Official EU rating · Blue Flag · Bathing bans · Discharges
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LIVE13.10.2026 07:55 (Canary time)
The Canary Islands have 179 officially monitored EU bathing waters on seven islands. For the 2025 season, 170 of them are rated excellent, 6 good, 1 sufficient and 0 poor.
Each bathing water has its own page with sampling points, bathing bans, discharges nearby and today's UV, sea temperature and waves. The list below can be filtered by rating, Blue Flag and bathing ban history.
49 bathing waters in the Canary Islands have had at least one temporary bathing ban, closure or advice not to bathe since 2023, according to Náyade and the Canary Islands health service. The list is sorted by the number of entries; date, sampling point and reason are on each beach's page.
Playa del Reducto · Arrecife · 18× ban/warning, most recent from 22 Sep 2026
Playa de El Confital · Las Palmas de Gran Canaria · 9× ban/warning, most recent from 21 Sep 2026
Playa Jardín · Puerto de la Cruz · 7× ban/warning, most recent from 5 Oct 2026
Playa de Salinetas · Telde · 3× ban/warning, most recent from 24 Aug 2026
Playa Blanca · Yaiza · 2× ban/warning, most recent from 26 Jun 2026
Playa Jardín · Puerto de la Cruz · 2022 good 2023 sufficient 2024 sufficient 2025 sufficient
Playa de El Confital · Las Palmas de Gran Canaria · 2022 poor 2023 not classified 2024 not classified 2025 not classified
Map of All Bathing Waters
The colour shows the 2025 EU rating: dark blue excellent, light blue good, amber sufficient, red poor or closed, grey not classified. Tap a dot to see the name and the link to its page.
How This Overview Is Made
The rating comes from the European Environment Agency, which assesses the Spanish health authorities' measurements under the EU Bathing Water Directive. It is based on all samples of the last four bathing seasons; the limits for E. coli and intestinal enterococci are set in the directive.
The ranking sorts by the 2025 rating, then by the number of consecutive years rated excellent, then by Blue Flag and by the number of bathing bans since 2023, and finally alphabetically. Where a bathing water has several sampling points, the weakest one counts.
Current status, bathing bans and lab results come from the Canary Islands health service (Servicio Canario de la Salud) and from Náyade, the information system of the Spanish Ministry of Health. We check the status three times a day and the lab results every day.
The Blue Flag comes from ADEAC's official 2026 list, the discharges from the Canary Islands government's official 2025 register. Weather, sea and waves are Open-Meteo model values and not an official bathing warning.
The EU rating describes water quality over several years, not today. On site, the lifeguards' flags and the council's notices always apply.
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.
