Fuciño do Porco (Punta Socastro)Viveiro
dangerousexposed head-on to the swell today (city-level)
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Rocky cape at O Vicedo; deep drop-offs with grouper and conger, very exposed to NW swell.
Google MapsViveiro spearfishing forecast — wind, swell, visibility, tides & live cameras
2.5
💧 Water should clear by Friday (~2d)
visibility1m
Today — sit it out — wave, wind and surge pounding. 💧 Water should clear by Friday (~2d)
Sources: IPMA · NDBC · Copernicus — high confidence · data 14:36
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- Freshness
- Re-read every hour, per coast
Compiled by the spearo sea-state engine
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- 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 — forced red; the window is closed after dark.
It all folds into a single 0–10 score and one verdict: go or stay.
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calmupdated 14:36
Viveiro — solo, off the rocks
don't go · wave 1.6 m (occasionally up to ~3.2 m)
wave 1.6 mwind 21, gusts 50 km/hsurge pounding the rocksvisibility ~1 m
today, best window 12:00–15:00
fish · Visibility 1 m · Water 16.9°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.
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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.
Wednesday · today2026-07-22
07:09–22:04 · first quarter
▼ 05:00▲ 11:00▼ 17:00▲ 23:00 · 1.6 m
Hours (06→20)
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15
18
Day's trends
Tide0.27 m
Wave1.44 m
Wind11 km/h
Water17 °C
fish activity: moonset 01:24 · moderate · moon underfoot 08:50 · high · moonrise 16:27 · moderate · moon overhead 21:10 · high
Conditions window12:00–15:00
don't go fish
Hs 1.58 mperiod 5.5 swind 21→50surge 8viz 1 m
1.58 mup to ~3.16 · 32° at an angle
5.5 sswell moderate
21→50gusts 50 km/h
8pounding the rocks
0.08m/s
1 mrecent swell
16.9°C5 mm + hood
▼17:00tide falling
Atmosphere32 kmovercast
lowoff the lunar peaks
- wave 1.6 m (occasionally up to ~3.2 m)
- steep wind-wave — choppy surface, careful on entry
- ebb — weaker inshore
confidence mediumday
The water column
Visibility and what drives it — post-storm clearing, river plume, temperature and the thermocline.
What it is
A marine instrument,
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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.
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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.
Open the seafloor map
Illa CoelleiraViveiro
dangerousexposed head-on to the swell today (city-level)
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- tide
- shelter
- hazard
- access
Islet at the mouth of the ría; rocky bottom, advanced access and very sensitive to NW.
Google MapsPraia de AreaViveiro
dangerousexposed head-on to the swell today (city-level)
- window
- tide
- shelter
- hazard
- access
North-facing open beach with rock at both ends; entry off the rocks on the east side, sea bream and ballan wrasse.
Google MapsPraia de XilloiViveiro
dangerousexposed head-on to the swell today (city-level)
- window
- tide
- shelter
- hazard
- access
Cove with rock on both sides; partial shelter from NW, good with a low, long swell.
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
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Open the seafloor map →What's in season,
Reference
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
- gilthead seabream
- salema / saupe⚠️ Do NOT eat the head/guts (ichthyosarcotoxism).
- bogue
- black seabream
- grey mullet
- red porgy
- striped red mullet
- common octopusTalla por PESO: mín. 1 kg (RD 560/1995, todos los anexos). No coger hembras con huevos.
- European conger
- pollackTalla operativa 42 cm; máx. 2 ejemplares/día (medida recreativa anual de la UE, Reg. 2025/202). ⚠️ Atlantic: recreational CLOSED 1 Jan–30 Apr (catch-and-release).
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.
- ✓Spearfishing banned in marine reserves/protected zones (without a special permit), in ports and at busy beaches/bathing areas. The exact distance to bathing zones is set by the autonomous community.
- ✓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).
- ✓There is no fixed national catch cap (, art. 5 delegates it to the communities); the standard is 5 kg/person/day, with 1 specimen allowed not to count (Canaries art. 38.3; Murcia; Galicia; Basque Country). Protected species have per-piece quotas.
- ✓Galicia: «Clase C» licence (submarina), procedure PE405A on the Xunta portal; minimum age 16, medical certificate required. Galicia recognises spearfishing licences from other communities and the EU. sede.xunta.gal (PE405A).
- ✓No-take zone: Atlantic Islands National Park (Cíes, Ons, Sálvora, Cortegada) — spearfishing banned (see zones on the map).
- ⛔ Seahorses (Hippocampus) — protected (RPE).
Rules change and are REGIONAL. Before heading out, check with the competent autonomous community (licence) and the min-size table in force.
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 Viveiro: spots, seasons and rules
Viveiro sits at the head of a ría on Galicia's north coast, and the whole shoreline looks almost due north, straight into the Atlantic. The bad sector runs from the northwest round through north to the northeast, with north-northwest the worst, so a groundswell out of that arc shuts the open rock and you wait for it to drop. The legal frame is Galicia: a Clase C spearfishing licence through the PE405A procedure, a medical certificate, apnea only, and a visible buoy within 25 m. Cantabrian-Northwest sizes apply.
TL;DR
- Viveiro faces almost due north, so the coast lives on the Atlantic groundswell out of the northwest and north. You dive it when that swell drops, or not at all.
- Praia de Xilloi holds the most shelter from the northwest; Praia de Area is the town beach with rock at each end; Fuciño do Porco and Illa Coelleira are the exposed outer marks, advanced: Fuciño drops deep, Coelleira sits over rock.
- The card gives bottom and exposure, not depths in metres or a safety grade, so read the sea yourself and watch AEMET for the Lugo coast (ES-LU).
- Galicia rules: Clase C licence through the PE405A procedure, a medical certificate, apnea only, buoy within 25 m; Cantabrian-Northwest sizes, seabass 42 cm, conger 58 cm, octopus 1 kg.
Best spearfishing spots around Viveiro
Four marks on an open north coast. Praia de Xilloi keeps the most shelter from the northwest, Praia de Area is the town beach with rock at either end, and Fuciño do Porco and Illa Coelleira are the exposed outer ground: Fuciño drops away deep, Coelleira sits over rock. The card names the bottom and how open each one is; it doesn't give hunting depths in metres or a safety grade, so read the sea before you commit.
| Spot | Type | Depth | Level | Access | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Praia de Area | North-facing beach with rock at both ends | Rock at both ends of the beach | Workable on a low north swell | Off the rocks at the east end of the beach | The town beach opens to the north, so it takes the swell head-on, but the rock at the east end is where sargo and ballan wrasse hold. It fishes when the north lies down; on any real groundswell the beach ends wash through. |
| Fuciño do Porco (Punta Socastro) | Rocky cape at O Vicedo | Deep drop-offs off the cape | Advanced, very exposed | Off the rocky cape at O Vicedo | The drop-offs run deep here and hold grouper and conger, but the cape sits wide open to the northwest and feels every bit of swell. Save it for a genuinely settled sea and don't dive it alone. |
| Praia de Xilloi | Cove with rock on both sides | Rock down both sides of the cove | The most sheltered of the four | Into the Xilloi cove at O Vicedo | Rock lines both sides of the cove and it keeps partial shelter from the northwest, so this is the mark that stays workable on a low, long swell when the outer ground is closed. It's your first check on a marginal day. |
| Illa Coelleira | Islet at the mouth of the ría | Rocky bottom around the islet | Advanced | Islet at the ría mouth, advanced access | The islet sits out at the mouth of the ría over rocky ground, and it's very sensitive to any northwest, so it needs calm to be worth the crossing. Advanced water, not a casual entry. |
When can you spearfish in Viveiro?
When the north drops. Viveiro looks almost due north, and the bad sector runs from the northwest round through north to the northeast, with north-northwest the worst direction. That's the reading that matters here: a groundswell out of that arc washes the open rock and shuts the outer marks, and a light wind won't save you while the swell is still running. The card puts no metre figure on it, so you judge the sea and the forecast, watch AEMET for the Lugo coast (ES-LU), and go on the settled spells. A wind off the land, from the south, cleans it up, since the coast is looking the other way. When there's leftover northwest in the water, Praia de Xilloi keeps the most shelter and the exposed capes are out.
Which spot for the conditions?
Match the mark to how much north is left in the sea. On a settled day the outer ground is the prize. Fuciño do Porco drops away deep off the cape with grouper and conger, and Illa Coelleira sits over rock out at the mouth of the ría; both are wide open to the northwest and both advanced, so keep them for calm water and don't dive them solo. Praia de Area, the town beach, works the rock at its east end when the north is low. And when there's still swell about, Praia de Xilloi is the one that holds partial shelter and stays fishable. The card marks bottom and exposure, not a safety grade, so the call on any given day is yours.
What fish and rules apply in Viveiro?
The marks hold sargo and ballan wrasse over the shallow rock, with grouper and conger down the deeper drop-offs off the capes. Viveiro is in the Cantabrian-Northwest caladero, and the sizes are the ones for that ground: European seabass 42 cm, gilthead 19 cm, black seabream 23 cm, salema 15 cm, boga 11 cm, grey mullet 20 cm, pargo 15 cm, red mullet 15 cm, and conger a long 58 cm. Octopus goes by weight, a 1 kg minimum, and you leave any female carrying eggs. Pollack is 42 cm with a two-a-day cap and an Atlantic recreational closure from 1 January to 30 April, and seahorses are protected. On paper you're in Galicia: a Clase C spearfishing licence through the PE405A procedure on the Xunta portal, from age 16, with a medical certificate, and Galicia recognises submarine licences from other autonomous communities and the EU. The common rules hold throughout: apnea only, no scuba, daylight only, a visible buoy within 25 m, the gun unloaded out of the water, and nothing you take is for sale.
FAQ
Where can you spearfish in Viveiro?
Four marks: Praia de Xilloi, the most sheltered from the northwest; Praia de Area, the town beach with rock at each end; and the exposed outer ground at Fuciño do Porco and Illa Coelleira. The card gives bottom and exposure, not depths in metres.
When is the sea calm enough at Viveiro?
When the northwest-to-north groundswell drops. The coast faces almost due north, so any swell out of that arc closes the open rock; a southerly wind off the land helps. Watch AEMET for the Lugo coast (ES-LU) and go on the settled spells.
What licence do you need in Viveiro?
A Galicia Clase C spearfishing licence through the PE405A procedure on the Xunta portal, from age 16, with a medical certificate. Galicia also recognises submarine licences from other autonomous communities and the EU.
What is the seabass minimum size here?
European seabass is 42 cm in the Cantabrian-Northwest. Other sizes include conger 58 cm, black seabream 23 cm, gilthead 19 cm, and octopus a 1 kg minimum.
Can you scuba-spearfish in Viveiro?
No. Spain is apnea only, no scuba and no night diving, with a visible buoy within 25 m and the gun unloaded out of the water.
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