Beaches in Poland
2 beaches · 2 beach worlds
Five hundred kilometres of Baltic coast, almost all of it sand backed by pine and dune. The country holds the largest system of moving dunes in Europe at Słowiński, where sand travelling east has buried forest and continues to, and a nineteenth-century spa tradition at Sopot with the longest wooden pier on the continent. The sea is brackish, shallow, effectively tideless, and warm enough to swim in for about eight weeks. Amber washes up after autumn storms along the whole coast. The season is eight weeks and everything is built around it. Outside July and August the coast is windy, grey and largely closed, though the dune parks are better for walking then than at any other time. The Baltic here is brackish enough to freeze in cold winters, and cyanobacteria blooms can close beaches to bathing for a few days in hot still weather — warnings are posted and published by the sanitary inspectorate.
The two are different kinds of shore. The sand is quartz sand throughout. Together they account for 9 km of shore. · computed from the 2 records below
