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Municipality in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia

# Lopar

Lopar is a Croatian municipality of Primorje–Gorski Kotar County.

![Lopar](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Paradiesstrand_in_Lopar.jpg/1920px-Paradiesstrand_in_Lopar.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

Lopar · Roland Puskaric

The place

Lopar is a Croatian municipality of Primorje–Gorski Kotar County. It gained the municipality status in 2006 and its population is 1,263 as of 2011. Lopar is 12 kilometers from the town of Rab and is known for its numerous natural sandy beaches and is surrounded by many islets.

Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lopar%2C_Croatia), CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

## Worth seeing in and around Lopar

One place 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.

1. Sahara Beach The Sahara Beach is a sandy beach located north of Lopar on the Adriatic island of Rab in the northern part of the Croatian coast. Next to Sahara Beach are other small beaches, some of which are nude beaches too. 2.1 km · beach in Croatia · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara_Beach)

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

## Getting to Lopar

**Airports:** Rijeka (RJK), 45 km · Pula (PUY), 64 km · Zadar (ZAD), 95 km\

- Rijeka(Omišalj) → Lopar Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/rijeka-omisalj-to-lopar) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Rijeka%28Omi%C5%A1alj%29&to=Lopar)
- Pula → Lopar 70 km · quickest by road, 5h 19m · €109–178 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/pula-to-lopar) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Pula&to=Lopar)
- Zadar → Lopar 89 km · quickest by road, 4h 56m · €178–303 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/zadar-to-lopar) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Zadar&to=Lopar)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Lopar)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

## No local-transport research exists yet for Lopar

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 Lopar. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around

- Get in Rab can be accessed: by car ferry from Valbiska on the island Krk ( as of 2023) by car ferry from Stinica near Jablanac on the mainland by a small boat from Tovarnele near Lun on the islad Pag (only pedestrians and cyclists) Direct bus line from Rijeka through Senj is connecting island Rab with mainland.

From [Wikivoyage: Rab](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Rab), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

The nearest places where the work is done

1. [Hvar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hvar) HR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 233 km
2. [Korčula](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/korcula) HR 9 ways of moving, 33 sources 283 km
3. [Mljet](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mljet) HR 9 ways of moving, 28 sources 323 km
4. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 406 km
5. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 560 km

If you know how people move in Lopar – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Clopar&title=Lopar&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Flopar), and the note gets an entry.

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