Almería · Spain

8.3

wave 0.1 m head-on

visibility6m

Dive today — wave, wind and visibility.

Sources: AEMET/MeteoAlarm · buoys · Open-Meteo · Copernicus · Sentinel-2 — high confidence · data 03:35

Sources & confidence

Sources: AEMET/MeteoAlarm · buoys · Open-Meteo · Copernicus · Sentinel-2
Method: spearo sea-state engine: consensus of up to 6 models + satellite clarity (ZSD) + buoy-bias checks
Freshness: Re-read every hour, per coast

Compiled by the spearo sea-state engine · How it works →

The verdict comes from seven water factors and hard safety gates — not ten tabs. Go or stay.

How we score the water

Our own model

Our own forecast engine — not a third-party widget. It weighs these water factors into one go-or-stay verdict for this coast; the 0–10 dial is that verdict, read out as a number.

Swell & wave memory: Height, period and direction of the swell, plus the wake of recent storms — an old storm still stirs the water, and the engine remembers.
Wind & gusts: Speed and gusts, hour by hour — wind speed and an onshore push chop the surface and cut visibility.
Tide phase: Timing and range of the tide, calibrated per coast — big spring tides pull the verdict toward caution.
Water temperature: Sea-surface temperature — sharply cold water vetoes a green verdict.
Currents & outflow: Direction and drift of the current — it pushes you, and it drags turbid coastal water across where you dive.
Rain runoff & air clarity: Rain muddies the water inshore through land runoff, while fog and haze cut visibility at the surface.
Coast shape & exposure: How the coast faces the swell — a sheltered cove keeps the water clean; an exposed, head-on point takes a penalty.

Safety gates

Thunderstorm forecast — an instant red, no exceptions.
An official warning (MeteoAlarm / IPMA) — yellow, or red for the higher ranks.
Missing input data — a would-be green is capped to yellow rather than overstated.
Strong disagreement between forecast models — a green day is pulled back to yellow.
Night hours — where night spearfishing is banned by law the window is forced red; where it is legal (Australia outside NSW, New Zealand, South Africa) it is capped at yellow, never green.

It all folds into a single 0–10 score and one verdict: go or stay.

A forecast, not a guarantee — the sea has the last word.

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Scouted entries, coloured by today. The colour is the sea state at the spot, not a guarantee: the wash and a slippery entry you judge on site.

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Aguadulce / Punta del RíoAlmería

borderline

exposed head-on to the swell today (city-level)

window: Work at first light: in June the sun is up around 06:50, in August at 07:27, and by midday the breeze gets going and the whole town is on the beach. Water: 14.8 degrees in February, 25.4 in August, 21.3 in October, so autumn gives a better sea than summer. Night spearfishing is banned across Spain: sunrise to sunset only.
tide: The tide in the Alborán Sea is more noticeable than in the rest of the Mediterranean: the level moves half a metre, sometimes seventy centimetres, but it does not decide your day. Something else does — the along-shore drift after a settled wind and the cold water rising with Poniente. After a downpour the ramblas and the Andarax mouth cloud things for a day or two.
shelter: The west side of the bay of Almería: the town sits under the cliffs of the Sierra de Gádor, and together with the Aguadulce and La Bajadilla breakwaters they keep the water almost flat. Divers from the port say both Poniente and Levante take longer to reach this corner. The bay opens south and south-west, so the 110-240 sector comes straight in.
conditions: Come with Levante or a light northerly: the water settles and over the rock at El Cañarete or in Cala de la Garrofa you see far more than over sand. Swell arrives from the 110-240 sector, worst around 130 — then the shoreline lifts sand and you are left with a couple of metres. Strong Poniente adds cold green water from below.

What's in season,
what the law says.

Minimum sizes by caladero (in the table below). Season depends on the species and place.

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Retamar / Cala de San MiguelAlmería

borderline

exposed head-on to the swell today (city-level)

window: First light: in summer the sun is over the bay at 07:27, and by ten the El Toyo promenade is already busy. Water: 16.0 in April, 20.8 in June, 25.4 in August, 18.2 in November. Night is banned. The spearfishing licence is issued by the Junta de Andalucía — check the requirements before you travel; since January 2026 catches are declared in the PescaREC app.
tide: In the Alborán the level moves half a metre and changes nothing for hunting. What you watch is runoff: the Rambla del Agua and Rambla Morales leave a murky plume for one to three days after a storm, and it drags along the coast with the wind-driven drift. With a long Poniente cold water rises and visibility over the posidonia meadow drops.
shelter: The straight sandy shore between El Toyo and the mouth of the Rambla del Agua faces south and south-east, with the Cabo de Gata massif shielding it from the east — which is why Retamar is the Levante-day option. There is no sheltering relief of its own: with Poniente and with hard Levante the shorebreak clouds up just the same.
conditions: Come with Levante, but do not work the shoreline: over sand it clouds up, and the ground to fish is the stone slabs towards Torregarcía. And the key point: east of the Rambla del Agua mouth the Cabo de Gata-Níjar reserve begins, where spearfishing is expressly banned (Orden ARM/1744/2011, art. 5). With a gun you enter west of the mouth only.
hazard: Legal first: the Cabo de Gata reserve boundary runs at the Rambla del Agua mouth, east of it you do not shoot, and the similarly named San Miguel de Cabo de Gata beach is already inside the park — do not mix it up with the town one. Off Retamar the Guardia Civil has pulled poachers' nets and stopped spearos on scooters: propulsion devices are banned.
access: From Almería along the coast road to El Toyo: a housing estate, a promenade and free parking right by the sand. The entry is gentle, the bottom coarse sand and gravel, and the stone slabs towards Torregarcía are a few hundred metres away on foot or by swimming. Below there is posidonia meadow: it orients you, but it also holds the murk after a blow.

Low rocky ground on the east side of the bay; easy entry, moderately exposed to the easterly (E).

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