Bathing water quality in 2021

This briefing presents data from 2021 when the United Kingdom was not an EU and EEA Member State anymore and is therefore not reporting bathing water quality data to the EEA.

Notes: * If a bathing water site was newly identified during the last assessment period and before the complete four-year dataset of 2019-2021 could be collected - i.e. identified not earlier than 2019 - it is counted as “newly identified”; this is also true if enough samples were collected in a shorter period. ** If a bathing water site was subject to changes described in BWD Article 4.4.b within the last assessment period, it is assigned management status “Quality changes”. Such status is assigned until the complete four - year dataset of samples taken after changes took effect is available.