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Environmental information systems
Coastal and inland bathing water quality in EU-27 between 2009 and 2024
Chart (interactive)
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The figure shows the share of bathing water quality classes by type and bathing season.
Assessments are based on the two health parameters: E. coli and intestinal enterococci, as set out in the BWD. In 2024, 14,630 coastal waters and 7,218 inland waters were reported on by EU Member States. In previous years, the ratio of coastal to inland bathing waters was the same as in 2024: two-thirds of bathing waters were coastal and one-third were inland.
Assessment
Data sources
Metadata
More info
- WISE bathing water quality database (data from 2024 annual reports by EU Member States, Albania and Switzerland), EEA.
- Cyprus
- Portugal
- Spain
- Malta
- Denmark
- Sweden
- Netherlands
- Austria
- Belgium
- Germany
- Luxembourg
- Ireland
- France
- Slovakia
- Czechia
- Italy
- Slovenia
- Croatia
- Greece
- Estonia
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Finland
- Hungary
- Bulgaria
- Poland
- Romania
2009-2024
Additional information
Version 5 (2025-05-14), final draft assessment after consultation with reporting countries.
Methodology
Data extraction from EEA CWS wigeon MSSQL server (BWD_Production.assessmentResults.statusOverview). Coastal and transitional bathing waters are grouped as "coastal" bathing waters whereas rivers and lakes are grouped as "inland" bathing waters. Non-EU Member States (CH, AL, ME and UK) have been filtered out from this data extract as well as bathing waters classified as "0 - Missing data".