The 7 Best Beaches for Swimming in & around Antibes
Sheltered town coves, storied sand and one bay you have to earn on foot.
Antibes has 25 kilometres of coast, and no two beaches feel alike — walled coves in town, family sand at the Ponteil, jet-set history at the Garoupe and wild turquoise water round the tip of the Cap.
Here's where to swim, in rough order of how far you'll walk for it.
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Plage de la Gravette
🏖️ Beaches & Swimming · Vieil Antibes (Old Town) · Free · allow 2 hours
Two minutes from the market — the old town's own sheltered cove.
A crescent of pale sand tucked inside the sea walls, two minutes from the market. Calm, shallow and sheltered from wind — the easiest swim in Antibes, with the old town as your backdrop.
🌊 Sea view🧒 Good with kids💛 Budget friendly - 2
Plage de la Salis
🏖️ Beaches & Swimming · Cap d'Antibes · Free · allow 3 hours
The big free one, with the postcard view of the old town and the Alps.
Antibes' favourite free beach: soft sand, gentle water, and that famous view across the bay to the old town with the Alps floating behind it. Arrive early in July and August — the locals know it too.
🌊 Sea view🧒 Good with kids💛 Budget friendly🌅 Sunset spot - 3
Plage du Ponteil
🏖️ Beaches & Swimming · Cap d'Antibes · Free · allow 2 hours
Shallow and easy — the family default.
Between the old town and La Salis, the Ponteil is the family favourite — shallow for ages, with paddleboards and kayaks for hire along the sand in summer.
🧒 Good with kids💛 Budget friendly🌊 Sea view - 4
Plage de la Garoupe
🏖️ Beaches & Swimming · Cap d'Antibes · €€ · allow 3 hours
Fitzgerald's beach: clubs, clear water and a century of glamour.
The little bay where the Riviera summer was more or less invented in the 1920s. Part public sand, part beach clubs where a lounger and a long lunch by the water is the whole day's plan. The water is impossibly clear.
🌊 Sea view🌿 Terrace outside📞 Book ahead - 5
Plage des Ondes
🏖️ Beaches & Swimming · Cap d'Antibes · Free · allow 2 hours
The quiet local's choice on the Cap's west side.
A small, calm, pine-fringed beach on the quieter side of the Cap — favoured by locals, lovely for a morning swim before the day warms up.
🧒 Good with kids💛 Budget friendly🌊 Sea view - 6
Bijou Plage
🏖️ Beaches & Swimming · Juan-les-Pins · €€ · allow 3 hours
Juan-les-Pins done properly, lounger and lunch included.
A classic Juan-les-Pins beach: fine sand, a well-run club with loungers and a proper beachside lunch, and safe swimming. Everything a beach day needs within reach of a parasol.
🌊 Sea view🌿 Terrace outside🧒 Good with kids - 7
Baie des Milliardaires
🏖️ Beaches & Swimming · Cap d'Antibes · Free · allow 2.5 hrs
The one you walk to — and the clearest water of the lot.
Reached only on foot along the coastal path, this pocket of turquoise between white rocks feels like a secret — bring water, good shoes and swim things. The reward is the clearest water on the Cap, for free.
🌊 Sea view💛 Budget friendly🌅 Sunset spot
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