Worst beaches for sewage in North Yorkshire
10 bathing waters ranked by the storm-overflow spills the Environment Agency links to them in 2024. The other 1 in North Yorkshire have no comparable 2024 record, which is not the same as a clean one.
Spills in 2024
- 1 Scarborough North Bay 296 from 9 overflows +14% since 2023
- 2 Nidd at the Lido, Knaresborough 152 from 8 overflows
- 3 Whitby 120 from 9 overflows +11900% since 2022
- 4 Scarborough South Bay 117 from 5 overflows +34% since 2021
- 5 Runswick Bay 94 from 2 overflows +276% since 2022
- 6 Filey 89 from 3 overflows +93% since 2022
- 7 Sandsend 55 from 2 overflows +2650% since 2022
- 8 Reighton 48 from 2 overflows +269% since 2022
- 9 Robin Hoods Bay 38 from 2 overflows +192% since 2022
- 10 Cayton Bay 4 from 1 overflow
How this is counted
Each figure counts spills from the storm overflows the Environment Agency links to that bathing water in its annual Event Duration Monitoring return, so it follows the sewer network rather than a map radius. Spills only: the return's duration column is not reliable enough to publish.
See the cleanest beaches in North Yorkshire or every spill happening now.