Australia · Jervis Bay, New South Wales · #5 of Australia's ten by fame
The whitest sand in Australia, says the myth. The council says the village is full.
How we rated it: down one, because the council closes the village once its 450 parking spaces are full. Photo: Maksym Kozlenko · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wikipedia says there is a myth that Hyams Beach has the whitest sand in Australia. It is a village of 112 people on Jervis Bay, 180 km south of Sydney, and a 2.5-hour drive away. On a few summer evenings it swells to 4,000 people, and there is only one road in and out, so the council closes the village once the 450 street parking spaces are effectively full. There are toilets, a playground, a café and limited parking. We measured 2,710 metres of sand.
Warmest sea in January. Fewest wet days in September. Pick your fight.
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.
6 beaches within 6 km, as the gull flies.
Straight-line distances from the mapped beach shapes (OpenStreetMap). Roads are longer, and in Bali they are much longer.
A village of 112 that swells to 4,000 on summer evenings.
Toilets, a playground, a café and limited parking.
Wikipedia calls the claim that it has the whitest sand in Australia a myth.
The council closes the village once its 450 street parking spaces are effectively full, because there is only one road in and out.
