Today — sit it out — wave, wind and surge pounding. 💧 Water should clear by Tuesday (~2d)
Sources & confidence
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.
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
Leave your email — and the moment a window opens at Erquy, we'll send the go / no-go verdict. Email is all we need.
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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: 3016 spots across 406 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 mapPink-sandstone cape, rock ≤10–12 m, shore (access takes finding); wrasse, spider crab, conger, bass, mullet. Selective, current-sensitive. Coords verified.
Google Maps⛔ Spearfishing is BANNED here — spearfishing is banned inside the administrative limits of Erquy harbour. The spot stays on the map to mark the closure: find a legal stretch on the no-take map.
Cameras, map and reference — to hand as you come up.
Les Châtelets area, beyond the cap d'Erquy, shore entry; steep drop-off then a platform at the foot of the buoy; bass, bream. ⚠️ current off the headlands.
Google MapsThe full spot briefing is part of the subscription: entry, bottom, hazards, tide window.
Open in the appIslet, drying at low water, rock and kelp 1–14 m, shore/boat; bass, wrasse, lobster.
Google MapsThe full spot briefing is part of the subscription: entry, bottom, hazards, tide window.
Open in the appThe full spot briefing is part of the subscription: entry, bottom, hazards, tide window.
Open in the appThe full spot briefing is part of the subscription: entry, bottom, hazards, tide window.
Open in the appSmall islet, rock and kelp 2–15 m, shore/boat; bass, wrasse, spider crab, crab. Leave two hours before low water.
Google MapsThe full spot briefing is part of the subscription: entry, bottom, hazards, tide window.
Open in the appSOLO 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.
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.
Erquy has rock entry points such as Cap d'Erquy, Flancs du port and Les Châtelets. A small scallop port famous for its coquilles Saint-Jacques, dominated by the pink-sandstone Cap d'Erquy. Below you'll find each spot (access, shelter and hazards) and today's forecast.
Summer (June–September). North Brittany is macro-tidal (8–10 m range): clear water and the entry both hinge on slack. The jagged coast gives shelter in almost any wind if you know the right cove.
Atlantic/Channel: ~10 °C in winter, ~17–18 °C in summer. A 7 mm hooded suit year-round. Clearer water than farther east down the Channel, especially at rocky capes on the flood slack.
Moderately technical: macro-tides, but the jagged coast offers plenty of sheltered entries. Plan on slack; knowing the local coves, it's doable for a confident beginner on a calm day.
No paid licence in Erquy — 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.
