West Wittering Beach

If you get hungry, there are many great restaurants near West Wittering Beach.  Drift-In is a cafe that offers many excellent dishes including burgers, fish-and-chips, wraps, fries, and pulled pork.  The Wittering is a restaurant and bar that has a cosy decor and beautiful artwork – it also offers a variety of excellent British-inspired gourmet dishes including bone marrow, pizzas, seafood chowder, and salads.  Drifters – East Wittering is a restaurant and bar that has a rustic but relaxed and modern-inspired ambience and it offers a variety of great dishes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner including eggs, French toast, wraps, salads, blackened chicken, and burgers.  The Boulevard East Wittering offers a variety of delicious local dishes including breakfast platters, fish-and-chips, burgers, pizza, and lobster – it also offers excellent desserts and hot and cold beverages.  If you are looking for another good and affordable nearby restaurant, The Boathouse is known for serving amazing fish-and-chips, along with a variety of snacks including salads, chicken nuggets, and doner meat.

If you are looking for hotels near West Wittering Beach, there are many great options nearby.  The Crab & Lobster is an upscale accommodation option that is set in a 350-years-old building and it offers a restaurant with a terrace.  The 4-Star Harbour Hotel offers many amenities including a restaurant, a bar with a lounge, and a spa.  Another great hotel is the 3.5-Star Beach House Bed & Breakfast that offers many amenities including a garden, a sundeck, a barbecue, and a lounge.  A more affordable hotel is the 3-Star The Seal that offers many amenities including outdoor sitting areas, and a pub.  If you are looking for another good and affordable nearby hotel, the 3-Star Premier Inn Chichester South (Gate Leisure Park) Hotel offers a restaurant.  If you are looking for camp sites in West Wittering, Scotts Farm Camping Site offers accommodation in cabins and it also offers camping sites for tents and RVs.

West Wittering Beach has lifeguards between mid-May and mid-September, between 10 am to 6pm.  In addition to lifeguards, this beach offers a variety of other amenities including restrooms, showers, and rental facilities for watersports equipment (a rental concession named 2XS is located near the beach) – it also offers a variety of beautiful brightly colored beach huts that can be used for multiple functions including seating and storage of possessions.

Between mid-May and mid-September, dogs are not allowed on a part of the beach area – this part of the beach area is located near the beach huts.

West Wittering Beach offers many fun activities including sunbathing, beachcombing, swimming, surfing, kitesurfing, tidepooling, windsurfing, boating, paddleboarding, skimboarding, bodyboarding, horse riding, surf-skiing, water-skiing, parasailing, wakeboarding, kayaking, canoeing, and wildlife watching.

This beach is ideal for surfers, kitesurfers, windsurfers, and paddle boarders because the shallow water here usually offers manageable and fun waves.

If you are planning to swim, kayak, or canoe here, we recommend being careful because the cold water here is known to have unpredictable rip currents.  Please note that there are certain seasonal regulations for water sports activities that visitors need to follow – you can visit the Wittering Estate’s website to get more information on the seasonal watersports regulations.

If you like birdwatching, you can see many kinds of resident and migratory birds around here.

This beach is ideal for visitors looking for a quieter beach experience because it usually sees fewer visitors as compared to other West Sussex beaches.  If you like taking West Wittering Beach photos with beautiful views, West Wittering Beach offers amazing Instagram-worthy views of the Bracklesham Bay, the Chichester Harbor, and the West Sussex shoreline.  If you like horse riding, you can ride your horse on this beach between October 1st and April 30th.

Between March and September, you can explore a nearby headland called the East Head and a trail named the Ellanore Circular Walk – East Head is managed by a nature and heritage conservation and charity organization named National Trust.

West Wittering Beach offers a concrete ramp – that is located near the Windsurf Clubhouse – for visitors with disabilities.  In addition, the beach also has disabled friendly restrooms, a disabled-friendly changing room, and beach wheelchairs for disabled visitors – if you want to reserve a beach wheelchair, you can visit the West Wittering Estate’s website for more information.

Getting to West Wittering Beach is easy – this beach is easily accessible from a local road called the A27.  There are signposts near the road that will easily lead you to West Wittering Beach.

There is a paid West Wittering Beach parking lot near this beach – you can visit the Wittering Estate’s website for more information regarding the seasonal parking fees and regulations.  You can also reserve a car park space online by booking through this website – the parking at West Wittering Beach is open between 7 am and 6 pm.

We recommend visiting this beach early during the summers and weekends because the beach can get crowded during this time.  In addition, we also recommend checking weather reports before visiting this beach because the weather at West Wittering Beach can sometimes be cloudy.

West Wittering Beach served as training ground for the Allied forces for the invasion of Normandy during World War Two.  In addition, this beach hosts many fun events – one of them is the Wittering Beach Run, which is a running event where participants run along the West Sussex coastline.

There are many attractions near West Wittering Beach within a 20-minute-drive.  Pagham Harbour Local Nature Reserve is a nature reserve that offers a fun way to explore the vibrant coastal west Sussex shoreline and you can see many habitats here including lagoons, mudflats, and farmlands – it is a popular bird watching site and you can see many kinds of migratory and resident birds here.  This reserve also has a visitor center with interesting exhibitions.  Jungle Paradise Adventure Golf is a mini-golf facility that offers a fun mini-golf experience and it has a tropical-inspired theme, consisting of artificial rivers, palm trees, and waterfalls.  It also has fun escape rooms and a cafe.  Fishbourne Roman Palace is a historic site that has the remnants of a Roman-era villa that was built around 75 AD – it is one of the largest Roman villas to the north of the Alps mountains and it has recreated Roman-style gardens and collections of ancient mosaics.  Chichester Canal – also called Chichester Ship Canal – is a canal that offers many fun activities including boating, kayaking, canoeing, paddleboarding, and fishing.  While kayaking, canoeing, or boating at this canal, you can enjoy amazing views of the West Sussex landscape – in addition, you can also see many birds while travelling around this canal.  If you are looking for another attraction near this beach, Chichester Cathedral is a historic cathedral that was built in 1075 and it has Norman and Gothic architectural influences – you can learn about this cathedral’s history through guided tours.  In addition, this cathedral also has a gift shop and a cafe.