Paralia Platanou (, English: "Platanos beach"), is a village and a community of the municipality Aigialeia, southwestern Greece. Παραλία Πλατάνου (Αχαΐας), EETAA local government changes It is situated on the Coast of the Gulf of Corinth below Platanos village. The entrance to the village is found a short distance beyond Kryoneri Bay, on the 155th km (97th mile) of the Old National Corinth-Patras Road at a designated exit. It is served by Platanos railway station on the line from Kiato to Aigio.
Noted beaches are Avgolemono (153rd km/98th mile), Liontari (160th km/100th mile), and the neighbouring Punta Beach, below Trapeza village.
Platanos is famous for its natural Artesian aquifer water, and for Λιοντάρι (Liontari, i.e. a natural, house-sized rock formation in the shape of a lion at the western end of the village on the edge of a mountain slope.
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