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The cleanest beaches in Canterbury

3 of the 4 bathing waters in Canterbury were rated Excellent for 2025, the top of the four official grades.

A classification is not a reading of today’s water. It is worked out from samples taken across the last three or four bathing seasons, so it describes how a beach usually behaves — and a beach rated Excellent can still be one to stay out of the afternoon after a storm overflow discharges. That is what the verdict on each card below is for, and it is worked out fresh every half hour.

Beaches rated Excellent

The other bathing water in Canterbury is on the Canterbury area page, with the same readings.

What the four classifications actually mean.