Platanias (Greek: àûñÃÂñýùìÃÂ) is a village and municipality on the Greek island of Crete. It is located about west from the city of Chania and east of Kissamos, on Chania Bay. The seat of the municipality is the village Gerani. Platanias (and the neighbouring village of Agia Marina) is a popular tourism village with beaches, several hotels, restaurants, bars, nightclubs and souvenir shops. The area is especially popular with Scandinavian tourists with the season running from April to October. Not far from the coast is the island of Agioi Theodoroi.
The municipality Platanias was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 4 former municipalities, that became municipal units:
The municipality has an area of , the municipal unit .
It lies within the Chania regional unit and is numbered 6 on the map of the Chania region. It is on the north coast, forming the eastern shore of Kissamos Bay (Kolpos Kissamou KÃÂûÃÂÿàÃÂùÃÂÃÂìüÿà), and the west and south shores of Chania Bay (Kolpos Chanion ÃÂÃÂûÃÂÿàçñýïÃÂý). It is bordered by Kissamos (5) to the west, Kantanos-Selino (4) to the south, Chania (1) to the east, and Sfakia (7) in the southeast. Its northeast region is the Rodopos Peninsula (Chersonisos Rodopou çõÃÂÃÂÃÂý÷ÃÂÿàáÿôÃÂÃÂÿÃÂ).
See Chania Region for maps