Playa de Cortadura, Coastal beach in Cadiz, Spain

Playa de Cortadura is a beach in Cadiz with expanses of sandy shore and natural dunes running along the coastline. The beach features wooden pathways, showers, restrooms, and sun lounger rentals to serve visitors.

The beach lies at the entrance to Cádiz beside the walls of Cortadura, the outer limit of the city's defences from the 17th to the 19th century. It runs along the left bank of the CA-33 as far as the channel separating Cádiz from San Fernando.

The beach's name comes from the Cortadura walls, the 17th- to 19th-century outer defence of Cádiz, which stand at its entrance. During the Trofeo Carranza football tournament, the Noche de las Barbacoas once filled this beach and Playa Victoria with family and friends' barbecues, gathering over 200,000 people according to the city council; barbecues are now banned. The section known as La Gallega is a nudist area, the only one on Cádiz's beaches.

The beach runs along the left bank of the CA-33 towards the channel that marks the boundary with San Fernando. Wooden walkways lead from the parking area to the sand, but only three of them are raised above the dunes. The dune system is fragmented by bathers crossing it, and some sectors have been reinforced with planking and wicker sand traps.

The beach forms a dune cordon with a wide intertidal zone and a rocky area exposed at low tide. The primary dune carries sea rocket, sea daffodil and saltwort, while the secondary dune holds exotic species such as sea fig and cane; artificial hollows stabilised with vegetation fix the sand.