Milos Beaches

10 guides

Milos has over 70 beaches. These guides cover the ones worth your time, one by one.

Milos Beaches

A sandy beach in the Adamas bay area of Milos, calm turquoise water and a sailboat moored offshore Beaches

Best Beaches in Milos: A Complete Guide by Coast

Milos has roughly 70 beaches, scattered around every side of a small, awkwardly shaped island in Greece's western Cyclad...

15 min read
The long curving bay at Firiplaka beach, with pale cliffs rising above clear turquoise water and a wide sandy shore Beaches

Firiplaka and Tsigrado Beaches, Milos: The Sand and the Rope Descent

Firiplaka is a long ribbon of pale sand on the south coast of Milos, in Greece's western Cyclades, backed by multicolour...

6 min read
The sheltered turquoise bay at Firopotamos, Milos, with its small beach, white chapel on the point and a cluster of syrmata boat garages along the shore Beaches

Firopotamos Beach, Milos: The Fishing Cove With the Painted Doors

Firopotamos is a scrap of sand at the foot of a cliff on the north coast of Milos, one of the Greek Cyclades, hemmed in ...

5 min read
Towering white sea stacks with cave arches rise from turquoise water at Kleftiko, a swimmer standing on a rock in the foreground Beaches

Kleftiko Milos: How to Visit the White Rock Bay

Kleftiko is the image that sells Milos. Huge chalk-white rock stacks rise straight out of turquoise Aegean water on the ...

7 min read
An empty cove on the wild southwest coast of Milos, a natural rock arch and bare headland with no development in sight Beaches

Milos Remote Beaches: Gerontas, Thiorichia, Triades and the Wild West

The remote beaches of Milos, a Greek island in the western Cyclades, are the ones the hire-car queue never reaches: sulp...

7 min read
A visitor sits on the sand at Paleochori beach, facing the sea, with the striped red and ochre cliffs of the bay in the distance Beaches

Paleochori Beach Milos: The Geothermal Beach on the South Coast

Paleochori beach is one of the longest stretches of sand on Milos, one of the Greek Cyclades, and the one where the isla...

6 min read
A narrow white rock cleft near Pollonia where the sea passes under a natural stone arch into a hidden turquoise cove Beaches

Papafragas Milos: Sea Caves, the Scramble Down, and Whether to Attempt It

Papafragas is not really a beach. It is a narrow flooded channel on the north-east coast of Milos, in the Aegean's Cycla...

5 min read
A sandy cove on the north coast of Milos Beaches

Plathiena Beach Milos: The Sandy Bay Below Plaka

Plathiena is the sandy beach below Plaka, the closest real stretch of sand to the island capital and the one people use ...

5 min read
Provatas beach in Milos, with golden sand backed by red-brown cliffs Beaches

Provatas Beach, Milos: The South Coast's Family Beach

Provatas is the beach you choose when comfort matters more than drama. Soft pale sand, water that stays shallow a long w...

5 min read
A wide view over Sarakiniko's white lunar rock formations and the narrow turquoise inlet, with sea stacks visible offshore Beaches

Sarakiniko Beach Milos: The Island's Moon Landscape

Sarakiniko beach in Milos is less a beach than a bare white rock shelf on the north coast, scoured smooth by wind and se...

6 min read

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