Bathing Water Directive - Status of bathing water

The EU Bathing Waters Directive requires Member States to identify popular bathing places in fresh and coastal waters and monitor them for indicators of microbiological pollution (and other substances) throughout the bathing season which runs from May to September

Datasets

Bathing Water Directive - Status of bathing water, 2025 v.1.0Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx)

Published: 2 Jun 2026

Temporal coverage: 1990-2025

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State of bathing waters in 2024

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Bathing waters with excellent water quality in Europe

EEA Indicator

Superseded or restricted datasets

Bathing Water Directive - Status of bathing water, 2024 v.1.0Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx)Superseded

Published: 19 Jun 2025

Temporal coverage: 1990-2024

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Direct download

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State of bathing waters in 2024

Interactive map

Bathing waters with excellent water quality in Europe

EEA Indicator

https://doi.org/10.2909/30e5d599-6bc1-408d-9e65-a10e433b81ef

More information

Reporting obligations (ROD)

Bathing Water Directive - Monitoring and Classification of Bathing Waters

Bathing Water Directive - Identification of Bathing Waters

Bathing Water Directive - Report

Bathing Water Directive - Monitoring and Classification of Bathing Waters (until 2019)

Organisation:

TC Vode

Directorate-General for Environment

Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV)

Temporal coverage:

1990 -

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