Playa de El Confital in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is an officially monitored EU bathing water with one sampling point. This page shows the official classifications and lab results next to today's UV, sea temperature, waves and wind.
There is no EU classification for Playa de El Confital for the 2025 bathing season. The last classification dates from 2022: «poor».
The 2025 classification is based on all official samples from the 2022 to 2025 bathing seasons. Two gut bacteria are measured, Escherichia coli and intestinal enterococci: on the coast, «excellent» means that 95 per cent of the results are below 250 E. coli and below 100 enterococci per 100 millilitres.
For context: to be rated «excellent» on the coast, 95 per cent of samples must be below 250 E. coli and below 100 enterococci per 100 ml; for «good» the limits are 500 and 200. Single values above these limits are marked amber (above «excellent») or red (above «good»); the health service decides on bathing bans.
The Canary Islands health service (Servicio Canario de la Salud) currently lists Playa de El Confital as «bathing prohibited», as of 21 Sep 2026. Please follow the notices on site and the lifeguards' flags.
Reason given by the health service: beach where signs of faecal contamination are found regularly. CITA checks the official status three times a day.
The official bathing season with regular sampling runs here from 1 Feb 2026 to 30 Nov 2026. Outside the season there is no regular official sampling.
Since 2023 the official data list 9 entries with a temporary bathing ban, closure or advice not to bathe for Playa de El Confital; the most recent began on 21 Sep 2026. Every entry with date, sampling point and reason is in the «Bathing Bans» section of this page.
Playa de El Confital is not on the 2026 list of Blue Flag beaches. That says nothing bad about the water: the council has to apply for the flag, and services and facilities are assessed as well.
In the official register of discharges into the sea (Censo de vertidos 2025, Government of the Canary Islands), the nearest active discharge point is 1.6 km from the beach: «Conducción de desagüe del Acuario 'Poema del Mar'», an outfall pipe carrying cooling water. Its status in the register: permitted. A discharge point nearby does not automatically mean polluted bathing water. What counts for bathing quality are the official lab samples.
Blue: the official sampling points of this bathing water. Red, amber and grey: active discharge points within two kilometres (no permit, permit pending, permitted).
No: the Canary Islands health service currently lists Playa de El Confital as «bathing prohibited», as of 21 Sep 2026. Please follow the council's notices on site and the lifeguards' flags. Reason given by the health service: beach where signs of faecal contamination are found regularly. The weather model expects waves of up to 1.6 m today (moderate), wind of up to 18 km/h and a UV index of up to 6.3 (high).
There is no EU classification for Playa de El Confital for the 2025 bathing season. The last classification dates from 2022: «poor». The latest official sample, taken on 21 Sep 2026 at sampling point PM1, showed 4 E. coli and 530 enterococci per 100 ml.
The marine model shows 24.5 °C for the sea off Playa de El Confital today (as of 13 Oct 2026, 07:55). According to the model, waves reach up to 1.6 m today.
Playa de El Confital is not on the 2026 list of Blue Flag beaches. That says nothing bad about the water: the council has to apply for the flag, and services and facilities are assessed as well.
In the official register of discharges into the sea (Censo de vertidos 2025, Government of the Canary Islands), the nearest active discharge point is 1.6 km from the beach: «Conducción de desagüe del Acuario 'Poema del Mar'», an outfall pipe carrying cooling water. Its status in the register: permitted. A discharge point nearby does not automatically mean polluted bathing water. What counts for bathing quality are the official lab samples.
Since 2023 the official data list 9 entries with a temporary bathing ban, closure or advice not to bathe for Playa de El Confital; the most recent began on 21 Sep 2026. Every entry with date, sampling point and reason is in the «Bathing Bans» section of this page.
We check the official data daily and the weather values three times a day (07:15, 13:15 and 19:15 Canary time). We use only official or open sources; where a value is missing, the page says so.