Know before you go

Everything you need to plan your perfect beach day.

21,400+
Beaches
9
Coastlines
7-day
Forecast, every beach
BeachScan Home screen with tomorrow's beach picks
Zlatni rat beach card with live conditions summary and Blue Flag badge
Features

Everything you need for a perfect beach day

Smart Recommendations

Our algorithm analyzes wind, waves, water quality, UV, and temperature to generate personalized recommendations for each beach in real time.

Real-Time Weather

Live temperature, wind speed and direction, cloud cover, and precipitation from multiple verified sources, continuously updated.

Water Quality

Official EU bathing water quality classifications. Know if the water is safe before you swim.

Water Clarity

Estimated underwater visibility for each beach, updated daily and refined by reports from swimmers on location.

Find Sheltered Beaches

Looking for the best beach when it's windy? Each beach gets a wind shelter score so you can find sheltered beaches near you. No more guessing — just go where it's calm.

7-Day Forecast

Plan ahead with daily beach forecasts. See which day will have the best conditions for your trip.

Interactive Map

Explore beaches with satellite imagery, color-coded overlays for conditions, and detailed beach cards with photos and amenities.

Shade Forecast

See when shade reaches each beach — from trees or cliffs — hour by hour. Shows how much of the beach is shaded and how far the nearest tree shade is from the water.

Per-Beach Wave Height COMING SOON

Wave height today comes from regional marine forecasts. Per-beach accuracy, accounting for each beach's exposure and orientation, is in the works.

One coast. Four instruments.

The map isn't a list of pins — it's an instrument panel. Switch the scan and the same stretch of coast repaints to answer a different question.

Zoom out and the coast rolls up into counts — every cluster is a bay full of options.

Map of Brač and Hvar with beach-count clusters Water clarity scan painting the coast from excellent to poor Wind shelter scan — sheltered bays in green, exposed shores in orange Shade scan with the time scrubber set to 13:00
How it works

See it in action

Zlatni rat live data — weather, sea temperature, underwater visibility, shade and official water quality

Everything about a beach in one card

Live weather, sea temperature, underwater visibility with a viewing range in meters, wave height, shade — and the official water quality classification from the nearest monitoring station.

  • Sea state drawn from live data, not stock icons
  • Tree shade and cliff shade shown separately
  • Water quality with station distance and history
Satellite map around Drvenik Veli with an umbrella pin on every beach

Every cove, named

Zoom in and the clusters resolve into umbrellas — 21,400+ beaches mapped, from town beaches to coves you'd row past without knowing they had a name.

  • Satellite imagery for every coastline
  • Tap any umbrella for the full beach card
  • Hidden pebble coves included, not just the famous names
Explore tab browsing all beaches with surface and amenity filters

Browse every beach within your range

Set how far you're willing to go and browse everything inside that range. Filter by surface and amenities; sort by shelter when it blows.

  • Search any beach or place by name
  • Distance slider — from your beach town to a road trip
  • Filter by sand, pebble, or rock
  • Parking, showers, lifeguard, watersports filters
Favourites screen comparing two saved beaches at a glance

Your beaches, side by side

Save the beaches you actually go to and compare them at a glance — air, wind, sea temperature, UV and clarity in one row each, with a 7-day forecast per beach.

  • Live conditions for every saved beach
  • 7-day forecast with the best day highlighted
  • The row tells you which beach wins today
Report tab — share a photo, update amenities, report a problem

Help the next beachgoer

Saw something the data can't? Share a photo of the beach today, update its amenities, or flag a problem — every report is reviewed before it goes live.

  • Today's photos from people actually there
  • Report water clarity with a long-press
  • All submissions human-reviewed

Watch the shade move

Drag the sun through the day and watch shade sweep across the coast — hour by hour, for every beach, cliff coves and pine-backed beaches alike.

Countries

Where BeachScan works

Live today in Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, Greece, Spain, Albania, Malta and Cyprus — plus Florida in the US. More coasts coming.

Greece 5,827 Italy 5,482 Spain 4,363 Croatia 2,959 Florida 1,928 Albania 587 Slovenia 309 Cyprus 284 Malta 67