Cleanest beaches by area
Every designated bathing water in the UK, grouped by country and region. Each area page ranks its beaches by the regulator's official classification and links through to today's live verdict.
What changed
Which beaches got better or worse in the regulator's most recent annual classifications.
By sewage record
Worst beaches for sewage in England, ranked on the storm-overflow spills the Environment Agency links to each bathing water.
By classification
- Rated Excellent 422
- Rated Good 147
- Rated Sufficient 44
- Rated Poor 37
England 464 bathing waters
- Arun 6
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 19
- Cornwall 90
- Cumberland 6
- Dorset 22
- East Devon 8
- East Lindsey 7
- East Riding of Yorkshire 9
- East Suffolk 8
- Folkestone and Hythe 7
- Great Yarmouth 6
- Isle of Wight 15
- New Forest 5
- North Devon 9
- North Norfolk 7
- North Tyneside 5
- North Yorkshire 11
- Northumberland 14
- Redcar and Cleveland 6
- Somerset 8
- South Hams 23
- Southend-on-Sea 8
- Teignbridge 7
- Tendring 9
- Thanet 13
- The City of Brighton and Hove 5
- Torbay 15
- Westmorland and Furness 10
- Wirral 5