The beach can represent a dream holiday, a spectacular photo or a fun day with the family. Whichever one describes you, we have put together a list of all the best beach captions for you to share. And if you’re looking for short beach quotes for Instagram, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.

Beach Captions and Quotes
This weather’s hotter than my mixtape
Currently accepting any and all forms of ice cream bribes
Be grateful for good friends, hot sun, shady umbrellas and clear water
Current mood: seeking shade and lemonade
Feeling that summery beachy feeling
“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy.” – Regina Brett
Blue skies, denim short & a salty tan
Sea you at the beach
When life gives you sun, make sunscreen lemonade
Happier than a Sea gull with a french fry.
Tan lines fade, but friends are forever

Heatwaves can’t touch this cool vibe
You, me and the beach
Sometimes, beach time with your best friend is all the therapy you need
“To rise at daybreak and feel the sunshine as it warms my skin, the soothing sounds of waves as they kiss the shore and sand between my toes: a gentle reminder that life is good.” — Melanie Rogers Jimenez
Blazing trails and leaving salty tales
Palm trees and 80 degrees
Let the waves hit your feet and the sand be your seat
Summer lovin’ happened so fast…I’m melting
All vacations should be at the beach
So hot, even the shade is sweating!
“Like a sandcastle, all is temporary. Build it, tend it, enjoy it. And when the time comes, let it go.” — Jack Kornfield
Because every day should feel like a day at the beach
A little beach day lovin’
Sun shine on my mind
“Individually we are one drop. Together we are an ocean.” – Ryunosuke Satoro
Sunset + Beach + Friends + Food = Perfection
Chillin’ in the sunshine, living that heatwave life
I followed my heart, it lead me to the beach
“On the beach, you can live in bliss.” — Dennis Wilson
“Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.” — William Goldman (in The Princess Bride)
Heat wave hustler
“Not everyone has to ride off into the sunset with a man. Some of us just want a tan.” — Mandy Hale
Summer daze and scorching rays
Don’t worry, beach happy
“One day, all your worries will set like the sun does and deserved happiness will come gushing like waves at the beach do. All you need to make sure is that your trips to the beach never end.” — Jasleen Kaur Gumber
This beach vacation should get a speeding ticket
“It’s the sound of the sea that makes you believe in mermaids.” – Anthony T.Hincks
I’m a beachoholic. I admit to being powerless over my flip flops; the warm sun on my skin, the cool wind in my hair, the sound of crashing waves & the umbrella thingy in my glass.
Catching rays and serving looks, summer style
The best memories come from bad ideas done with best friends
Soaking up the sun and radiating positivity
These are the beach days we live for
Sizzling through this summer like…
This is my Resting Beach Face.
I hope someday I’ll wake up to see that I live on the beach.
If you’re not barefoot, then you’re overdressed.
Tropic like its hot.
May you always have a shell in your pocket and sand in your shoes
“Only at the beach can we go a splishin’ and a splashin’.”- Kate Summers
The Beach, where doing absolutely nothing, is doing something
If you can’t take the heat, stay off my Instagram
“I can see us holding hands, walking on the beach, our toes in the sand. I can see us on the countryside, sittin’ on the grass laying side by side.” — Justin Timberlake
When life gives you sun, get a tan
“I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within — in front of the sea.” — Rafael Nadal
Beach Bum
If the heat is an art, I’m the masterpiece
I asked for a little sun, not a whole solar system!
Summer is a state of mind
Tropic like it’s hot
Child of the ocean
“Even castles made from sand fall to the ocean.” – Jimi Hendrix
Keep calm and let’s go to the beach
Living on the sunny side of life
Every summer has a story, mine’s just a bit hotter
I need some beach therapy
Isn’t it technically happy hour anytime there’s this much sun?
Never stop chasing your summer
Lemonade and shade days
Even castles made from sand fall to the ocean
Melting the day away with a cool treat and hot beats
“The waves came up towards us, fumbling and gnawing at the beach like an immense soft mouth.” – Ross Macdonald
Life is better at the Beach!
Heat wave? More like heat rave!
Life was meant for best friends and beach adventures
Chasing sunrays, beach waves, and sunsets
Don’t worry BEACH happy
Beach vacay is my happy place
Just keep swimming
Summer vibes on overload
Summer’s a wave, catch it
On the beach under a palm tree is the best place to be
“When two roads diverge… take the one that leads to the beach.” — Hannah Mckinnon
Everyone should believe in something. I believe I should go to the beach.
Just a hot girl summer doing hot girl things
I don’t want any shade unless I’m beneath a palm tree
If you can’t handle the heat, stay out of my posts
Getting my Vitamin Sea
Salty but sweet
Rise and shine, it’s beach walking time!
Mercury rising, and so is my mood thermometer
Sun’s out, puns out
Adios beaches!
May you always have a shell in your pocket and sand in your shoes.
The beach looks beautiful on you
Sun kissing ocean. Beach touching bum.
“A beach walk is for stretching your legs and your mind, for looking at life with newfound eyes.” — Sandy Gingras
Ain’t no shade when you’re made for the sun
I was born to explore, have adventures, and watch sunsets!
Beach days always
Throwing shade just to stay cool
I have a love so deep the ocean would be jealous
Soaking up the sun and pretending I’m a well-done steak
The tans will fade but memories will last forever
May there be just enough clouds in your life to create a glorious sunset
When life gives you heat, make beach days
Sizzling through the summer
“Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.” ― Nora Ephron
I’m a true OCEANHOLIC!
Sweatin’ glitter in the sunshine
BEACH: Heaven On Earth
Ocean Child
Trying to keep it cool, but I’m not a cucumber
I want to be wild, beautiful, and free. Just like the sea.
Let the sea set you free
“A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.” – John Mayer
The more tan lines the merrier
Go with the Flow.
“Summertime and the livin’ is easy.” – Porgy and Bess
Happiness is found under a palm tree
“To escape and sit quietly on the beach — that’s my idea of paradise.” — Emilia Wickstead
Sunny with a chance of awesomeness
The sunset is life’s way of saying good job, you survived today, here’s something pretty
Friends are the beaches of life
Memories are made in flip flops
Keep Palm and Carry On
Just keep swimming through this hot weather wave
“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” — Jon Kabat-Zan
“A great beach sunset is like well-controlled arson.” – Dean Johnston
Race to the sunset? Bet I’ll beach you there
“It’s hard for me to put into words why I like the beach so much. Everything about it is renewing for me, almost like therapy — Beach Therapy.” — Amy Dykens
My favorite painting is a sunset over a beach
Chasing palm trees
Any beach day spent with you is my favorite day
Beach daze, always
You are the pina to my colada
“There is nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline no matter how many times it is sent away.” — Sarah Kay
Summer, please never end
Currently pretending I’m at the beach
Everything gets hotter when the sun goes down
My tan lines may fade, but the memories won’t
You either love the beach, or you’re wrong
Beating the heat and living my best life
Your only worry should be if the tide is going to reach your chair.
If there’s will, there’s wave
“When you’re in love, the world is brighter. Sunnier. The air smells flowerier, and your hair is silkier, and suddenly you find yourself smiling at babies and strangers and old couples walking down the beach holding hands.” — Jess Rothenberg
Palm trees & ocean breeze
Unwinding in a place where my beach vacation never ends
Heatwave? More like a heat rave!
I want to live by the sea. Laughter, beauty, surfing & to be carefree.
“Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.” — Debasish Mridha
“It’s summer and time for wandering…” – Kellie Elmore
Turning the walkway into a runway in this heat
My beach vacay is the best excuse for lazy days
Beach hair, don’t care.
Sweat? I prefer the term liquid awesome
“One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
High tides, good vibes
Sun-kissed and loving every minute of this warmth
Waves for days
Sweating like I’m on a first date, but it’s just Tuesday
Beating the heat with more heat
“Give a girl a margarita, put her on the beach. Smiles and paradise are now within reach.” — Spencer Antle
“I still love things that you don’t even need to pay for. Going to the beach and being around five of your friends and having a good time means so much more than going out and spending hundreds of dollars.” — Maria Sharapova
They say home is where the heart is. For most people, that consists of four walls and a welcome mat. But for me, it’s the ocean.
Glowing with the flow
A cloudy day at the beach is still a day at the… Beach!
Sunshine at the beach
“You’re not a wave, you’re a part of the ocean.” — Mitch Albom
The sun goes down. The moon comes up. And life goes on.
Ending beach days in a beach daze
Eternity begins and ends with the ocean’s tides
Keepin’ it sizzle
There is no place like the beach… where the land meets the sea and the sea meats the sky
Sunshine is the best medicine
Seas the beach day
What’s up, MTV. Welcome to my beach.
My love for you is deeper than the ocean
Not to brag, but I think the sun’s got a crush on me
My beach vacation is going swimmingly!
“One day, all your worries will set like the sun does and deserved happiness will come gushing like waves at the beach do. All you need to make sure is that your trips to the beach never end.” — Jasleen Kaur Gumber
No one likes a shady beach
Scorched selfies all day
In the waves of change we find our direction
Too hot to handle, too cute to care
Bask in the blaze
If I’m sweating, I’m not glistening, I’m melting
“At the beach, life is different. A day moves not from hour to hour but leaps from mood to moment. We go with the currents, plan around the tides, follow the sun.” — Sandy Gingras
“What I want in a good beach read is sunshine, drama, easy-reading, and transportation to another world and other people’s problems.” — Jane Green
Life is better with vitamin sea
If you’re lucky enough to live by the sea, you’re lucky enough.
“When a person dissolves into sand, maybe he leaves a little life behind. The life, out of which, we create our sandcastles.” — Pehal
“The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.” — S. King
The grass is greener where the sun shines brighter
Melt with you
Just a drop in this ocean of heat
Making this heatwave my personal runway
The best therapy is beach therapy
“When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can’t say in real life.” — J. Han
Find me under the palms
Disclaimer: The beach may cause extreme relaxation, changes in skin color, changes in state of mind, steady breathing, lower blood pressure, and in most cases it will cause addiction.
Happiness comes in waves
All I need is a good dose of vitamin sea
Keepin’ it hot, never lukewarm
If life is a journey the beach is my destination
Hotter than a pepper sprout and just as spicy
Beach vibes and palm trees
Just a hot-tea looking for some shade
Love you to the beach and back
I wonder if the beach misses me
When life gives you lemons, it’s too hot to make lemonade
Sunset beers, beach-side cheers, and dreamy days
“Don’t grow up too quickly, lest you forget how much you love the beach.” — Michelle Held
Ocean Air, Salty hair.
I’m happiest when floating in the sea
Heatwave hero
Sweltering but smoldering
Living on the sunny side of life today and always
“Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.” – Brian Wilson
“The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.” — Pamela Johnson
Nothing but sandy skin and summer smiles
Meltin’ but still smeltin’ good
The best days are beach days
I’m not sunburnt, I’m just a little overcooked
Beach life is better shared
Is it global warming or is it just me?
“To sit in silence at the shore, watch the waves and hear the surf, is to appreciate the very breath and heartbeat of the earth.” — Doe Zantamata
Sun-kissed sun of a beach!
Summer lovin’, happened so…hot
Sandy toes. Sunkissed nose.
“Today was about chasing sun-rays, beach waves, & sunsets. All things beautiful that give you peace are worth chasing. Everything else isn’t.” – April Mae Monterrosa
Too hot to handle
Beach. Sleep. Repeat.
“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” — Rabindranath Tagore
Turning up the heat with my summer vibes
“After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world.” — Pam Shaw
Call it fashion, but this sun hat is sheer survival
Spending my summer on the beach
Good vibes happen on tides
Good Times and Tan Lines
Basking in the glow and going with the flow
“Dance with the waves, move with the sea. Let the rhythm of the water set your soul free.” — Christy Ann Martine
Keep calm and ignore the thermometer
I love you to the shore line and back
The beach gives me porpoise
Sweatin’ like it’s my day job
All I need are beaches and palm trees
Sunset at the beach- a time to shell-abrate like none other
Gone to the beach. Be back never.
Solar powered and proud
Nights get longer. Life gets better.
“Is it hot in here or is it just me?” – Everyone, every summer
Burnin’ bright and feelin’ alright
“Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can’t stand a little silence.”― Carl Hiaasen
The beach is calling and I must go
One sun beam at a time
Ocean makes one forgot the world and just relax
Hot enough for ya?
Set your clock to beach time
I need Vitamin SEA
Can’t sparkle without a little sweat
Beaches are better with friends
Whipping out the sunnies for a day full of sunnies
If there aren’t palm trees I’m not going
Beach you to it.
“Smell the sea, and feel the sky, let your soul and spirits fly.” — Van Morrison
I followed my heart and it led me to the beach
The smell of the ocean never gets old
Sun of a beach that’s a nice sunset!
Salt water heals everything
Life is a BEACH enjoy the WAVES
The beach: Life slows down. Friends stay longer.
Getting my dose of Vitamin D and Vitamin sea
Let the countdown to the beach begin!
“Pour me a sunset, kill the night, and I promise to drink with you forever.” – William C. Hannan
All you need is a good dose of vitamin sea
Scorchin’ and storin’ memories
We dream in colors borrowed from the sea
Making waves in this wave of warmth
Sizzling vibes only in this summer heat
Beach therapy should be covered by health insurance
Beauty and the beach, featuring a scorching sun
Sizzlin’ and chillin’, that’s the summer drill
Turning up the heat with every step I take
Here’s my “I’m not sweating, I’m glistening” look
Current mood: Sweat, sparkle, and smile
Sun’s out, fun’s out and I’m here for all of it
Sun, sand and pineapple in hand
It was love at first sight the day I met the beach.
Getting my daily dose of Vitamin Sea
Solar powered and proud
Beach bums and setting suns
Girls just wanna have sun
Life is good at the beach
Hanging with my grill friends
Sun’s out, buns out
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hotness overload, but let’s keep it cool
An ocean breeze puts the mind at ease
I lost my heart to the sea
All I need is a palm tree and a cool breeze
Some days ya just wanna put on some sparkly fins… and go live under the flippin’ sea!
I want to run the beach’s length, because it never ends.
Heat, happiness, and a million reasons to smile
You can never have too much beach
Food in tum. Beach under bum. Eyes on the sun.
Popsicle diet for the foreseeable future
Too hot to handle, but still cool for the ‘gram
Hotter than the forecast
Don’t Worry, Get Sandy!
B.E.A.C.H – Best Escape Any One Can Have.
Popsicle diet advocate
“I look my best when I’m totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach.” — Rosamund Pike
I just wanna live on the beach. Walk it at night and then fall asleep with the windows open and listen to the waves crash.
Time spent at the beach is never time wasted
Flip-flops and crop tops: my heatwave uniform
Feeling the summer beach vibes
Sea you soon
Grillin’ and chillin’
“A simple life is good with me. I don’t need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I’m happy.” — Yanni
Give me coffee to change the things I can, and the beach to accept the things I can’t.
“Every time I slip into the ocean it’s like going home.” — Sylvia Earle
Smell the sea, Feel the breeze. Hear the ocean be at ease.
Beating the heat and living my best life
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream – and AC!
As endless as the ocean, as timeless as the tides
Those lazy, hazy, crazy days of beach vacation
Forever BEACHY
“If there’s heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached to it.” – Jimmy Buffett
“I don’t weep over sandcastles anymore, I just watch the tides.” — Uma Sreekanth
Flame and fortune
Sun’s out, puns out
Life’s better on the beach under a palm tree
“Beach girls now, beach girls tomorrow, beach girls till the end of time.” — Luanne Rice
Happiness is a day at the beach
The waves of the sea help me get back to me
Sun’s out, buns out, and life’s all about
Life is better in flip-flops
On the surface of the sun, casual Friday means no spacesuit
“I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.” — Kellie Elmore
Life is Better in a bikini
Catch me melting over the summer spell – literally
Sun’s out, puns out… and I’ve got nothing but hot jokes
Just call me the human popsicle, I’m melting out here
“If the ocean can calm itself, so can you. We are both saltwater mixed with air.” — N. Waheed
“My life is like a stroll on the beach… as near to the edge as I can go.” — Henry David Thoreau
Spending my vacation on the beach
So that is it for our list of Beach Captions and Quotes. We hope you found the perfect one for you!
For more great ideas, check out our other lists of Sunset Captions, Horse Captions, Ocean Captions and River Captions.


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