The beach atlas
Reachable on a coastal walk
16 of the 35 beaches in the atlas.
Budva riviera
BečićiBečićka plaža
Nearly two kilometres of fine sand and shingle with a shallow shoreline, six Blue Flag concessions and a Paris Grand Prix from 1935.
- Surface
- sand and fine pebble
- Entry
- entry gentle
- Character
- organised and free sections
- Length
- 1950–2000 m
Budva riviera
Sveti Stefan
A 300-metre strand of pink-red pebble on the public side of the Sveti Stefan causeway, with the fortified island filling every frame.
- Surface
- sand and fine pebble
- Entry
- entry moderate
- Character
- organised
- Length
- 300 m
Budva riviera
Queen's BeachKraljičina plaža
A cove of pale sand and pebble in the Miločer park, named for Queen Marija in the 1930s and reserved for Aman guests again since July 2026.
- Surface
- sand and fine pebble
- Entry
- entry gentle
- Character
- organised
- Length
- 100–200 m
Budva riviera
Kamenovo
A 340-metre arc of sand and fine pebble reached through a tunnel in the rock, with the cleanest official water results on the riviera.
- Surface
- sand and fine pebble
- Entry
- entry gentle
- Character
- organised
- Length
- 330–350 m
Budva riviera
Pržno
A 260-metre village beach of sand and pebble with fish restaurants at the water’s edge, a Poor result and bathing ban in July 2026 and Excellent results ever since.
- Surface
- sand and fine pebble
- Entry
- entry gentle
- Character
- organised
- Length
- 150–260 m
Budva riviera
PetrovacPetrovačka plaža
A 600-metre crescent of reddish sand and fine shingle with a town promenade along its whole length and two chapel-topped islets offshore.
- Surface
- sand and fine pebble
- Entry
- entry gentle
- Character
- organised
- Length
- 600 m
Budva riviera
Lučice
A 220-metre cove of golden sand between two pine headlands, a fifteen-minute walk from Petrovac and a Blue Flag site in 2026.
- Surface
- sand and fine pebble
- Entry
- entry gentle
- Character
- organised
- Length
- 220–250 m
Budva riviera
Buljarica
The longest beach on the Budva riviera — 2,250 metres of sand, gravel and stone backed by a protected wetland, with almost nothing built on it.
- Surface
- sand and fine pebble
- Entry
- entry moderate
- Character
- organised and free sections
- Length
- 2200–2500 m
Ulcinj riviera
Long BeachVelika plaža
Twelve to thirteen kilometres of fine dark sand from Port Milena to the Bojana mouth, shallow for a long way out and swept by a thermal wind every summer afternoon.
- Surface
- fine sand
- Entry
- entry gentle
- Character
- organised and free sections
- Length
- 12000–13000 m
Ulcinj riviera
Small BeachMala plaža
Ulcinj’s town beach: about 400 m of sand in an enclosed bay directly below the Kalaja walls, five minutes from the bus station and never quiet after ten.
- Surface
- sand
- Entry
- entry gentle
- Character
- organised
- Length
- 400 m
Herceg Novi riviera
Savina
The 200-metre pebble-and-concrete shore on the Pet Danica promenade below Savina monastery, twenty minutes’ walk east of Herceg Novi’s old town.
- Surface
- pebble
- Entry
- entry moderate
- Character
- organised and free sections
- Length
- 200 m
Herceg Novi riviera
Igalo
The flattest, gentlest shore on the bay: up to a kilometre of sand, pebble and concrete platforms in shallow warm water, with the mud beach of Stara Banja at the Sutorina mouth.
- Surface
- sand and fine pebble
- Entry
- entry gentle
- Character
- organised
- Length
- 600–1000 m
Bay of Kotor
Stoliv
No beach at all — concrete platforms and pontoons on the captains’ waterfront of Donji Stoliv, facing Perast across flat water, with the chestnut woods of the upper village behind.
- Surface
- concrete platforms
- Entry
- entry steep
- Character
- wild
- Length
- 100 m
Budva riviera
Rafailovići
The fishing-village end of the Bečići strand: two managed sectors, a working mooring, fish restaurants on the quay and the tunnel path to Kamenovo.
- Surface
- sand and fine pebble
- Entry
- entry gentle
- Character
- organised
- Length
- 1950–2000 m
Bar riviera
Žukotrlica
A kilometre of pebbles under mature Aleppo pines at the northern end of Bar’s seafront, the start of the 3.6 km King’s Promenade and the town beach locals use.
- Surface
- pebble
- Entry
- entry moderate
- Character
- organised and free sections
- Length
- 1000 m
Ulcinj riviera
Women's BeachŽenska plaža
A screened cove east of Ulcinj with a sulphur spring in the shallows, run as a women-only bathing area from May to October and visited for a fertility tradition older than any of its operators.
- Surface
- pebble
- Entry
- entry rocky
- Character
- organised
- Length
- 50–100 m