Find Nearest Beaches in Fife

Planning a trip to the Fife coast and looking for where the nearest Fife beach is, our UK beach lists and beach search will help you discover the nearest beach to me.  Then for each Fife 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 Fife 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 Fife 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 Fife beach visit should be.

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Kinghorn Beach

One of the two beaches in Kinghorn, the other being Pettycur Bay. Kinhorn beach is a sheltered sandy bay within the town ideal for families with views out to Inchkeith Island. Read more…
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Tentsmuir Sands Beach

Tentsmuir Sands is a large sandy beach backed by a forest and sand dunes. Facilities include parking, toilets, cafe and picnic area. Read more…
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Earlsferry West Beach

Earlsferry West beach, golden sands backed by dunes in a sheltered position. Read more…
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Billow Ness Beach

Billow Ness beach is a quiet sandy bay to the west of Anstruther Harbour and part of the Fife Coastal Path. Facilities include car parking and toilets. Read more…
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Earlsferry Beach

Earlsferry beach, golden sands backed by dunes in a sheltered position. You can wonder long to the West beach if you want to be away from the houses. Read more…
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Pathhead Sands Beach

Pathhead Sands beach is a sandy beach that runs between Ravenscraig Castle in the east and Kirkcaldy Harbour to the west. Facilities at the beach include car parking, picnic tables and grass areas. Read more…
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Pittenweem Beach

Pittenweem is a small and secluded fishing village in Fife on the East coast of Scotland. The village sits next to a small working harbour and has a sand/shingle/rock mix beach. The beach is not brilliant but just around the headland, you have Pittenweem Tidal Pool which provides a great alternative. Pittenweem Harbour was first recorded as a port in Read more…
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St Andrews East Sands Beach

St Andrews East Sands is the middle size of the three St Andrew beaches, a sand beach sitting within the town backed by grass area. At the top end you have a small sea wall and harbour where local fishing boats operate from. Facilities include parking, toilets, slipway, cafe, and children’s play area. Read more…
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St Andrews West Sands Beach

The West Sands at St Andrews is a long stretch of sand backed by the famous Royal & Ancient Golf Club. You may also recognise it as the beach was used for the famous opening sequence of Chariots of Fire. The beach is sandy, stretches for 3 km (2 miles), is backed by large grass areas and sand dunes. Multiple options to park Read more…
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Pettycur Bay Beach

Pettycur Bay beach is a sheltered small sandy bay backed by sand dunes. At low tide Pettycur Bay becomes a massive expanse of sand and mud flats nearly one mile wide. The beach goes out to Black Rocks and joins up in the west to Burntisland beach. Read more…
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Lundin Links Beach

Lundin Links beach is a sandy beach with some rocks and the beach is backed by Lundin golf course. The beach is the middle section within Largo Bay which has a long stretch of sand from Leven in the west to  Earlsferry in the east. You can join through any of the beaches and wonder along the coast to the others. The beach Read more…
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Elie Ruby Bay Beach

Ruby Bay is a sandy beach in a sheltered bay to the east of the village of Elie that is backed by dunes and grass areas. The beach is also referred to as Wood Haven. The beach is known for “Elie rubies”, blood-red pyrope garnets embedded in the volcanic rock along the shoreline. On a sunny day, you can lie down Read more…
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Find Fife Dog Friendly Beaches

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

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

Our Fife dog friendly beach list currently has 14 Fife beaches listed where dogs are allowed with 2 beaches that have some dog restrictions, and there are no beaches on which a full dog ban is in operation.

Fife dog friendly beaches Fife Beaches allowing dogs

This list shows 14 Fife beaches with no dog restrictions and can be used all year.

  1. Kingsbarns Beach, Kingsbarns
  2. Seafield Beach, Kirkcaldy
  3. Leven Beach, Leven
  4. Tentsmuir Sands Beach, Tayport
  5. Black Sands Beach, Aberdour
  6. Billow Ness Beach, Anstruther
  7. Kinghorn Beach, Kinghorn
  8. Pettycur Bay Beach, Kinghorn
  9. Lower Largo Beach, Leven
  10. Pathhead Sands Beach, Kirkcaldy
  11. Roome Bay Beach, Crail
  12. St Andrews West Sands Beach, St Andrews
  13. St Andrews East Sands Beach, St Andrews
  14. Elie Ruby Bay Beach, Leven

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.

Fife beaches with dog restrictions Fife Beaches that have dog restrictions

This list shows 2 Fife 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. Silver Sands Beach, Aberdour
  2. Earlsferry Beach, Leven

Fife Beaches that do not allow dogs Fife Beaches that do not allow dogs

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

Fife Beaches that we have NO dog restriction information

This list shows 9 Fife beaches where we have no information on dog restrictions.

  1. Earlsferry West Beach, Leven
  2. Burntisland Beach, Burntisland
  3. Dalgety Bay Beach, Dunfermline
  4. Linktown Beach, Kirkcaldy
  5. Largo East Beach, Leven
  6. Lundin Links Beach, Leven
  7. Pittenweem Beach, Anstruther
  8. Shell Bay Beach, Leven
  9. Castle Sands Beach, St Andrews

    10. If a Fife 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.