Today — right on the edge — wave <, wind and visibility.
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
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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 mapThe bay's south shore on the Plataria road: pebble and boulders under the olive grove, 4–16 m within 90 m, with weed beds on the sand. Sargos, saddled bream, octopus; seabass in winter. Cleaner water than the head of the bay, because you are out of the harbour's flow. ⚠️ Dirt track and slippery stone at the entry; with a west wind the sea comes straight in here. Shore.
Google MapsThe headland on the south lip of the bay mouth: rock and boulders stepping down to sand in 4–14 m within 80 m. Sargos, saddled bream, octopus in the cracks; seabass in the tidal set of the mouth in winter. The nearest clean water to town. ⚠️ You are on the edge of the ferry channel — a float is not optional, and do not drift out. Shore.
Cameras, map and reference — to hand as you come up.
National minimum sizes + a 150 g floor (in the table below); grouper 1/day. Spearfishing is closed all May (ΠΔ 373/1985).
SpainSOLO 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, and the local Λιμεναρχείο (port authority) may impose local restrictions. Before heading out, check the current rules and the declared archaeological zones (ENALIA).
Igoumenitsa has rock entry points such as Kontramourto and Elia. Greece's gate to Italy — and a bay that looks due west at Corfu, with the Thesprotia mountains shutting it off from the north wind. Below you'll find each spot (access, shelter and hazards) and today's forecast.
June to October (May closed nationally); the Ionian west sees far less meltemi than the Aegean, so calm windows are more frequent.
Softer, greener, milder water than the Aegean, tideless; good visibility but more life and a touch more colour.
Easy to moderate: more shelter and fewer wind days than the Aegean make the Ionian a forgiving place to dive.
No paid licence is needed in Igoumenitsa — the amateur one was abolished (Law 4256/2014), but a free ΟΣΠΑ registration is being introduced (check gov.gr). Breath-hold only (no scuba), a mandatory «Υ.Δ.» buoy, 16+, daytime only, and the whole of May is closed. Note: the Zakynthos (Laganas) marine park in this region restricts/bans spearfishing — check the zone boundaries. See the guide.
The species cards list 19 species with real presence in this basin; the strongest here are dusky grouper, common dentex, white seabream, gilthead seabream, European seabass and leerfish / garrick. Minimum sizes in Greece are NATIONAL, not local: dusky grouper 45 cm · white seabream 23 cm · gilthead seabream 20 cm · European seabass 25 cm · wreckfish / stone bass 45 cm · red porgy 18 cm · striped seabream 20 cm · common octopus 750 g. Species with no EU size carry the 150 g floor only. Grouper (Epinephelus) — max 1/day, not banned (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 2§2).
Yes. May is a TOTAL spearfishing ban for the whole month, every year, across Greece (ΠΔ 373/1985, art. 3§1α) — so in Igoumenitsa too. It is law in force, not a draft, and there is no local exemption. Plan June to April.
The daily limit is 5 kg, or one trophy heavier than the limit (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 2§2). Grouper (Epinephelus) — max 1/day. Every fish must be at least 150 g (art. 3§2στ), and selling a recreational catch is prohibited (art. 1§7). The limit is national — in Igoumenitsa it is the same as everywhere in Greece.
No. Freediving only: scuba and any air-supply apparatus are banned — they may not even be carried aboard (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 3§2γ). In Igoumenitsa the rest of the national frame applies too: 16+, daytime only, ≥200 m from bathers, harbours, moored vessels and marked nets, and a mandatory «Υ.Δ.» buoy you stay within 50 m of. Pneumatic and band guns are allowed; only powerheads are banned.
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