Today — right on the edge — wave, wind and visibility.
Sources & confidence
Compiled by the spearo sea-state engine
The verdict comes from seven water factors and hard safety gates — not ten tabs. Go or stay.
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.
Safety gates
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.
Where to get in, where to hunt
Wind, wave and the swell windows — when to go and the best hours.
The day is picked above, in the hero. Here are that day's windows, the hour-by-hour map and the trends. Tap a window to break down the conditions.
Visibility and what drives it — post-storm clearing, river plume, temperature and the thermocline.
spearo.app folds wind, wave, swell period, visibility, tides, water temperature and risk into a single verdict — go to the spot or not. It computes 7 days ahead from open marine models (Open-Meteo, IPMA), with no sign-up and no accounts. Built for solo spearfishing off the rocks, where any mistake costs dearly.
Now live: 1152 spots across 189 stretches of coast — mainland Portugal, Madeira and the Azores.
See all spotsRelief and bottom type, tides, and the depths of each spot.
The models set the window. Whether you go in is read only at the water: count the sets, watch the surge on the entry. If in doubt, you don't get in.
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.
Open the seafloor mapSchist cove and cape toward the Spanish border, 2–12 m, shore; bream, gilthead, octopus. Outside the reserve, south side.
Google MapsSOLO is the biggest risk: underwater you can black out from lack of oxygen silently and fatally, with no one around. Solo is never truly «safe». Below are the best weather windows; carry a buoy, tell someone your plan and exit time, and any doubt — don't go.
Cameras, map and reference — to hand as you come up.
Rules change. Exact distances from beaches/ports and seasonal closures are set by the local préfecture maritime — check its arrêté and the DIRM/OFB zone map before heading out.
Cerbère has rock entry points such as Anse de Cerbère / Cap Cerbère (côté frontière). The last French town before Spain, split in two by the reserve: the north of the commune, up to Cap Peyrefite, is the southern limit of the Cerbère-Banyuls reserve — spearfishing banned. Below you'll find each spot (access, shelter and hazards) and today's forecast.
Long season (May–October). Occitania: shallow sandy bottom, warm water but murkier than the rocky coasts. The enemy is the mistral/tramontane: in wind the visibility and sea deteriorate fast — grab the windless windows.
Mediterranean: ~13 °C in winter, ~24–25 °C in summer. 3–5 mm in summer. Sandy bottom, warmer but murkier than rocky coasts; after the mistral/tramontane the visibility drops — wait for the calm.
Easy–moderate: shallow, warm, but sandy bottom and murk in wind. A good zone to start on windless days; the key — don't dive in the mistral/tramontane.
No paid licence in Cerbère — but third-party (RC) insurance is MANDATORY, and since 10/01/2026 a free EU registration + catch declaration (RECFishing app) applies from age 16. Breath-hold only (no scuba), buoy mandatory, no night; sizes by coast (bar 42 Atl. / 30 Med.), grouper and corb banned in the Med. See the guide.
Leave your email — and the moment a window opens at Cerbère, we'll send the go / no-go verdict. Email is all we need.
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