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◈Mali Lošinj · Croatia
8.3
wave 0.3 m
visibility~6m

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Dive today — wave, wind and visibility.

Sources: MeteoAlarm · Open-Meteo · Copernicus · Sentinel-2 — high confidence · data 21:44

Sources & confidence

Sources
MeteoAlarm · 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

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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.

01
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.
02
Wind & gusts
Speed and gusts, hour by hour — wind speed and an onshore push chop the surface and cut visibility.
03
Tide phase
Timing and range of the tide, calibrated per coast — big spring tides pull the verdict toward caution.
04
Water temperature
Sea-surface temperature — sharply cold water vetoes a green verdict.
05
Currents & outflow
Direction and drift of the current — it pushes you, and it drags turbid coastal water across where you dive.
06
Rain runoff & air clarity
Rain muddies the water inshore through land runoff, while fog and haze cut visibility at the surface.
07
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.

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Wind, wave and the swell windows — when to go and the best hours.

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Mali Lošinj — solo, off the rocks
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best weather window · solo, stay careful, run the checklist · calm conditions: swell, wind and visibility all normal
wave 0.3 mwind 12 km/hvisibility ~6 mwindow 06:00–21:00
today, best window 15:00–18:00
fish · Visibility 6 m · Water 20.5°C
confidence medium · verdict for the selected day
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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.

Sunday · today2026-10-25
07:30–18:01 · full moon
▼ 01:00▲ 08:00▼ 15:00▲ 22:00 · 0.5 m
Hours (06→20)
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Day's trends
Tide-0.42 m
Wave0.10 m
Wind12 km/h
Water21 °C
fish activity: moonset 06:34 · moderate · moon underfoot 12:00 · high · moonrise 17:18 · moderate · moon overhead 00:00 · high
Conditions window06:00–09:00
caution — solo off the rocks is risky, check on site fish
Hs 0.32 m · calmperiod 2.9 swind 19→19surge 0viz 5 m
0.32 mcalm · up to ~0.64 · 22° at an angle
2.9 sswell moderate
19→19gusts 19 km/h
0weak surge
0.06m/s
5 mrecent swell
20.5°C5 mm + hood
▲08:00tide turn near
Atmosphere39 kmovercast
moderatemoonset
  • strong wind 19 km/h, gusts 19 — caution
  • near high water — movement slowing
confidence lowtwilight
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The 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
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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.

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🔒 Istočno od prolaza PrivlakaMali Lošinj
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Ultra · subscribers
in the headland's lee today — swell from the quarter/behind
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🔒 NerezineMali Lošinj
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in the headland's lee today — swell from the quarter/behind
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🔒 Rovenska – glava lukobranaMali Lošinj
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in the headland's lee today — swell from the quarter/behind
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Rt Kurila / Vela lukaMali Lošinj
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in the headland's lee today — swell from the quarter/behind
window
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rocky cape, current on the point; dentex, black bream.

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Susak – strmi rubMali Lošinj
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in the headland's lee today — swell from the quarter/behind
window
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steep drop-off; sea bass, amberjack.

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Unije – zapadni grebenMali Lošinj
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in the headland's lee today — swell from the quarter/behind
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outer islet; dentex, white sea bream.

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SOLO 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.

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Reference

What's in season,
what the law says.

In season now
  • common dentex
    Dentex dentex · 12–40 m
  • gilthead seabream
    Sparus aurata · 2–20 m
  • dusky grouper
    Epinephelus marginatus · 8–40 m · ⛔ closed 1 Jul–31 Aug
    Kirnja (grouper): spearfishing for grouper is closed 1 Jul–31 Aug. A vulnerable, slow-growing fish — please release it. National daily limit 5 kg.
  • European seabass
    Dicentrarchus labrax · 0–15 m
  • white seabream
    Diplodus sargus · 0–12 m
  • striped seabream
    Lithognathus mormyrus · 2–20 m
Law
  • ✓Speargun fishing is allowed ONLY with the SPORT sea-fishing licence (dozvola za športski ribolov na moru) — the ordinary does NOT cover it; tourists are eligible. 2026 fees: 1-day €10 / 3-day €25 / 7-day €45 / annual €79.63, plus mandatory HSSRM membership €10. Buy the day/multi-day online at ribarstvo.mps.hr; the annual is issued via HSSRM/clubs.
  • ✓Breath-hold only, from age 16, and daylight only — from sunset to sunrise speargun fishing is prohibited; in the water you must be marked at the surface (ZOMR NN 62/17, čl. 31.).
  • ✓Kirnje (Epinephelus spp., Polyprion americanus, Mycteroperca rubra): closed 1 Jul–31 Aug (Pravilnik NN 64/2023, čl. 5.); outside that season, at most 1 specimen for the whole group (Pravilnik NN 48/2026, čl. 11.). The general daily bag is 5 kg per fisher (ZOMR NN 62/17, čl. 33.). A vulnerable, slow-growing fish — release when in doubt.
  • ✓Marking in the water: an orange or red buoy at least 30 cm across at the centre of the dive area — or a diver's flag (ZOMR NN 62/17, čl. 31., which sends you to Pravilnik NN 47/99, čl. 4.). There is NO national «10-litre buoy» rule: it lives inside PP Lastovsko otočje (NN 154/2009, čl. 34.) — and that is where, and only where, the two-speargun limit applies too.
  • ✓Sport and recreational catch may not be placed on the market — selling it is prohibited (Pravilnik NN 48/2026, čl. 8.).
  • ✓Towing the fisher behind a vessel and using an underwater scooter are both prohibited while spearfishing (Pravilnik NN 48/2026, čl. 9.).
  • ✓Per-piece caps on top of the five kilos: octopus — 2, Eunice roussaei — 2, all Elasmobranchii (sharks and rays) — 0. Kept fish of the 23 listed species must be marked immediately by cutting off the lower lobe of the caudal fin, and cephalopods by a deep incision between the eyes (Pravilnik NN 48/2026, čl. 11.). The five-kilo day itself is set by the act (ZOMR NN 62/17, čl. 33.).
  • ✓Aquaculture: no fishing of any kind on a farm or within 300 m of the mark showing its position (50 m for shellfish-growing areas), or of the concession boundary (ZOMR NN 62/17, čl. 14., in the NN 14/2024 redaction).
  • ✓Inside a national park, a special marine reserve or a nature park you need a SEPARATE permit from the managing public institution on top of the state licence; the nature-protection ministry may also close fishing there outright (Pravilnik NN 48/2026, čl. 13.). In waters under a special management regime the limits of the acts that establish that regime apply (Pravilnik NN 125/2020, čl. 2.).
  • ✓One national minimum-size table: dentex 30 cm, brown meagre 30 cm, scorpionfish 25 cm, white seabream 23 cm, gilthead 20 cm, amberjack 35 cm, dorado 35 cm, octopus 1 kg (Pravilnik NN 64/2023, čl. 3.). Dorado (Coryphaena hippurus) is closed to sport and recreational fishing from 1 January to 14 August (NN 134/2024, čl. 2.). Bluefin and albacore tuna, swordfish, eel, large crustaceans, corals and sponges — do not take them at all (ZOMR NN 62/17, čl. 32., in the NN 14/2024 redaction).
  • ⛔ Fan mussel (Pinna nobilis) — strictly protected, taking/disturbing prohibited (mass die-off from a pathogen).
  • ⛔ Date mussel (Lithophaga lithophaga) — harvesting strictly banned (destroys the reef).
  • ⛔ Seahorses (Hippocampus), loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) and monk seal (Monachus monachus) — protected, taking/disturbing prohibited.

Rules change and fees/seasons are updated yearly. Before heading out, check the Ministry of Agriculture fisheries portal (ribarstvo.mps.hr) and get the SPORT licence (the annual via HSSRM/a club); a speargun without it is illegal.

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.
Local guide · Mali Lošinj

Spearfishing in Mali Lošinj: spots, seasons and rules

Updated 2026-07-09 · By Oleksandr, spearfisher

Mali Lošinj spearfishing is an island-edge plan. Rt Kurila / Vela luka is a rocky cape with current, listed for dentex and black bream. Susak is a steep drop-off listed for sea bass and amberjack. Unije’s west reef is an outer islet spot for dentex and white sea bream. All three carry medium solo severity and yellow safety status, with no exact access routes provided. The bad sea sector is 165-285 degrees, so southwest and west sea are serious warnings, especially for Susak and Unije.

TL;DR

  • Mali Lošinj lists three offshore-style spots: Rt Kurila/Vela luka, the steep Susak edge and the west reef of Unije.
  • The bad sector is 165-285 degrees, with southwest as the strongest warning for outer island edges.
  • Croatia requires the sport sea-fishing licence, freedive only, daylight only, age 16+, marker buoy and no more than two spearguns.

Which Mali Lošinj spots are listed?

The list gives a current cape, a steep drop-off and an outer islet reef. It does not give exact entries.

SpotTypeDepthLevelAccessNotes
Rt Kurila / Vela lukaRocky cape with currentNo numeric depth listedMedium; yellow safety ratingNot specifiedListed for dentex and black bream.
Susak – strmi rubSteep drop-offSteep; no number listedMedium; yellow safety ratingNot specifiedListed for sea bass and amberjack.
Unije – zapadni grebenOuter islet reefNo numeric depth listedMedium; yellow safety ratingNot specifiedListed for dentex and white sea bream.

What should you check around Mali Lošinj?

The area is in the northern Adriatic regime, with a 230 degree aspect and a bad sector of 165-285 degrees. Southwest, around 225 degrees, is the strongest warning direction. No local webcam, buoy or river plume is listed. Tide is small, so bora, jugo, wave direction, current and visibility matter more than the tide table. Croatian law requires the sport sea-fishing licence for spearguns; the recreational licence is not enough. Spearfishing is breath-hold only, daylight only, minimum age 16, with a marker buoy and no more than two spearguns per diver. Check protected-zone rules before entering special areas.

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    FAQ

    Is Susak shallow?

    It is described as a steep drop-off, with no numeric depth listed.

    What fish are listed at Unije?

    Dentex and white sea bream are listed for the west reef.

    Are webcams listed for Mali Lošinj?

    No local webcams are listed for these spots.

    Can tourists use a recreational licence?

    No. Spearguns require the sport sea-fishing licence.

    Is spearfishing at night allowed?

    No. Croatia allows spearfishing only during daylight.

    Sources

    • Ministry of Agriculture fisheries portal
    • HSSRM, membership and annual sport licences
    • Narodne novine, NN 48/2026

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