Can dogs go on Aldinga?
Aldinga Beach, City of Onkaparinga.
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The rules are written below.
This status is only for Stairs north of Butterworth Road to Ocean Street. Each stretch below has its own status.
From the stairs 100 metres north of Butterworth Road to the northern side of Ocean Street, dogs are off leash at any time. Outside that stretch, the daylight-saving 10am to 8pm leash applies.
This beach is published as more than one stretch. Read the one that matches the signs in front of you.
Stairs north of Butterworth Road to Ocean Street
The status at the top of the page uses this stretch.
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The Aldinga Beach dog exercise area, from an imaginary line west of the northern side of Ocean Street northerly to the stairs 100 metres north of Butterworth Road at Snapper Point, is off leash at any time under effective control.
- All year
- All day: off leash. Outside those times: off leash.
Aldinga Beach dog exercise area, an area bounded by an imaginary line west of the northern side of Ocean Street, Aldinga Beach and heading in a northerly direction to stairs situated 100 metres north of Butterworth Road, Aldinga Beach (Snapper Point), at any time.
Source: City of Onkaparinga page, checked 27 October 2026.
Aldinga foreshore outside the exercise area
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Foreshore that is not a named exercise area and not prohibited is on a leash from 10am to 8pm when daylight saving is in operation, and off leash under effective control outside those hours and during standard time. This stretch is Aldinga foreshore outside the Ocean Street to Snapper Point exercise area.
- Daylight saving: on a leash 10:00am to 8:00pm, otherwise off leash
- 10:00am–8:00pm: on a leash. Outside those times: off leash.
- Standard time: off leash all day
- All day: off leash. Outside those times: off leash.
may, outside of 10:00am and 8:00pm during daylight savings and subject to any resolution of the Council to the contrary under clause 9.2, be exercised off-leash provided they are under effective control.
Source: City of Onkaparinga page, checked 27 October 2026.
Also on the council page
- Hooded plover signs are a place rule: dogs are prohibited within 20 metres of a breeding site and on a leash within a signed on-leash zone. Jetties are prohibited. This clock cannot see signs. The foreshore list is the 8 September 2015 resolution, still published in the council’s by-law compilation. The 16 July 2024 resolution did not revoke it.
The map pin is a guide at -35.2780, 138.4580. It is not the boundary between groynes, access tracks or signed zones.
By-law No. 7 Dogs, with resolutions and maps, City of Onkaparinga