This page needs JavaScript to show today’s readings. Without it you can still read everything about a place — where it is, how it is classified, what discharges near it — but no warning, verdict or live reading will appear, and a blank space here does not mean the water is clear.

Can I Swim?

Spots with warnings

Checking today’s warnings. If this line does not change, they could not be read, and that is not an all clear.

Checking…

Swimming, surfing and waterfalls across Britain and Ireland. Every half hour it reads the official warnings, and the live sewage overflow monitors where they exist — 652 of the 941 — and the rain every three hours, and gives every bathing water one straight answer about its water quality today. Beaches open to the ocean get swell, wind and tide too. Waterfalls get a flow reading from the rain and no water quality, because nobody tests a waterfall.

941 Bathing waters 352 Surfing beaches 2,521 Waterfalls mapped — 645 named, 1,876 unnamed 232 Lifeguarded 14 Not tested

When something cannot be checked, this site says so. A blank space never means the water is clear.

Where to go next

SwimmingAll 941 bathing waters, searchable, with today's answer for each Surfing352 beaches open to the ocean, with swell, wind and tide Waterfalls2,521 mapped and 645 with a page, each with how hard it is likely to be running Warnings todayOnly the places with a warning or advice against bathing River levels2,794 gauged stretches of river, and how high the water is today The mapEvery bathing water and every waterfall on one map, with the storm overflows How it worksWhere every number comes from, and what this site cannot tell you

232 of the bathing waters have an RNLI lifeguard unit: see which.