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Can I swim at St Margaret`s Bay?
Dover, England · Coastal
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About this bathing water
- Rating for last season
- Excellent (2025)
- Water
- Coastal
- Area
- Dover, England
- Monitored outfalls within 5km
- None
St Margaret`s Bay 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.
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.
Other swimming spots nearby
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Check the official source
St Margaret`s Bay'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.