Cronulla
Cronulla is the southernmost coastal suburb of Sydney, Australia, & sits at the mouth of the Hacking River.
Cronulla is the southernmost coastal suburb of Sydney, Australia, & sits at the mouth of the Hacking River. It boasts surf beaches, safe swimming spots & reef breaks, which attract both tourists and Greater Sydney residents. Located 26 km south of the Sydney central business district, the suburb is in the local government area of the Sutherland Shire.
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Worth seeing in and around Cronulla
9 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Cronulla Beach
Cronulla Beach, is a patrolled beach on Bate Bay in the Sydney suburb of Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia. The Cronulla Pavilion and the Cronulla Lifesaving Club are two prominent buildings located close to the sand.
600 m · beach in Sydney, NSW · Wikipedia - 02Shelly Beach
Shelly Beach is a beach on Bate Bay in Cronulla, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Shelly Park sits behind the beach.
1.5 km · beach in Cronulla, NSW · Wikipedia - 03Endeavour Field
Endeavour Field is a stadium located in Woolooware, a suburb in the Sutherland Shire of Southern Sydney. It is primarily used for rugby league as the home ground of the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the National Rugby League.
1.7 km · Rugby league stadium in Woolooware, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 04Elouera Beach
Elouera Beach or Elouera is a patrolled beach on Bate Bay, in Cronulla, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The Wall is the local name given to the area between North Cronulla Beach and Elouera.
900 m · Australian beach · Wikipedia - 05Wanda Beach
Wanda Beach or Wanda is the northernmost patrolled beach at Bate Bay in Cronulla, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Greenhills is the name given to the Cronulla sand dunes, and unofficial suburb just north of Wanda.
1.9 km · beach in Cronulla, Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia - 06Horderns Beach
Horderns Beach is located in Bundeena, New South Wales. Beach is 580 meters long.
3.5 km · beach in Australia · Wikipedia - 07Cronulla Fisheries Centre
The Cronulla Fisheries Centre or Cronulla Fisheries Research Centre is a heritage-listed former fisheries research centre and now public reserve and marine rescue base located at the Southern end of Nicholson Parade, Cronulla, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney Australia. It was built from 1904.
2.5 km · "Heritage place or item located at 202 Nicholson Parade Cronulla New South Wales, Australia" · Wikipedia - 08Greenhills Beach
Greenhills Beach is an unpatrolled beach on Bate Bay, located in Greenhills Beach, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The beach is located roughly 18 kilometres from the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Sutherland Shire.
2.2 km · beach in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 09Cronulla Post Office
Cronulla Post Office is a heritage-listed post office at 41 Cronulla Street, Cronulla, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Edwin Hubert Henderson of the Commonwealth Department of Works and Railways and built in 1924.
200 m · historic commonwealth heritage site in Cronulla NSW · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Cronulla Beach
There is no one Cronulla Beach, but rather South Cronulla and North Cronulla Beaches separated by a headland and connected by a waterfront walk.
- 02Eloura Beach and Wanda Beach
North Cronulla, Eloura and Wanda are all part of the same long stretch of sand.
- 03Bass and Flinders Memorial
- 04Gunnamatta Bay
- 05Darook Park
- 06Cronulla State Park
A coastal sand dune about 15,000 years old with a maximum elevation of around 37 m.
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Things to do
Surfing. Is available at all the Cronulla ocean beaches. Surfboard hire is available at Wanda Beach and at Cronulla Surf School located at North Cronulla Swimming. You can choose to swim in the surf, or the rock pools at the ocean beaches, or in the calm waters of the bay. Walking. Along the esplanade. Head south from North or South Cronulla beaches, you can walk from an hour or so along this paved waterfront path.
- 01Snorkeling
There are some beautiful reefs in the Cronulla with most in the South.
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Where to eat
Cronulla Mall is filled with take-away places, alfresco cafes, and restaurants with just about every kind of food. Good for lunch, coffee or a cheap meal, or an evening meal. North Cronulla Beach has a selection of restaurants just in front of the beach, good for dinner, or breakfast by the waves.
- 01Grind
14-16/2 Surf Rd (Surf Lane, just off Surf Road in South Cronulla),.
- 02Nulla Nulla Cafe
75 Cronulla St (the station end of Cronulla Mall),.
- 03Montein Tong
This Thai place is always busy, has been there forever, and serves reasonably priced food.
- 04JD's Bar & Grill Cronulla
7/1 Cronulla St,.
- 05Zinc Bar
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Getting to Cronulla
- Airports
- Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 12 km · Newcastle (NTL), 153 km
- Stations
- Caringbah railway station, 3 km · Cronulla railway station, 500 m · Woolooware railway station, 800 m
- Williamtown → Cronulla153 km · quickest by road, 3h 31m · A$24–32
- Gold Coast → Cronulla708 km · quickest by air, 5h 15m · A$230–350
- Melbourne → Cronulla696 km · quickest by air, 5h 17m · A$240–350
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Cronulla
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Cronulla. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are hourly ferries from Bundeena, across Port Hacking bay.
- Get inIt is a pleasant and largely off-road cycle from Botany Bay to the northern Cronulla beaches.
- Go nextA ferry leaves from Cronulla every hour to Bundeena on the edge of Royal National Park.
- Go nextCatch the ferry from the ferry wharf on the Gunnamatta Bay side of the railway behind the station.
From Wikivoyage: Sydney/Cronulla, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Cronulla
Cronulla is 21 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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