Whitesands Bay
Nature Reserves, Country Parks & Beaches · St Davids, West Wales
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Open now — closes 11.59pm
🌳 Outdoor0–11–33–55–88–1212–16🏖 BeachSwimming🆓 Free entry
What’s there
- Café on site
- Limited parking
- Picnic area
- Dogs welcome
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
Private car park for 60 cars above the beach. Can be busy during peak summer months. Celtic Coaster shuttle bus (summer only) from Oriel y Parc car park operates as alternative.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Whitesands Bay (Welsh: Porth Mawr) is a Blue Flag beach situated on the St David's peninsula in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. Known as the best surfing beach in Pembrokeshire, it offers a wide expanse of fine white sand with rocky headlands at both ends. The beach has lifeguard patrols from late May to early September, toilet facilities, a cafe, and a private car park.
Dog restrictions apply to the entire length of the beach between 1st May and 30th September. Lifeguards patrol between end of May and beginning of September.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Wellies
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Woolly hat
- Backseat organiser
- Bug pot
- Baby carrier or slingBetter than a pram anywhere with steps or mud.
- Spare outfit
- Car window sunshade
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