Walmer Beach

Walmer · South Kent · shingle

East-facing shingle beach at Walmer, close to Walmer Castle. Car parks and toilets along the front, with cafés up in the village.

What the tide does here

At a spring high tide about 73% of Walmer Beach is out of the water. By spring low the sea has drawn back roughly 40 metres, uncovering 94% of it — about 55 hectares of shingle.

Walmer Beach at high water: the dry beach shaded on a satellite map — **High water, 5.7 m above chart datum.** About 75% of Walmer Beach is out of the water.

Walmer Beach at low water: the dry beach shaded on a satellite map — **Low water, 1.5 m above chart datum.** About 91% is uncovered.

Dogs

There are no dog restrictions on the beach. Dogs must be on a lead on Walmer Green, by The Strand, from 9am to 6pm between 1 May and 30 September.

Water quality

This beach is not a designated bathing water, so the Environment Agency does not sample it.

Lifeguards

No RNLI lifeguard patrol here.

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.