Willows Beach
Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada
- Free parking
Tomorrow at a glance
Best: 8 am to sunset, sunset 6:08 pm7.1
10 km/h6 mph wind, Great
7.1
8 km/h5 mph wind, Great
7.1
4 km/h2 mph wind, Great
7.1
4 km/h3 mph wind, Great
7.1
7 km/h5 mph wind, Great
7.1
7 km/h4 mph wind, Great
7.1
11 km/h7 mph wind, Great
7.1
9 km/h6 mph wind, Great
7.1
8 km/h5 mph wind, Great
7.1
2 km/h1 mph wind, Great
7.1
6 km/h4 mph wind, Great
This page puts what matters first for today's conditions.
Best time to swim
Best: 8 am to sunset. Beach score for daylight hours, with wind in km/hmph underneath.
- Air
- 8°C46°F
- Water
- 12°C54°F
- Wind
- 32 km/hmph W
- Gusts
- 53 km/hmph
- Waves
- 0.3 m1 ft
- UV
- 0 low
- Tide
- rising
- Rain
- 0%
- Sunset
- 6:08 pm
Tide, next 24 hours
- High 10 pm, 1.3 m4 ft
- Low 4 am, -1.2 m4 ft
- High 11 am, 1.7 m5 ft
- Low 5 pm, -1.4 m5 ft
Tide is modeled, not measured. Rip current and water quality data are not available for this beach yet.
Beach info
Lifeguards, parking and facilities before you head down.
About Willows Beach
Willows Beach is a human settlement in Oak Bay, British Columbia, Canada. It is 3271 meters from Gonzales Beach and 1481 meters from the nearest town, Oak Bay. OpenStreetMap lists free parking nearby, with the closest parking area 267 meters away.
Willows Beach, Victoria is a beachfront in the Municipality of Oak Bay, in Victoria, British Columbia. Along Willows Beach is Willows Park, where a tea-room is run by the Kiwanis Club in spring and summer. It takes its name from the Willows Fairground built in 1891 and which remained Greater Victoria's main horse-racing venue during the early years of the twentieth century. The Willows Racetrack was situated nearly a kilometre (about a half a mile) inland from the beach, so named because of the willow trees that grew there.
Source: Willows Beach on Wikipedia (authors). Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0; text may have been shortened. Retrieved Oct 19, 2026. Data sources
Facilities
- Restrooms160 m540 ft away
- Drinking water160 m520 ft away
- Parking3 within 500 m0.3 miNearest 270 m880 ft. Listed as free
- Food and drink8 within 1 km0.6 mi
- Picnic tables150 m510 ft away
- Playground150 m490 ft away
Getting there
- Nearest bus stop
- 250 m820 ftBeach at Dalhousie
- Nearest town
- 1.5 km0.9 miOak Bay (town)
- Nearest airport
- 7 km4 miVictoria Inner Harbour Airport (YWH)
Facilities from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Check posted signs; details change. Data sources
Nearby beaches
- Gonzales Beach3.3 km2.0 mi south-west away7.1 Great tomorrow
- Finlayson Point Beach5.6 km3.5 mi south-west away7.1 Great tomorrow
- Mile Zero Beach5.8 km3.6 mi south-west away7.1 Great tomorrow
- Steve Fonyo Beach6.0 km3.7 mi south-west away7.1 Great tomorrow
- Fleming Beach8.2 km5.1 mi west away7.1 Great tomorrow
Where to stay near the beach
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The days ahead
Best score each day, with the stretch to aim for.
- Fri7.1 GreatBest 8 am to 7 pmWind up to 11 km/h7 mph, rain 0%
- Sat4.7 FairNo standout stretchWind up to 15 km/h10 mph, rain 44%
- Sun3.5 PoorNo standout stretchWind up to 24 km/h15 mph, rain 52%
- Mon6.4 GoodBest 8 am to 2 pmWind up to 13 km/h8 mph, rain 15%
- Tue6.6 GoodBest 8 am to 2 pmWind up to 7 km/h4 mph, rain 11%
- Wed4.4 FairNo standout stretchWind up to 23 km/h14 mph, rain 19%