Bray has a maritime climate, so pack layers and a light rain jacket whatever the season. Bray Head and the open promenade are exposed to the sea wind and can feel several degrees cooler than the town centre, especially from October to March.

🚂 DART from Bray

All trains towards Dublin

Bray is a DART terminus. Updates every minute

🌊 Tides

Bray Harbour

Heights relative to chart datum

Where To Eat

From fine dining seafood to fish and chips by the harbour

Pub

The Harbour Bar

Characterful harbour-end pub with live trad music.

€€Pub Food

Live MusicHistoric

Casual

Platform Pizza Bar

Seafront pizza and cocktails on Strand Road.

€€PizzaItalian

Casual

Campo de' Fiori

Seafront Italian bistro and deli.

€€€Italian

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Ireland's Original Seaside Resort

Bray was built to be looked at. When William Dargan ran the railway down the coast in the 1850s, he laid out a holiday town to match, modelled on Brighton: a long promenade, a bandstand, ironwork railings, and rows of grand seafront terraces facing the Irish Sea. Generations of Dubliners came down for the day, and the town earned its nickname half in earnest.

The grandeur faded through the twentieth century, but the bones never went anywhere. Today the prom, the harbour, Bray Head and the Sugar Loaf behind it still frame one of the most complete Victorian seafronts in the country, and the food scene along Strand Road has given the place a second act.

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Bray's Victorian seafront promenade with Bray Head rising at the southern end