Nearby, not Women's Beach itself — The Ulcinj coast from the Kalaja walls; Ženska plaža lies along the Pinješ shore beyond Mala plaža
Women's Beach
Ženska 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.
Our verdict
Ženska plaža is a small fenced cove on the pine-covered Pinješ shore, entered by steps, with a cave at the back and a spring that puts hydrogen sulphide into the water at 24 °C. Montenegro’s tourism organisation calls it a women-only cove, and that is how it has been used for generations. Go for the quiet and the oddity, not for a cure; the guide found historical borehole chemistry and no clinical evidence at all.
Women's Beach, in facts
The shore
Facilities
Access
Rules and character
Facts verified September 28, 2026 · Length: No published figure; an estimate from the small cove mapped on OpenStreetMap way 182023374 — treat as approximate · Facilities from OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL · 13 more still to check on the ground
Women's Beach 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 Mala plaža — the stretch JP Morsko dobro actually samples, not an outline of the beach.
Getting there
1.4 km
Ulcinj
21 km
Bar
51 km
Budva
Straight-line distances — Montenegro's roads are mountain roads, so the drive is longer.
- On the Pinješ Pines walkStop: zenska-plaza
- By carOff the road towards Hotel Albatros; parking is not documented — walk from the town if you can
- 15 min on footwith steps — About a kilometre east of Mala plaža past the Pinješ coves, then steps down to the cove between Hotel Albatros and the former Hotel Galeb site
Today at Women's Beach
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
2 of 10 samples Excellent across the 2026 season
Official result from JP Morsko dobro, station Mala plaža
A sulphur spring rises in the shallows: hydrogen sulphide gives the water its rotten-egg smell — the spring, not pollution
No award we can cite for this beach. Absence is information too.
Know before you swim
- Rock and platform entries are slippery and the ladders awkward; swell pushes a swimmer towards the stone
- The cave at the back of the cove is bat habitat and its shape can concentrate gas — stay out of it
- The sulphur spring is a tradition, not a treatment: there is no clinical evidence for bathing here as a fertility cure
- Admission rules, hours and price are set by the operator season by season — confirm the same day before you walk out
When the water is warm
Women's Beach was at its warmest, 27.0 °C, on August 31, 2026, and at its coldest, 20.0 °C, on September 28, 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 8 samplings that came back below Excellent.
See all 10 samplings
| Sampled | Sea | Result |
|---|---|---|
| September 28, 2026 | 20.0 °C | Excellent |
| September 14, 2026 | 24.3 °C | Sufficient |
| August 31, 2026 | 27.0 °C | Good |
| August 19, 2026 | 23.4 °C | Good |
| August 3, 2026 | 24.4 °C | Sufficient |
| July 20, 2026 | 23.9 °C | Good |
| July 9, 2026 | 21.1 °C | Sufficient |
| June 22, 2026 | 23.1 °C | Sufficient |
| June 8, 2026 | 22.0 °C | Excellent |
| May 25, 2026 | 20.4 °C | Sufficient |
Season by season
Women's Beach has been sampled 69 times since 2020: 32 of those readings Excellent, 37 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 | 23.8 °C | 27 °C |
| 2021 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 25.5 °C | 26.3 °C |
| 2022 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 22.3 °C | 24.5 °C |
| 2023 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 25.1 °C | 27.1 °C |
| 2024 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 23.7 °C | 25.2 °C |
| 2025 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 22 °C | 24.7 °C |
| 2026in progress | 10 | 2 | 8 | 24 °C | 27 °C |
Licensed as
The state leases this coast lot by lot. Women's Beach is tendered as 5 lots covering about 310 m of shore, each with an official category.
Among them: Naturist.
| Category | Lots | Shore |
|---|---|---|
| Family bathing | 4 | 250 m |
| Naturist | 1 | 60 m |
About 5,409 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
Women's Beach and its neighbours
The same nine measures for the beaches you could reach the same day. Bold means it differs from this one.
| Measure | Women's Beachthis beach |  Mala plaža0.8 km |  Velika plaža7.0 km |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface | pebble | sand — differs | fine sand — differs |
| Entry | rocky | gentle — differs | gentle — differs |
| Depth | deepens quickly | shallow — differs | shallow far out — differs |
| Shade | natural | umbrellas for hire — differs | umbrellas for hire — differs |
| Character | organised | organised | organised and free sections — differs |
| Length | 0.1–0.1 km | 0.4 km — differs | 12–13 km — differs |
| Latest water | Excellent | Excellent | Excellent |
| Crowd | quiet | busy in season — differs | busy in season — differs |
| Getting there | on foot | on foot | by road — differs |
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The full guide
Read the Women's Beach 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
- Is Ženska plaža really women-only?
- Montenegro’s national tourism organisation describes it as a women-only cove and the Ulcinj tourism office says it is mostly visited by women from May to October. The operator sets the admission rules each season, so confirm on the day before you set out.
- What is the spring?
- Two boreholes at the cove were measured at more than 10 litres per second of mineral water at 24 °C, with 44.2 mg/l of hydrogen sulphide and 19–22 g/l total mineralisation. The smell is the sulphide. Historical borehole data is not the same as what you bathe in today, and no clinical study supports the fertility tradition.
- How do I get there?
- On the Pinješ Pines walk: from the Old Town past Mala plaža and the rock-and-pine coves, about a kilometre east, then steps down between Hotel Albatros and the former Hotel Galeb site. The walk continues to Port Milena and Velika plaža.
Sources
- montenegro.com — Ženska plaža guide (/cities/ulcinj/zenska-plaza-ulcinj)
- Ulcinj Tourism Organisation — Ladies’ Beach page (ulcinj.travel/en/ladies-beach), cited by the guide
- montenegro.com — Ulcinj city hub and the Pinješ Pines walk page
- OpenStreetMap — beach way 182023374 (centre used; tags fee, supervised, opening hours 07:00–19:00, surface gravel)