Skopelos Beaches, Greece: A Guide to Every Beach on Skopelos

Stafilos and Velonia beaches

Stafilos is the most crowded beach on Skopelos, partly because it lies a 4-kilometer walk from Skopelos Town. It is a sandy beach set in a sheltered bay. South of Stafilos is the naturist beach of Velonia, reached by a path that leads from Stafilos beach. Velonia is not heavily developed and splits into two parts: one where you can rent parasols and sunbeds, and one where you simply lay your towel on the sand.

Agnontas, Cape Amarantos and Limnonari beaches

Agnontas is a small fishing village with fish restaurants, some accommodations and a village beach, and it also works as a small harbour where a larger cargo ship stops now and then. Agnontas Beach is a pebble beach of small white pebbles with no sand, and those white stones give the whole bay a beautiful greenish-blue colour. From Agnontas you can walk, or take a wooden boat, to Limnonari, 900 meters away in a very well-protected bay where the sea is almost always calm and turns a turquoise colour. Limnonari is mostly sandy, with umbrellas and sunbeds you may use when you order something at the taverna they belong to; it is one of the nicer beaches on this side of the island.

Just south of Agnontas, Cape Amarantos is a headland of twin pine-clad rocks that drop into deep, clear water, nicknamed the “piscina” locally for its calm, pool-like swimming. Cape Amarantos served as a photo backdrop in Mamma Mia! and has no organized facilities, so you swim from the natural rock platforms.

Panormos, Linarakia and Andrines beaches

Panormos is popular with windsurfers, as the water drops away quite steeply from the shore. It sits in a beautiful natural setting and ranks among the best places on Skopelos to watch a sunset, and the village of Panormos has a few hotels and some rooms for rent. Next to Panormos beach lie the small beaches of Linarakia, between Andrines and Panormos, reached by a small path a few meters after Panormos beach or by a path leading from Panormos itself. Behind Linarakia are the two small beaches of Andrines.

Milia and Kastani beaches

Milia lies 21 kilometers from Skopelos Town and is quieter, with a mix of sand and small pebbles. It is considered the most beautiful beach on the island, is quite large and is surrounded by pine forests. Next to Milia is the smaller beach of Kastani, a sandy beach that was a main filming location for the 2008 film Mamma Mia!. Kastani is almost completely covered with luxury sunbeds and umbrellas apart from a small part, with a large taverna on the sand and a car park.

Hovolo, Elios and the west coast

Along the main route from Kastani to the village of Elios you pass three beaches that are hard to reach and some smaller ones, among them Megalo Peuko and Hovolo, which is easy to reach nowadays and is a textile beach. Elios is a quiet little fishing village with friendly inhabitants. It has a beach on its north side and one on its south side, interrupted by the harbour with its fishing boats, and these beaches consist mostly of pebbles of different sizes.

Kalives and Armenopetra beaches

North of Elios, at the end of a road that turns into a dirt track, lie the beaches of Kalives and Armenopetra. They are really one beach split in two by a large rock, and both are pebble beaches reached over the same track. Armenopetra also has some sandy patches and is the larger and more picturesque of the two, though it is more exposed to the wind.

Glisteri and the boat-only beaches

From Skopelos Town, caiques — small wooden boats — run to Glisteri, an attractive beach that is harder to reach by land, and more small beaches lie around it. Small boats also run from Agnontas to Limnonari. Reaching these coves by sea is part of the appeal, since many of the island's idyllic sand and pebble bays can only be visited by boat.

North-east beaches and Agios Ioannis sto Kastri

A run of beaches lines the north-east of Skopelos, and some of them are only accessible by boat. A few sit near Agios Ioannis sto Kastri, the clifftop chapel where the wedding scene in Mamma Mia! was filmed, reached by a climb of about 200 steps; more beaches lie further north. Perivoli is the northernmost and largest beach, reached by a recently paved road. More secluded and quieter is the beautiful pebble beach of Hondrogiorgi at the end of a dirt road. Between the two lies Kanalaki, or Pethameni beach — “Dead Woman beach”, named after a dead woman found here in the 1970s. Pethameni is reached by a path in front of the entrance to Hondrogiorgi, on the left, after a short climb over some rocks; good shoes are required, and from the sea you can see that the two beaches lie right next to each other.

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