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Rain runoff & air clarity: Rain muddies the water inshore through land runoff, while fog and haze cut visibility at the surface.
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Sitges — solo, off the rocks

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don't go · wind 13 km/h

thunderwave 1 msurge pounding the rocksvisibility ~1 m

today, best window 12:00–15:00

fish · Visibility 1 m · Water 27.1°C

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Wednesday · today2026-09-09

07:26–20:12 · new moon

▼ 02:00▲ 07:00▼ 13:00▲ 20:00 · 0.2 m

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Day's trends

Tide-0.37 m

Wave0.72 m

Wind7 km/h

Water27 °C

fish activity: moonrise 05:16 · moderate · moon overhead 12:20 · high · moonset 19:23 · moderate · moon underfoot 00:00 · high

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don't go fish

Hs 0.96 m · roughperiod 4.5 swind 13→16surge 2.1viz 1 mthunder

0.96 mrough · up to ~1.92 · 88° at an angle

4.5 sswell moderate

13→16gusts 16 km/h

2.1pounding the rocks

0.11m/s

1 mrain and mountain runoff

27.1°C5 mm + hood

▲20:00tide turn near

Atmosphere18 kmovercast

highmoon overhead

wind 13 km/h
cross sea from several directions
murky water (~1 m) — fish hard to see

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Cala Morisca (Garraf)Sitges

dangerous

exposed head-on to the swell today (city-level)

window: Work at first light: the beach bar and the sand wake up around ten and by then the path from above is already busy. Best months are May and October, water at 18 and 22 degrees; August gives 26 but far too many people. Night spearfishing is banned across Spain, sunset to sunrise.
tide: The level moves twenty centimetres and counts for nothing. Watch something else: after a day of settled Llevant a drift runs southwest, and a kilometre to the east sits the Vallcarca industrial zone with its cement terminal. After rain a grey plume comes off it and settles into the cove for half a day.
shelter: The cove lies under the cliff of the Garraf massif and faces south and south-southeast. The Sitges town anchor actually sits in the village of Garraf, 7.4 kilometres east of the town itself, so keep that in mind. Mestral and Tramuntana from northwest and north come over the rock and flatten the water; Garbí from the southwest and Migjorn from the south come straight in.
conditions: The working sector runs from 280 to 60 degrees. Anything between 100 and 220 shuts the cove, and the worst is 120 degrees, the Xaloc from the southeast. Water here is on average murkier than on the Costa Brava: Barcelona is close and there are outfalls. On a good winter day you see 8–15 metres; after a blow, two or three.
hazard: On the legal side: we found no act banning spearfishing in Garraf waters, which is not the same as permission. Even so the beach itself declares fishing prohibited in its own rules and the operator can move you on. Masía Blanca at El Vendrell is 28–45 kilometres away and everything is banned there. Plus 250 metres from bathing zones and loading only underwater.
access: Turn off the C-31 road, a small lay-by car park, then a path down of 10 to 15 minutes; there is also the restaurant's paid parking right by the cove. You enter over gravel and rock, boots required. The rock step starts thirty to fifty metres off the shore and drops steeply to 10–15 metres.

Garraf rocky coves west of Sitges; drop-offs and boulders, sea bream and gilthead, exposed to the easterly (E-SE).

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Les Botigues de SitgesSitges

dangerous

exposed head-on to the swell today (city-level)

window: Early morning, before the fleet leaves Port Ginesta: it is a big marina and traffic starts right at daybreak. The best months are October and November, water at 22 and 18 degrees. Lubina holds by the breakwater in winter, but remember its closed season from 15 January to 15 February.
tide: Level is not something you calculate here at all. What rules is the sand drift running southwest along the shore after settled easterly wind, and the river Llobregat eight kilometres to the northeast: after heavy rain its plume reaches this far and keeps the water greenish-brown for two or three days.
shelter: A long straight stretch of coast towards Castelldefels, with no coves and no headlands, facing south and southeast. There is almost nowhere to hide: the only shelter comes from the Port Ginesta marina breakwater at the western end. Anything blowing in the 100 to 220 degree sector reaches the shore unhindered.
conditions: Come with Mestral and Tramuntana, from northwest and north. With Migjorn and Garbí the shore gives up sand and visibility drops to a metre, so there is no point getting in. On a good day you see 8–12 metres; the bottom is mixed, sand with rock ridges, working depths 4 to 10 metres.
hazard: The main danger is Port Ginesta: boats run thick and close inshore, and you may not spearfish in the approach channel. Keep 250 metres from bathers, which in summer is the whole Les Botigues beach. No specific ban on spearfishing in the Garraf was found, but there is no permission either; Masía Blanca is 45 kilometres to the southwest.
access: Turn off the C-31 to Les Botigues, park along the Passeig Marítim, twenty metres to the water. Entry over sand and fine gravel, flat and easy. To the rock ridges by the Port Ginesta breakwater you swim 200 to 400 metres west along the shore, about ten minutes at an easy pace.

Rocky shore toward Castelldefels; mixed bottom, moderately exposed to the S.

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Punta GrossaSitges

dangerous

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Punta Grossa (2)Sitges

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Punta LlargaSitges

dangerous

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Punta de Sant GervasiSitges

dangerous

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exposed head-on to the swell today (city-level)

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Punta de la Cova del PebreSitges

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Punta de les Coves (Cap de Grills)Sitges

dangerous

exposed head-on to the swell today (city-level)

window: Come very early: the beach is urban, only 300 metres long, and from June to September it falls entirely inside a bathing zone, so the 250-metre rule closes it completely by day. Water is 14 degrees in January and 26 in August. You can only start after sunrise; night is banned.
tide: Level means nothing here, twenty centimetres. And there is no current worth talking about either. What you count is turbidity: the sand bottom at two to five metres lifts with any ripple and stays up for a day, and working in murk over flat sand is simply pointless.
shelter: Be straight about it: there is no real headland here. Cap de Grills is an urban sand-and-gravel beach about 300 metres long and 8 metres wide at Terramar, opposite the golf course, and Punta de les Coves is the viewpoint above it. The shore is straight and open to the south; the only shelter comes from northerly wind blowing off the land.
conditions: It is only worth coming here with north or northwest wind, or in flat calm. Any direction between 100 and 220 degrees and visibility over the sand drops straight to a metre or a metre and a half. On the very best day you get 6–10 metres, no more: the bottom is flat sand and silt lifts with the slightest ripple.
hazard: The honest bit first: there is almost no structure here. This is a beginner's outing: over the sand flats you find dorada from 30 centimetres and lubina from 40, and rock has to be hunted for. We found no act banning spearfishing in the Garraf, but that does not count as permission. Bathers, 250 metres; buoy compulsory.
access: You park in Terramar on the streets by the golf course, a hundred metres on foot to the water. You walk straight in off the sand, flat gentle bottom, no boots needed. To reach anything interesting you swim two or three hundred metres east to the scattered rocks: about seven minutes at an easy pace.

Rocky ground below the Garraf; rock and Posidonia, exposed to the SE.

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Roquedo de Aiguadolç / BalminsSitges

dangerous

exposed head-on to the swell today (city-level)

window: Strictly at first light, before the boats leave the marina: at weekends they start around eight. Balmins fills with bathers from nine, and in summer it is a nudist beach with plenty of people. The best months here run from November to April, water at 13–15 degrees, empty beaches and better visibility.
tide: Ignore the tide, twenty centimetres. Something else rules here: at the marina entrance there is a constant pull from water exchange and from the propellers of boats coming in, and after the weekend a fuel film sits on the surface by the concrete. Do not enter the harbour mouth: it pulls and you see nothing.
shelter: The eastern breakwater of the Aiguadolç marina is the one place in Sitges where the water stands with easterly swell: it cuts Llevant and Xaloc, and behind it, off Balmins beach, the surface stays smooth. With Garbí from the southwest, though, chop comes in through the harbour mouth and bounces off the concrete.
conditions: This is the fallback for days when the whole Garraf coast is shut: with a light southerly or southeasterly you can still work here. Visibility is 5 to 10 metres, and right at the breakwater rocks the water is dirtied by propellers. With a strong southerly stay out: the backwash off the concrete is nastier than it looks.
hazard: The main issue is marina traffic and the 250-metre rule around bathing zones: in summer, by day, that amounts to a ban on the whole stretch. You may not spearfish in the harbour approach channel at all, so stay outside its line. Scuba is banned for spearfishing, a buoy is compulsory and the gun is loaded underwater only.
access: It is a twenty-minute walk from central Sitges along the promenade, or you drive straight to Aiguadolç where parking is paid. You get in over the gravel at Balmins, left of the beach. The breakwater rocks are about fifty metres out, bottom at 3 to 8 metres, boulders and sand pockets. Easy entry, fine for a first outing.

Rocky ground by the harbour; semi-sheltered, easy entry, good for beginners.

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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.

What's in season,
what the law says.

Minimum sizes by caladero (in the table below). Season depends on the species and place.

In season now

European seabass
Dicentrarchus labrax · Mediterranean · UE 2019/1241
gilthead seabream
Sparus aurata · Mediterranean · UE 2019/1241
white seabream
Diplodus sargus · Mediterranean · UE 2019/1241
two-banded seabream
Diplodus vulgaris · Mediterranean · UE 2019/1241
sharpsnout seabream
Diplodus puntazzo · Mediterranean · UE 2019/1241
salema / saupe
Sarpa salpa · Mediterranean · RD 560/1995 Anexo II
⚠️ Do NOT eat the head/guts (ichthyosarcotoxism).
bogue
Boops boops · Mediterranean · RD 560/1995 Anexo II
striped seabream
Lithognathus mormyrus · Mediterranean · UE 2019/1241
grey mullet
Mugil / Chelon spp. · Mediterranean · RD 560/1995 Anexo II
red porgy
Pagrus pagrus · Mediterranean · UE 2019/1241
striped red mullet
Mullus surmuletus · Mediterranean · UE 2019/1241
brown meagre / corb
Sciaena umbra · Mediterranean · RD 560/1995 Anexo II
Cataluña: corball 30 cm, máx. 2 ejemplares/día — Resolució ARP/3310/2025.
dusky grouper
Epinephelus marginatus · Mediterranean · UE 2019/1241
Sin prohibición estatal de captura (NO está en el Catálogo Español, RD 139/2011). Cataluña: 50 cm, máx. 2 ejemplares/día — Resolució ARP/3310/2025.
common octopus
Octopus vulgaris · Mediterranean · 1 kg
Talla por PESO: mín. 1 kg (RD 560/1995, todos los anexos). No coger hembras con huevos. Cataluña: veda del pulpo de roca aprox. jul–sep, por zonas — Resolució ARP/3310/2025.

Law

✓Spearfishing licence mandatory; the AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY issues it (not the State) and it is valid in the exterior waters of the whole coast. Free-diving only — scuba is banned (, art. 3).
✓Spearfishing catch may not be sold or traded — it is non-commercial fishing ().
✓Night prohibited: spearfishing only in daylight (sunset to sunrise not allowed) — , art. 16.d.
✓Marker buoy MANDATORY: mark your position with a clearly visible buoy and stay within 25 m of it — , art. 15.
✓Never keep the speargun loaded out of the water — , art. 16.a.
✓Keep at least 300 m from professional fishing vessels that are working — , art. 12.b.
✓The state act (, art. 16) bans, for spearfishing: a loaded gun out of the water; explosive/electric points and lamps (hand torches excepted); underwater scooters; night — from sunset to sunrise. Plus art. 12 b), d), e): 300 m from professional fishing vessels, light as an attractant, poisons/explosives. A ban in a PARTICULAR reserve, port or beach comes from that place's OWN instrument (the reserve's order, the autonomous community's rules, the port authority) — see the no-take zones on the map and your community's rules.
✓Min. sizes by ( + + EU 2019/1241): sea bass 42 cm (rec.) / 36 cm / 25 cm Mediterranean / 22 cm Canaries; gilthead bream 20 cm and white seabream 23 cm in the Mediterranean (EU 2019/1241); grouper 45 cm. See your zone's species card.
✓Only species in Annex I of may be taken; keeping, landing or transporting undersized specimens is prohibited.
✓The licence needs a medical fitness certificate for free-diving and civil-liability insurance (or a federative licence, which includes it). Mandatory in the Basque Country/Murcia/Asturias/Galicia; the federative licence covers it in Galicia/Balearics/Cantabria; the Canaries and Andalusia do NOT require it for the individual licence (a responsible health declaration). Minimum age generally 16 (14 in Andalusia).

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 Sitges

Where can I spearfish in Sitges?

Sitges has rock entry points such as Cala Morisca (Garraf), Punta de les Coves (Cap de Grills) and Roquedo de Aiguadolç / Balmins. Spearfishing in Sitges: sea forecast and shore-entry spots. Below you'll find each spot (access, shelter and hazards) and today's forecast.

When is the best season in Sitges?

Long season (May–October), with summer going glassy. Tide barely matters — follow the solunar and the thermocline; there are posidonia meadows and, at peak summer, plenty of boats and swimmers.

How cold is the water in Sitges?

Mediterranean: ~13 °C in winter to ~25 °C in summer. A 3 mm suit in high summer, 5 mm in spring and autumn — but the thermocline can leave the water much colder at depth.

Is Sitges good for a beginner?

Accessible: generally calm sea, clear water and little current — good for building water time on small-sea days. Mind the boat traffic in summer; always use the buoy.

Do I need a licence in Sitges?

Yes — in Sitges you need a recreational sea-fishing licence (issued by the autonomous community); breath-hold only (no scuba), with a marker buoy and no night diving. See the guide.

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