Find Nearest Beaches in Kent

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

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Sandwich Bay Beach

Sandwich Bay beach is a long stretch of beach that consists of pebble at the top and then very large sand flats, backed by some sand dunes. As you move from south to north you get more sand and less pebbles,  although the northern end is often used by naturists. This stretch of coast is a nature reserve. Access via Read more…
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Viking Bay Beach

Viking Bay beach is the main bay of the seven Broadstairs bays, a sandy beach with clifftop promenade, harbour pier, sea water tidal swimming pool and a boardwalk. The beach has a slope on the northern end of the harbour whilst on the southern end, you have steps or a seasonal lift to get you down from the gardens at Read more…
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Epple Bay Beach

Epple Bay has a small sandy beach with chalk cliffs and cliff stacks. The beach has concrete sea defences below the cliffs and a large grass area on top of the cliffs. No facilities are listed. Read more…
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Kingsgate Bay Beach

Kingsgate Bay is a quiet and secluded sandy beach approximately 150 meters long and is one of the smaller of the Broadstairs bays. A great bay for those who like to get away from it all. The bay has white chalk cliffs and some of the best examples of sea caves in the country. You have steep steps down the Read more…
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Ramsgate Main Sands Beach

Ramsgate resorts popular main sandy beach approximately 250 meters long with promenade. The resort beach is situated right next to the glorious Royal Harbour and Marina. Facilities include first aid station, lifeguards, cafe, deckchairs and sun loungers hire, toilets, lift and shops. Read more…
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The Warren Folkestone Beach

The Warren beach is just outside Folkestone, a sand and rocky beach backed by high chalk cliffs and a concrete promenade and sea defences. Facilities at the beach include promenade and parking. Read more…
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Greatstone Beach

Greatstone Beach – The sandy beach at Greatstone is quite flat and stretches from north to south for over two miles backed by sand dunes. At low tide you can have upto half a mile walk to the sea. Greatstone beach provides safe sea bathing in the haven of Romney Bay and miles of fine sand, dunes that are a Read more…
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Hampton Pier East Beach

East Beach is a pebble beach sitting to the east of Hampton Pier at the west end of Herne Bay, Kent. Hampton Pier is some 350 feet (110 m) long built on a curve of the coastline. Toilets, pub, grass park We have no dog information for Hampton Pier – East beach. Read more…
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Sunny Sands Beach

Sunny Sands beach is a sandy beach to the east of Folkestone harbour. The beach can get very busy in the summer as it is a rare sandy beach on this stretch of coast. Facilities include parking available next to the harbour, promenade, toilets, cafe, pubs and beach shop. Read more…
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Battery Point Beach

Battery Point beach is part of a long stretch of shingle beach. The beach marks the end Hythe and the start of Sandgate. Like this whole stretch the beach has a wide pebble top with a steep sloe down to the water or low tide areas. Motorized craft can be launched from the slipway. Parking on the road and a Read more…
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Dungeness Beach

Dungeness is sparsely populated and Europe’s largest vegetated shingle split with steep pebbly banks. Anglers and bird watchers are more common than families with the RSPB maintaining a reserve with hides. At the railway station, you have free parking, a cafe and toilets just 5 minutes away. No facilities exist at Dungeness Point itself. Read more…
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Pegwell Bay Beach

Pegwell Bay is a stretch of unprotected sea cliffs with great geological interest and a sandy bay. The bay is part of Kent’s largest National Nature Reserve. A full-size replica Scandinavian longboat ‘Hugin’, complete with shields stands on the cliff top overlooking the bay to commemorate the first Anglo-Saxon landings in England hereabouts. At the north east corner of the Read more…
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