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 mapEast face toward the islands, rock and posidonia 4–18 m, shore/boat; bream, gilthead, octopus. Do not go to Porquerolles.
Google MapsWest face of the peninsula, posidonia and rock 4–18 m, shore/boat; bass, dentex, bream. 100 m off beaches in summer.
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.
Check the cam BEFORE you leave. Foam, brown/green murk, or waves washing the entry rocks = No-go. At night/in fog the cam is useless — treat it as «unknown», NOT «green».
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.
Spearfishing in Hyères-Giens is a regulated peninsula plan. La Madrague on the west side and Tour Fondue on the east side give rock and posidonia in 4 to 18 m, with bass, bream, gilthead, dentex or octopus depending on the side. The key limits are local: summer beach buffers, a 150 m exclusion around a historic wreck in the Gulf of Giens, and year-round bans at Port-Cros and Porquerolles. France also requires insurance, breath-hold only practice and local-order checks.
Stay on the legal peninsula faces. The nearby islands are not listed because they are closed to spearfishing.
| Spot | Type | Depth | Level | Access | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giens West / La Madrague | West face, posidonia and rock | 4 to 18 m | Intermediate, season-aware | Shore or boat | Bass, dentex and bream. In summer, respect the 8:00 to 20:00 ban within 100 m of beaches. |
| Giens East / Tour Fondue | East face toward the islands | 4 to 18 m | Cautious intermediate | Shore or boat | Bream, gilthead and octopus. Do not continue to Porquerolles, which is closed year-round. |
The Mediterranean micro-tide is secondary; wind direction matters more. Use the two faces intelligently: if the west side is rough, check the east side, and the reverse. Webcams at Port-Saint-Pierre, Almanarre and Port St-Pierre help read the surface. The legal checks remain fixed: summer beach distance, the historic-wreck radius, and no spearfishing at Port-Cros or Porquerolles.
No. Port-Cros and Porquerolles are Port-Cros and Porquerolles are closed year-round.
From mid-June to mid-September, spearfishing is banned from 8:00 to 20:00 within 100 m of beaches.
It depends on wind: La Madrague is the west face, Tour Fondue the east face.
No. In the French Mediterranean, grouper species and corb are protected from spearfishing to the end of 2033.
No licence or declaration since 2009, but civil-liability insurance is mandatory.
Leave your email — and the moment a window opens at Hyères – Giens, we'll send the go / no-go verdict. Email is all we need.
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transparency ~18 m · satellite, yesterdaysatellite estimate · may differ right at the shore
