whitsunday Islands National Park
Whitsunday Islands National Park, Queensland, AustraliaThe Whitsunday Islands seen from a forested headland inside the national park.Photo: dronepicr / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 ↗

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 Whitsundays: sourced beach coordinates around -20.279, 149.036, with the destination centre marked
204 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 -20.279 alone. This is astronomy, not weather: no temperature, swell, rainfall or “best month” claim is implied for The Whitsundays. Longest around Dec (13h 12m), shortest around Jun (10h 48m) — a 2.4-hour swing across the year.

Launch coverage

Beaches in The Whitsundays

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

Wide view of Whitehaven Beach, Whitsunday Island, Australia.
South Pacific

Whitehaven Beach

Whitsunday Island · Australia

Sand
White
Water
Clear, shallow tropical water;...

The rest of this coast

Sourced records nearby

81 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. South Whitehaven BeachThe Whitsundays, Australia2.6 km
  2. Champagne BeachThe Whitsundays, Australia3.0 km
  3. Bettys BeachThe Whitsundays, Australia4.1 km
  4. Hideaway BayThe Whitsundays, Australia10.4 km
  5. Catseye BeachThe Whitsundays, Australia11.1 km
  6. Coral CoveThe Whitsundays, Australia11.6 km
  7. Escape BeachThe Whitsundays, Australia11.7 km
  8. Gap BeachQueensland, Australia17.8 km
  9. Oyster BeachThe Whitsundays, Australia20.0 km
  10. Back BeachThe Whitsundays, Australia20.2 km
  11. Pandanus BayThe Whitsundays, Australia20.6 km
  12. Bauer Bay BeachThe Whitsundays, Australia20.8 km
  13. Palm BeachThe Whitsundays, Australia20.8 km
  14. Paddle BeachThe Whitsundays, Australia21.5 km
  15. Cockatoo BeachThe Whitsundays, Australia22.3 km
  16. Coral BeachThe Whitsundays, Australia23.2 km
  17. Mermaids BeachThe Whitsundays, Australia23.3 km
  18. Sunset BeachThe Whitsundays, Australia23.4 km
  19. Lovers CoveThe Whitsundays, Australia23.5 km
  20. Caves CoveThe Whitsundays, Australia23.5 km
  21. Coral BeachThe Whitsundays, Australia25.7 km
  22. PutneyThe Whitsundays, Australia26.3 km
  23. Steens BeachThe Whitsundays, Australia26.9 km
  24. Hayman BeachThe Whitsundays, Australia28.9 km
  25. Coconut BeachThe Whitsundays, Australia29.2 km
  26. Pioneer PointThe Whitsundays, Australia29.6 km
  27. Blue Pearl Bay 1The Whitsundays, Australia30.3 km
  28. Goat BeachThe Whitsundays, Australia30.5 km
  29. Blue Pearl Bay 2The Whitsundays, Australia30.8 km
  30. Boathaven BeachThe Whitsundays, Australia32.4 km
  31. Repulse BeachQueensland, Australia36.0 km
  32. Conway BeachQueensland, Australia38.1 km
  33. Wilson BeachQueensland, Australia39.1 km
  34. New BeachQueensland, Australia44.4 km
  35. Covering BeachQueensland, Australia51.8 km
  36. Midge Point BeachThe Whitsundays, Australia53.0 km
  37. Ten Mile BeachQueensland, Australia56.6 km
  38. Dingo BeachQueensland, Australia59.4 km
  39. Dewars BeachQueensland, Australia60.2 km
  40. Mentmore BeachQueensland, Australia60.3 km

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Destination provenance

Sources

  1. Whitehaven BeachWikipedia contributors ↗

    Used for geographic identity and the beach’s silica-sand description; coordinate cross-checked with OpenStreetMap.