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Le Lavandou · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Today's take
Window: 09:00–19:00, with caution — read the safety panel before you go.
Water temperature
22.3 °C
Verdict
Pleasant
Underwater visibility
~27.1 m
satellite reading from 2 days ago
When to go
Good from 09:00 to 19:00.
Pin colours:swimmablecautionnot advisedconditions not loaded yet
Forecasts come from ~8 km resolution models: very local effects (a sheltering pier, a lagoon pass) are not captured.
Sea-state data comes from a marine model cell about 6.2 km from this point — local nearshore conditions can differ.
Wave heights are significant heights: individual waves up to 2× this height still occur.
Four wave models are compared for this point: EWAM, GWAM, Météo-France WAM and ECMWF WAM.
Tide times derived from modelled sea level (± a few tens of minutes) — not official tide tables.
Missing data is shown as missing — never silently estimated.
Beach locations from OpenStreetMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
Weather and marine data: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0), wave models from the Deutscher Wetterdienst (CC BY 4.0). Forecasts are not guarantees. · Data fetched at 01:31 UTC
Water clarity generated using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information.
Windows, comfort score and verdicts are computed by oswim from this data — modified values, not the institutes' raw figures.
min 28 · max 36 km/h · east sector · gusts 55 km/h
No thunderstorms forecast.
World Triathlon: stop on lightning
Offshore wind · 28 – 38 km/h
No wind-driven offshore drift.
RNLI / lifeguard warning · measured drift (coastguard): 2–4 % of the wind · Beaufort scale
Visibility · 3 – 31 km
Good visibility.
Loss of bearings and collision risk
Jellyfish: no recent info. If you're there, tell us what you see — even “none” helps the next swimmer.
Modelled depths (EMODnet, the European seabed model), stated without the tide: at low water there is less. A swimming bearing, never a navigation aid.
Do you know whether this beach is lifeguarded?
Nearest lifeguarded beach: (6.4 km).
Access is generally via a coastal path from Le Lavandou, through dense Mediterranean scrub.
Worth knowing
These waters still shelter the noble pen shell (Pinna nobilis), an impressive and now endangered Mediterranean species, alongside anemones and sea urchins that bring color to the rocky seabed.
Spot profile pending on-site verification.