Excellent: 12Good: 6Sufficient: 3Poor: 1
All 22 sites, best water first
- Half Moon Excellent6 km E 🆕 New site — not enough seasons for a track record
- Seapoint Excellent9 km SE ✅ Excellent five seasons straight
- Forty Foot Bathing Place Excellent12 km SE ✅ Excellent five seasons straight
- Sutton, Burrow Beach Excellent12 km NE
- Portmarnock, Velvet Strand Beach Excellent13 km NE ✅ Excellent five seasons straight
- White Rock Beach Excellent14 km SE ✅ Excellent five seasons straight
- Killiney Excellent14 km SE ✅ Excellent five seasons straight
- Donabate, Balcarrick Beach Excellent17 km NE 📈 Turned around — was Poor or Sufficient a few seasons ago, Excellent now
- Rush North Beach Excellent23 km NE 📈 Turned around — was Poor or Sufficient a few seasons ago, Excellent now
- The Cove Greystones Excellent26 km SE 🆕 New site — not enough seasons for a track record
- Greystones South Excellent27 km SE ✅ Excellent five seasons straight
- Skerries, South Beach Excellent28 km N 📈 Turned around — was Poor or Sufficient a few seasons ago, Excellent now
- Dollymount Strand Good8 km E
- Sandycove Beach Good12 km SE
- Portrane, The Brook Beach Good19 km NE
- Bray South Promenade Good20 km SE
- Rush, South Beach Good21 km NE
- Loughshinny Beach Good25 km NE ⚠ Rated Poor within the last 3 seasons
- Sandymount Strand Sufficient4 km SE ⚠ Rated Poor within the last 3 seasons
- Claremont Beach Sufficient13 km E
- Balbriggan, Front Strand Beach Sufficient30 km N ⚠ Rated Poor within the last 3 seasons
- Dun Laoghaire Baths Poor11 km SE 🆕 New site — not enough seasons for a track record
Nearby destinations
Classification = four seasons of official sampling for E. coli and intestinal enterococci. It won't warn you about a storm-day spike, jellyfish or currents — local advisories always win.