Nice Beach

Promenade des Anglais, Nice · 🇫🇷 France

Grey pebbles, improbably blue water and the Promenade des Anglais above. The Riviera's great city beach.

In season the water at Nice Beach (Promenade des Anglais, Nice, France) reaches about 25°C. Best months: Jun-Sep.

Sea temperature

~25°C in the warm season

Water

Startlingly blue and clear for a big city; deepens fast

Sand

Smooth grey pebbles (galets); no sand, a mat helps

Swimming

Shelves steeply into deep water; watch the shore-dump when swell runs

Best time to visit

Jun-Sep

Setting

Seven kilometres of open shingle below the Promenade des Anglais, Belle Époque hotels at your back

Beach type

City & resort

Region

Europe

Beaches near Nice Beach

• 
  Paloma Beach

  Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France · 6 km
• 
  Larvotto Beach

  Monte-Carlo, Monaco · 14 km
• 
  Plage de Pampelonne

  Saint-Tropez, France · 71 km
• 
  Plage de Notre-Dame

  Ile de Porquerolles, Hyeres, France · 113 km
• 
  Plage de l'Almanarre

  Presqu'île de Giens, Hyères, France · 116 km
• 
  Plage d'Argent

  Porquerolles, Provence, France · 116 km

More beaches in France

• 
  Dune du Pilat

  Pyla-sur-Mer, Arcachon, France
• 
  La Graviere

  Soorts-Hossegor, Landes, France
• 
  Plage de la Cote des Basques

  Biarritz, France
• 
  Plage de Palombaggia

  Corsica, France
• 
  Calanque d'En-Vau

  Cassis, France
• 
  Calanque de Sormiou

  Marseille, France

More city & resort beaches

• 
  Sveti Stefan Beach

  Budva Riviera, Montenegro
• 
  Brighton Beach

  Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
• 
  Cala Formentor

  Pollenca, Mallorca, Spain
• 
  Golden Sands

  Varna, Bulgaria

Explore more

• Beaches in the Côte d’Azur

Photo: Benoît Prieur (CC0) · source