The count · Portugal

Portugal has 180 beaches.
We counted.

That’s 180named, mapped beaches — real OpenStreetMap geometry, deduplicated, nothing under 1,500 m² of actual sand. The true number is higher (unnamed coves don’t count themselves), so treat this as the verifiable floor. Combined mapped sand: roughly 8.8 km².

The widest of them

Praia da Bordeira345.3 m of sand, on average