Today — sit it out — wave, wind and noticeable surge.
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 Fécamp, 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: 1391 spots across 205 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 map⛔ CLOSED: water inside the port's administrative limits. Code des transports R5333-24 forbids fishing there, and diving is admitted only for a listed set (professionals, State rescue, science, CODEP 76 clubs). This is not a spot, it is the boundary. Read the legal ground off the zone map.
Google MapsA headland that breaks the current, rock at its foot, −11.1 m LAT 800 m out (+7–8 m at high water), hard access. On the fish: bass, pollack, ballan wrasse and conger. ⚠️ the current strengthens on the headland: slack water only. ⚠️ rockfall: stay more than 100 m off the cliff foot. the deepest water in the sector close to shore. Bass: spearfishing CLOSED 01.02–31.03 (ICES 4c/7d); outside the window, 3 fish per day per hunter, minimum landing size ≥ 42 cm.
Cameras, map and reference — to hand as you come up.
SpainThe full spot briefing is part of the subscription: entry, bottom, hazards, tide window.
Open in the appA chalk platier mapped as bare rock — a real reef, not shingle, −9.6 m LAT 800 m out (+7–8 m at high water), down the valleuse path, steep. On the fish: bass, ballan wrasse and European lobster. Crustaceans by HAND only — no speargun, no pole-spear (R921-92 II.5). ⚠️ rockfall: stay more than 100 m off the cliff foot. Bass: spearfishing CLOSED 01.02–31.03 (ICES 4c/7d); outside the window, 3 fish per day per hunter, minimum landing size ≥ 42 cm.
Google MapsThe full spot briefing is part of the subscription: entry, bottom, hazards, tide window.
Open in the appA chalk platier mapped as bare rock — a real reef, not shingle, −10.2 m LAT 800 m out (+7–8 m at high water), pebble entry. On the fish: bass, pollack and spider crab. Crustaceans by HAND only — no speargun, no pole-spear (R921-92 II.5). quiet. ⚠️ the platier dries: work the window around high water or you walk. Bass: spearfishing CLOSED 01.02–31.03 (ICES 4c/7d); outside the window, 3 fish per day per hunter, minimum landing size ≥ 42 cm.
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.
Fécamp has rock entry points such as Cap Fagnet, Grainval / La Roche-qui-pleure and Senneville / Életot. A big fishing port set in a valleuse, and above it cap Fagnet, the highest cliff in Normandy (110 m). Below you'll find each spot (access, shelter and hazards) and today's forecast.
Summer (June–September) — warmer water, calmer wind. Macro-tidal (up to 8–12 m at Chausey) — the window is set by slack, not the calendar; off the Cotentin capes (Hague, Barfleur) the currents are fierce.
Channel-cold: ~9 °C in winter, ~18 °C in summer. A 7 mm hooded suit is a must. Huge tides — moving water is almost always murkier than the sheltered coves at slack.
Technical and cold: tides up to 12 m, fierce currents off the Cotentin capes. Experienced only, planning around slack; not a beginner zone.
No paid licence in Fécamp — 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.
transparency ~6 m · satellite, 2 days agosatellite estimate · may differ right at the shore
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