You sea what we did there? Get ready for some sand-sational humor with our collection of clever beach puns and jokes.
90 Beach Puns and Jokes That Are Shore to Make You Laugh
Updated on May 23, 2025
What’s better than a day at the beach? The correct answer is nothing. Well, unless it’s a day at the beach with a margarita and something good to read. While we can’t give you a margarita (as much as we may want to!), we can give you something excellent to read while you’re soaking up the rays in your beach chair. Yep, we’re talking about these funny beach puns, jokes and one-liners—which are the perfect way to shellebrate the best season of the year.
A word of warning: Put a little time between reading these clever quips and taking a dip in the ocean. You might get a cramp from laughing too hard. Safety first, people!
With that in mind, read on for a collection of sun-sational puns and jokes that you’ll want to share with everyone you know, at the beach and beyond. Bonus: If you need some funny Instagram or Facebook captions to go with your beach-day photos, you can find ’em right here too!
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Funny beach puns
- If you can’t beach ’em, join ’em!
- Beach better have my money.
- Race you to the water? I’ll beach you to it!
- I can’t decide which sandals to wear to the beach. I keep flip-flopping.
- Nothing like a beach day to buoy your spirits.
- I’m headed to the beach to get some vitamin sea.
- Water you doing at the beach?
- Life’s a beach, and then you dive.
- Sea you later, alligator.
- Mathematicians use sin and cos to get a tan.
- Without the beach, I have no porpoise.
- Hanging with my gull-friends.
- Time for a sea-esta!
- You had me at shell-o.
- If you call me, I might not pick up—I’ll be sun-screening my calls.
Cute beach puns
- Being at the beach makes me as happy as a clam.
- Beach, don’t kill my vibe.
- Eat. Sleep. Beach. Repeat.
- Keep palm and carry on.
- Clam down and relax—you’re at the beach!
- Being at the beach makes me feel sand-tastic.
- Don’t hate the playa, hate the game.
- There’s no-fin better than being at the beach.
- Heading to the beach is a sand-sational idea.
- Shellebrating at the beach!
- Feeling fintastic.
- Sand at the beach always makes me feel sedimental.
- Beach, you’ll be sad when there are no more puns.
- At the beach, it’s OK to feel a little salty.
Ocean puns
- To avoid pier pressure, I just go with the flow.
- Seas the day!
- Time to get a little nauti.
- Be shore of yourself.
- Having a whale of a time—fish you were here!
- Happiness comes in waves.
- Whenever I’m at sea, I get so em-ocean-al.
- I sea what you did there.
- Shell we dance?
- There’s something fishy about these waves.
- The ocean’s so friendly—it’s always waving.
- Just go with the float.
- Never get tide down.
- You’re krilling me with these ocean puns.
- I can sea clearly now.
- The ocean is my reel love.
- Where there’s a whale, there’s a wave.
Sun puns
- Girls just wanna have sun.
- I’m having a sun-derful time on vacation.
- Tropic like it’s hot.
- Every day is sun-day at the beach.
- Whenever I sunbathe, I read a book—makes me well-red.
- Sun-believable!
- Let’s soak up some vitamin sea and sunshine.
- I’ve got a burning desire to go to the beach.
- ‘Tis the sea-sun!
Punny beach jokes
- Why did the banana wear sunscreen?
He didn’t want to peel.
- What kind of bath can you take without water?
A sunbath.
- Why did the sun go to school?
To get a little brighter.
- Why don’t beaches ever get married?
They don’t want to be tide down.
- Why don’t lawyers with sunburns ever win court cases?
They always a-peel.
- What do you call a Labrador on the beach in August?
A hot dog.
- Why did the hippie drown at the beach?
He was too far out, man.
- Why should you take salsa to the beach?
So you can take a dip in the sea.
- Which city’s beaches do eggs like best?
Sandy Eggo.
- Why did the grape put on sunscreen?
No raisin.
- What kind of animal loves the beach?
A solar bear.
- Why is it so hard to find camels at the beach?
Because they have camel-flage.
- What kind of shoes does Cinderella wear at the beach?
Glass flippers.
- Who won in a race: the sand or the sea?
Neither. They tide.
- What kind of fights happen at the beach?
Sand-to-sand combat.
- What did the surfer say to the wave?
“Catch you later!”
- Why did the psychic go to the beach?
To read palms.
- Where can you learn to make better sand castles?
Sun-day school.
Punny ocean jokes
- Why does the ocean roar?
You would too if you had lobsters in your bed.
- What did the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean say when they met each other?
Nothing. They just waved!
- What does a mermaid use to call her friends?
A shell phone.
- Why don’t oysters share their pearls?
Because they’re shellfish.
- How do you make an octopus laugh?
With ten-tickles.
- What do sea monsters eat?
Fish and ships.
- What’s a pirate’s favorite letter?
You might think it’s R, but their first love is the C.
- Why was the ship shaking at the bottom of the ocean?
It was a nervous wreck.
- Why did the diver blush?
He saw the ocean’s bottom.
- Why is the ocean blue?
Because no one ever waves back.
- What should you do if your boat gets sick?
Bring it to the dock.
- How does the ocean get its news?
By following current events.
- Why couldn’t the hermit crab live alone?
It wasn’t shell-sufficient.
- Why was the fisherman so strong?
He had the biggest mussels.
- How do fish talk underwater?
With speech bubbles.
- Why can’t you trust sharks?
They tell great white lies.
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