Today — sit it out — wave, wind and surge pounding. 💧 Water looks set to clear by Saturday (~6d) — tentative
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
Leave your email — and the moment a window opens at Saint-Jean-de-Luz, we'll send the go / no-go verdict. Email is all we need.
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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: 3016 spots across 406 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.
⛔ Banned here
Open the seafloor map⛔ Spearfishing is BANNED here — spearfishing is banned across the whole bay of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, breakwaters included (DDTM 64, order of 25/10/2017). The spot stays on the map to mark the closure: find a legal stretch on the no-take map.
Google MapsCameras, map and reference — to hand as you come up.
transparency ~21 m · satellite, 2 days agosatellite estimate · may differ right at the shore
Pasaia buoy: wave 3.2 m · 2 h ago(model: 2.6 m)
The full spot briefing is part of the subscription: entry, bottom, hazards, tide window.
Reef to the north, flysch slabs 1–14 m, shore/boat; bass, pollack, sea bream. Outside the banned zone.
Google MapsThe full spot briefing is part of the subscription: entry, bottom, hazards, tide window.
Open in the appThe full spot briefing is part of the subscription: entry, bottom, hazards, tide window.
Open in the appRock plateau, flysch slabs 1–13 m, shore/boat; sea bream and scorpionfish.
Google MapsRocky Mayarco beach (Acotz district), slabs and reef, shore entry; bream (sar). ⚠️ rocks uncover at low tide — caution at mid-tide.
Google MapsRocky point and outer face of the Sainte-Barbe jetty, 3–12 m, shore; outside the closed bay.
Google MapsThe full spot briefing is part of the subscription: entry, bottom, hazards, tide window.
Open in the appSOLO 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. 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.
Saint-Jean-de-Luz has rock entry points such as Digue de Socoa, Pointe Sainte-Barbe (face externe) and Plage de Mayarco (Acotz). The best-organised Basque spot: the Digue de Socoa drops into the Basque rock strata from 3 to 20 m, rich in bream, bass, gilthead and mullet. Below you'll find each spot (access, shelter and hazards) and today's forecast.
Summer (June–October), but the coast is open to heavy Atlantic swell — the windows are short. French Basque Country: plan for the calm days and mind the rivermouths after rain (runoff clouds the Landes/Gironde).
Atlantic: ~12 °C in winter, ~22 °C in summer (warmer than the north). 5 mm in summer, 7 mm in the shoulder seasons. Heavy swell and the Landes/Gironde sandbars (baïnes) cloud the water — aim for the Basque rocky spots on calm days.
Hard: heavy Atlantic swell, short windows. For the experienced; the baïnes and beach currents are dangerous — stick to the rocky spots and read the swell forecast.
No paid licence in Saint-Jean-de-Luz — but third-party (RC) insurance is MANDATORY, and since 10/01/2026 a free EU registration + catch declaration (RECFishing app) applies from age 16. Breath-hold only (no scuba), buoy mandatory, no night; sizes by coast (bar 42 Atl. / 30 Med.), grouper and corb banned in the Med. See the guide.
