Best places: Beaches in Albufeira, Portugal

👍👍 Fantastic place loads to see and do.we all had a brilliant time.

Serene sandy beach with a backdrop of cliffs, plus sunbed rentals, lifeguards & refreshment vendors.

Backdropped by cliffs, this long golden-sand beach is a popular swimming spot with a lifeguard.

Intimate beach featuring cliffs & unique rock formations in the water, plus a seasonal eatery & bar.

👍👍 Plenty of parking (take the unfinished road down to the lowered level), toilets, food (they take cards!), umbrellas and chairs for rent, massage tent, and lots of shallow water for the kids to play in.

Rock formations surround this small, sandy cove & swimming beach with shells & a nearby cafe.

👍👍 Amazing beach with beautiful cliffs, nice sand and great waves

This blue-flag, gold-sand beach has seasonal lifeguards, rock formations, concessions & toilets.

Reached by boardwalks, this golden-sand beach backdropped by cliffs offers lifeguards & restaurants.

Beach divided by a cliff featuring a concrete pier, an outdoor escalator & two parks nearby.

Sun umbrellas dot this scenic, sandy beach with waves for surfers & a stylish oceanfront restaurant.

😠 The beach can be nice, but this beauty is ruined by British mass tourists, who don’t have any respect for the environment and their goal is just to get drunk. In the end is not really their fault, it seems that albufeira is created just for satisfy their addictions to alcool

👍👍 This is a beautiful beach. It was always full as many other people thought the same. Where we were there were bars, restaurants and shops just of the beach...when the tides out you can walk for miles along it from 1 end the the other. You can also climb up on top of the cliffs where there are little...

Accessible via a tunnel linked to the city centre, this beach offers showers & a historic promenade.

👍👍 Small relaxing beach located around two miles east of albufeira old town. Some parts are not great for swimming or paddling as there are lots of large rocks on the beach, but you may see some fish and marine life. so caution is advised. It Can be very busy in the summer as it is close to a few local...

Intimate, sandy cove set beneath hills & cliffs, accessed by a series of wooden stairs & walkways.

😐 Nice beach but we went because it appears as naturist beach but it wasn't...

😐 Couldn't get to the beach as google maps was taking us down a hill to private property. To get the beach go right at the roundabout not left. Then you get to a large orange hotel and there is a path to the beach to the left of this. There is a presumably seasonal restaurant on the beach. We were her...

😐 It’s a small beach inside the piers of the Marina. You can reach the beach from the city center in 35m on foot crossing through the Marina on the south side. There’s also a trail that you can take if the Marina is closed, however, the way is longer and hard to go. This beach is calm, there’s no wav...

👍 Very beautiful natural beach with a gigantic rocky backdrop. Can only be reached on foot via small, difficult paths. Unfortunately, all entrances are through villas. The best access is via the nature reserve to the west. Hiking boots or sturdy shoes are absolutely necessary. Approx. 1 hour from the...