Can I swim at Balmedie?
Scotland · Coastal
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About this bathing water
- Rating for last season
- Excellent (2025)
- Water
- Coastal
- Area
- Scotland
- Monitored outfalls within 5km
- None
Balmedie was rated Excellent for 2025 — the highest of the four grades in the Bathing Water Regulations. That grade comes from bacterial samples taken over several seasons, so it describes the beach's record rather than the water on any given day.
SEPA publishes a daily water quality prediction for 30 of Scotland's 90 bathing waters during the season, and Scottish Water publishes overflow status hourly.
Other swimming spots nearby
AberdeenScotland · 11.4 km awayColliestonScotland · 11.8 km awayCruden BayScotland · 20.2 km awayPeterhead (Lido)Scotland · 30.4 km awayStonehavenScotland · 33.8 km awayFraserburgh (Philorth)Scotland · 46.8 km away
Check the official source
Balmedie's official page at SEPA · See it on a map
This page is not official. It reads published data and presents it plainly; if a sign at the beach says otherwise, believe the sign.