Cottesloe Beach
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Australia · Perth, Western Australia · #9 of Australia's ten by fame

Cottesloe Beach

Perth's own beach, 25 minutes from the city and 600,000 visits a year.

How we rated it: nothing lifts it, nothing sinks it. Photo: -wuppertaler · CC BY 4.0

The hang

Cottesloe Beach, Mudurup in the Noongar language, is one of the most iconic places in Western Australia, a 25-minute drive from Perth's centre. Wikipedia puts visitors at around 600,000 a year, a figure it flags as needing a citation. There are toilets, showers, change rooms, cafés and restaurants. Wikipedia says the beach spans 1.5 km; the mapped stretch we measured is 388 metres.

The real intel

Best months · warmest sea
February (24.8 °C), then January and March. Coolest: August (16.7 °C). One year of data, 2025.
Best months · emptiest
No source says.
Getting there
A 25-minute drive from Perth's centre.
The catch nobody tells you
None on record.

The year at Cottesloe Beach

Warmest sea in February. Fewest wet days in January, February and December. Pick your fight.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Sea (°C)
24.7
24.8
24
22.7
20.4
18.9
17
16.7
17.4
19.5
21.1
23.3
Air (°C)
26.4
24.9
24.9
21
18.3
15.1
12.5
13.9
15.1
16.4
20.3
23.7
Sun (h/day)
12.6
12.3
11.5
10.7
9.3
8.2
8.2
9.3
10.8
11.3
13.2
13.6
Rain (days)
1
1
4
7
9
14
18
18
10
11
4
1

One year of data, 2025, from Open-Meteo at this beach's coordinates. A rain day is 1 mm or more. The red bar is the month to aim for in each row.

The neighbours

6 beaches within 6 km, as the gull flies.

  1. 407 mPeters Pool406 m of beach, measured. Not rated yet.
  2. 837 mNorth Cottesloe Beach528 m of beach, measured. Not rated yet.
  3. 3.1 kmSwanbourne Beach3,771 m of beach, measured. Not rated yet.
  4. 3.2 kmMilo Beach36 m of beach, measured. Not rated yet.
  5. 3.2 kmLeighton Beach1,722 m of beach, measured. Not rated yet.
  6. 3.9 kmPoint Roe Beach202 m of beach, measured. Not rated yet.

Straight-line distances from the mapped beach shapes (OpenStreetMap). Roads are longer, and in Bali they are much longer.

The crowd

Around 600,000 visitors a year, by Wikipedia's uncited count.

The receipts

Toilets, showers, change rooms, cafés and restaurants.

The facts · we measured

Length
388 m
Mean width
38.9 m
Area
15,097 m²
Warmest sea (2025)
24.8 °C in Feb
Coldest sea (2025)
16.7 °C in Aug
Sea by month, °C
Jan 24.7 · Feb 24.8 · Mar 24.0 · Apr 22.7 · May 20.4 · Jun 18.9 · Jul 17.0 · Aug 16.7 · Sep 17.4 · Oct 19.5 · Nov 21.1 · Dec 23.3

Questions people ask

How far is Cottesloe Beach from Perth?

About a 25-minute drive from the city centre.

What is Cottesloe Beach called in Noongar?

Mudurup.

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