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⚠ Spearfishing banned here. Κόλποι Θεσσαλονίκης και Θερμαϊκός — απαγόρευση ψαροντούφεκου όλο το έτος — Spearfishing banned in this protected marine zone (ΥΠΑΑΤ / ΛΣ-ΕΛ.ΑΚΤ (Κ.Λ. Θεσσαλονίκης)). Boundaries approximate — verify with the managing authority.
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◈Platamonas · Greece
8.2
wave 0.2 m head-on
visibility~5m

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Dive today — wave, wind and visibility.

Sources: MeteoAlarm · Open-Meteo · Copernicus · Sentinel-2 — high confidence · data 22:10

Sources & confidence

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Method
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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.

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wave 0.2 m head-onwind 2 km/hvisibility ~5 mwindow 06:00–12:00
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Sunday · today2026-10-25
07:50–18:36 · full moon
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Tide-0.48 m
Wave0.34 m
Wind6 km/h
Water21 °C
fish activity: moonset 06:53 · moderate · moon underfoot 12:20 · high · moonrise 17:53 · moderate · moon overhead 00:00 · high
Conditions window06:00–09:00
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Hs 0.18 m · calmperiod 2.6 s head-onwind 2→5surge 0viz 5 m
0.18 mcalm · up to ~0.36 · 113° head-on
2.6 sswell moderate
2→5gusts 5 km/h
0weak surge
0.00m/s
5 msatellite: water here is usually murkier
21°C5 mm + hood
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Atmosphere20 kmovercast
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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.

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The forecast is calculated for the shore next to the town.

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Platamonas — ⚠️ THE ENTIRE SEA HERE IS CLOSED TO SPEARFISHING, ALL YEAR. Π.Δ. 68/2009 (ΦΕΚ 90/Α/12-06-2009), άρθρο 9 παρ. 2 περ. γ prohibits underwater fishing throughout the gulfs of Thessaloniki and the Thermaikos. Its scope (article 1) is closed by a straight line from Cape Kassandra to the Stomio lighthouse, and Platamonas lies DEEP inside it — roughly 18 km north of that line. This is not a seasonal rule and not a bathing zone: it applies every day. That is why the page carries no spots — not a gap in our survey, but the law. The nearest OPEN water is south of the Stomio lighthouse, on the rocky Ossa coast (see Stomio). A note on our geometry: the closing line is OUR reconstruction — the decree names its two endpoints without coordinates — so it is approximate by ±1–2 km at its ends; that changes nothing here, because Platamonas is nowhere near marginal. Always confirm with the port authority.

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What's in season,
what the law says.

National minimum sizes + a 150 g floor (in the table below); grouper 1/day. Spearfishing is closed all May (ΠΔ 373/1985).

In season now
  • gilthead seabream
    Sparus aurata · 2–20 m · EU 1967/2006
  • European seabass
    Dicentrarchus labrax · 0–15 m · EU 1967/2006
  • flathead grey mullet
    Mugil cephalus · 0–8 m · min 150 g
    No EU size — only the 150 g minimum applies.
  • common octopus
    Octopus vulgaris · 0–15 m · weight ≥750 g
    Minimum by weight: ≥750 g (ΠΔ 62/2024). Don't take egg-bearing females.
  • dusky grouper
    Epinephelus marginatus · 8–35 m · EU 1967/2006
    Grouper: max 1/day (shared genus-Epinephelus limit).
  • common dentex
    Dentex dentex · 12–40 m · min 150 g
    Premier reef target. No EU size — the 150 g minimum only. Ethical ≥40 cm (not law).
  • red porgy
    Pagrus pagrus · 15–40 m · EU 1967/2006

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transparency nearby ~14 m · satellite, 2 days agosatellite estimate · may differ right at the shore

white seabream
Diplodus sargus · 0–12 m · EU 1967/2006
  • saddled seabream
    Oblada melanura · 3–15 m · min 150 g
    No EU size — only the 150 g minimum applies.
  • greater amberjack
    Seriola dumerili · 5–30 m · min 150 g
    No EU size — only the 150 g minimum applies.
  • leerfish / garrick
    Lichia amia · 2–20 m · min 150 g
    No EU size — only the 150 g minimum applies.
  • Mediterranean barracuda
    Sphyraena viridensis · 3–25 m · min 150 g
    No EU size — the 150 g minimum only. Histamine: bleed and chill at once.
  • striped seabream
    Lithognathus mormyrus · 2–15 m · EU 1967/2006
  • brown meagre / corb
    Sciaena umbra · 5–30 m · EU 1967/2006
  • striped red mullet
    Mullus surmuletus · 3–30 m · EU 1967/2006
  • wreckfish / stone bass
    Polyprion americanus · 30–60 m · EU 1967/2006
    Deep wreck species. Does NOT count toward the grouper limit (different genus). 45 cm — to verify.
    • Law
    • ✓⚠️ MAY — a TOTAL spearfishing ban for the whole month, every year (ΠΔ 373/1985, art. 3§1α). This is law in force, not a draft.
    • ✓No licence required: the was abolished in 2014 (Ν. 4256/2014) — every standing prohibition stays in force all the same.
    • •Recreational-fisher registry (ΟΣΠΑ / Μητρώο Ερασιτεχνών Αλιέων): Reg. (EU) 2023/2842 obliges member states to register recreational fishing, and the Greek registry is described as being prepared. We found neither an act in force nor a working registry as of 08.2026 — not confirmed. Check gov.gr before you travel.
    • ✓Age: 16+ (under-16 spearfishing is forbidden; ΠΔ 373/85, art. 3§1γ).
    • ✓Daytime only: sunrise to sunset. Night is forbidden (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 3§1β).
    • ✓Freediving only: scuba/any air-supply apparatus is banned — it may not even be carried aboard (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 3§2γ).
    • ✓Distances: ≥200 m from bathers, harbours, moored vessels and marked nets; no hunting in fairways or harbour entrances/exits (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 3§1δ/ε).
    • ✓Buoy MANDATORY: a yellow float + a yellow flag with a red diagonal stripe and the letters «Υ.Δ.», visible from ≥300 m; stay within 50 m of the buoy (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 3§3).
    • ✓Limit: 5 kg/day (or one trophy heavier than the limit). Grouper (Epinephelus) — max 1/day, not banned (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 2§2).
    • ✓Sale/trade of the recreational catch is prohibited (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 1§7).
    • ✓Load the speargun only in the water — never keep it loaded out of the water (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 3§2β). Underwater light while hunting is forbidden (art. 3§2ζ).
    • ✓Sea urchins — 20/day per person and 30/day per boat (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 2§2). Nets at any stage of the hunt are banned, and you may not take the catch out of somebody else's gear or nets (art. 3§2). Sponges and corals are off limits to the recreational fisher (art. 1§6).
    • ✓Pneumatic and band guns are ALLOWED (a myth in English guides). Only spears with an explosive/chemical charge — — are banned (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 3§2δ).
    • ✓Min. sizes: seabass 25 cm · gilthead 20 cm · white seabream 23 cm · grouper 45 cm · octopus 750 g (ΠΔ 62/2024). Any fish — not under 150 g (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 3§2στ). No-size species (dentex, amberjack, barracuda, parrotfish) — the 150 g minimum only. See the species card.
    • ✓Full ban on taking: Pinna nobilis (πίννα), corals and sponges (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 1§6 + Habitats Directive 92/43).
    • ✓Invasives: taking the lionfish (λεοντόψαρο) is encouraged — ⚠️ venomous spines. The silver-cheeked toadfish (λαγοκέφαλος) ☠️ DO NOT EAT — deadly toxin (TTX), sale banned (Reg. 853/2004, Annex III Sect. VIII Ch. V(E)), it bites. The rabbitfish (γερμανός) is edible — venomous spines.
    • ✓In ANY declared underwater archaeological site, and in the submerged historic sites, spearfishing is BANNED — the act names ψαροντούφεκο in so many words (ΚΥΑ ΥΠΠΟ/ΓΔΑΠΚ/ΑΡΧ/Α1/Φ41/11228/1865, ΦΕΚ 336/Β/2004, part Α §2 δ + part Β). It reaches the sites our map does not draw, too. Do not touch antiquities (Ν. 3028/2002). Map of the zones — the ENALIA geoportal (thalchor-2.ypen.gov.gr/layers/geonode:ENALIA).
    • •The national marine parks of Alonissos/N. Sporades and Zakynthos (Laganas): spearfishing is BANNED in the park. But Alonissos zone Β4 is not solid — ΦΕΚ 1741/Β/2011 reopened four stretches inside it (the N shore Αγ. Δημήτριος–Άκρο Απύθμενο, Μηλιά–Σπαρτίνες, όρμος Κλήμα on Περιστέρα, the Μεγάλος Αδελφός shore), while the same act creates the ΕΕΑΧ Περιστέρας, where fishing IS banned. Our layer paints the park whole, i.e. stricter than the act. Check the limits with the park authority.
    • •The Southern Kynouria/Arcadia diving park: Ν. 4688/2020 establishes underwater parks, but we have not read a spearfishing prohibition inside it in the act — we treat that as NOT PROVEN rather than as confirmed. The park's boundary is not on our map either (the act publishes no coordinates). Ask the Leonidio/Tyros λιμεναρχείο before you go.
    • •Local bans: on top of the national rules, every port authority issues its own (ΓΚΛ/ΕΚΛ and λιμενάρχης decisions). In the ΛΣ-ΕΛ.ΑΚΤ registry we counted ~163 of them that reach a speargun, across 48 ports — our map does NOT draw them. Check your own port: alieia.hcg.gr/prohibitions/local/local17.php.
    • •Locally STRICTER than the national rule: Corfu (Kerkyra) — from 01.04 to 31.10 spearfishing is banned within 200 m of the shore, even where nobody is swimming (απόφαση Λ/Χ Κέρκυρας 2141.1/2939/2024, ΦΕΚ Β΄3269/2024). In practice that closes shore entry on Corfu for the season. We read the act in the registry, not in the ΦΕΚ — confirm with the λιμεναρχείο.
    • •Locally STRICTER: Lefkada — 300 m instead of 200, and not only the speargun: ψαροντούφεκο, nets and longlines are banned within 300 m of those sea areas, beaches and shores of the port district THAT ARE USED BY BATHERS (απόφαση Λ/Χ Λευκάδας 2131.13/1477/2022, in its own words «όπου χρησιμοποιούνται από λουόμενους»). The act ran to 30.09.2022 and we found no extension; an expired act is not proof that the ban is gone. Ask the Lefkada λιμεναρχείο.
    • •Locally STRICTER: Symi — from 15.06 to 15.09 fishing BY ANY MEANS is banned within 200 m of beach areas and in inhabited coastal areas WHERE BATHERS ARE PRESENT OR GATHER (απόφαση Λ/Χ Σύμης 2131.13/882/2016). Separately, year-round: fishing by any means is banned inside the port and its sea zone, except line/rod fishing from land (ΓΚΛ Σύμης, art. 151, ΦΕΚ 362/Β/2004). The acts were copied from the registry, not checked against the ΦΕΚ.
    • •Locally: inside the ports of Lavrio and Kea spearfishing is banned across the WHOLE port water, not merely under the 200 m rule; separately, in front of the hotel beaches (ΓΚΛ Λαυρίου, art. 240, ΦΕΚ 460/Β/1978). The act was copied from the registry, not checked against the ΦΕΚ.
    • •Coming: two new national marine parks are being created (Ionian + South Cyclades, ~27,500 km²). NOT yet in force (ΠΔ under review, mid-2026). Once live — a trawl ban + a seasonal coastal closure 15.04–31.05; in the strict zones spearfishing will be banned. Check before the season.
    • ⛔ Pinna nobilis (πίννα, fan mussel) — full ban on taking/killing (Habitats Dir. 92/43 Annex IV; critically endangered).
    • ⛔ Corals and sponges — recreational taking PROHIBITED (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 1§6).
    • ⛔ Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) — strictly protected, keep your distance.
    • ⛔ Sea turtles (Caretta caretta, Chelonia mydas) — protected, taking/disturbing is PROHIBITED.
    • ⛔ Seahorses (Hippocampus) — protected.

    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).

    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.

    FAQ — spearfishing in Platamonas

    Where can I spearfish in Platamonas?

    Platamonas is the southern gate of Pieria: the 13th-century castle on its hill, the motorway and the railway threading under it, and Olympus dropping into the sea a few kilometres west. Check today's forecast above and pick a calm-sea day, always with a marker buoy.

    When is the best season in Platamonas?

    June to October (May closed nationally); the three peninsulas of the Thermaic Gulf are calm and shallow — an easy, reliable summer.

    How cold is the water in Platamonas?

    Warm, calm, fairly shallow water, tideless; clear on the outer capes, softer inside the sheltered bays.

    Is Platamonas good for a beginner?

    Easy — sheltered, shallow water and simple shore entries make Halkidiki one of the friendliest places to start near Thessaloniki.

    Do I need a licence in Platamonas?

    No paid licence is needed in Platamonas — 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. See the guide.

    Which fish can you spear in Platamonas?

    The species cards list 16 species with real presence in this basin; the strongest here are gilthead seabream, European seabass, flathead grey mullet, common octopus, dusky grouper and common dentex. Minimum sizes in Greece are NATIONAL, not local: gilthead seabream 20 cm · European seabass 25 cm · dusky grouper 45 cm · red porgy 18 cm · white seabream 23 cm · striped seabream 20 cm · brown meagre / corb 25 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).

    Is spearfishing banned in May in Platamonas?

    Yes. May is a TOTAL spearfishing ban for the whole month, every year, across Greece (ΠΔ 373/1985, art. 3§1α) — so in Platamonas too. It is law in force, not a draft, and there is no local exemption. Plan June to April.

    How many kilos of fish may I keep per day in Platamonas?

    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 Platamonas it is the same as everywhere in Greece.

    Can I spearfish on scuba in Platamonas?

    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 Platamonas 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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