

The Mediterranean peninsula with many islands, coves and rocks boasts mostly stone, gravel and sand beaches that have, thanks to their cleanness, been awarded the prestigious Blue Flag certificate! The Blue Flag symbolizes clean, safe and pleasant environment for fun, relaxation and recreation, but is also an important instrument for educating the public and raising awareness. Healing beauty of Istria's cleanest and best coast and beach It will not take long for you to find a beach surrounded by pinewood and shrubland, where you can take in the beautiful panorama and listen to crickets. The remnants of the st.Thanks to the diversity of the Adriatic coast, you can choose from numerous beaches, where waves, swayed by mild winds, break against rocks and pebbles and invite you to dance under the crystal clear sea. The whole town with it's old walls, bell towers and nobleman families crests on the walls of houses is infact a monument in itself, but some attractions have to be specially mentioned. Thanks to it's thousands years of history, the town of Rab is very rich in numerous cultural and historical monuments. Pudarica is a complex of sandy beaches idle for all generations.

In the village of Barbat the most famous beaches definitely are the "Pudarica". Rab is known for it's diverse coastline which means you can swim on sandy as well as rocky beaches. But it is always beautiful and unrepeatable. It iridisces in thousands of shades uninterruptedly depending on the time of the day and on the angle in which the sunrays fall on it. It is sometimes dark blue, sometimes green-blue. The man admires by looking it from coast.He admires by sailing or by diving into it's clearly and freshen waves.It is difficult to determine exactly the color of the Adriatic Sea. It surrounds Rab, enters in Rab's continent and in the same time it creates plenty number of bigger and smaller coves. In the range of beauty which the nature has gifted island of Rab, the first place occupies the dark-blue azure Adriatic. The middle year's temperature of the sea is 16.7☌. The temperature of the sea is convenient for bathing, and amounts to 20☌, from May to October. The number of sunny hours is 2417 on the average, while the number of cloudy days is very small. Other winds and storms are rare phenomena. During summer months there is a landward breeze blowing during the day, called "maestral", which is pleasant and renders summer heat milder. Except for that wing, there is a warm and moist wind blowing from the Southeast in autumn ("jugo"), which always brings along rain. It has such a climate thanks to the mountain range Kamenjak that protects it from the cold Northeastern wind in winter and spring months. The island of Rab has the so-called "Adriatic type" of Mediterranean climate with pleasant warm summers and mild winters. In the immediate proximity of the island of Rab there are many small islands, bigger ones among them being Goli, Grgur, Maman, Laganj mali, Dolfin, Trstenik, Dolin and St.

The smallest distance from the mainland is 1800 m. The island of Rab is separated from the mainland by the Velebit canal. The biggest stretch of the island is 11 km and the smallest 3 km. The island expands from the Northwest to the Southeast and its length in that direction is 22 km. Along with some smaller islands its surface is 86.14 km2. It is placed between 44° 41' and 44° 51' of latitude (northern) and between 14° 40' and 14° 53' of longitude (eastern). The island of Rab is situated in the northern part of the Croatian side of Adriatic Sea and belongs to the Kvarner group of islands.
