Ten dog beaches on the Costa Blanca, and one that is being reported as open but is not
MILO SCHUIJT · 13 November 2026 · 3 min read
The province of Alicante has roughly ten beaches where a dog is formally allowed in the water. For 244 kilometres of coast that is not many, and they are spread thin.
Where they actually are
North to south: Dénia (Escollera Norte), Calp (Cala Les Urques), Altea (Platja de l’Olla), La Vila Joiosa (Cala del Xarco), El Campello (Punta del Riu and Barranc de Aigües), Alicante (Agua Amarga), Santa Pola (Caleta dels Gossets), Orihuela Costa (Cala de Cabo Peñas) and Torrevieja (Cala canina del Rocío).
Mostly pebbles rather than sand, several reached by a steep staircase, and almost none with the facilities people expect.
Calp’s second dog beach is not open
You will read that Cala Manzanera has been added. It has had initial approval, and initial approval is not the end of the procedure.
Until it is, taking a dog there is the same as taking a dog to any other beach on this coast, with the same fine attached.
Nobody agrees on the number
One list counts ten, another eight. The lists change every season, and no two sources mean the same thing by the word official.
The only source that settles it is the ayuntamiento of the municipality you are driving to. That is less convenient and considerably cheaper.
The whole guide
The beaches one by one, what the law requires of you, what a fine costs, what these places are actually like underfoot and the thing almost everyone forgets to bring: it is all in our guide to dog beaches on the Costa Blanca.
Milo Schuijt is an entrepreneur and DJ on the Costa Blanca. He writes about the places where he lives, works and plays: from beach bars to the housing market.