Portugal this year has 440 Blue Flag beaches, marinas, and boats, eight more than in 2023, making it the second country in the world with the highest number of.
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Portugal flying the blue flags
Portugal has 372 river and coastal beaches awarded with the Blue Flag this year, 12 more than in 2020, spread across 98 municipalities, five of which enter the list for the first time.
This year the Blue Flag list includes 330 coastal beaches, eight more than in 2020, and 42 river beaches, four more than last year.
The coastal beaches are distributed in the North (72), Centre (29), Tagus (50), Alentejo (31), Algarve (87), Azores (45) and Madeira (16).
In total, the North region has 79 beaches (72 coastal and seven river beaches, two more and one more than in 2020, respectively), the Centre has 46 (29 coastal and 17 river beaches), the Tagus has 62 (50 coastal and 12 river beaches, three more and two more, respectively), the Alentejo has 37 (31 coastal and six river beaches, plus one river beach), the Algarve has 87 (coastal), the Azores has 45 (three more coastal) and Madeira has 16 coastal.