Can you spearfish under the Temple of Poseidon?

No. Treat the immediate cape and temple frontage as off-limits because of the coastal archaeological zone.

Do you need a license at Cape Sounio?

No. Greece has required no recreational fishing licence since 2014, though the state sign-up should be checked.

Is spearfishing banned in May?

Yes. The May national ban applies at Cape Sounio under ΠΔ 373/1985.

What is the best lee near Sounio?

Arsida in Anavyssos Bay is the named NW-tucked lee option.

What fish are noted around Sounio?

The area is described for sea bream, dentex, grouper and amberjack on points and deeper edges.

Cape Sounio spearfishing forecast — Greece

Cape Sounio · Greece

8.3

wave 0.1 m

visibility6m

Dive today — wave, wind and visibility.

Sources: MeteoAlarm · Open-Meteo · Copernicus · Sentinel-2 — high confidence · data 22:03

Sources & confidence

Sources: MeteoAlarm · 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.

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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.

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Simos Wreck (Anavyssos)Cape Sounio

borderline

⛔ Banned here

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

window: Dawn. From late morning the Anavyssos beaches fill and so does the water over the wreck, which makes the 200-metre rule off swimmers hard to keep. June, and then September into November when the beach empties, are the sane windows. All May is closed in Greece; night is banned, sunset to sunrise.
tide: Nothing to read on a tide table. What matters is the shallow water itself: after rain the runoff off the road and the flats lays a brown layer over the sand for a day or two, and after several days of meltemi the water pushed into the bight goes back out along the bottom, dragging fine sediment past the wreck.
shelter: The wreck lies inside the Anavyssos bight in nine to eighteen metres, over sand and low rock. Nothing stands over it, so all the shelter comes from the land behind: with the wind off the hills from N and NE the surface goes glassy right out to the mark. Open the door from the south and the fetch runs straight in.
conditions: Northerlies are the day. In water this shallow the wind direction decides everything: at nine metres a south-easterly around 135 degrees turns the bottom into a sandstorm within the hour and you will not see the hull from three metres away. On a flat morning after a north wind you can count the ribs.
hazard: The caique is modern, the water over it is not open. This wreck lies within the declared underwater archaeological area of the Lavreotiki peninsula (ΦΕΚ 175/ΑΑΠ/2015), and a speargun is prohibited in every declared area by ΚΥΑ ΦΕΚ 336/Β/2004 — leave it dry and swim the site instead. Wrecks this size also gather line and old net, so nothing goes inside with a float line trailing: shallow is not the same as safe. Local boats cross here, so the buoy is mandatory.
access: A shore dive, and a rare one — the road runs along the top and you park close, then walk in over coarse sand and low rock. Ten to fifteen minutes of surface swim puts you over it. Take a bearing off a landmark on the beach first, because at nine metres in average visibility it is easy to swim straight past.

Wreck 9–18 m, shore-accessible; a rare shallow shore wreck here, beginner-friendly aspetto.

Google Maps

Spot	Type	Depth	Level	Access	Notes
Arsida (Anavyssos)	Reef and cave	25-35 m	Intermediate to advanced	Boat	NW-tucked from the cape and the main Sounio meltemi lee.
Simos Wreck	Shallow wreck	9-18 m	More accessible	Shore	A rare shallow shore wreck near Anavyssos, but still needs clean exits and buoy discipline.
The parking lot	Rock and reef	18-40 m	Intermediate	Shore or boat	Easy roadside entry on the Sounio coast, suitable only when the sea is settled and limits are clear.