Kaş Beaches and Coves: The Complete Guide

The beaches of Kaş are not one long stretch of sand: they are a scattered collection of pebble coves, limestone shelves and wooden jetties, each with its own water temperature and its own regulars. Along roughly 70 kilometres of coastline you will find golden dunes that stretch for eighteen kilometres, a turquoise canyon mouth that fits on a postcard, and coves you can only reach by boat. This guide walks through every one of them: where it is, what the water is like, and how to get there from the centre of town, which is where Luna Kaş sits.

Ten beaches, four coves. Some are a fifteen-minute walk from the harbour; the furthest is an hour by car. Three are reachable only from the water. Each one below comes with a map of the route from Luna Kaş.

The Beaches of Kaş

Patara Beach

Eighteen kilometres of soft golden sand backed by dunes and the ruins of Patara Ancient City. This is the grandest beach between Fethiye and Kaş, and the one that surprises people who came expecting pebbles. The sand is fine enough to squeak underfoot. Behind it, the old Lycian harbour city sits half-buried, and the light in the late afternoon turns the whole thing amber.

Patara is a protected nesting ground for loggerhead sea turtles, which is why the beach opens at 08:00 and closes at 20:00, no exceptions, no overnight stays. It sits in the Gelemiş district, 11 km from Kalkan, and you can walk down from Gelemiş village in about fifteen minutes if you would rather not drive to the gate.

Distance from Kaş: 43 km, roughly one hour by car.
Getting there: Through the summer season there is a dolmuş from Kaş bus station to Patara every half hour between 08:00 and 20:00.

Akçagerme Beach

Not sand but tiny pebbles, which is a different pleasure entirely: walking on them is somewhere between a foot massage and a spa treatment. The shore runs about 200 metres and the water stays shallow a long way out, which is why families with small children keep coming back. It flies a Blue Flag, and the water is genuinely clear.

Entry is free. Umbrellas and sunbeds are available, and the facility is run by students from the local vocational school. A small detail, but it changes the atmosphere.

Distance from Kaş: Akçagerme is within the Kaş municipality, 3.6 km from the bazaar.
Getting there: Take the dolmuş from the stop near Cuma Pazarı, opposite Halk Bankası. The ride is about five minutes.

Büyük Çakıl Beach

Büyük Çakıl has a cold freshwater spring feeding into it, and you feel it the moment you swim past the shallows: a sudden cool seam running through warm Mediterranean water. Several beach clubs operate here, all with fairly extensive menus, and there is parking. Worth noting: the sunsets at Büyük Çakıl are the kind people photograph badly and remember perfectly.

Entry to the beach itself is free.

Distance from Kaş: About 2 km, a few minutes by car.
Getting there: No dolmuş runs to Büyük Çakıl. Drive, walk, or cycle; the bike ride down is genuinely fun.

Kaputaş Beach

The famous one. Kaputaş sits at the mouth of a canyon, a wedge of pale pebble between two walls of rock, and the water runs from turquoise through to deep blue in the space of about thirty metres. Underwater springs keep it cold and give it that improbable colour: the photographs are not exaggerating, though they rarely capture how steep the staircase down is.

There is no entry fee. Boat tours from Kaş and Kalkan stop here from the sea side, which is the easier arrival if the stairs are not for you.

Distance from Kaş: 20 km, around 20 minutes by car. From Kalkan it is 10 km, about 10 minutes.
Getting there: Drive, or take a dolmuş from Kaş bus station; they leave every half hour between 07:00 and 20:00.

İnceboğaz Beach

İnceboğaz sits at the narrowest point of the Çukurbağ Peninsula, where the land pinches to a few hundred metres and you can see water on both sides. The beach is pebble, the sea is shallow, and there is almost always a breeze, which makes it choppier than the town beaches and, for that reason, a favourite with children who want something to jump into. Bring water shoes; the stones underfoot are larger than they look.

Entry is free. Umbrellas and sunbeds are charged separately.

Distance from Kaş: 1.2 km from the bazaar.
Getting there: Walk it, drive it, or take one of the Yarımada (peninsula) dolmuşes from the centre.

Seyrek Çakılı Beach

This is where locals go. Seyrek Çakılı is close to Kaputaş but almost entirely undeveloped: no facilities, no entry fee, nothing but stones and water. People from the surrounding villages come at weekends, which is when it fills up; on a weekday morning you may have it to yourself. If you want a sunbed and a menu, Kaputaş is 200 metres away.

Distance from Kaş: About 13 km, 10 to 15 minutes once you account for the bends.
Getting there: Take the Kaputaş or Kalkan dolmuş from Kaş bus station, every half hour between 07:00 and 20:00.

The route below ends at Kaputaş; Seyrek Çakılı is a further 400 metres along the shore, and has no road of its own.

Limanağzı Beach

Limanağzı is reached only from the sea, and that is the whole point of it: no road, no traffic, no car park. Boats leave Kaş harbour every fifteen minutes in season and the crossing is short and cheap. What waits on the other side is a Blue Flag cove with calm, warm, almost waveless water, which makes it one of the easier swims in the area for families.

Three separate beach clubs operate in the cove, each with its own entry arrangement and its own character. You can also reach Limanağzı on foot, as a day walk from Kaş along the coastal path, a good half-day if the weather is not punishing.

Distance from Kaş: No road access, so there is no driving distance to quote, roughly 4 km as the crow flies.
Getting there: Boats from Kaş harbour, every fifteen minutes.

Most people take the fifteen-minute boat from Kaş harbour. There is no road, so the map traces the coastal footpath instead, about 5 km on foot.

Asmaaltı

Asmaaltı is not a beach in any conventional sense: there is no sand and no pebble. You meet the sea from wooden jetties laid over the rocks, next door to the yacht harbour in the middle of town. For a swim before dinner, or a swim instead of a walk, nothing else in Kaş is this convenient.

The businesses along the jetties provide umbrellas and loungers at reasonable rates.

Distance from Kaş: It is in Kaş, immediately beside the marina, seconds from the bazaar.
Getting there: Walk.

Küçük Çakıl Beach

Despite the name, do not expect sand: the floor is small pebbles, as advertised. Küçük Çakıl is the closest proper beach to the town centre and, thanks to freshwater springs nearby, it stays cool and holds a distinct turquoise cast even in the heaviest heat of August. The beach clubs here have some of the better menus on this stretch of coast.

Entry is free; sunbeds and umbrellas are paid. From Luna Kaş it is close enough that most of our guests end up walking down more than once a day.

Distance from Kaş: 900 metres from the bazaar, the nearest beach to the centre.
Getting there: On foot, in a few minutes.

Halk Plajı, the Public Beach

The last on the list and, in its own way, one of the most rewarding: Halk Plajı looks straight across at Meis (Kastellorizo), which on a clear day feels close enough to swim to. The water has the same character as İnceboğaz: often a little choppy, clean, pebbled underfoot.

Entry is free; umbrellas and sunbeds are charged, and a touch cheaper here than elsewhere. The facility is run by the Kaş Municipality Social Centre, so there is no alcohol served, but the food and soft drinks menu is a good one.

Distance from Kaş: On the Çukurbağ Peninsula, about 1.4 km from the bazaar.
Getting there: Walk if you are feeling energetic, or take a Yarımada dolmuş and get off at the Kaş Municipality Social Centre, just past İnceboğaz.

The Coves of Kaş

Past the beaches, the coastline breaks into coves: some with a jetty and a kitchen, some with nothing at all, and one where swimming is forbidden outright because of what lies under the surface.

Hidayet’s Cove

Operating as a proper facility since 2015, Hidayet’s Cove is rock rather than sand: you enter the water from platforms, not a shoreline. There is a hotel and a beach club on site. The water is clear and noticeably cool, which in July is the entire argument for coming.

Entry is free.

Distance from Kaş: 3 km, on the Çukurbağ Peninsula, five minutes on foot from the peninsula junction.
Getting there: Yarımada dolmuşes run there from the centre, in season until about 23:00.

Fırnaz Cove

Fırnaz belongs to the Yeşilköy district and is one of the regular stops on blue cruise itineraries, clear enough that you watch fish without a mask. It is also known for something more unusual: a mud bath, taken on the sand, which is either a wellness ritual or an excuse to get filthy depending on your temperament.

Distance from Kaş: 34 km.
Getting there: Two options. By road, take the Kalkan dolmuş from Kaş bus station, continue 4 km, and follow the fork before you reach the centre of Yeşilköy: the cove is a protected site and the final stretch is an unsurfaced track, so commit to a rough ride. Alternatively, take a boat tour from Kaş or Kalkan, which most people find the better bargain.

Ufakdere Cove

A private-yacht favourite, Ufakdere lies between Uluburun and Çoban Burnu with a sand beach, a rarity on this coast. The water is still and comparatively warm, and there are facilities plus camping on site. Road access comes via Bayındır village.

Distance from Kaş: 13 km, about 10 minutes by car.
Getting there: Ufakdere is a regular waypoint on trekking routes, and arriving on foot is the best version of it. Otherwise come by boat, or take a vehicle from Kaş bus station towards Bayındır village and walk the last stretch.

Yağlıca Cove

Yağlıca, between Kaş and Demre, is a protected archaeological site: a sunken city lying just beneath the surface. Swimming and anchoring are both prohibited, so this is a cove you look at rather than enter. From the deck of a boat you can see the outlines of walls in water clear enough to make the depth hard to judge, over golden sand. Most itineraries continue from here to Akvaryum Koyu, where you are free to get in.

Distance from Kaş: No road access; roughly 13 km as the crow flies.
Getting there: On a Kaş–Kekova boat tour.