The "Coast" category holds 35 places on the Baltic: piers, beaches, headlands, promenades and harbours. All of them are in the Pomeranian region (close to 20) and West Pomerania (over a dozen).
Sopot Pier is 511 metres long, the longest wooden pier in Europe; the first jetty was built here in 1827. At the tip of the Hel Peninsula, at the end of the 35-kilometre spit, stands the Kashubian Mound "Hel – the Beginning of Poland", and the beach lies between the open sea and the bay. Międzyzdroje Pier (395 m) is the longest concrete pier in Poland, with a landing for excursion boats. In Gdynia, Orłowo Beach lies below the Orłowo Cliff, with a 180-metre wooden pier and free entry, and the Seaside Boulevard runs for a kilometre and a half from the city-centre beach to Redłowo. On Hel, from Libek Hill (12.5 m), the highest dune on the spit, you can see the sea and Puck Bay at once – the peninsula is only 150 metres wide here.
You will find the most places in this category in Gdynia and in Kosakowo on Puck Bay, and on the western coast in Kołobrzeg and Międzyzdroje.
In practice: the beach season runs from late June to August, when supervised bathing areas are open. Sopot Pier costs 10 zł in season (reduced 5 zł) and is free from October to early April. Spring and September are good for walks without crowds; in winter the coast is windy, but the promenades are empty.
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Sopot
Sopot Pier (Molo w Sopocie; say "SOH-pot") is the signature landmark of Poland's Baltic coast. The wooden promenade is 511.5 meters long, with 458 meters stretching out over the Gulf of Gdańsk, and its story began in 1827. Walking to the e…
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Hel
The Hel Headland is the sandy tip of the Hel Peninsula (say it like "hell"), the spot where a 35 km sand spit north of Gdańsk finally runs out and the open Baltic meets the Bay of Gdańsk. Since 2013 a stone cairn called the Kashubian Mound…
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Międzyzdroje
The Międzyzdroje Pier is a reinforced-concrete jetty 395 m long, reaching from the beach on Wolin Island far into the Pomeranian Bay. It is the longest concrete pier in Poland and also a marine landing stage: excursion boats moor at its fa…
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Gdynia
In 1934, soldiers of an army bridge-building battalion from Modlin extended the wooden pier at Orłowo to 430 metres in just two months so that excursion steamers could moor by the beach — at the time Orłowo was competing with neighbouring…
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Jastarnia
Góra Libek – officially Lubek – is a wooded dune between Kuźnica and Jastarnia on the Hel Peninsula. It rises a mere 12.5 m above sea level, yet it is the highest point on this stretch of the peninsula. Its name preserves the story of a sh…
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Gdynia
The Seaside Boulevard (Bulwar Nadmorski) in Gdynia is a promenade of about 1.5 km (1 mile) along the Bay of Gdańsk, running from the city-center beach to the beach at Redłowo beneath the wooded slopes of Kamienna Góra hill. It is one of th…
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Sopot
Sopot Pier (Molo w Sopocie; say "SOH-pot") is the signature landmark of Poland's Baltic coast. The wooden promenade is 511.5 meters long, with 458 meters stretching out over the Gulf of Gdańsk, and its story began in 1827. Walking to the e…
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Rewa
From the beach in Rewa you can walk straight out to sea: a narrow strip of sand runs about one kilometre into the water, with a different bay on each side. The Kashubians call it Szpërk; visitors simply call it the Rewa Spit. Beyond its ti…
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Międzyzdroje
The Międzyzdroje Pier is a reinforced-concrete jetty 395 m long, reaching from the beach on Wolin Island far into the Pomeranian Bay. It is the longest concrete pier in Poland and also a marine landing stage: excursion boats moor at its fa…
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Gdynia
The Seaside Boulevard (Bulwar Nadmorski) in Gdynia is a promenade of about 1.5 km (1 mile) along the Bay of Gdańsk, running from the city-center beach to the beach at Redłowo beneath the wooded slopes of Kamienna Góra hill. It is one of th…
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Rewa
In the waters of Puck Bay near Rewa and Osłonino lie the remains of several ships, which divers call the Cmentarzysko Wraków (Shipwreck Graveyard). The best known is the wreck of the "Helena" – a wooden coastal sailing vessel that sank in…
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Hel
The Hel Headland is the sandy tip of the Hel Peninsula (say it like "hell"), the spot where a 35 km sand spit north of Gdańsk finally runs out and the open Baltic meets the Bay of Gdańsk. Since 2013 a stone cairn called the Kashubian Mound…
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Jastarnia
Góra Libek – officially Lubek – is a wooded dune between Kuźnica and Jastarnia on the Hel Peninsula. It rises a mere 12.5 m above sea level, yet it is the highest point on this stretch of the peninsula. Its name preserves the story of a sh…
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Puck
In February 1920 General Józef Haller threw a platinum ring into the Bay of Puck – this was Poland's symbolic "wedding to the sea". More than a century later Puck's quays bring together three worlds: a fishing harbour, a yacht port and a n…
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Gdańsk
Brzeźno Pier is 136 m long and 7.2 m wide – modest next to Sopot's, but much quieter, and from the end you can watch ships heading into the port of Gdańsk. This wooden pier at the end of al. Jana Pawła II is one of the easiest ways to stan…
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Kołobrzeg
Kołobrzeg Pier (say "koh-WOB-zheg") is a 220-meter (720-foot) concrete walkway reaching into the Baltic Sea from the heart of the town's spa district, and the single most popular thing to do in this Polish seaside resort. Walk to the end f…
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Gdynia
Today's pier in Orłowo is 180 metres long, but in 1934 it was more than twice that length and competed with Sopot. From the wooden deck you look out over the Gulf of Gdańsk, the Orłowo Cliff and the fishing end of Orłowo, where boats are h…
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Gdynia
Few Polish cities have a beach just minutes from their main street. In Gdynia you simply walk down from Kościuszko Square and you are on the sand, looking at the port, the South Pier and the Sea Towers skyscrapers. Śródmieście (City Centre…
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Dźwirzyno
Dźwirzyno Beach (jvee-ZHI-no) is a wide, sandy stretch of Baltic shoreline about 10 km (6 miles) west of Kołobrzeg in northwest Poland, backed by dunes and pine forest. The village sits on a narrow strip of land between the sea and Lake Re…
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Gdynia
In 1934, soldiers of an army bridge-building battalion from Modlin extended the wooden pier at Orłowo to 430 metres in just two months so that excursion steamers could moor by the beach — at the time Orłowo was competing with neighbouring…
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Kołobrzeg
Kołobrzeg Beach (roughly "ko-WOB-zheg") is a broad strip of fine, pale sand that runs for several kilometers east from the harbor and lighthouse, past the pier and the leafy spa parks, toward the suburb of Podczele. It is the main reason c…
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Łeba
The beach at Łeba ("WEH-bah") is a broad ribbon of pale, fine sand on both sides of the harbor of this small resort on Poland's central Baltic coast, often counted among Poland's finest. To the west it turns into the wild shore of Słowińsk…
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Międzyzdroje
Międzyzdroje Beach (say "myen-dzih-ZDROH-yeh") is a broad stretch of pale sand on Wolin Island in northwestern Poland on the Baltic coast, and one of Poland's most popular beaches. What sets it apart is the setting: forested cliffs of Woli…
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Mrzeżyno
Mrzeżyno Beach (say "mzheh-ZHIH-no") is a wide strip of fine sand on both sides of the Rega River mouth, about 18 km (11 miles) west of Kołobrzeg on Poland's Baltic coast. Instead of hotels lining the shore, a belt of pine forest grows on…
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Rowy
The beach at Rowy has two personalities: west of the mouth of the Łupawa river the cliff coast begins, while to the east stretch the shifting dunes of Słowiński National Park. This small holiday village in Ustka municipality, between Ustka…
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Puck
Thousands of years ago, people living on the headland at Rzucewo hunted seals and worked amber – an entire Neolithic culture, the Rzucewo culture, is named after this village. Today a narrow sandy beach runs below a wooded bluff on the Bay…
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Sopot
Sopot Beach is the wide, sandy shoreline that runs the full length of Sopot, the spa town between Gdańsk and Gdynia on Poland's Baltic coast. With the famous wooden pier, the historic Grand Hotel and timber bathhouses as a backdrop, it is…
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Świnoujście
The beach in Świnoujście (roughly "shvee-no-OOYSH-cheh") is one of the best reasons to visit Poland's westernmost seaside town. This broad strip of pale sand on the island of Usedom (Uznam in Polish) runs from the harbor breakwater to the…
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Władysławowo
Władysławowo is Poland's northernmost town, and its central beach stretches for about 3 km with more than 20 m of pale sand. The town sits at the base of the Hel Peninsula, between the open Baltic and the Bay of Puck, so in a few minutes y…
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Ustka
Ustka began with its harbour: it was the medieval town of Słupsk that founded a landing place at the mouth of the Słupia, giving itself a window on the Baltic. Today fishing boats, yachts and excursion ships moor along the harbour canal, a…
In season (10 April–30 September) a standard ticket costs 10 zł, a reduced ticket for children aged 3–16 is 5 zł and family tickets 21–23 zł. From October to early April entry is free.
Sopot Pier – 511 metres, the longest wooden pier in Europe. The longest concrete pier in Poland is in Międzyzdroje (395 m).
For the beach, from late June to August, when supervised bathing areas are open. For walks and sightseeing, May, June and September are better, with fewer people.
Updated: · Opening hours and prices can change — check the attraction page before you go.