Where to swim in Crete today
Live conditions: NW wind, 7 to 13 km/h depending on the coast. We rank Crete's beaches by how calm the water should be right now, from wind direction, shoreline orientation and measured wave height.
All beaches
Makrigialos Beach
East Crete · Makrigialos · today's pick
The NE wind (11 km/h) blows from the land here, leaving the shoreline flat. Waves around 0.1 m, sea at 27°C.
Good choices by area
Touch a zone of the island · or use the pills
Agios Charalampos Beach 5.0
offshore wind · 8 km/h · 0.3 m · pebbles
Argilos Beach 5.0
cross-shore wind · 8 km/h · 0.3 m · sand
Filaki 3.6
offshore wind · 8 km/h · 0.3 m · pebbles
Keratokambos
offshore wind · 11 km/h · 0.2 m · sand
Agiofarago Beach
offshore wind · 8 km/h · 0.3 m · pebbles
Matala · 6.5 km
Agios Georgios
offshore wind · 8 km/h · 0.3 m · pebbles
Agia Fotia 3.8
offshore wind · 11 km/h · 0.1 m · fine pebbles
Atherina beach 3.6
offshore wind · 11 km/h · 0.1 m · pebbles
Botzalaki beach
offshore wind · 11 km/h · 0.1 m · pebbles
Live conditions by station
live · 11:23 AMHeraklion
29°
10 km/h · 0.4 m · 27°C
Chania
29°
8 km/h · 0.4 m · 28°C
Rethymno
28°
8 km/h · 0.3 m · 28°C
Ag. Nikolaos
29°
7 km/h · 0.5 m · 27°C
Ierapetra
31°
11 km/h · 0.2 m · 27°C
Sitia
28°
13 km/h · 0.6 m · 27°C
Makrigialos
31°
11 km/h · 0.1 m · 27°C
Elounda
29°
7 km/h · 0.5 m · 27°C
Hersonissos
28°
8 km/h · 0.5 m · 27°C
Malia
28°
8 km/h · 0.5 m · 27°C
Where should I swim in Crete today?
Today's data pick is Makrigialos Beach (East Crete): with the current NE wind at 11 km/h it is on the sheltered side of the island.
Is it windy in Crete today?
Right now the wind over Crete blows from the NW at 7 to 13 km/h depending on the coast. One side of the island is usually calm whatever the wind: this page lists it live.
How this works
Every 30 minutes we combine live Open-Meteo data (wind speed and direction, wave height at the nearest marine point, sea temperature, 10 stations across Crete) with each beach's shoreline orientation, estimated from its position relative to the island's mountain ridge. Offshore or cross-shore wind means flatter water; onshore wind builds chop. Individual bays can behave differently: always judge conditions on site, especially with children. For 180 of the 183 beaches, field-observed data (typical sea state of the bay, sand type, depth, crowds) corrects the geometric estimate: a bay known usually calm scores better than its exposure alone suggests.
Conditions updated: Wednesday, September 2, 11:23 AM (Europe/Athens)