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.
Our verdict
Savina is a promenade beach rather than a bay: 200 m of pebble and concrete platforms along the Šetalište 5 Danica where it passes below the monastery wood, with loungers at €10, a beach bar and restaurants within reach, and the view straight across the water to Luštica. Its point is the combination — a swim, then the climb through the pines to the three churches of Savina, or the other way round. Herceg Novi’s own swimmers use it; the boat crowds do not.
- walkers
- swimming
- photography
Savina, in facts
The shore
Facilities
Access
Facts verified October 2, 2026 · Length: Our 25 Best Beaches list · Facilities from OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL; our GPS-tagged field photographs of the shore and official beach boards, 2 October 2026 · 12 more still to check on the ground
Savina in pictures
Photographs and footage by Montenegro.com, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0. Ours were shot on October 2, 2026.
Map
The shaded water is the official bathing zone for station Ćorovića plaža 01 — the stretch JP Morsko dobro actually samples, not an outline of the beach.
Getting there
1.0 km
Herceg Novi
15 km
Tivat airport
18 km
Kotor
Straight-line distances — Montenegro's roads are mountain roads, so the drive is longer.
- On the Pet Danica Promenade walkStop: savina
- By busBlue Line local buses along the Igalo–Herceg Novi–Bijela corridor
- By carSavina is 1 km from the town centre by road; leave the car in Herceg Novi and walk the promenade
- 20 min on footflat — East from the Herceg Novi centre along the Pet Danica promenade
Today at Savina
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 28, 2026: Excellent
Sea 21.2 °C when the sample was taken
9 of 10 samples Excellent across the 2026 season
Official result from JP Morsko dobro, station Ćorovića plaža 01
Eight of nine official samples Excellent in 2026, one Good on 17 August; the last sample of the season, on 14 September, was Excellent
No award we can cite for this beach. Absence is information too.
Know before you swim
- Concrete edges and ladders rather than a gradual entry along much of the shore — check the depth before you jump
- The promenade is the beach’s back wall: walkers and cyclists pass a metre behind your towel
- Every approach from the monastery above involves gradients and steps, and the shore is unlit away from the promenade lamps
When the water is warm
Savina was at its warmest, 27.5 °C, on August 31, 2026, and at its coldest, 19.8 °C, on May 25, 2026. Every point is a real sampling visit with the temperature read on the spot, not a monthly average copied from somewhere else.
The hollow point is the one sampling that came back below Excellent.
See all 10 samplings
| Sampled | Sea | Result |
|---|---|---|
| September 28, 2026 | 21.2 °C | Excellent |
| September 14, 2026 | 25.4 °C | Excellent |
| August 31, 2026 | 27.5 °C | Excellent |
| August 17, 2026 | 24.7 °C | Good |
| August 3, 2026 | 25.2 °C | Excellent |
| July 20, 2026 | 25.5 °C | Excellent |
| July 6, 2026 | 21.3 °C | Excellent |
| June 22, 2026 | 24.5 °C | Excellent |
| June 8, 2026 | 22.6 °C | Excellent |
| May 25, 2026 | 19.8 °C | Excellent |
Official result from JP Morsko dobro, station Ćorovića plaža 01
Season by season
Savina has been sampled 69 times since 2020: 62 of those readings Excellent, 7 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 | 7 | 2 | 23.6 °C | 24.7 °C |
| 2021 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 25.1 °C | 26.2 °C |
| 2022 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 23.9 °C | 26.2 °C |
| 2023 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 25.7 °C | 27.4 °C |
| 2024 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 25.3 °C | 26.7 °C |
| 2025 | 10 | 10 | — | 24.1 °C | 25.2 °C |
| 2026in progress | 10 | 9 | 1 | 24.8 °C | 27.5 °C |
Official result from JP Morsko dobro, station Ćorovića plaža 01
Licensed as
The state leases this coast lot by lot. Savina is tendered as 6 lots covering about 360 m of shore, each with an official category.
| Category | Lots | Shore |
|---|---|---|
| Family bathing | 6 | 360 m |
About 5,833 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
Savina and its neighbours
The same nine measures for the beaches you could reach the same day. Bold means it differs from this one.
| Measure | Savinathis beach |  Njivice3.4 km |  Žanjice6.1 km |  Mirišta6.6 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surface | pebble | rock — differs | pebble | pebble |
| Entry | moderate | rocky — differs | moderate | moderate |
| Depth | deepens quickly | deepens quickly | deepens quickly | deepens quickly |
| Shade | umbrellas for hire | umbrellas for hire | umbrellas for hire | trees and umbrellas — differs |
| Character | organised and free sections | organised and free sections | organised — differs | organised and free sections |
| Length | 200 m | 200 m | 300 m — differs | 200 m |
| Latest water | Excellent | Excellent | Excellent | Excellent |
| Crowd | busy in season | quiet — differs | busy in season | quiet — differs |
| Getting there | by road | by road | by road | on foot — differs |
Stay near Savina — Herceg Novi, 1.0 km away
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Questions
- How do I get to Savina beach from Herceg Novi?
- Walk east along the Pet Danica promenade from the old town, about 20 minutes and flat, or take a Blue Line bus along the coast road. By car it is 1 km, but the promenade is the better way in.
- How far is the monastery from the beach?
- Five minutes uphill, through the Savinska Dubrava pines — gradients and steps all the way. The monastery is open sunrise to sunset; cover shoulders and knees.
- Is Savina beach on the Pet Danica walk?
- Yes — the promenade runs along the water below the monastery wood, between the Forte Mare stop in Herceg Novi and Meljine, 1.2 km further east.
Sources
- Our 25 Best Beaches in Montenegro list (entry 19)
- montenegro.com — Savina city hub (distances, the promenade below the wood)
- montenegro.com — Savina Monastery guide (/cities/herceg-novi/savina-monastery-herceg-novi): approaches, opening hours
- montenegro.com — Pet Danica walk (/walks/pet-danica): stops, Blue Line buses
- OpenStreetMap — shore nodes 13063012126, 13072234140 (ref 11F) and 13055500739 below the monastery
- Our GPS-tagged iPhone 12 Pro Max photographs of Savina beach and the Pet Danica promenade, 2 October 2026