Sutomore
About 1,250 m of real sand mixed with fine gravel in a wide south-westerly bay, with a railway station five minutes from the water and the cheapest sunbeds on the coast.
Our verdict
Sutomore is a beach with a town attached, and honest about it: a long, gently shelving strand of sand and fine gravel that suits children, concession blocks with free sand between them, toilets, showers and changing cabins, and a promenade of grills and cafés. The trains from Belgrade land here every July and the beach fills accordingly. For a family week on a budget it does the job; for quiet, Čanj is 9 km away.
Sutomore, in facts
The shore
Facilities
Access
Facts verified September 28, 2026 · Length: Our Sutomore guide: about 1,250 m in most listings; a 2025 planning assessment gives about 1,600 m for the whole strand · 8 more still to check on the ground
Sutomore in pictures
Photographs and footage by Montenegro.com, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0. Ours were shot in September 2026.
Map
The shaded water is the official bathing zone for station Sutomore 03 — the stretch JP Morsko dobro actually samples, not an outline of the beach.
Getting there
6.1 km
Bar
25 km
Budva
27 km
Ulcinj
Straight-line distances — Montenegro's roads are mountain roads, so the drive is longer.
- By busCoastal buses Bar–Budva (more than 30 a day, about €2 single); local trains on the Belgrade–Bar line stop at Sutomore station (€1.20 to Bar, €2.60 to Podgorica)
- By carZone I parking €0.50 per started hour, 08:00–21:00 Mon–Fri and 08:00–14:00 Saturday, no time limit; the Sozina tunnel (4,189 m, toll) brings Podgorica within 30 minutes
- 5 min on footflat — From the railway station straight down to the sand; the whole strand is walkable behind the concessions
Today at Sutomore
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 20.0 °C when the sample was taken
10 of 10 samples Excellent across the 2026 season
Official result from JP Morsko dobro, station Sutomore 03
A busy town strand: Bar municipality’s first 2026 round put 14 of 15 sites at Excellent, but Sutomore has several points and a stream — check after rain
No award we can cite for this beach. Absence is information too.
Know before you swim
- The busiest sand on the Bar coast in July and August — before 10:00 you choose a spot, after it you take one
- The railway and the coast road run directly behind the beach: level crossings and traffic between the station and the sand
- The ridge shades the eastern end of the strand well before the western end loses the sun — move west for the evening
- An open south-westerly bay: chop on the shallows on a jugo afternoon
When the water is warm
Sutomore was at its warmest, 27.5 °C, on August 31, 2026, and at its coldest, 18.6 °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.
See all 10 samplings
| Sampled | Sea | Result |
|---|---|---|
| September 28, 2026 | 20.0 °C | Excellent |
| September 14, 2026 | 24.2 °C | Excellent |
| August 31, 2026 | 27.5 °C | Excellent |
| August 17, 2026 | 25.8 °C | Excellent |
| August 3, 2026 | 23.6 °C | Excellent |
| July 20, 2026 | 25.2 °C | Excellent |
| July 6, 2026 | 22.2 °C | Excellent |
| June 22, 2026 | 23.5 °C | Excellent |
| June 8, 2026 | 21.9 °C | Excellent |
| May 25, 2026 | 18.6 °C | Excellent |
Season by season
Sutomore has been sampled 69 times since 2020, and the water came back Excellent every single time.
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.
| Season | Samplings | Excellent | Below | Jul–Aug mean | Warmest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 9 | 9 | — | 23.1 °C | 26 °C |
| 2021 | 10 | 10 | — | 24.5 °C | 26 °C |
| 2022 | 10 | 10 | — | 22.9 °C | 25.1 °C |
| 2023 | 10 | 10 | — | 24.7 °C | 28.3 °C |
| 2024 | 10 | 10 | — | 24.1 °C | 26.7 °C |
| 2025 | 10 | 10 | — | 21.2 °C | 24.7 °C |
| 2026in progress | 10 | 10 | — | 24.9 °C | 27.5 °C |
Licensed as
The state leases this coast lot by lot. Sutomore is tendered as 22 lots covering about 1,723 m of shore, each with an official category.
Among them: Naturist, Diving.
| Category | Lots | Shore |
|---|---|---|
| Family bathing | 13 | 1,233 m |
| Hotel beach | 6 | 356 m |
| Naturist | 2 | 84 m |
| Diving | 1 | 50 m |
About 39,007 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
Sutomore and its neighbours
The same nine measures for the beaches you could reach the same day. Bold means it differs from this one.
| Measure | Sutomorethis beach |  Čanj5.2 km |  Buljarica9.7 km |  Lučice11 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surface | sand and fine pebble | sand and fine pebble | sand and fine pebble | sand and fine pebble |
| Entry | gentle | moderate — differs | moderate — differs | gentle |
| Depth | shallow | shallow | shallow | shallow |
| Shade | umbrellas for hire | umbrellas for hire | umbrellas for hire | trees and umbrellas — differs |
| Character | organised | organised | organised and free sections — differs | organised |
| Length | 1.3–1.6 km | 1.1–1.2 km | 2.2–2.5 km — differs | 0.2–0.3 km — differs |
| Latest water | Excellent | Excellent | Excellent | Excellent |
| Crowd | busy in season | quiet — differs | quiet — differs | quiet — differs |
| Getting there | by road | by boat — differs | by road | by road |
Stay near Sutomore
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The full guide
Read the Sutomore 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 long is Sutomore beach?
- Most listings say about 1,250 m; older sources range from 850 m to 1.3 km, and a 2025 planning assessment describes the whole strand at about 1,600 m. The bay is wide and gently curving, so where you measure from matters.
- Can I get there by train?
- Yes. Sutomore is the penultimate station before Bar on the Belgrade–Bar line; only local trains stop (€1.20 to Bar, €2.60 to Podgorica, about an hour). The faster international trains pass through.
- Where is the free sand?
- The unmarked sand between the concession blocks. Lay a towel there; the loungers on either side are €8–12 for two with an umbrella.
Sources
- montenegro.com — Sutomore guide (/cities/sutomore/sutomore-comprehensive-travel-guide) and city hub
- Morsko Dobro — Bar municipality bathing-water round, May 2026 (via the guide)
- OpenStreetMap — beach way 208434767 (centre used for the coordinates)