India / Karnataka
Gokarna Beach
Gokarna Beach is a coastal resort area in Karnataka, India. Its longest mapped beach stretches about 2.7 km and has a sand surface. The sea averages 29.8 °C in May, its warmest month, and 27.0 °C in August; it stays at 21 °C or above all year.
Average sea surface temperature by month. Current month outlined.
Rainfall reaches 650 mm in July and stays above 250 mm in June, July, August and September.
OpenStreetMap shows no lifeguard station within 1 km. Seasonal lifeguard posts are often unmapped, so check on site.
Services in the resort
- 8Restaurants, cafés & bars
- 1Public toilets
- –Showers
- 1Drinking water
- 2Car parks
- –Lifeguard stations
- 15Hotels & guesthouses
- 1Campsites
- 1Cash machines
- 1Bike rental
Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 5 restaurants and 3 cafés. Accommodation: 15 hotels and guesthouses.
Counted within 1 km of the beach (bus stops 1.5 km) from OpenStreetMap features and Overture Maps places, release of 2026-10. Unmapped does not mean absent.
Month by month
October at Gokarna Beach
Beach-day index 8.1/10 · India median 7.8
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sea °C | 28.1 °C | 28.2 °C | 29.0 °C | 29.7 °C | 29.8 °C | 29.1 °C | 27.8 °C | 27.0 °C | 27.5 °C | 28.6 °C | 29.0 °C | 28.5 °C |
| High °C | 30° | 33° | 34° | 35° | 33° | 28° | 27° | 27° | 27° | 28° | 28° | 28° |
| Low °C | 17° | 18° | 21° | 23° | 24° | 23° | 23° | 23° | 22° | 21° | 19° | 17° |
| Rain mm | 1 | 1 | 12 | 26 | 87 | 558 | 650 | 495 | 294 | 159 | 34 | 4 |
| Cloud % | 29 | 25 | 28 | 37 | 59 | 88 | 93 | 88 | 77 | 61 | 43 | 37 |
| Wind m/s | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 2.3 | 2.7 | 2.4 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.4 |
| Daylight h | 11.4 | 11.7 | 12.0 | 12.5 | 12.8 | 13.0 | 12.9 | 12.6 | 12.2 | 11.8 | 11.5 | 11.3 |
| Record high/low | 35°/12° | 39°/14° | 39°/16° | 40°/19° | 40°/21° | 36°/22° | 31°/21° | 31°/21° | 32°/20° | 31°/15° | 31°/13° | 33°/13° |
| Beach index | 9.7 | 9.0 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.1 | 7.1 | 7.1 | 7.2 | 8.1 | 9.3 | 9.6 |
Long-term monthly averages: air from NASA POWER (2001–2020), sea from NOAA OISST (1991–2020); records are the extremes of 2001–2020. How the index works.
When to go
The beach-day index peaks in November–January; January scores 9.7/10 with highs of 30 °C, sea at 28.1 °C and 1 mm of rain.
That matches the median for beaches in India in the same month.
Across the year the sea averages 28.5 °C, warmer than 93% of the coastal beaches in the atlas.
July is the wettest month (650 mm) and January the driest (1 mm); the yearly total is about 2,320 mm.
Daylight runs from 11.3 hours in December to 13.0 hours in June; in mid-January the sun rises at 07:00 and sets at 18:21 local time.
Orientation, sun and shore
The shore faces west-south-west (255°). Open water fills about 50% of the horizon close by, which makes it an open stretch of shore.
The sun sets over the sea in every month; in mid-June it goes down at 19:02 local time on a bearing of 294°.
Straight out to the west-south-west there is open water for more than 2,000 km, so the beach is exposed to long ocean swell.
About 1 km offshore the sea is roughly 8 m deep and 10 m at 3 km, a shallow, gently shelving sea floor. Behind the beach the ground is about 7 m above sea level 500 m inland and 15 m at 1.5 km, a flat coastal plain.
Within 1 km, the land is 64% tree cover, 24% cropland and 6% bare ground, sand or rock (satellite land-cover map, 2021): a mixed, lightly developed setting. Water makes up 52% of that circle.
- Tree 64%
- Crop 24%
- Bare 6%
- Built 4%
Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m). Orientation from OpenStreetMap land polygons sampled in 36 directions; depths and heights from the GEBCO 2020 grid (about 450 m cells), indicative only.
Getting there
| Airport | Code | Distance | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goa Dabolim International Airport Vasco da Gama | GOI | 105 km | north-west |
| Hubballi Airport Hubballi | HBX | 122 km | north-east |
| Manohar International Airport Mopa | GOX | 141 km | north |
Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.
Local transport: 2 mapped car parks within 1 km.
1 town or village of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 25.9K residents); within 30 km there are 5 (about 94.5K).
Around the beach
Campsites
- Gokarna Adventure 400 m N
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Data on this page
- Air temperature, rain, cloud, wind, humidity: NASA POWER climatology 2001–2020, 0.5° grid.
- Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 monthly normals 1991–2020, nearest ocean cell 20.9 km away.
- Beach outline, surface, rules and public facilities: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), feature r5887806; restaurants, cafés, bars and lodging: Overture Maps places (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).
- Towns and time zone: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Airports: OurAirports (public domain). Sunrise and sunset: NOAA solar equations.
- Satellite view: Copernicus Sentinel-2 (ESA), scene S2A_43PDS_20240114_0_L2A.
- Orientation: OpenStreetMap land polygons (ODbL). Depth and terrain: GEBCO 2020 grid.
- Settlements: GeoNames places with 1,000+ inhabitants.
- Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021, 10 m (CC BY 4.0).
- Search popularity: about 40.5K Google searches a month for the name (KeywordTool, October 2026).
Data compiled 2026-10-13. Something wrong? Report a data error.