Canada’s Best Beaches

Discover Canada’s hidden beach gems! From warm waters and powdery sands to charming resorts, explore top beach destinations across the Great White North.

Great White North & Great White Sandy Beaches Too!

Canada is home to an abundance of world-class beaches, seaside parks, charming beach towns and resorts. Turquoise water and, in a couple of places, actual palm trees are not what most people picture when they picture Canada.

From Sea to Shining Sea

You get both here — salt water and fresh. The Great Lakes, shared with the United States (except Lake Michigan), are inland seas in their own right. No matter where you are in Canada, you are within easy reach of a fabulous beach destination, from the Maritimes to British Columbia.

Blue, Blue Ontario

Ontario is landlocked and still has beaches that hold their own against Caribbean destinations — worth seeing before you make the lengthy trek to crowded US beach destinations like Wildwood and Virginia Beach.

Camping & RV Friendly

Many of these beaches sit inside provincial parks with RV campgrounds attached, so the beach is a short walk from the site and the site has the hookups.

Maritime Provinces

Parlee Beach, NB — water that gets upwards of 29 °C, over soft white sand.
Cavendish Beach, PEI — red sandstone cliffs and dunes.
Brackley Beach, PEI — white sand, close to Charlottetown.
Bouctouche Dune Beach, NB — one of the longest sand dunes in North America.
Blue Sea Beach, NS — water temperatures reaching 22 °C.
Ingonish Beach, NS — inside Cape Breton Highlands National Park.
Singing Sands, PEI — often cited as Canada’s best beach, for its silica sand.

Quebec

In the Magdalen Islands, Dune du sud is the one to see: turquoise water and dunes that would not look out of place a lot further south.

British Columbia

Long Beach, Vancouver Island — more than 16 km of Pacific shoreline.
Tribune Bay, Hornby Island — nicknamed “little Hawaii” for its summer temperatures.
Sombrio Beach, Vancouver Island — surfing, with waterfalls nearby.

Freshwater Beach Destinations

Wasaga Beach, ON — at 14 km, the world’s longest freshwater beach.
Sauble Beach, ON — over 11 km, and billed as Canada’s #1 freshwater beach destination.
Grand Bend, ON — turquoise water and a beach town that knows it.
Port Dover, ON — palm trees, warm water and a scenic pier.

Freshwater Beach Destinations – Prairie Provinces

Grand Beach, MB — fine white sand.
Good Spirit Lake Beach, SK — rated one of Canada’s top 10 beaches by Maclean’s.
Sylvan Lake Provincial Park, AB — mountain views and something on year-round.
Osoyoos Lake, BC — a desert climate that pushes the water to 24 °C.
Bennett Lake, YK — rated by the Huffington Post as one of Canada’s top beaches.

Beach Daze above the 49th Parallel

Canadian beaches will meet all your sundrenched, beachcombing, lazy summer days’ fantasies. Whatever the rest of the world thinks this country is for, it is not only winter.