Bayındır Limanı/BurnuKaş
dangerousexposed head-on to the swell today
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Well west of Uluburun, rock point 5–30 m, shore/boat; very clear, sargos/grouper hole, current possible. Coords approx.
Google MapsKaş spearfishing forecast — wind, swell, visibility & live cameras
4.0
wave 0.2 m
visibility14m
Today — sit it out — wave, wind and visibility.
Sources: Open-Meteo · Copernicus · Sentinel-2 — high confidence · data 06:56
Sources & confidence
- Sources
- Open-Meteo · Copernicus · Sentinel-2
- Method
- spearo sea-state engine: consensus of up to 6 models + satellite clarity (ZSD) + buoy-bias checks
- Freshness
- Re-read every hour, per coast
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.
How we score the water
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.
- Swell & wave memory
- Height, period and direction of the swell, plus the wake of recent storms — an old storm still stirs the water, and the engine remembers.
- Wind & gusts
- Speed and gusts, hour by hour — wind speed and an onshore push chop the surface and cut visibility.
- Tide phase
- Timing and range of the tide, calibrated per coast — big spring tides pull the verdict toward caution.
- Water temperature
- Sea-surface temperature — sharply cold water vetoes a green verdict.
- Currents & outflow
- Direction and drift of the current — it pushes you, and it drags turbid coastal water across where you dive.
- Rain runoff & air clarity
- Rain muddies the water inshore through land runoff, while fog and haze cut visibility at the surface.
- Coast shape & exposure
- How the coast faces the swell — a sheltered cove keeps the water clean; an exposed, head-on point takes a penalty.
Safety gates
- Thunderstorm forecast — an instant red, no exceptions.
- An official warning (MeteoAlarm / IPMA) — yellow, or red for the higher ranks.
- Missing input data — a would-be green is capped to yellow rather than overstated.
- Strong disagreement between forecast models — a green day is pulled back to yellow.
- Night hours — where night spearfishing is banned by law the window is forced red; where it is legal (Australia outside NSW, New Zealand, South Africa) it is capped at yellow, never green.
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
Entry points with coordinates
Seabed relief — promising ground
Surface
Wind, wave and the swell windows — when to go and the best hours.
spearo.app
updated 06:56
Kaş — solo, off the rocks
don't go · current 0.53 m/s
wave 0.2 mwind 10 km/hvisibility ~14 m
today, best window 06:00–09:00
fish · Visibility 14 m · Water 25.4°C
confidence medium · verdict for the selected day
Whole week — tap a day. is driving swell right now.
Solo risk: carry a float · tell someone your plan and exit time · doubt = don't go. A model-based planner; the call is made on site.
Selected day
Windows, hours
and the day's trends.
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.
Monday · today2026-10-26
07:17–18:11 · full moon
▼ 05:00▲ 11:00▼ 17:00▲ 23:00 · 0.3 m
Hours (06→20)
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Day's trends
Tide-0.16 m
Wave0.48 m
Wind6 km/h
Water25 °C
fish activity: moon overhead 00:30 · high · moonset 07:29 · moderate · moon underfoot 12:50 · high · moonrise 18:04 · moderate
Conditions window06:00–09:00
don't go fish
Hs 0.16 m · calmperiod 4 swind 10→16surge 0.1viz 14 m
0.16 mcalm · up to ~0.32 · 234° at an angle
4 sswell moderate
10→16gusts 16 km/h
0.1weak surge
0.53m/s
14 msatellite: water here is usually murkier
25.4°C5 mm + hood
▲11:00tide rising
Atmosphere22 kmovercast
moderatemoonset
- current 0.53 m/s
- dawn/dusk
confidence mediumtwilight
The water column
Visibility and what drives it — post-storm clearing, river plume, temperature and the thermocline.
What it is
A marine instrument,
go / no-go for solo hunting.
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 spotsThe seabed
Relief and bottom type, tides, and the depths of each spot.
On the rock
The forecast is the plan.
The call is on the rock.
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.
Entry points
Where to get in
off the rocks.
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
Büyük/Küçük ÇakılKaş
dangerous⛔ Banned here
exposed head-on to the swell today
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Town pebble coves, rock/gravel 0–15 m, shore; easy entry, octopus/sargos, summer crowds and boats. Coords approx. CLOSED: this mark lies inside Kaş Limanı; tebliğ 2024/21 m.17(4) bans taking aquatic products by diving in ports, fishing shelters and slipway areas. The outline is OpenStreetMap's, not the act's — ask the local liman başkanlığı.
Google MapsGürmenli AdasıKaş
dangerous Pro · subscribers
exposed head-on to the swell today
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The full spot briefing is part of the subscription: entry, bottom, hazards, tide window.
Open in the appÇukurbağ yarımadası B/GKaş
dangerousexposed head-on to the swell today
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West and south rock walls of the peninsula 5–30 m, shore/boat; clear, grouper structure, current; stay west of Uluburun. Coords approx.
Google Mapsİnönü Koyu iki yanıKaş
dangerousexposed head-on to the swell today
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The two rock flanks of the cove mouth 0–20 m, shore; clear, octopus/sargos, easy entry, stay on the west side. Coords approx.
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.
Surfacing
Cameras, map and reference — to hand as you come up.
Live cameras, map & reference
Open the seafloor map →What's in season,
Reference
What's in season,
what the law says.
In season now
- European seabass
- gilthead seabream
- common dentex
- white seabream
- two-banded seabream
- common pandora
- meagre
- leerfish
- bluefishMin 18 cm (lüfer <14 cm = «çinekop» — separate rule).
- red mullet
- tub gurnard
- white grouper⚠️ Lagos: min 50 cm, with a speargun max 1/day, closed season 1 Jun–31 Aug (Çizelge 7). A vulnerable, slow-growing species — do NOT take it. Its cousin orfoz is FULLY BANNED.
- dusky grouper🚫 Orfoz is FULLY BANNED (Çizelge 1, RG 11.08.2024 №32629) — not a legal target. Size is irrelevant: do not take it, release it.
- pufferfish☠️ DO NOT EAT: deadly TTX toxin (not destroyed by cooking, no antidote). Amateur rule: kill it and throw it back to open sea — bringing it ashore/into a harbour is BANNED (3,770 TL fine). No bounty for amateurs (commercial SUBİS boats only).
- lionfishInvasive (venomous spines!). There is NO official amateur permit/reward for culling — never grab bare-handed, treat a sting with hot water (>45 °C). Flesh is edible.
- rabbitfishInvasive (Eastern Med). Apparently no dedicated size/count/season limit (not confirmed against the current tebliğ — verify). Venomous spines — remove carefully.
Law
- ✓Since 1 Jan 2026 amateur spearfishing requires an Amatör Balıkçı Belgesi marked for the diving method (Tebliğ 2024/21, md. 16(4)(ç); the document itself is issued under md. 4(1), via e-Devlet, valid 5 years) — the old citizen exemption no longer applies to spearguns. A FOREIGN TOURIST is still NOT automatically entitled to spearfish solo (md. 5): the documented route is a licensed av-turizmi boat/guide OR a permit (pusula) from the district agriculture directorate. Get the belge, then the permit or a guide.
- ✓Breath-hold + snorkel only — scuba/hookah/spare-air are banned (Tebliğ 2024/21, md. 16(4)(b)). Night prohibited — sunset to sunrise (md. 16(4)(a)). A buoy showing your position is MANDATORY (md. 16(4)(c)). Spearfishing is banned inside buoyed swimming areas (1 Apr–15 Nov, ≤200 m from shore — md. 16(5)) and in ports, fishing shelters and slipways (md. 17(4)).
- ✓Invasives: the lionfish (aslan balığı) — invasive, ⚠️ venomous spines; there is NO official amateur permit/reward for taking it. The pufferfish (balon balığı) ☠️ NEVER EAT — tetrodotoxin, no antidote; kill it and return it to the open sea, BRINGING IT ASHORE/TO PORT IS BANNED. Exact sizes and zones — in the species card and the guide.
- ✓The speargun is lawful amateur gear AT SEA (Tebliğ 2024/21, md. 16(2)(a)). In INLAND waters — lakes, reservoirs, rivers — the speargun and the hand harpoon are banned outright (md. 13(2)).
- ✓Selling an amateur catch, moving it alive or releasing it into other waters is prohibited (Tebliğ 2024/21, md. 8(1)). The weight limit is 5 kg per person per outing, one species or mixed; a single fish over 5 kg is legal in itself, but the rest without it must fit in 4 kg (md. 15(4)). For species limited by count, no more than 3 fish in total per person per outing, however many days it lasts (md. 15(5)).
- ✓Minimum sizes and per-species counts come from the tebliğ's Çizelge 7: keeping fish below the stated length or above the stated number is prohibited (Tebliğ 2024/21, md. 15(1)); on lengths there is a 5 % downward tolerance (note 2 to the same table).
- ✓Totally protected species — Çizelge 1 (Tebliğ 2024/21, md. 6(1)): the DUSKY GROUPER (Epinephelus marginatus), most sharks and rays, the monk seal, sea turtles, Pinna nobilis, red coral, Posidonia oceanica, the European eel, the seahorse, Maja squinado, Tonna galea and cetaceans. They may be taken neither at sea nor in inland waters.
- ✓Light as a fishing method is banned in amateur fishing; lighting up to 50 W for safety on board or ashore does not count (Tebliğ 2024/21, md. 8(8)). Fishing closer than 100 m to the boundaries of sea cages, or 200 m to shore-based facilities, is prohibited (md. 8(5)).
- ✓Closed places you have to recognise on sight (Tebliğ 2024/21, md. 17(2), md. 17(5) and md. 17(3)): in the monk seal's coastal caves everything is banned — light, diving by any means, swimming in, waiting at the entrance, anchoring and fishing; in naval prohibited areas fishing is banned; in the declared diving-ban areas taking fish by diving is banned. The coordinates of the diving-ban areas (Aegean E1–E49, Black Sea K1–K7) are published in a decision of their own (BKK 2016/8743, md. 1), but they have been updated four times since: the Black Sea annex by presidential decision 435 of 09.12.2018, the Aegean one by 2339 of 01.04.2020, 2802 of 27.07.2020 and 5068 of 05.01.2022. The tebliğ points precisely at the UPDATED and announced coordinates, so it is the consolidated list that binds, not the 2016 text. The cave and naval boundaries are published nowhere — they are obeyed on sight.
- ⛔ Sturgeon (Acipenseridae, mersin) — total ban (Çizelge 1, whole country).
- ⛔ Sea trout (Salmo, deniz alası) — take prohibited.
- ⛔ Orfoz / dusky grouper (Epinephelus marginatus) — TOTAL ban (Çizelge 1, RG 11.08.2024 №32629). Lagos (E. aeneus) is allowed with a limit (50 cm, 1/day, closed 1 Jun–31 Aug).
- ⛔ Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) — strictly protected; in its shelter caves any diving/hunting/anchoring is banned (m.17/2).
- ⛔ Sea turtles (Caretta caretta, Chelonia mydas) — protected, taking/disturbing prohibited.
Rules change and the 6/2 tebliğ renews in September 2028. Before heading out, check with the district agriculture directorate (il/ilçe müdürlüğü) and the coast guard (Sahil Güvenlik); as a tourist, get the permit or go with a licensed guide.
Safety protocol
- Sets: watch the wave trains ≥15 min before entering; Hmax ≈ 2×Hs, the wash can run 50 m past the foam line. A lull >10 min with period >12 s = a big set «overdue», do NOT enter; enter right after a full set passes and re-check at minute 30.
- Exit FIRST: find your exit AND a backup before entering. On a rocky/boulder shore a 0.5 m rise in swell can make the exit impossible — getting pinned/unable to climb out is the main killer.
- Headland rip: prominent points often have a permanent topographic rip regardless of the model — locate it, enter/exit on the windward side, never swim against it.
- Cold: wetsuit per the SST chip; the first shiver = a metabolic surge and a drop in breath-hold → get out at the first steady shiver. Cap the session at 45–60 min below 15 °C.
- Solo discipline: buoy up; tell someone the spot and exit time; conservative breath-hold (never push it in cold/murky/surfy water); visibility <3 m — don't enter.
- Afternoon wind: on many coasts the wind builds from midday — plan to be out of the water by midday; the chop builds — get out.
- UV 11:00–15:00 (UVI ≥6): sunscreen and cover up on the surface interval.
- Solo is a fundamental risk (hypoxic blackout with no buddy). Any doubt = No-go.
Spearfishing in Kaş: spots, seasons and rules
Spearfishing in Kaş is first a boundary question. Fishing is legal only west of Uluburun; east is the Kaş-Kekova SEPA no-take side covering Kekova, Üçağız, Kaleköy/Simena and the Sunken City. The boundary still needs local confirmation. West-side marks are Bayındır, İnönü Koyu, west/south Çukurbağ and Büyük/Küçük Çakıl. No safety rating or spot depth is invented.
TL;DR
- Near Kaş, spearfishing is legal only west of Uluburun; east is the Kaş-Kekova SEPA no-take side.
- West-side marks are Bayındır, İnönü Koyu, west/south Çukurbağ and Büyük/Küçük Çakıl.
- For a speargun, the 2026 Turkey document is the Amatör Balıkçı Belgesi with dalma yöntemi, obtained in e-Devlet and valid 5 years.
- Use only apnea with a float. Night work, scuba-type air, ports, marinas and 1 Apr to 15 Nov bathing water inside 200 m are closed.
Where can you legally spearfish near Kaş?
All marks below depend on staying west of Uluburun. The eastern Kaş-Kekova no-take side is excluded.
| Spot | Type | Depth | Level | Access | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bayındır Limanı/Burnu | Rock point west of Uluburun | Clear rock point | Current-aware entry | Shore or boat | Sargos here, with possible current. |
| İnönü Koyu iki yanı | Two rock flanks of the cove mouth | Rocky cove-mouth structure | Easy entry with boundary check | Shore | Octopus and sargos are the targets; stay west. |
| Çukurbağ yarımadası B/G | West and south peninsula rock walls | Rock-wall character | Current and exit plan | Shore or boat | Clear water and current here. |
| Büyük/Küçük Çakıl | Town pebble coves | Pebble and rock shore | Easy town entry | Shore | Octopus and sargos here, with summer crowds and boats. |
Is spearfishing allowed in the Kaş-Kekova protected area?
No for the eastern side. Kaş-Kekova SEPA no-take water sits east of Uluburun, including Kekova, Üçağız, Kaleköy/Simena and the Sunken City. Check the boundary locally before entry.
What fish can you spearfish in Kaş?
The west-side notes include sargos, a local bream name and octopus. National minimums include white seabream 21 cm, seabass 25 cm, gilthead seabream 20 cm, dentex 35 cm, leerfish 40 cm and pandora 15 cm. Pufferfish is never food.
spearfishing conditions Kaş today
The water can be very clear, but the day still depends on wind, current, boat movement, the Meis ferry, stingrays and the exit. A southerly can open the coast, so plan the exit first.
Do you need a permit to spearfish in Turkey?
Yes. The corrected 2026 rule requires the Amatör Balıkçı Belgesi carrying the dalma yöntemi mark; e-Devlet issues it for 5 years. A visitor still needs the documented route: licensed av-turizmi boat or guide, or a district agriculture pusula. No fee is stated. Orfoz (dusky grouper, Epinephelus marginatus) is off limits outright, whatever its size.
FAQ
Is spearfishing allowed in the Kaş-Kekova protected area?
Not east of Uluburun. Legal fishing is only west of Uluburun; confirm the boundary locally.
Where can you legally spearfish near Kaş?
Bayındır, İnönü Koyu, west/south Çukurbağ and Büyük/Küçük Çakıl are the listed west-side marks.
Do you need a permit to spearfish in Turkey?
Yes. The 2026 requirement is the Amatör Balıkçı Belgesi with dalma yöntemi, issued in e-Devlet for 5 years. Orfoz (dusky grouper, Epinephelus marginatus) is banned outright at any size.
Do tourists need the amateur fishing document in Turkey?
Yes. A visitor also needs a licensed av-turizmi boat or guide, or a pusula from the district agriculture office.
Is scuba spearfishing allowed in Turkey?
No. Only apnea with snorkel is allowed; compressed-air systems are banned and the float remains compulsory.
Is night spearfishing allowed in Turkey?
No. Hunt only by day. Ports, marinas and 1 Apr to 15 Nov bathing areas inside 200 m are closed too.
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