Fetching this spot's conditions…
Tip of the moment
Fetching this spot's conditions…
Tip of the moment
Worth knowing: Arrêté du préfet maritime de l'Atlantique n°2017/020 du 31/03/2017 : cette côte est bordée par la zone de tir LF-R13A1, interdite à toute présence humaine les jours de tir seulement. Ces jours sont annoncés la veille par le CROSS Étel et signalés sur place ; en l'absence de signalisation, la baignade n'est pas concernée.
Saint-Pierre-Quiberon · Bretagne
Today's take
Dangerous conditions
Water temperature
12.8 °C
Verdict
Not advised
Underwater visibility
~2.2 m
satellite reading from 4 days ago
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 5.6 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.
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 23:19 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 14 · max 38 km/h · west sector · gusts 56 km/h
Rip / shore-break spot · 2.5 – 3.0 m
Waves are high enough to power this spot's rips or shore break. Stay in shallow water and away from channels.
Curated spot hazard · trigger ½ of the NWS 1.2 m rip step (engineering choice)
Thunderstorm · None forecast
No thunderstorms forecast.
World Triathlon: stop on lightning
Offshore wind · 14 – 38 km/h
No wind-driven offshore drift.
RNLI / lifeguard warning · measured drift (coastguard): 2–4 % of the wind · Beaufort scale
Visibility · 3 – 43 km
Good visibility.
Loss of bearings and collision risk
Post-rain pollution · 0 – 0.7 mm over 24 h
When it rains hard, runoff from roads and fields and sewer overflows carry bacteria out to sea. Nothing significant has fallen in the last 24 hours.
Official sampling is weekly at best; between two samples, recent rain is the recognized warning signal (EEA)
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
In all cases: bright swim cap and tow float so boats can see you.
Consolidated ladder: World Aquatics / World Triathlon / FFTri rules + manufacturer thermal guides
Depth as you head out: 400 m → 2.8 m · 800 m → 3.8 m
Modelled depths (EMODnet, the European seabed model), stated without the tide: at low water there is less. A swimming bearing, never a navigation aid.
Rip currents
Powerful currents can form and pull you out to sea — sometimes faster than an Olympic swimmer. If caught: don't fight it, swim parallel to the beach, then angle back in.
Shore break
Waves break directly onto the sand: spine and neck injuries occur from 1 m up. Never dive head first; go through waves sideways.
Shared parking with the bay side, over the dune. Unsupervised off-season.
Worth knowing
This exposed shoreline hosts a quiet but rich marine life, from flat oysters to small burrowing crustaceans, all adapted to the ocean's constant motion.
Spot profile pending on-site verification.