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Dog-friendly beaches in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
The dog rules for 28 beaches from Barton on Sea to Hayling Island, plus the Isle of Wight, beach by beach. 19 allow dogs all year. Portsmouth, Hayling Island, Lee-on-the-Solent, Stokes Bay and Salterns Beach close all or part of the beach to dogs from 1 May to 30 September. Lepe and Compton Bay have their own landowner rules, and the New Forest coast has no council beach bans.
- Dogs allowed today
- Allowed with limits today
- No dogs today
Barton on Sea
- Barton on Sea Beach Dogs allowed all year
Milford on Sea
- Milford on Sea Beach Dogs allowed all year
- Hordle Cliff Beach Dogs allowed all year
Keyhaven
- Hurst Spit Dogs allowed all year
Lepe
- Lepe Beach Part closed in summer
Calshot
- Calshot Beach Dogs allowed all year
Southampton
- Weston Shore Dogs allowed all year
Netley
- Royal Victoria Country Park Shore Dogs allowed all year
Hill Head
- Salterns Beach Summer ban
- Meon Shore Dogs allowed all year
Chilling
- Chilling Beach Dogs allowed all year
Warsash
- Warsash Shore Dogs allowed all year
Lee-on-the-Solent
- Lee-on-the-Solent Beach Part closed in summer
Gosport
- Stokes Bay Part closed in summer
- Gilkicker Point Beach Dogs allowed all year
Old Portsmouth
- Hot Walls Foreshore Summer ban
Southsea
- Southsea Beach (Hovertravel to the Pyramids) Dogs allowed all year
- Southsea Beach (Pyramids to South Parade Pier) Summer ban
- Southsea Beach (South Parade Pier to the Coffee Cup) Summer ban
Eastney
- Eastney Beach Dogs allowed all year
Hayling Island
- Hayling Island Beachlands Summer ban
- Hayling West Beach Dogs allowed all year
- Eastoke and Sandy Point Beach Dogs allowed all year
- Black Point Dogs allowed all year
St Helens
- St Helens Duver Dogs allowed all year
Bembridge
- Whitecliff Bay Dogs allowed all year
Brook
- Compton Bay Part closed in summer
- Brook Bay Dogs allowed all year
Still checking: most of the Isle of Wight's beaches (Ryde, Appley, Springvale, Seagrove Bay, Priory Bay, Bembridge, Yaverland, Sandown, Shanklin, Ventnor, Steephill Cove, Freshwater Bay, Colwell Bay, Totland Bay, Alum Bay, Yarmouth, Gurnard, Cowes and East Cowes), plus Hill Head, Keyhaven, Hamble Common, Solent Breezes and Browndown. They will appear here once we have confirmed the rules with the council or the landowner.