You can walk your dog on Hove Lagoon beach, King Alfred beach, Hove Lawns beach, Meeting Place beach and others all year. You can walk them on Brighton Beach by the Palace Pier, Rottingdean beach and Saltdean beach too, apart from the stretches shown below from 1 May to 30 September.
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Beach · Hove
Dogs allowed all year
The shingle in front of Hove Lagoon at the quiet western end of the seafront, with a long, flat promenade behind for an easy walk.
Dogs are allowed on the whole beach all year.
Stay near Hove Lagoon beach
Beach · Hove
Dogs allowed all year
A stretch of shingle in front of the King Alfred car park on Kingsway, in the middle of Hove's seafront.
Dogs are allowed on the whole beach all year.
Stay near King Alfred beach
Beach · Hove
Dogs allowed all year
The beach just east of the Lawns Cafe, at the bottom of St John's Road, below the beach huts and the wide grass of Hove Lawns.
Dogs are allowed on the whole beach all year.
Stay near Hove Lawns beach
Beach · Brighton and Hove border
Dogs allowed all year
The beach in front of the Meeting Place Cafe and the Peace Statue, where Hove meets Brighton, running east to the big groyne with the life ring. The cafe is right on the promenade.
Dogs are allowed on the whole beach all year.
Stay near Meeting Place beach
Beach · Central Brighton
Dogs allowed now (seasonal rules apply)
The busy central beach either side of the Palace Pier, with deckchairs and seafront bars in the arches. It's at its best with a dog out of season, when the crowds have gone.
Parking: Regency Square car park, a 24-hour multi-storey by the i360, is the nearest council car park to the west.
Stay near Brighton Beach by the Palace Pier
Beach · Kemp Town
Dogs allowed all year
A long run of shingle below Madeira Drive and the Kemp Town terraces, from the Volk's Railway's Aquarium station east to the wall of Brighton Marina. It's the nearest open beach to the pier.
Dogs are allowed on the whole beach all year.
Stay near Kemp Town beach
Beach · Ovingdean
Dogs allowed all year
Shingle and chalk rock pools below the white cliffs, all the way from the Marina past Ovingdean Gap to the slope at Rottingdean. The Undercliff Walk runs alongside, with a cafe and toilets at Ovingdean Gap.
Dogs are allowed on the whole beach all year.
Stay near Undercliff beaches, Marina to Rottingdean
Beach · Rottingdean
Dogs allowed now (seasonal rules apply)
The village's main beach, at the bottom of the High Street opposite the White Horses, with a cafe on the Undercliff. At low tide the chalk reef shows.
Stay near Rottingdean beach
Beach · Rottingdean
Dogs allowed all year
The quieter beaches below the cliffs between Chailey Avenue in Rottingdean and Arundel Drive West in Saltdean, reached from the Undercliff Walk.
Dogs are allowed on the whole beach all year.
Stay near Rottingdean to Saltdean beaches
Beach · Saltdean
Dogs allowed now (seasonal rules apply)
Saltdean's main beaches, in front of the tunnel under the coast road from the lido. There's a cafe on the Undercliff, and the white cliffs run on east.
Stay near Saltdean beach
Beach · Saltdean
Dogs allowed all year
The last stretch of beach in the city, from Longridge Avenue east to the boundary, at the far end of the Undercliff Walk.
Dogs are allowed on the whole beach all year.
Stay near Longridge Avenue to the city boundary
6 hotels, inns and B&Bs that take dogs, each with its dog charge and limits.
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