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Can I swim at Redcar Coatham?

Redcar and Cleveland, England · Coastal

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Photograph near Redcar Coatham by Dave Bevis
Photograph near Redcar Coatham by Dave Bevis · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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About this bathing water

Rating for last season
Good (2025)
Water
Coastal
Area
Redcar and Cleveland, England
Monitored outfalls within 5km
18 (nearest 0.4km)

Redcar Coatham was rated Good for 2025 — the second 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.

The Environment Agency issues a pollution risk forecast for this beach every morning during the bathing season, and the water company publishes the status of its storm overflows every few minutes.

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Redcar Coatham's official page at the Environment Agency · 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.