Praia da Bordeira

Carrapateira, Algarve · 🇵🇹 Portugal

A vast, wild sweep of sand and dunes on the untamed Costa Vicentina, one of the Algarve's great surf and walking beaches.

Sea temperature

~18°C in the warm season

Water

Cool, clear Atlantic blue

Sand

Vast pale sand and dunes

Swimming

Strong currents — a surf and dune-walking beach

Surf

Long, consistent beach-break on the wild south-west

Best time to visit

Year-round

Setting

A huge dune-and-river beach in the Costa Vicentina wild park

Beach type

Surf coast

Region

Europe

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Photo: Paulo Valdivieso from Lisboa, Portugal (CC BY-SA 2.0) · source