Right Beaches

Find the right beach for today

Compare parking, bathrooms, the walk to the water and the tide before you choose where to go.

Where are you starting from?
What matters today?
What you get

Know the beach before you park

Boulders Beach
Cape Town
Walk to water20 m
Parking300 m away
Muizenberg Beach
Cape Town
Walk to water40 m
Parking60 m away
Durban Beach Front
Durban
Walk to water90 m
Parking150 m away
What we answer

The questions a map cannot answer

Where do I actually park?
Measured to the nearest edge of the lot, not its centre — the edge is where you get out of the car.
How far is the walk to the water?
From the parking to the waterline on the aerial photograph, in feet, with the walking time next to it.
Is there a restroom?
From OpenStreetMap and the official listing, with the caveat that beach restrooms are often seasonal.
What is the tide doing?
Modelled tide times for this coast, refreshed in your browser rather than baked in last month.
Does it cost anything?
Parking fees and town stickers, counted from visitor reports because no authority publishes them in one place.
Is it a beach for small children?
Repeated mentions of shallow water and flats, counted — not a sentiment score and not our opinion.
How we know

We do not guess

Official listings
The place itself: name, address and opening hours from Google Business listings.
Visitor evidence
Repeated reports in public reviews, turned into structured facts and stored with the number of mentions and the years they span.
Open map data
Beach outlines, parking, restrooms and showers from OpenStreetMap under the ODbL, plus aerial imagery © Chief Directorate: National Geo-spatial Information, South Africa.
A quality gate
We check a sample by hand. Anything under 90% accuracy is collected but never shown — six attributes are switched off for that reason.
680,142
reviews read
29,384
facts published
149,106
claims rejected
17
attributes switched off
Built for the day you are having

Some days, the easy beach wins

You have a cooler, chairs, kids and a few hours. A short walk, easy parking and a bathroom can make one beach much easier than another.

Calm water and rock pools, made for small kids
Boulders Beach · Cape Town
Waves worth the drive
Muizenberg Beach · Cape Town
Braai stands, and shade to eat in
Umhlanga Beach · uMhlanga
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347 beaches measured so far, using OpenStreetMap, Open-Meteo and public aerial imagery. Every fact comes from source data, never from the illustration.