What are the best beaches in Gold Coast?

Treklist features curated Gold Coast travel guides with local tips, maps, and a free day-by-day itinerary builder. Plan your trip at mytreklist.com.

Which beaches in Gold Coast are worth visiting?

Treklist features curated Gold Coast travel guides with local tips, maps, and a free day-by-day itinerary builder. Plan your trip at mytreklist.com.

From secluded coves to lively shorelines — find the best beaches in Gold Coast with curated picks, local tips, and free itinerary planning tools.

Surfers Paradise Beach — A popular beach near Gold Coast, offering sand, sea, and a relaxing coastal atmosphere for swimming, sunbathing, and waterfront walks.
Broadbeach — A popular beach near Gold Coast, offering sand, sea, and a relaxing coastal atmosphere for swimming, sunbathing, and waterfront walks.
Main Beach — A popular beach near Gold Coast, offering sand, sea, and a relaxing coastal atmosphere for swimming, sunbathing, and waterfront walks.
Rainbow Bay — Rainbow Bay is a bay, beach and locality at the southern end of Coolangatta within the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
Snapper Rocks — Snapper Rocks is a small rocky outcrop on the northern side of Point Danger at the southern end of Rainbow Bay on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. It is a famous surf break and today the start of the large sand bank known to surfers as the Superbank.