Next to Paraporti bay (a dangerous beach because of the unstable bottom of the sea, don’t swim there). Paraporti is one of the two beaches of Chora (Andros Town) (the right one, the other is Neiborio).

How to get to Lydi: You walk along the Paraporti beach and you find a hill. On the hill there are two small churches. You are trying to reach the right one and after a while there is a road. You cross the road and you can see the Lydi beach. You have to get down the other side of the hill and there you are. It’s easier than it looks – but still not very easy.

Lydi beach

Lydi beach

7:18 am, Jan 28, 2026

11°C

clear sky

Humidity: 78 %

Pressure: 1010 mb

Wind: 6 mph

Wind Gust: 11 mph

Clouds: 1%

Visibility: 10 km

Sunrise: 7:27 am

Sunset: 5:38 pm

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8:00 am

11°/13°°C 0 mm 0% 9 mph 78% 1010 mb 0 mm/h

11:00 am

12°/14°°C 0 mm 0% 9 mph 74% 1010 mb 0 mm/h

2:00 pm

13°/15°°C 0 mm 0% 15 mph 68% 1009 mb 0 mm/h

5:00 pm

14°/14°°C 0 mm 0% 12 mph 64% 1009 mb 0 mm/h

8:00 pm

15°/15°°C 0 mm 0% 20 mph 79% 1008 mb 0 mm/h

11:00 pm

15°/15°°C 0 mm 0% 27 mph 86% 1008 mb 0 mm/h

2:00 am

15°/15°°C 0.2 mm 20% 24 mph 86% 1007 mb 0 mm/h

5:00 am

15°/15°°C 1 mm 100% 28 mph 83% 1004 mb 0 mm/h

Weather from OpenWeatherMap

There is a path up the hill from Paraporti beach, although not particularly distinct – it begins where the road petres out at the very far end of the beach – it zig-zags up to the church on the skyline. Then turn left along the road to a small lay-by – this marks the most direct descent to Lydi (still fairly rough).

From Chora to Lydi takes no more than 30 minutes on foot. The beach is quite idyllic. The sea is lovely. My contributors were usually alone on the beach. It is a wild beach with a quiet sea (the bay is very closed) with no traces of human presence. In my contributors’ opinion the beach is ideal for nudists, although the beach is visible from the road, which is not frequented at all. My contributors rated it 90%.

2018 August: Pebble beach, difficult to access, you have to climb / descend the rocks. But very calm, very few people, all naked ….
Presence of a funny goat quite attracted by visitors. Please note: no infrastructure, so provide [own] parasol and drinks.

2024 August: Lydi may well be the best beach in Andros. Access is easy: you park on a small dead end road, and then walk down for ten minutes on a well marked footpath. When I visited early August 2024, there were at most six people on the whole beach, all naked.