Top 10 best beaches in Barcelona Spain (with Photos)

Barcelona is a famous travel destination. Thanks to its three-mile stretch of sandy beaches that run the entire length of the city. Barcelona boasts some stunning beaches and everyone can enjoy sunbathing, sport, and relaxing.

Get inspired by this list of the top 10 best beaches in Barcelona. That you must not miss during your summer holiday.

 

1- Barceloneta Beach:

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Barceloneta is the best beach in Barcelona. It shares its name with the traditional fishing neighborhood. This is one of the most crowded stretches of sand and sea in Barcelona.

The sunbathers can not only swim but they can enjoy a vibrant ambiance during the day or at night. Besides, the beach offers a variety of water sports as windsurfing and kite-surfing.

Without forgetting disabled people, they have an area that includes a bathing support service. It aims to help them in and out of the water so they can enjoy bathing in the beach.

 

2- Nova Icaria Beach:

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Nova Icaria beach is one the calmest in Barcelona. It is the perfect choice for families or those looking to relax. This beach has a 400km of sandy beach and sea. Also a wide range of great restaurants and bars, making it a famous destination to enjoy summer.

Nova Icaria Beach boasts a game area includes a ping-pong table, and two volleyball courts, close to the Olympic Park.

This beach has a special area for persons with disabilities and reduced mobility. It includes a bathing support service to help them in and out of the water so they can enjoy bathing in the sea.

 

3- Ocata Beach:

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Ocata beach located in the north of Barcelona is clean, flat, peaceful, and has a wide golden white sand. This beach is the best in Barcelona, it is fewer crowded than the other Barcelona beaches. It attracts fewer tourists than the other beaches, making it the ideal spot for more privacy.

 

4- Nova Mar Bella Beach:

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Mar Bella beach sites to the Sant Martí district and is about 512 meters long. Besides, it emerged from the urban reconstruction of the Barcelona seafront.

Nova Mar Bella beach is one of the best beaches in Barcelona. It offers many facilities including children’s playground, volleyball court, basketball hoop, a skateboard rink, and a ping-pong table. Located on the higher part of the promenade Passeig Marítim, close to the Mar Bella sports pavilion.

It has easy access to reach the dry beach, adapted toilets, visual and tactile signage, information, and wooden walkways. That make reaching water as easy as possible. Also adapted showers with chairs for persons with disabilities and reduced mobility.

 

5- Llevant beach:

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Llevant beach is a newly created beach on the Barcelona seafront. Completed in summer 2006. Situated next to Nova Mar Bella beach. 

This beach has 375 meters long. Besides, has an area set aside for dog owners and their pets throughout the summer season. Additionally, it is equipped with volleyball court, situated at the west end near the sea wall that separates it from Nova Mar Bella beach.

Llevant beach has a special area for persons with disabilities and reduced mobility. It includes a bathing support service to help them in and out of the water so they can enjoy bathing in the sea.

 

6- Fòrum Bathing Area:

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The Fòrum bathing area is about 375 meters long and about 30 meters wide. The area has no sand and the water reach using steps that descend from the paved area. It is important to know that area adjusted for people with disabilities. So that they can achieve the water.

This beach is unlike the other beaches. You should be careful about approaching the water, warning signs and notices. In addition, it is banned to venture outside the safe areas marked with float lines.

The Fòrum bathing area has a special area for persons with disabilities and reduced mobility. It includes a bathing support service to help them in and out of the water so they can enjoy bathing in the sea.

 

7- Sant Sebastia Beach:

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Sant Sebastia located in the Ciutat Vella district. It is the closest to the eastern end of Barcelona. Also the longest one stretches approximately 660 meters.

During the summer, Sant Sebastia beach is crowded and busy. Besides, it offers sporting activities like volleyball, or take part in extreme sports.

Sant Sebastià beach has a special attention for persons with disabilities. It includes a bathing support service to help them in and out of the water so they can enjoy bathing in the sea.

 

8- Bogatell Beach:

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Bogatell beach is one of the most accessible beaches to visit in Barcelona. Situated on the left side of the famous Olympic Port. The length of this beach is about 640 meters long. When Barcelona reconstructed its seafront in the 1990s; Bogatell beach is one of the renovated beaches.

Bogatell beach is where sunbathers can enjoy various sport activities: like two ping-pong tables, a football pitch, and a volleyball court.

This beach offers easy access for disabled people. To make reaching the dry beach, visual and tactile signage, adapted toilets, and wooden walkways as close as possible.

 

9- Sant Miquel Beach:

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Sant Miquel beach derives its name from the oldest Church of Sant Miquel del Port. The beach is located between the Sant Sebastià and Barceloneta beaches.

Sant Miquel is the best beach in Barcelona. It is the oldest in the city and is approximately 420 meters long. Besides, San Miquel beach has a vivid and busy atmosphere on the Barcelona seafront. As well as it is ideal for families of all ages, the warm golden sands, and crystal waters make a relaxed day by the sea. The bay lined with stretching palm trees. That lie in an arc around the beach, making its visual appeal obvious to all.

Sant Miquel beach offers easy access for disabled people. To make reaching the dry beach, visual and tactile signage, adapted toilets, and wooden walkways as close as possible.

 

10 – Somorrostro Beach:

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Somorrostro lies between the Gas breakwater and the Moll de Marina Pier. Not long ago, the beach was the site of a cabin neighborhood called Somorrostro. Where more than 15,000 people lived under terrible conditions. In the end, the place was destroyed in the 1960s and eventually became Barceloneta beach. Until 2010, this area of the coast recalled after its former name, to celebrate the memory of this historical site.

On this beach, you will find an information point, showers, WC, luggage storage, playground for children and beach volleyball, a library, beach bars, bicycle parking, restaurants, and free Wi-Fi.

Somorrostro beach offers easy access for disabled people. To make reaching the dry beach, visual and tactile signage, adapted toilets, and wooden walkways as close as possible.