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.
Our verdict
Lučice is the better of Petrovac’s two beaches and the locals treat it that way: fine golden-yellow sand, a shallow sandy bottom, cypress and pine down to the rocks on both sides, and an undeveloped hinterland that keeps it feeling like a cove rather than a resort. Sector 26A flew a Blue Flag in 2026, with a bar, loungers and showers in season. The walk over the headland from Petrovac is the point — short, scenic and enough to thin the crowd.
Lučice, in facts
The shore
Facilities
Access
Rules and character
Facts verified September 28, 2026 · Length: Budva Tourist Organisation gives about 220 m and 4,250 m²; our 25-best list gives 250 m · 8 more still to check on the ground
Lučice in pictures
Some of these are ours, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0; the rest are licensed and are not.
Map
The shaded water is the official bathing zone for station Lučice — the stretch JP Morsko dobro actually samples, not an outline of the beach.
Getting there
14 km
Budva
17 km
Bar
29 km
Kotor
Straight-line distances — Montenegro's roads are mountain roads, so the drive is longer.
- On the The Roman Road walkThe Roman Road
- By busBudva–Petrovac (Mediteran Express) to Petrovac, then 15 minutes on foot over the headland
- By carA small car park above the beach off the Petrovac–Bar road; it fills early, so park in Petrovac and walk
- 15 min on footflat — The coastal path south-east from Petrovac beach through the pines and over the first headland — about 500 m as the crow flies, longer on the ground
Today at Lučice
Which way the beach faces is computed from the OpenStreetMap coastline, so onshore and offshore mean this shore and not the region. Forecast by Open-Meteo
Water and awards
Excellent
Latest official sample September 29, 2026: Excellent
Sea 21.6 °C when the sample was taken
8 of 10 samples Excellent across the 2026 season
Official result from JP Morsko dobro, station Lučice
A sheltered cove with a sandy bottom; Blue Flag site in 2026
- Blue Flag 2026 — site 26A Petrovac–Lučice, operator Pešter DOOAn annual award, valid only for the season it is flown; earlier years are not documented in our guide — read the flag on the day
Know before you swim
- A small bay: a westerly or southerly wind puts swell across the whole cove and the sandy bottom shifts
- Stone at both edges of the sand — water shoes for the rocks and the headland path
- The path from Petrovac has little shade and a short climb over the headland; carry water in July and August
- No lifeguard outside the Blue Flag season — keep children within reach
When the water is warm
Lučice was at its warmest, 28.1 °C, on September 1, 2026, and at its coldest, 20.3 °C, on May 26, 2026. Every point is a real sampling visit with the temperature read on the spot, not a monthly average copied from somewhere else.
Hollow points are the 2 samplings that came back below Excellent.
See all 10 samplings
| Sampled | Sea | Result |
|---|---|---|
| September 29, 2026 | 21.6 °C | Excellent |
| September 15, 2026 | 25.1 °C | Excellent |
| September 1, 2026 | 28.1 °C | Excellent |
| August 18, 2026 | 26.6 °C | Excellent |
| August 4, 2026 | 27.0 °C | Excellent |
| July 21, 2026 | 24.6 °C | Sufficient |
| July 7, 2026 | 21.8 °C | Excellent |
| June 23, 2026 | 23.8 °C | Excellent |
| June 9, 2026 | 22.7 °C | Sufficient |
| May 26, 2026 | 20.3 °C | Excellent |
Season by season
Lučice has been sampled 69 times since 2020: 65 of those readings Excellent, 4 below it.
How warm the water got, season by season. The average is of the July and August samplings only — a fixed window, so a year the inspectors happened to come early does not read as a cold one.
A handful of seasons is a record, not a trend: the spread here is what a few dated readings look like, not evidence of a sea warming or cooling. A hollow point marks a season that recorded a sampling below Excellent.
| Season | Samplings | Excellent | Below | Jul–Aug mean | Warmest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 9 | 9 | — | 24.3 °C | 25.5 °C |
| 2021 | 10 | 10 | — | 26.5 °C | 27.8 °C |
| 2022 | 10 | 10 | — | 24.6 °C | 30 °C |
| 2023 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 24 °C | 28.3 °C |
| 2024 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 23.8 °C | 27.4 °C |
| 2025 | 10 | 10 | — | 23.1 °C | 26.2 °C |
| 2026in progress | 10 | 8 | 2 | 25 °C | 28.1 °C |
Licensed as
The state leases this coast lot by lot. Lučice is a single lot covering about 215 m of shore, with an official category.
Among them: Party beach.
| Category | Lots | Shore |
|---|---|---|
| Party beach | 1 | 215 m |
About 5,750 m² in total. This is what has been licensed, not what we saw: the number of sunbeds, toilets and showers on a lot is fixed in the signed lease, which is not published. JP Morsko dobro tenders
Nearby beaches
Lučice and its neighbours
The same nine measures for the beaches you could reach the same day. Bold means it differs from this one.
| Measure | Lučicethis beach |  Petrovac1.0 km |  Buljarica1.5 km |  Drobni Pijesak5.5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surface | sand and fine pebble | sand and fine pebble | sand and fine pebble | sand and fine pebble |
| Entry | gentle | gentle | moderate — differs | moderate — differs |
| Depth | shallow | shallow | shallow | deepens quickly — differs |
| Shade | trees and umbrellas | umbrellas for hire — differs | umbrellas for hire — differs | natural — differs |
| Character | organised | organised | organised and free sections — differs | organised and free sections — differs |
| Length | 0.2–0.3 km | 0.6 km — differs | 2.2–2.5 km — differs | 0.3 km |
| Latest water | Excellent | Excellent | Excellent | Excellent |
| Crowd | quiet | busy in season — differs | quiet | quiet |
| Getting there | by road | by road | by road | by road |
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The full guide
Read the Lučice guide
Everything above is the short form. The guide has the sources, the sector codes, the sampling dates and the things that change within a season.
Questions
- How do I walk to Lučice from Petrovac?
- Take the coastal path from the south-eastern end of Petrovac beach through the pines and over the headland — about 15 minutes, mostly flat with a short climb. It is the first leg of the Roman Road walk, which continues to Buljarica.
- Does Lučice have a Blue Flag?
- Yes for 2026: site 26A, Petrovac–Lučice, operated by Pešter DOO, on the national Blue Flag list. The award is annual and the standards apply only during the flagged season.
- Is Lučice sandy or pebbly?
- Fine golden sand with a shallow sandy bottom according to the Budva Tourist Organisation; the edges and the headlands are stone, so water shoes are useful for exploring.
Sources
- montenegro.com — Lučice beach guide (/cities/petrovac/lucice-beach-petrovac)
- Budva Tourist Organisation (budva.travel) — attraction 32 (Lučice) and the public-transport page
- plava-zastavica.org.me — Blue Flag 2026, site 26A (as cited in our guide)
- montenegro.com — Petrovac city hub and “25 Best Beaches in Montenegro” (2026 list)
- OpenStreetMap — beach relation 14368288