Best Beaches In Virginia: What Beach Is Most Popular For This Summer?

Memorial Day is on the horizon and temperatures are rising. That means Virginians will enjoy their state’s beachfront areas more. Whether it’s a mainland Atlantic hotspot like Virginia Beach or an Eastern Shore getaway like Chincoteague, Virginia’s beaches are top-notch and they draw an outsized amount of interest online each year.

So BetVirginia.com, where we cover lifestyle topics as well as Virginia sportsbooks, used U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Virginia Beaches” list to see which beaches to use in our research. Here are the results.

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Most Search Interest of Virginia Beach Areas (Past 90 Days)

Weighted Rank	Beach	Search Interest score
1	Virginia Beach	78
2	Hampton	51
3	Chincoteague	30
4	Norfolk	22
5	Cape Charles	14
6	Colonial Beach	11
T7	Tangier Island	7
T7	Yorktown	7
9	Westmoreland State Park	3
10	Bethel Beach Natural Area Preserve	1

BetVirginia.com checked Google Trends to gather the search interest of each beach listed in the U.S. News & World Report page over a 90-day span, from February to May. That’s how we arrived at the top 10 beach areas that people are looking to visit in the land of Virginia sports betting apps.

What Are VA’s Top Beaches?

When broken down by search interest totals online, Virginia Beach is the Commonwealth’s runaway favorite. Virginia Beach scored 78 search interest points, well ahead of No. 2 Hampton (51 search interest score) and No. 3 Chincoteague (30). Throw in other downstate beachfront hotspots like Norfolk (22 search interest score), Northern Necks’ Colonial Beach (14), Tangier Island or Yorktown (seven each), and it’s clear that there’s no shortage of interest in Virginia’s beachy regions.

Those hotspots beat out the final two spots in the Old Dominion, Westmoreland State Park along the Potomac River outside of Montross and Bethel Beach Natural Area Preserve in Mathews County.

Some top Virginia beaches are all about the wild waves of the Atlantic and others hug the shores of the tranquil Potomac River or expansive Chesapeake Bay, the commonality between them all is their natural beauty. That grandeur of nature helps explain why certain beachfront areas in Virginia draw outsized search interest online versus less known parts of the state. But they all remind us of the varied landscapes in the Old Dominion, from the shores of the Atlantic to the depths of Appalachia in the west.

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Christopher Boan

Christopher Boan has been covering sports and sports betting for more than seven years, including stops at ArizonaSports.com, the Tucson Weekly and the Green Valley News.