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Porto-Vecchio · Corse
Today's take
Dangerous conditions
Water temperature
23.5 °C
Verdict
Not advised
When to go
No favorable window that day.
Dangerous conditions
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 7.5 km from this point — local nearshore conditions can differ.
The sea state is read as close to the beach as the model allows, without our having verified that this water is the water at the shore (indented coast, ria, head of a bay). Take it as an order of magnitude: what comes in from open sea may not reach this far.
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.
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 23:04 UTC
Windows, comfort score and verdicts are computed by oswim from this data — modified values, not the institutes' raw figures.
min 3 · max 12 km/h · north-east sector · gusts 29 km/h
Between 18 and 28.8 °C: neither cold enough for cold shock on entry, nor warm enough to stop your body shedding heat while swimming.
World Aquatics / World Triathlon thresholds · 31 °C ceiling (post-Fran Crippen), Ironman 28.8 °C · RNLI guidance
Offshore wind · 3 – 12 km/h
No wind-driven offshore drift.
RNLI / lifeguard warning · measured drift (coastguard): 2–4 % of the wind · Beaufort scale
Visibility · 12 – 26 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.
Water quality · Excellent · 2025 season
Computed from the samples of the last four bathing seasons. It says what the water here has been, not what it is today: after heavy rain, even an excellent beach degrades for a day or two.
Health authority classification (EU directive 2006/7/EC), published once per bathing season
Do you know whether this beach is lifeguarded?
Access is usually via a small road or path leading straight down to the shoreline.
Worth knowing
The rocky and sandy seabed here shelters a quietly varied marine life, with small mollusks and crustaceans typical of Corsican waters.
Spot profile pending on-site verification.