Portugal’s Beaches Beckon: 559 Rated Excellent by European Environment Agency
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European Environment Agency released data from the bathing season of 2025: 82% of the 682 Portuguese beaches monitored have excellent quality, three more than in 2024.
Organia classified 634 Portuguese bathing waters as "good" or "excellent". Number of unclassified beaches was the only one that decreased. Almost 90% of the coastal waters of the European Union were classified as excellent.
The number of beaches with excellent classification has increased, but also increased the bathing areas considered of poor quality
Portugal’s beaches beckon: 559 rated excellent by European Environment Agency
2026 sees Portugal given yet another resounding thumbs up by the European Environment Agency (EEA) for the quality of its beaches, and their waters. Say reports, Portugal continues to rank The post Portugal’s beaches beckon: 559 rated excellent by European Environment Agency appeared first on Portugal Resident.
Portugal has 559 beaches with excellent water quality, three more than last year, in addition to 12 considered to be of poor quality, according to monitoring data released today by the European Environment Agency. According to the entity that collects and evaluates water quality data on European beaches based on information provided by countries to classify the safety of bathing areas, in the 2025 bathing season, the quality of bathing waters i…
According to the entity that collects and evaluates water quality data on European beaches based on the information provided by the countries to classify the safety of bathing areas, in the bathing season of 2025, the quality of bathing water in Portugal remained overall very high. Of the 682 monitored beaches, 559 were classified as of quality excellent, representing 82% of the total. In addition, 75 beaches (11%) were classified as good, 19 (2…
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