Ramlet Al-Baida is Beirut's broadest public sand beach, stretching along the city's western shore below the dense urban fabric. It matters not just as a place to swim or walk, but as one of the few coastal spaces where the city feels open to everyone.
Conditions and cleanliness can vary, so treat it as an urban beach rather than a resort shore. It is still worth seeing for the contrast between sea, sand, traffic, towers, and the everyday Beirut ritual of coming to the water at the end of the day.