Peru · Piura · #6 of Peru's ten by fame
Long, thin, rocky, and quiet because it is hard to reach.
No photo yet. We don’t lie with pictures.
How we rated it: a source says the rocks make swimming dangerous in parts of the beach, which takes it down one.
Pocitas is 3,328 metres long and 44 metres wide on average by our measurement, the most stretched-out shape of Peru's ten: about 75 times longer than it is wide. The way down is a set of stairs one visitor calls dangerous, then forgets about. On the sand are beachfront rooms and restaurants, with toilets and loungers at some bars if you order.
Warmest sea in March. Fewest wet days in June, July, August and 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.
3 beaches within 6 km, as the gull flies. We have rated 2.
Straight-line distances from the mapped beach shapes (OpenStreetMap). Roads are longer, and in Bali they are much longer.
Hard to reach, and generally few people.
In parts, no. A visitor's review says the many rocks make swimming dangerous in parts of the beach.
By a set of stairs, which one visitor calls dangerous.
