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Sea Glass Rarity Chart - Rare Sea Glass

What sea glass or beach glass colors are the rarest? 

That depends somewhat on the particular country, beach, etc. 

However, this page reflects a huge amount of research and gives you a good idea of which colors are the rarest overall.

Here you'll find an illustrated list of the rarity of the various colors:

• Rarest of the Rare Sea Glass Colors

• Rare Sea Glass Colors

• Somewhat Rare Colors

• Easy to Find Sea Glass Colors

Rarity Of Colors

I'm going to list the rarity of colors based upon our own collection (which is a lot of sea glass collected over the years).

Rare Sea Glass Colors

Keep in mind what I said about the color rarity being different depending on the geographical area.

(For a discussion on origins of the colors in sea glass, go to How is sea glass made?)

Sea Glass - Rarity Chart Below Shows Relative Rarity of Colors

 Most of our sea glass has been collected on the beaches of: 

• The Strait of Juan de Fuca in Washington as well as
• Northern California
• The Chesapeake Bay in Maryland
• Southeastern Lake Erie
• Northern Peru, South America.

Friends and family have helped contribute a few nice pieces to our collection.

Here goes!

Rarest of the Rare Sea Glass Colors

Deep Purple	Orange
Pink	Deep Yellow
Peach	Red
Black

Rare Sea Glass Colors

Pale Yellow	Turquoise
Cornflower Blue	Teal
Amethyst / Lavender	Cobalt Blue
Gray	Aquamarine

Somewhat Rare Sea Glass Colors

Milk glass / Jadite / Jadeite	Citron
Light Blue	Olive Green
Light Green / Seafoam	Bright Lime Green
Honey Amber / Pale Brown

Easy to Find Sea Glass Colors

Green	Brown
White (Clear Frosted)

Other Colors of Sea Glass?

There are many, many colors that don't fit an exact color category.

For example, David found one that the best way to describe it is a smoky dark prune-gray color. It could be classified as pale purple (perhaps) or a gray.

One area will have some of the rarer colors as more common or vice versa. 

For example, we found a lot of cobalt blue on our local beach when we lived in the State of Washington. On that beach cobalt-colored sea glass was not very rare.

On the other hand, at our local beach while living in Peru, teal was fairly abundant and cobalt was more rare.

On other beaches you might find that cobalt or teal or another less rare color may be among the rarest of colors for that particular beach.

( For LOL - in case you find a beach where brown is rare and orange is common, let me know immediately ~ Lin )

Again, this sea glass rarity chart in general is pretty accurate.

What colors do you find to be the rarest?

Feel free to make comments on our forums pages or below in the Facebook comments.

Note also that the above colors don't represent the wide array of hues or tints that are found in sea glass.

Just find the closest on this color rarity chart and you'll get an idea of about how rare it is.