England · Arun
Bognor Regis East
Caution. Annual classification is only Sufficient.
Water quality only This says nothing about tides, rip currents, cold water shock or lifeguard cover. Cold water and currents are dangerous even when the water is clean. Read the local signs before you go in. What we cannot tell you.
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Why this verdict
- Bathing season
- Closed until 15 May (neutral factor)
- Annual classification
- Sufficient (neutral factor)
- Pollution risk forecast
- Normal (positive factor)
- Rainfall (24h)
- 0mm (positive factor)
Out of season
Weekly sampling and the daily pollution-risk forecast pause on 30 September and resume on 15 May. This verdict rests on the annual classification, live storm-overflow data and rainfall in the last 24 hours.
Storm overflows are driven by rain, so they spill more in autumn and winter than in summer. See every spill happening now across the UK.
Water temperature
18.8°C Mild
Sea surface, modelled by Open-Meteo.
Tide
Tide is falling
- Low water Today
- High water Today
- Low water Today
- High water Tomorrow
Modelled by Open-Meteo and approximate. Checked against tide gauges these times ran up to half an hour early, so treat them as a guide to whether the water is coming in or going out, not as a tide table. For exact times see Admiralty EasyTide.
No recent activity
No storm-overflow discharges in the last 48 hours within ten kilometres of this bathing water and no fresh sample yet.
Classification record, 2015 to 2025
Rated Good in 2015 and Sufficient in 2025.
The regulator republishes this every November as a percentile over readings from up to four bathing seasons, so it describes the water's record rather than today. No classification was made for 2020, when the pandemic cut the bathing season short.
Sewage spills, 2023 to 2025
The Environment Agency links 10 storm overflows to Bognor Regis East. In 2025 they discharged 251 times.
Down 35% since 2023, from 384 spills to 251.
Counting every monitored overflow within ten kilometres instead, whether or not it drains here, gives 481 spills across 25 overflows in 2025.
Common questions
- Can you swim at Bognor Regis East?
- Caution. Annual classification is only Sufficient. Bognor Regis East is a designated bathing water, so it is sampled and rated every season. This answer covers water quality only, not tides, currents or lifeguard cover.
- What is the water quality like at Bognor Regis East?
- Bognor Regis East is rated Sufficient in the regulator's 2025 annual classification, a percentile taken over readings from up to four bathing seasons.
- Has there been sewage at Bognor Regis East recently?
- No. No storm overflow within ten kilometres of Bognor Regis East has discharged in the last 48 hours.
Where this data comes from
- Contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency and database right
- Spill counts from the Environment Agency EDM Storm Overflow Annual Returns, 2021 to 2025, published annually.
- View the regulator's full profile
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