Leysdown Beach

Leysdown-on-Sea · North Kent · sand

North-east-facing sandy beach at Leysdown-on-Sea, a holiday town on the Isle of Sheppey. A very gentle gradient exposes wide sands at low tide, backed by cafés and kiosks.

What the tide does here

At a spring high tide only about 13% of Leysdown Beach is out of the water. By spring low the sea has drawn back roughly 800 metres, uncovering 89% of it — about 197 hectares of sand.

Leysdown Beach at high water: the dry beach shaded on a satellite map — **High water, 5.6 m above chart datum.** About 13% of Leysdown Beach is out of the water.

Leysdown Beach at low water: the dry beach shaded on a satellite map — **Low water, 1.0 m above chart datum.** About 74% is uncovered.

Dogs

From 1 May to 30 September dogs are banned from the beach between Stokes Amusements and the steps at the end of The Promenade, and must be on a lead on the promenade there. The rest of the beach is dog-friendly all year.

Water quality

Classified Good by the Environment Agency in 2025, sampled as "Leysdown", a designated bathing water since 1988. Daily pollution risk forecasts appear on this page in the bathing season.

Lifeguards

No RNLI lifeguard patrol here.

Awards

Seaside Award 2026.

Facilities

No facilities recorded at this beach.

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Tide predictions © UK Hydrographic Office. Beach shape from Environment Agency LIDAR survey data, © Environment Agency, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Facilities and places from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Bathing water classifications from the Environment Agency. Satellite imagery © Mapbox, © Maxar.