Where to swim in Crete today
Live conditions: NW wind, 15 to 28 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
Moni Kapsa Beach
East Crete · Makrigialos · today's pick
The N wind (22 km/h) blows from the land here, leaving the shoreline flat. Waves around 0.4 m, sea at 26°C.
Good choices by area
Touch a zone of the island · or use the pills
Agios Charalampos Beach 5.0
offshore wind · 20 km/h · 1.2 m · pebbles
Argilos Beach 5.0
offshore wind · 20 km/h · 1.2 m · sand
Filaki 3.6
offshore wind · 20 km/h · 1.2 m · pebbles
Keratokambos
offshore wind · 28 km/h · 0.3 m · sand
Krassas beach 3.6
offshore wind · 18 km/h · 1.0 m · sand
Listis 3.6
offshore wind · 18 km/h · 1.0 m · sand
Agia Fotia 3.8
offshore wind · 22 km/h · 0.4 m · fine pebbles
Atherina beach 3.6
offshore wind · 22 km/h · 0.4 m · pebbles
Botzalaki beach
offshore wind · 22 km/h · 0.4 m · pebbles
Exposed today
Onshore wind and chop expected: better another day.
Live conditions by station
live · 12:25 PMHeraklion
23°
20 km/h · 1.1 m · 27°C
Chania
23°
15 km/h · 1.6 m · 26°C
Rethymno
23°
20 km/h · 1.2 m · 26°C
Ag. Nikolaos
25°
24 km/h · 0.7 m · 26°C
Ierapetra
25°
28 km/h · 0.3 m · 27°C
Sitia
22°
22 km/h · 0.8 m · 26°C
Makrigialos
25°
22 km/h · 0.4 m · 26°C
Elounda
25°
24 km/h · 0.8 m · 27°C
Hersonissos
23°
18 km/h · 1.1 m · 26°C
Malia
23°
18 km/h · 1.0 m · 26°C
Where should I swim in Crete today?
Today's data pick is Moni Kapsa Beach (East Crete): with the current N wind at 22 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 15 to 28 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: Thursday, September 17, 12:25 PM (Europe/Athens)