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Mini beach, Portrush
Portrush. Photo: Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

Portrush

Surf town · UK

Score a trip to Portrush

Surf, 6 nights from tomorrow, from your nearest start point: scored, planned and costed. Try another search

Beds: 87 places

87 places to stay within 2 km, 6 of them campsites.

Prices are our estimate of the country's average double room of each kind that month: not this town's price, and not a quote.

Room photos are examples, not these hotels (credits).

All 87 places to stay · Booking.com

Spots near here: 8 surf spots

Surf · this week

  • Portballintrae · about 15 min by car · stays in Portballintrae

    18 out of 100
  • Finn's Left · about 30 min by car · stays in Bushmills

    17 out of 100
  • East Strand · about 5 min by car

    16 out of 100
  • White Rocks · about 5 min by car

    16 out of 100
  • Portrush · about 5 min by car

    9 out of 100
  • Portstewart · about 15 min by car · stays in Portstewart

    9 out of 100
  • West Strand · about 5 min by car

    9 out of 100
  • Castlerock · about 20 min by car · stays in Castlerock

    7 out of 100

Each score is the next week's out of 100, the mean of its best days, as on its own page. Green clears the bar. Distances are from the middle of Portrush.

Places to eat

6 near Portrush

Places to eat near Portrush

  • Domino's PizzaPizza · in the centreFood hygiene 5 of 5, Sep 2025
  • 1 at Causeway StreetBar and grill · 0.1 km from the centreFood hygiene 5 of 5, Sep 2025
  • Smash N BirdBurger · 0.1 km from the centre
  • UrbanEuropean · 0.1 km from the centreFood hygiene 5 of 5, Mar 2025
  • Wing HongChinese · 0.1 km from the centreFood hygiene 3 of 5, Aug 2025
  • Apache Pizza PortrushPizza · 0.2 km from the centreFood hygiene 5 of 5, Apr 2024

Within 2 km of the town centre, listed by how complete the listing is (website, opening hours, cuisine) and whether two sources name it. Not a judgement of the food: we have no reviews. Listings © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Overture Maps Foundation; food hygiene ratings from the Food Standards Agency (Open Government Licence). Credits

Map

the town and every place near it

Each place is ringed by its best day this week, a surf spot for experts: green good, amber fair, pale red poor, as the key says. The dashed circle is 20 km from Portrush.

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Photos of Portrush

Curran Strand beach, Portrush
Photo: Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Mill Strand beach, Portrush
Photo: Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Portrush Harbour
Photo: Willie Duffin, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

About Portrush

where it is, what is near

Portrush is a town in Borough of Coleraine, United Kingdom.

From Portrush you can reach 8 surf spots.

The nearest is West Strand, a surf spot 0.4 km from the centre.

Overture lists 87 places to stay within 2 km of the centre, 6 of them campsites.

The nearest airport is City of Derry Airport (LDY), 37 km away.

In Borough of Coleraine · Northern Ireland · United Kingdom

  • 87 places to stay within 2 km of the centre, 6 of them campsites (Overture places)
  • Nearest airports: City of Derry Airport (LDY), 37 km, Islay Airport (ILY), 59 km, Campbeltown Airport (CAL), 66 km

Forecast updated . Forecast data: ECMWF, DWD, Météo-France and NOAA, served by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Changed by us. Generated using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information.

Scores are the conditions only: the journey, the price and the partners never change them (how we score, how we earn).