Bečićisand and fine pebble · 1.9–2 km · water ExcellentNearly two kilometres of fine sand and shingle with a shallow shoreline, six Blue Flag concessions and a Paris Grand Prix from 1935.Bečići or Rafailovići?
Two beaches 0.9 km apart, measured the same way. Bečići and Rafailovići side by side, on the nine things that decide which one your afternoon should go to.
Bečićisand and fine pebble · 1.9–2 km · water ExcellentNearly two kilometres of fine sand and shingle with a shallow shoreline, six Blue Flag concessions and a Paris Grand Prix from 1935.
Rafailovićisand and fine pebble · 1.9–2 km · water ExcellentThe fishing-village end of the Bečići strand: two managed sectors, a working mooring, fish restaurants on the quay and the tunnel path to Kamenovo.The short answer
Choose Bečići for
Nothing here that Rafailovići does not also offer.
Choose Rafailovići for
- loungers, food and somewhere to change
Measure by measure
| Measure | Bečići | Rafailovići |
|---|---|---|
| Surface | sand and fine pebble | sand and fine pebble |
| Entry | gentle | gentle |
| Depth | shallow | shallow |
| Shade | trees and umbrellas | umbrellas for hire |
| Character | organised and free sections | organised |
| Length | 1.9–2 km | 1.9–2 km |
| Latest water | Excellent | Excellent |
| Crowd | busy in season | busy in season |
| Getting there | by road | by road |
Bold marks a measure where the two differ.
Each in our own words
Bečići
Bečići is the long beach of the Budva riviera: 1,950 m by the usual figure, fine sand mixed with small shingle that is gentler underfoot than most of the coast, and water that stays shallow at the shoreline. It is divided among hotel and public concessions — six held a 2024 Blue Flag — but public-beach rules keep half of each public sector free of furniture, and the eastern end towards Rafailovići is the least crowded. The 1935 Paris Grand Prix is a long time ago; the sand still earns its place.
The strand is a resort beach: hotel sectors, jet skis and parasailing craft off the buoy line, and almost no shade beyond what you rent; in July and August the middle sectors fill by mid-morning.
Rafailovići
Rafailovići is not a separate bay but the compact eastern end of the Bečići strand, where the sand turns to pebble, the buildings crowd the headland and a 65 m mooring still lands and sells the catch. Its two managed sectors, 15D and 16A, follow the public-beach rules, and the quay restaurants — Porat, Tri Ribara, Obala, Aleksandar — are the reason many people come. East of the village the coast path runs under the layered rock of Cape Đevištenje and through a lit tunnel to Kamenovo in about ten minutes.
Road space is limited, parking is scarce and the restaurants sit close to the rooms above them; the beach itself is small, divided and busy in summer, and we hold no site-specific water result for it.