📈 The beaches that cleaned up

Because the official dataset keeps ten seasons of history, you can see which places actually got better. These 619 sites were rated Poor or Sufficient a few seasons ago and hold the top rating today — normally the result of a sewage overflow being fixed or a treatment plant upgraded.

619turned around
420went the other way

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🇮🇹 Italy — 185 turned around

🇫🇷 France — 109 turned around

🇪🇸 Spain — 63 turned around

🇩🇪 Germany — 56 turned around

🇩🇰 Denmark — 44 turned around

🇸🇪 Sweden — 30 turned around

🇳🇱 Netherlands — 29 turned around

🇵🇱 Poland — 23 turned around

🇷🇴 Romania — 12 turned around

🇮🇪 Ireland — 10 turned around

🇧🇬 Bulgaria — 9 turned around

🇫🇮 Finland — 8 turned around

🇭🇷 Croatia — 6 turned around

🇭🇺 Hungary — 6 turned around

🇵🇹 Portugal — 4 turned around

🇪🇪 Estonia — 4 turned around

🇸🇰 Slovakia — 4 turned around

🇨🇿 Czechia — 3 turned around

🇱🇹 Lithuania — 3 turned around

🇱🇻 Latvia — 3 turned around

🇸🇮 Slovenia — 3 turned around

📉 And these went the other way

Rated Excellent within the last decade, now Sufficient or Poor.

Comparison uses the classification from 5–10 seasons ago against the 2025 assessment. Sites without enough history are not included in either list.