Beaches in Dorset
32 named beaches. Wildest: Worbarrow Bay. Easiest beach day: Weymouth Beach.
Wild beaches: Top 10
Nature is the point: famous, protected, big and quiet
- Worbarrow BayDorset National Landscape · about 5.6 hectares
- St Oswald's BayDorset National Landscape · about 1.2 hectares · Excellent water (2025)
- PondfieldDorset National Landscape
- Chapman's PoolDorset National Landscape · about 4900 m²
- Arish MellDorset National Landscape
- Egmont BightDorset National Landscape · about 5900 m²
- Studland Naturist BeachDorset National Landscape · about 2.5 hectares
- Lulworth CoveDorset National Landscape · about 1.4 hectares · Excellent water (2025)
- Man O' War CoveDorset National Landscape · about 9500 m² · Excellent water (2025)
- Durdle DoorDorset National Landscape · about 3.7 hectares · Excellent water (2025)
Easy beach days: Top 10
Cafe, toilets and parking a few steps from the sand
- Weymouth BeachCafe or food, Toilets, Parking, Lifeguards · Good water (2025)
- Swanage BeachCafe or food, Toilets, Parking, Showers or water · Excellent water (2025)
- Shell BayCafe or food, Toilets, Parking, Showers or water · Excellent water (2025)
- East BeachCafe or food, Toilets, Parking, Lifeguards · Excellent water (2025)
- Knoll BeachCafe or food, Toilets, Parking, Showers or water · Excellent water (2025)
- Monmouth BeachCafe or food, Toilets, Parking, Lifeguards · Good water (2025)
- Portland BeachCafe or food, Toilets, Parking, Bus under 100 m
- Bowleaze CoveCafe or food, Toilets, Parking, Bus under 100 m · Good water (2025)
- Ringstead BeachCafe or food, Toilets, Parking · Excellent water (2025)
- Charmouth BeachCafe or food, Toilets, Parking · Excellent water (2025)
Every beach in Dorset
A to Z- Arish Mell
- Arne Bay
- Balaclava BayParking
- Bowleaze CoveCafe or food, Toilets, Parking, Good water (2025)
- Castle CoveCafe or food, Toilets, Bus 400 m, Excellent water (2025)
- Chapman's Pool
- Charmouth BeachCafe or food, Toilets, Parking, Excellent water (2025)
- Chesil BeachCafe or food, Toilets, Parking
- Church Cliff BeachCafe or food, Toilets, Parking, Poor water (2025)
- Church Ope CoveToilets, Parking, Bus 250 m, Excellent water (2025)
- Durdle DoorExcellent water (2025)
- East BeachCafe or food, Toilets, Parking, Excellent water (2025)
- Egmont Bight
- Hive BeachCafe or food, Parking, Bus 400 m, Excellent water (2025)
- Knoll BeachCafe or food, Toilets, Parking, Excellent water (2025)
- Little BeachParking, Bus 250 m
- Lulworth CoveCafe or food, Toilets, Bus 300 m, Excellent water (2025)
- Man O' War CoveExcellent water (2025)
- Monmouth BeachCafe or food, Toilets, Parking, Good water (2025)
- Pondfield
- Portland BeachCafe or food, Toilets, Parking
- Redhorn Quay
- Ringstead BeachCafe or food, Toilets, Parking, Excellent water (2025)
- Seatown BeachCafe or food, Toilets, Parking, Excellent water (2025)
- Shell BayCafe or food, Toilets, Parking, Excellent water (2025)
- Shipstal Beach
- South BeachCafe or food, Toilets, Parking
- St Oswald's BayExcellent water (2025)
- Studland Naturist Beach
- Swanage BeachCafe or food, Toilets, Parking, Excellent water (2025)
- Weymouth BeachCafe or food, Toilets, Parking, Good water (2025)
- Worbarrow Bay