BEST BEACH TODAY
Best beach on the Paradise Coast today
As of 12:23 AM ET on Friday, September 25, 2026. Scores move through the day as the weather does, so check again before you leave.
Barefoot Beach Preserve and Lowdermilk Park (Naples) tie for the best beach on the Paradise Coast today, each with a ShoreScore of 95 out of 100: Definitely Go.
Clear skies, warm air and water and calm surf.
Next: Delnor-Wiggins Pass at 94, Vanderbilt Beach (Naples) at 94 and South Marco Beach at 93.
See the full day and best window for Barefoot Beach Preserve
All 7 beaches on the Paradise Coast, ranked
Highest ShoreScore first. The word is the call the app makes at that score.
- 1Barefoot Beach PreserveParadise CoastDefinitely Go.95
- 2Lowdermilk Park (Naples)Paradise CoastDefinitely Go.95
- 3Delnor-Wiggins PassParadise CoastDefinitely Go.94
- 4Vanderbilt Beach (Naples)Paradise CoastDefinitely Go.94
- 5South Marco BeachParadise CoastDefinitely Go.93
- 6Naples BeachParadise CoastDefinitely Go.91
- 7Tigertail Beach (Marco Island)Paradise CoastDefinitely Go.90
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How this list works
Every beach on the Paradise Coast gets one ShoreScore, a number from 0 to 100 that says how good a beach day it is. It comes from live weather, wind, surf, official water quality tests, the seaweed risk and rain radar, added up from now until sunset. Before sunrise and after dark it covers the whole day's light instead.
The words are the same call the app makes at each score: Definitely Go, Go, Roll the Dice, Maybe Not and Pass. When no beach reaches Go, this page says so instead of crowning a winner.
This list ranks the same numbers the live map shows, read at the time printed at the top. A beach with missing data is left out, never scored low: unknown is not bad. Open any beach for its hour by hour forecast and the best window to go.
Informational only, not for safety decisions. Lifeguards, beach flags and official notices come first at every beach, whatever the number says.