Where to swim in Crete today
Live conditions: N wind, 4 to 36 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
Finikas Beach-Παραλία Φοίνικας
West Crete · Chania · today's pick
The E wind (4 km/h) runs along the shore here, keeping the water manageable. Waves around 1.2 m, sea at 27°C.
Good choices by area
Touch a zone of the island · or use the pills
Anidri Beach
cross-shore wind · 4 km/h · 1.2 m · pebbles
Balos Lagoon 3.8
cross-shore wind · 4 km/h · 1.2 m
Diktina Beach 4.2
cross-shore wind · 4 km/h · 1.2 m · pebbles
Keratokambos
offshore wind · 36 km/h · 0.4 m · sand
Agiofarago Beach
offshore wind · 18 km/h · 1.1 m · pebbles
Matala · 6.5 km
Agios Georgios
offshore wind · 18 km/h · 1.1 m · pebbles
Kakkos
offshore wind · 36 km/h · 0.4 m · fine pebbles
Ierapetra · 9.6 km
Agia Fotia 3.8
offshore wind · 36 km/h · 0.7 m · fine pebbles
Atherina beach 3.6
offshore wind · 36 km/h · 0.7 m · pebbles
Exposed today
Onshore wind and chop expected: better another day.
Live conditions by station
live · 09:14 PMHeraklion
24°
20 km/h · 1.4 m · 27°C
Chania
24°
4 km/h · 1.2 m · 27°C
Rethymno
24°
18 km/h · 1.1 m · 27°C
Ag. Nikolaos
23°
22 km/h · 1.3 m · 26°C
Ierapetra
25°
36 km/h · 0.4 m · 27°C
Sitia
23°
27 km/h · 1.5 m · 26°C
Makrigialos
24°
36 km/h · 0.7 m · 26°C
Elounda
24°
22 km/h · 1.3 m · 26°C
Hersonissos
24°
21 km/h · 1.5 m · 27°C
Malia
24°
21 km/h · 1.6 m · 27°C
Where should I swim in Crete today?
Today's data pick is Finikas Beach-Παραλία Φοίνικας (West Crete): with the current E wind at 4 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 N at 4 to 36 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: Saturday, July 25, 09:14 PM (Europe/Athens)