Palm Beach is best known around the world as the setting for Summer Bay in the long running TV show Home and Away. It is also Sydney’s northernmost beach, has fantastic surf and offers great views of Pittwater and Broken Bay.

Palm Beach offers a number of activities, such as:

• Swimming, surfing and sunbaking at the beach
• Following the trail up to Barrenjoey Lighthouse
• Chartering a yacht around Pittwater
• Catching a ferry across to The Basin
• A Pittwater kayaking tour

Check out our full list of things to do in Palm Beach.

Palm Beach is 31km north of Sydney along the coast, though the drive is around 40km. The drive typically takes around an hour from the Sydney CBD and Palm Beach is also easily accessible from the CBD via bus.