Playa de Las Gaviotas in Santa Cruz de Tenerife 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.
The European Environment Agency classifies Playa de Las Gaviotas as «excellent» for the 2025 bathing season. It has been rated excellent every year since 2015.
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 Las Gaviotas as «beach closed», since 8 Jun 2026. Please follow the notices on site and the lifeguards' flags.
Reason given by the health service: beach closed because works block the access. CITA checks the official status three times a day.
Note from the health service, as of 8 Jun 2026: access closed for works. It appears on the bathing water's official page in the Mapa sanitario de playas.
The official bathing season with regular sampling runs here from 1 Jun 2026 to 15 Oct 2026. Outside the season there is no regular official sampling.
Since 2023 the official data list 1 entries with a temporary bathing ban, closure or advice not to bathe for Playa de Las Gaviotas; the most recent began on 8 Jun 2026. Every entry with date, sampling point and reason is in the «Bathing Bans» section of this page.
Playa de Las Gaviotas 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.
The official register (Censo de vertidos 2025) lists no active discharge point within two kilometres. The register covers permitted and unpermitted discharges from land into the sea.
Blue: the official sampling points of this bathing water. The register lists no active discharge point within two kilometres.
No: the Canary Islands health service currently lists Playa de Las Gaviotas as «beach closed», since 8 Jun 2026. Please follow the council's notices on site and the lifeguards' flags. Reason given by the health service: beach closed because works block the access. The weather model expects waves of up to 1.3 m today (moderate), wind of up to 22 km/h and a UV index of up to 6.7 (high).
The European Environment Agency classifies Playa de Las Gaviotas as «excellent» for the 2025 bathing season. It has been rated excellent every year since 2015. The latest official sample, taken on 8 Jun 2026 at sampling point PM1, showed 3 E. coli and 10 enterococci per 100 ml.
The marine model shows 24.4 °C for the sea off Playa de Las Gaviotas today (as of 13 Oct 2026, 07:55). According to the model, waves reach up to 1.3 m today.
Playa de Las Gaviotas 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.
The official register (Censo de vertidos 2025) lists no active discharge point within two kilometres. The register covers permitted and unpermitted discharges from land into the sea.
Since 2023 the official data list 1 entries with a temporary bathing ban, closure or advice not to bathe for Playa de Las Gaviotas; the most recent began on 8 Jun 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.