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Best Beaches in Sydney to Spread Out Your Towel, from Bondi Beach to Palm Beach. Sydney, Australia. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Best Beaches in Sydney to Spread Out Your Towel, from Bondi Beach to Palm Beach

Best beaches in Sydney range from lovely Manly, which feels like a sleepy holiday town, and breathtaking Bondi Beach, a first stop for most visitors to Sydney, to northern beaches such as Palm Beach, the fictional town of ‘Summer Bay’ in long-running soapie Home and Away.

Summer is fast-approaching and Sydney-siders, tired of the rain that has been drenching the city for months on end, are dreaming of days basking in the sunshine, enjoying barbecues in their backyards or picnics in the park with friends, or if they’re lucky to live near the coast, lazing on the beach stretched out on a towel.

We thought it was a good excuse to post our guide to the best beaches in Sydney. Between us, I was also looking for a chance to escape for a while from our glum rainy season skies here in Southeast Asia.

Sydney is the perfect destination for city-loving beach bums with brilliant stretches of squeaky sand right on its doorstep. The city has scores of beaches on its north shore, eastern suburbs, and even skirting its harbour, where you’ll also find those alluring sea swimming pools we told you about.

You’ll find all sorts of beaches, from slivers of sand backed by sprawling parks on the harbour to kilometres of white sand beach lined with pine trees on the coast at Manly. These are the best beaches in Sydney as far as we’re concerned — the beaches my family took me to as a child and the beaches Terence and I used to frequent when we lived in Sydney for many years.

Published 27 January 2013; last updated 26 October 2022

Best Beaches in Sydney to Spread Out Your Towel, from Bondi Beach to Palm Beach

Sydney’s Northern Beaches

Manly Beaches

It may only be a twenty-minute ferry ride from Circular Quay in the city, but Manly – which was apparently named after the ‘manly’ aboriginals who lived here – is easily one of the best beaches in Sydney. Manly feels like a sleepy holiday town, and that’s its very charm.

The part of the beach you’ll arrive at first from your walk from the ferry is known as South Steyne, and further south, around a pretty oceanside path at the southernmost end is sheltered Shelly Beach. Offshore, on the rocky point, surfers lap up the swells at Fairy Bower.

North of South Steyne – naturally – is North Steyne, while at the northernmost end the beach is called Queenscliff. A promenade, shaded by Norfolk Island Pines, stretches along the whole length of the beach, making it one of the best for a stroll, skate or bike-ride.

Out on the sand and in the water is the famous decades-old Manly Surf School, credited with teaching the young and old, foreign and not-so-local, how to ride the waves. They also offer surfing day tours along Sydney’s Northern Beaches.

Two things are a must: fish and chips on a picnic table under the pines, and a cocktail at Hemingway’s bar. You decide the order. See our Manly guide for details.

Freshwater Beach

North of Manly, nestled between two headlands, is another one of the best beaches in Sydney, diminutive Freshwater Beach. While not as well known to foreign visitors, it’s an icon to beach-loving Aussies, especially board-riders, having played an important role in our surfing history.

This is the beach where, on Christmas Eve in 1914, Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku, an Olympic swimming champion, after having had a wooden surfboard made in the style he rode back home in Hawaii, took to the waves, starting a craze that would become a crucial part of our identity as Aussies.

The Duke’s original surfboard is still at the beach’s Surf Lifesaving Club. Freshwater – or Freshy – as the locals call it  has a grassy park with barbecues and great surf.

If you hire a car you can continue to explore more of the best beaches in Sydney, which are Sydney’s northern beaches, including – heading north – Curl Curl, Dee Why, Collaroy, Narrabeen, Mona Vale, Newport, Bilgola Beach, Avalon, Whale Beach, and…

Palm Beach

Sydney’s northernmost stretch of sand, Palm Beach – or ‘Palmie’ as locals love to call it – is our favourite northern beach and easily one of the best beaches in Sydney. When we lived in the city we used to do weekend drives during the summer where we’d stop off at every beach along the way so Terence could track down the best waves.

Regardless of where he went for a surf we would always end up at Palm Beach where I would happily stretch my towel out on the sand to catch some sun and read a book for a few hours. Some will recognise Palm Beach as the fictional town of ‘Summer Bay’ in Australian long-running soapie Home and Away.

While it’s an egalitarian community in the television show, the beachside suburb is actually home to some of Sydney’s most expensive real estate and wealthiest residents though you wouldn’t know it from the laidback vibe on the beach. The surf can get rough, while on the other side of the peninsula at Pittwater, it’s as calm as anything, sheltered from the ocean swell.

Don’t leave without hiking up to the northern end of the beach to Barrenjoey Head and the handsome sandstone Barrenjoey Lighthouse, dating to 1881. This is Sydney’s northernmost point, at the entrance to Pittwater, with spectacular vistas.

From Palm Beach, you can take the ferry to Ettalong Beach on the Central Coast, which I remember doing one summer with my nanna and great-aunt as a small child. My family later lived close by to Ocean Beach, Umina, where mum and dad had a seafood restaurant near the beach. It’s a very pretty area that’s worth exploring.

Sydney’s Southern Beaches

Bondi Beach

Sydney’s most iconic beach is arguably one of the best beaches in Sydney, if not Australia, and is the first destination for many travellers to the city. Bondi is easily Australia’s most famous beach.

The beach is home to the Bondi Surf Bathers Life Saving Club, located in a handsome mustard-coloured building that has long served as a community centre. Founded in 1907, it’s officially regarded as the oldest surf lifesaving club in the world. The club is kept busy on weekends when some 40,000 beachgoers can hit the sand.

Bondi is a sprawling, crescent-shaped beach, with the northern end boasting smaller waves than the southern end where boardriders can often be seen tackling some big waves. Like Manly, the beach is also home to a well-regarded surf school.

During spring and summer, the shores of Bondi Beach and Tamarama Beach – easily another one of the best beaches in Sydney – and the breathtaking Bondi to Bronte Coastal Walk, which connects the two beaches, become an open-air sculpture park for the two-week Sculptures by the Sea exhibition.

At the southern end of Bondi, at the start of the Bondi to Bronte Walk, is the Bondi Icebergs, Australia’s oldest and most famous swimming club. The Icebergs Dining Room and Bar is a terrific choice for lunch, dinner or simply a great spot for sundowners at the end of the day

At the northern end of Bondi Beach, Speedos Cafe is one of the world’s most Instagrammable cafes, and is the spot to tuck into classic Australian dishes such as smashed avocado and fish and chips while you drink in the Bondi views. Campbell Parade, Bondi’s main drag, connects North Bondi and South Bondi.

‘The Parade’ is definitely worth an amble. It hasn’t gentrified in the way that some Eastern Suburbs residents would have liked, making the shops and eateries are a mixed bag, but this is what makes Bondi real in many ways. 

Tamarama Beach

Tamarama Beach is undoubtedly another one of the best beaches in Sydney and can be reached on foot by heading south along the Bondi to Bronte Coastal Walk. It’s a splendid stroll along the easy walkway around the craggy cliffs, which dish up some dramatic vistas of Bondi, the ocean, and eventually Tamarama, at every turn. (Click through to the link above for more info on the route.)

The first beach you’ll hit on the walk, Tamarama has a fascinating and long history. Sydney’s first amusement park opened here in 1887 with a roller-coaster that climbed and plunged over the sand, an aquarium holding seals and a shark, and vaudeville acts.

Tamarama has long been known as ‘Glamarama’ due its popularity among Sydney’s ‘beautiful people’ – actors, celebrities, models, and the like – although as I said in my post on Sydney’s swimming pools, we spotted more retirees walking dogs (the gorgeous grown old?) and mothers pushing strollers when we visited on our recent trip back home.

Tamarama is a compact beach, backed by a pretty little park, but don’t be fooled by its diminutive size. The beach is home to some wild surf, big waves and rips. As you’d expect, Sydney’s board-riders love it and it’s a popular surfing spot, however, it’s such a stunning place, it’s enough to simply sit and take in the sublime vistas from the beach or headland above.

Slap-bang on the beach, Tamarama Kiosk, known by locals as the ‘Tama cafe’, which sold meat pies, sausage rolls and ice-creams when I was a kid, has had a sleek architectural redesign and is now rather upmarket, selling gourmet sandwiches, great burgers, freshly squeezed juices, and homemade cakes.

Bronte Beach

Continue around the rugged headland and you’ll come to another one of the best beaches in Sydney, and this is easily one of Sydney’s most beautiful beaches, Bronte Beach. Home to Bronte Surf Life Saving Club, which claims to be one of the world’s oldest surf life saving clubs, launching in 1903.

Bronte Beach has a splendid sea pool, Bronte Baths, dating back to 1887, which is also called Bond Ocean Pool, named after surf lifesaving pioneer Major Bond. It’s another wonderful swimming and surfing spot, although here, too, you have to watch out for the rips.

The shady park that backs onto the compact beach is popular for barbecues, picnics and cricket games – it was a favourite summer destination for my own family and friends for years.

Opposite the beach, a handful of buzzy cafés keeps beachgoers sated, including the charming Bogeyhole Cafe. This delightful eatery is named after the ‘bogey hole’, which is a local nickname for Bronte Baths – ‘bogey’ is an Aboriginal name for safe swimming hole.

If you’re really hungry or want something special, a short stroll away on Macpherson Street is the much-loved Three Blue Ducks restaurant-cafe, ran by five mates, surf-loving Bronte locals Sam, Chris and Jeff, and former Tetsuya’s chefs Mark Le Brooy and Darren Robertson, who have established a kitchen garden out the back and also have a farm with restaurant at Byron Bay.

Don’t be surprised if you find yourself wondering what the real estate costs!

Note: if you continue south along the walking path, which extends all the way to Coogee, it becomes the Bondi to Coogee Coastal Walk. We’ll test out the stretch to Coogee on our next trip to Sydney.

Sydney’s Harbour Beaches

If the Pacific coast beaches aren’t enough to keep you busy, the jaw-dropping harbour hosts even more of Sydney’s best beaches with an abundance of tiny beaches skirting picturesque bays dotted around its shore.

Watsons Bay Beach

One of the best Sydney harbour beaches, and one of our favourites, is the beach at Watsons Bay, a former fishing village that’s home to Doyles seafood restaurant, dating to 1885, and the legendary Watsons Bay Hotel. Fish and chips and cold beers (or seafood platters and white wine) in the sunshine are the order of the day here.

The 1.4 kilometre-long South Head Heritage Trail starts at Camp Cove, Watsons Bay, and makes for a wonderful walk along a cobblestone path dating to the 1870s, finishing at Hornby Lighthouse, where you might be lucky to spot some whales out at sea during whale watching season.

Lady Bay Beach

Nearby, the nudist beach of Lady Bay Beach, called Lady Jane Beach when it was established in 1976, is not far away. Tucked between South Head and Camp Cove, it’s predominantly known as a gay nude beach these days, however, it was popular with naturist families when I was a child.

Shark Beach

Families prefer the lovely Shark Beach, backed by leafy Nielsen Park, which has been here since 1911 and was once the grounds (all 260 hectares of them!) of gracious Vaucluse House.

Nude bathing might not be officially permitted here, although the beach has been known to see some skinny dippers late at night on balmy summer’s evenings. The lovely Nielsen Park Cafe and Restaurant in a light-filled, historic sandstone building is a favourite lunch spot.

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About Lara Dunston

A travel and food writer who has experienced over 70 countries and written for The Guardian, Australian Gourmet Traveller, Feast, Delicious, National Geographic Traveller, Conde Nast Traveller, Travel+Leisure Southeast Asia, DestinAsian, TIME, CNN, The Independent, The Telegraph, Sunday Times Travel Magazine, AFAR, Wanderlust, International Traveller, Get Lost, Four Seasons Magazine, Fah Thai, Sawasdee, and more, as well as authored more than 40 guidebooks for Lonely Planet, DK, Footprint, Rough Guides, Fodors, Thomas Cook, and AA Guides.

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  1. suzie james says

    February 28, 2013 at 1:20 pm

    Bondi is still may favourite of all time..though the competition is tough with so many beautiful beaches to chose from!

  2. Lara Dunston says

    March 8, 2013 at 12:13 am

    Agree! But you’ve got some stunning beaches there in Bali yourself. Eager to return and get off the beaten track more next time.

  3. Ben says

    March 24, 2013 at 3:54 pm

    As a relocated Sydneysider I loved this.

    My personal fave? Freshy.

    Would love to get your thoughts on Sydney’s best ocean pools. They such a classic part of growing up around Sydney’s wet edges, and they’re all so different.

    Just the best fun when there’s a huge swell running and the waves spill into them churning the water into a cool, salty jacuzzi.

    Happy travels!

  4. Lara Dunston says

    March 24, 2013 at 6:41 pm

    Thanks, Ben! Freshy, hey? Did you live nearby – or like us was it a weekend escape from the inner-city?

    A post just for you, Ben – Our Guide to the Best Harbour and Ocean Swimming Pools in Sydney http://bit.ly/UmmVU4 My favourite was the Dawn Fraser – so many lovely memories – no swell or waves of course just jellyfish invasions, luke warm water, and kids running along the boardwalk. Nice.

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I love giving homemade edibles as gifts as much as I love receiving them. Who wouldn’t appreciate jars filled with their favourite chilli oils, hot sauces, piquant pickles, and spicy peanuts that loved-ones have taken the time to make? 

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Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky, flavourful and succulent chicken thighs that are fantastic with steamed rice, Chinese greens or a salad, such as a Southeast Asian slaw. 

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Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re mak Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re making with my market haul from Psar Samaki in Siem Reap — all for a whopping 10,000 riel (US$2.50)?! 

Birds-eye chillies thrown in for free! They were on my list but the seller I spent most at (5,000 riel!) scooped up a handful and slipped them into my bag. She was my last stop and knew what I was making.

My Khmer is poor, even after all our years in Cambodia, as I don’t learn languages with the ease I did in my 20s, plus I’m mentally exhausted after researching and writing all day. I have a better vocabulary of Old and Middle Khmer than modern Khmer from studying the ancient inscriptions for the Cambodian culinary history component of our cookbook I’m writing.

So when one seller totalled my purchases I thought she said 5,000 riel but she handed back 4,500 riel! The sum total of two huge bunches of herbs and kaffir lime leaves was 500 riel.

Tip: if visiting Siem Reap, use Khmer riel for local shopping. We’ve mainly used riel since the pandemic started— rarely use US$ now as market sellers quote prices in riels, as do local shops and bakeries, and I tip tuk tuk drivers in riels. I find prices quoted in riels are lower.

Psar Samaki is cheaper than Psar Leu, which is cheaper than Psar Chas, as it’s a wholesale market, which means the produce is fresher. I see veggies arriving, piled high in the back of vehicles, with dirt still on them — as I did on this trip. 

The scent of a mountain of incredibly aromatic pineapples offloaded from the back of a dusty ute was so heady they smelt like they’d just been cut. More exotic European style veggies arrive by big trucks in boxes labelled in Vietnamese (from Dalat) and Mandarin (from China), such as beautiful snow-white cauliflower I spotted.

Note: the freshest produce is sold on the dirt road at the back of the market.

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My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recip My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recipe makes tender meatballs doused in a delightfully tangy-sweet sauce, sprinkled with crispy fried shallots, with carrot-daikon, crunchy cucumber and fragrant herbs. 

The dish is inspired by bún chả, a Hanoi specialty, but it’s not bún chả. No matter what Google or food bloggers tell you. Names are important, especially when cooking and writing about cuisines not our own.

This is an authentic bún chả recipe:  https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-bun-cha-recipe/ You’ll need to get the outdoor BBQ/grill going to do proper smoky bún chả meat patties (not meatballs).

My meatball noodle bowl is perhaps more closely related to dishes such as a Central Vietnam cousin bún thịt nướng (pork skewers on rice noodles in a bowl) and a Southern relation bún bò Nam Bộ (beef atop rice noodles, sprinkled with fried shallots (Nam Bộ=Southern Vietnam) though neither include meatballs. 

Xíu mại= meatballs although they’re different in flavour to mine, which taste more like bún chả patties. Xíu mại remind me of Southern Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to millions of Khmer, there’s bánh tằm xíu mại. Bánh tằm=silk worm noodles. They’re topped with meatballs, cucumber, daikon, carrot, fresh herbs, crispy fried onions. Difference: cold noodles doused in a sauce of coconut cream and fish sauce. 

Remove the meatballs, add chopped fried spring rolls and it’s Cambodia’s banh sung, which is a rice noodle salad similar to Vietnam’s bún chả giò :) 

Recipe here: (link in bio) https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-meatballs-and-rice-noodles-recipe/

For more on these culinary connections you’ll have to wait for our Cambodian cookbook and culinary history. In a hurry to know? Come support the project on Patreon. (link in bio)

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It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour matches the furnishings of our rented apartment. So, no, I did not colour-coordinate the interiors to match our cat’s eyes. 

I keep getting DMs from pet clothing brands wanting to “partner” with Pepper and send her free cat clothes and cat accessories. Although she did wear a kerchief for a few years in her more adventurous fashion-forward teenage years, I cannot see this cat in clothes now, can you? 

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