Find Nearest Beaches in East Sussex

Planning a trip to the East Sussex coast and looking for where the nearest East Sussex beach is, our UK beach lists and beach search will help you discover the nearest beach to me.  Then for each East Sussex beach, we will answer questions around location, rural or town, sandy or pebble, rockpools, tide times, weather forecast, dog restrictions, bathing water quality, closest beach cafes and provide general information on the beach, its facilities and the surrounding area.

When on a beach page use our tools to expand your search to nearby seaside villages, towns and the surrounding East Sussex coast for things to see and do or places to eat.

If you are looking for an award-winning beach, you can browse our UK Blue Flag lists or our UK Seaside Award lists.

Have a dog? Finding a dog-friendly beach can be hard work and our dog-friendly beach lists will help direct you to the best locations allowing dogs.

Finding the best beach in East Sussex is easy – explore the beach links below, to find the closest beach just hit the “Find Near Me” button or use the search bar to plan where your next East Sussex beach visit should be.

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Eastbourne-Seafront

Eastbourne Seafront Beach

Eastbourne Seafront has a number of beaches that offer slightly different experiences for the eastbourne visitor. Watersports including windsurfing and kayaking. Parking, toilets, showers, lifeguards, promenade, pier, restaurants, cafes, shops, beach huts, cabins, rentals (sun loungers, deckchairs), kidzsafe wristband scheme, children’s attractions and amusements. We have no dog information for Eastbourne Seafront beach. Read more…
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Eastbourne Wish Tower to Pier Beach

Eastbourne is a traditional British seaside resort with pier, bandstand, promenade and famed floral carpet gardens. Very popular shingle beach which has sandy stretches at mid to low tide. From the Wish Tower to the Pier the main resort beaches offers clean bathing water and safe bathing zone. Water sports, children’s theme parks, mini golf, gardens, a Victorian Pier, Napoleonic Read more…
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Normans Bay Beach

Normans Bay beach is a wide-open expanse of beach. The beach is typical of this part of coast with pebbles at high tide and as the tide goes out large expanse of sand appears. A perfect beach for traditional family beach activities. Norman’s Bay does have a caravan park which gives you some facilities but also more people. Although, the Read more…
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Pevensey Bay Beach

Pevensey Bay beach is shingle beach with groynes to protect from erosion. This is a popular windsurfing and kitesurfing beach with easy access and a car park right on the beach front. Parking, toilets, shops. We have no dog information for Pevensey Bay beach. Read more…
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Seaford Dane Beach

Seaford Dane beach is one end of an approximate 4 miles of sand and shingle beach to the West of the the chalk cliffs of Seaford Head Nature Reserve. Facilities include car parking, food, toilets and zones in place for watersports. Read more…
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Hastings Beach

The main family beach in Hastings is also known as Pelham beach and consists of pebbles but as the tide goes out you get plenty of sand to enjoy. The beach sits between Hastings Pier and the East cliffs in front of Hastings old town. The beach is part of a long seafront and the beach stretching to the west Read more…
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West Quay Beach

West Quay beach is a sand and shingle beach tucked behind the western breakwater. Newhaven Fort is located on top of the cliffs with tunnels that lead down to the beach. Facilities include parking, cafe, slipway. Read more…
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Winchelsea Beach

Winchelsea Beach is mainly shingle/pebbles at high tide but as the sea goes out a very long way at low tide you get a large expanse of sand. You do need to be a little careful in that at low tide you have a lot of muddy patches. This is a good all-round family beach that never gets crowded although Read more…
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St Leonards Beach

St. Leonards beach, also known as Marina beach, runs westwards from the Hastings Pier. The beach is shingle and has large sandy areas as the tide goes out. The town of St. Leonards-on-Sea is often thought to be Hastings but although they are joined together, is a different town being full of Regency terraces and squares that back away from Read more…
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Jurys Gap Beach

Jury’s Gap beach is also known as Broomhill Sands and is located at the eastern end of Camber Sands near Jury’s Gap, hence the name. The beach is sandy with groynes and as the tide goes out you have a massive beach to play on. Excellent windsurfing and kite surfing beach with shallow water and lagoons on either side of Read more…
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Eastbourne East Beach

Eastbourne is a traditional British seaside resort with pier, bandstand, promenade and famed floral carpet gardens. The east beach stretches from the Pier to Redoubt Fortress and is a shingle beach which has sandy stretches at mid to low tide. Deck chair and beach hut hire, lifeguards, first aid, kidzone wristbands, showers, refreshments, children entertainers and a slipway are among Read more…
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Saltdean Beach

Saltdean beach is shingle between rock groynes backed by high chalk cliffs and at low tide, you have rock pools to explore. Located approximately 5 miles to the East of Brighton. Due to the coastal erosion on this part of the coast you have a lot of concrete defences visible, so this is not a beach to get back to nature Read more…
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Find East Sussex Dog Friendly Beaches

Heading to the East Sussex coast with your dog and not sure if they are allowed on any beaches?

This East Sussex list of dog friendly beaches will help in planning your next trip to the beach, beaches for dogs near East Sussex

Our East Sussex dog friendly beach list currently has 3 East Sussex beaches listed where dogs are allowed with 16 beaches that have some dog restrictions, and there are no beaches on which a full dog ban is in operation.

East Sussex dog friendly beaches East Sussex Beaches allowing dogs

This list shows 3 East Sussex beaches with no dog restrictions and can be used all year.

  1. Cooden Beach, Bexhill
  2. West Quay Beach, Newhaven
  3. Normans Bay Beach, Pevensey

Note, although dogs are allowed you are expected to keep control of your dog, clean-up after them and some beaches may require you to keep them on a lead. Please check local information sites for any restrictions.

East Sussex beaches with dog restrictions East Sussex Beaches that have dog restrictions

This list shows 16 East Sussex beaches allowing dogs but with some restrictions. These restrictions could be a time of day, restricted zones, dogs to be kept on a lead or only allowed out of season. Check our beach information page for details of the restrictions in place.

  1. Brighton Beach, Brighton
  2. Camber Sands Beach, Rye
  3. Eastbourne Wish Tower to Pier Beach, Eastbourne
  4. Eastbourne East Beach, Eastbourne
  5. Bexhill Beach, Bexhill
  6. Jurys Gap Beach, Rye
  7. Cuckmere Haven Beach, Seaford
  8. Eastbourne Seafront Beach, Eastbourne
  9. Western Parade Beach, Eastbourne
  10. Hastings Beach, Hastings
  11. Bulverhythe Beach, Hastings
  12. Saltdean Beach, Brighton
  13. Seaford Bay Beach, Seaford
  14. Seaford Dane Beach, Seaford
  15. St Leonards Beach, Hastings
  16. Winchelsea Beach, Rye

East Sussex Beaches that do not allow dogs East Sussex Beaches that do not allow dogs

We have no East Sussex beaches recorded that do not allow dogs at any time.

East Sussex Beaches that we have NO dog restriction information

This list shows 4 East Sussex beaches where we have no information on dog restrictions.

  1. Birling Gap Beach, Eastbourne
  2. Covehurst Bay Beach, Hastings
  3. Newhaven Harbour Beach, Newhaven
  4. Pevensey Bay Beach, Eastbourne

    5. If a East Sussex beach is not listed above then we have no information and you will have to check local beach information boards.

    Note that we try to keep this dog beach information up to date but restrictions are set by local councils and occasionally we may miss a change.