France / Hauts-de-France
Berck-Plage
Berck-Plage is a coastal resort area in Hauts-de-France, France. Its longest mapped beach (Berck Plage) stretches about 2.4 km and has a sand surface. The sea averages 18.1 °C in August, its warmest month, and 7.7 °C in February; it never reaches 21 °C on average.
Average sea surface temperature by month. Current month outlined.
The sea peaks at 18.1 °C in August. Most swimmers find water below 20 °C cold; a wetsuit is common here.
OpenStreetMap shows no lifeguard station within 1 km. Seasonal lifeguard posts are often unmapped, so check on site.
Services in the resort
- 74Restaurants, cafés & bars
- 8Public toilets
- –Showers
- 50Car parks
- –Lifeguard stations
- 14Hotels & guesthouses
- 1Campsites
- 13Grocery shops
- 1Water-sports spots
- 9Bus stops (1.5 km)
- 7Pharmacies & clinics
- 1Bike rental
Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 57 restaurants, 4 cafés, 8 bars and 5 fast-food outlets. Accommodation: 14 hotels and guesthouses.
Counted within 1 km of the beach (bus stops 1.5 km) from OpenStreetMap features and Overture Maps places, release of 2026-10. Unmapped does not mean absent.
Bathing water quality
The official EU bathing-water site “Berck Centre Plage”, 370 m from the beach centre, was rated Good for the 2025 season. It was Excellent in 9 of its 11 classified seasons since 2015.
- 2015Excellent
- 2016Excellent
- 2017Excellent
- 2018Excellent
- 2019Excellent
- 2020Excellent
- 2021Excellent
- 2022Excellent
- 2023Excellent
- 2024Good
- 2025Good
Source: European Environment Agency, EU Bathing Water Directive assessments · national site profile. Classes are based on four seasons of bacteriological sampling.
Month by month
October at Berck-Plage
Beach-day index 2.6/10 · France median 4.9
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sea °C | 8.6 °C | 7.7 °C | 7.8 °C | 9.4 °C | 11.7 °C | 14.3 °C | 16.6 °C | 18.1 °C | 17.6 °C | 15.7 °C | 13.1 °C | 10.5 °C |
| High °C | 6° | 7° | 10° | 14° | 17° | 20° | 21° | 21° | 19° | 15° | 10° | 7° |
| Low °C | 1° | 1° | 2° | 5° | 8° | 11° | 13° | 13° | 11° | 8° | 5° | 2° |
| Rain mm | 77 | 64 | 57 | 44 | 60 | 57 | 66 | 74 | 58 | 82 | 91 | 92 |
| Cloud % | 79 | 76 | 71 | 63 | 66 | 64 | 62 | 64 | 65 | 73 | 79 | 79 |
| Wind m/s | 6.2 | 6.0 | 5.5 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 5.2 | 5.5 | 5.8 |
| Daylight h | 8.5 | 10.0 | 11.8 | 13.7 | 15.4 | 16.4 | 16.0 | 14.6 | 12.7 | 10.8 | 9.1 | 8.1 |
| Record high/low | 13°/-10° | 16°/-11° | 20°/-6° | 24°/-4° | 27°/2° | 30°/5° | 34°/7° | 33°/9° | 28°/4° | 26°/-3° | 18°/-4° | 13°/-7° |
| Beach index | 2.2 | 2.4 | 2.6 | 2.9 | 2.7 | 4.0 | 5.1 | 5.5 | 4.3 | 2.6 | 2.2 | 2.2 |
Long-term monthly averages: air from NASA POWER (2001–2020), sea from NOAA OISST (1991–2020); records are the extremes of 2001–2020. How the index works.
When to go
The beach-day index peaks in August; August scores 5.5/10 with highs of 21 °C, sea at 18.1 °C and 74 mm of rain.
In August that is 2.5 points below the median of the 625 beaches in France covered by this atlas.
At its warmest the water here is 4.0 °C cooler than the France median for August (22.1 °C).
Across the year the sea averages 12.6 °C, cooler than 82% of the coastal beaches in the atlas.
December is the wettest month (92 mm) and April the driest (44 mm); the yearly total is about 820 mm.
Daylight runs from 8.1 hours in December to 16.4 hours in June; in mid-August the sun rises at 06:41 and sets at 21:16 local time.
Orientation, sun and shore
The shore faces west (280°). Open water fills about 47% of the horizon close by, which makes it an open stretch of shore.
The sun sets over the sea in every month; in mid-June it goes down at 22:05 local time on a bearing of 310°.
Straight out to the west the next coast is roughly 120 km away, so waves are mostly wind-driven sea rather than ocean swell.
About 1 km offshore the sea is roughly 1 m deep and 7 m at 3 km, a shallow, gently shelving sea floor. Behind the beach the ground is about 10 m above sea level 500 m inland and 6 m at 1.5 km, a flat coastal plain.
Within 1 km, the land is 67% built-up land, 16% bare ground, sand or rock and 10% grassland (satellite land-cover map, 2021): an urban beach. Water makes up 40% of that circle.
- Built 67%
- Bare 16%
- Grass 10%
- Tree 6%
Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m). Orientation from OpenStreetMap land polygons sampled in 36 directions; depths and heights from the GEBCO 2020 grid (about 450 m cells), indicative only.
Getting there
| Airport | Code | Distance | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lille Airport Lesquin | LIL | 111 km | east |
| Beauvais-Tillé airport Beauvais | BVA | 113 km | south |
| Ostend-Bruges International Airport Oostende | OST | 128 km | north-east |
Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.
Local transport: 9 bus stops within 1.5 km and 50 mapped car parks within 1 km.
8 towns and villages of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 48K residents); within 30 km there are 29 (about 104.4K).
Around the beach
Attractions & museums
- Musée Opale Sud museum 720 m E
Lighthouses & piers
- Phare de Berck lighthouse 740 m S
- Phare de Berck-Plage lighthouse 790 m E
Diving & boat hire
- Rosalie Beach 840 m NE
Campsites
- Camping Halloy 990 m SE
Map and nearby beaches
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| Beach | Distance | Warmest sea | Length | Surface |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berck-Plage | – | 18.1 °C | 2.4 km | Sand |
| Fort-Mahon-Plage | 7.0 km S | 18.1 °C | 1.8 km | Sand |
| Quend-Plage | 9.0 km S | 18.1 °C | 2.7 km | Sand |
| Le Touquet-Paris-Plage | 13.0 km N | 17.7 °C | 8.1 km | Sand |
| Sainte-Cécile-Plage | 19.0 km N | 17.7 °C | 2.1 km | Sand |
| Hardelot-Plage | 25.8 km N | 17.7 °C | – | – |
- Fort-Mahon-Plage7.0 km SCompare
- Quend-Plage9.0 km SCompare
- Le Touquet-Paris-Plage13.0 km NCompare
- Sainte-Cécile-Plage19.0 km NCompare
- Hardelot-Plage25.8 km NCompare
Data on this page
- Air temperature, rain, cloud, wind, humidity: NASA POWER climatology 2001–2020, 0.5° grid.
- Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 monthly normals 1991–2020, nearest ocean cell 13.4 km away.
- Beach outline, surface, rules and public facilities: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), feature w132196447; restaurants, cafés, bars and lodging: Overture Maps places (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).
- Towns and time zone: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Airports: OurAirports (public domain). Sunrise and sunset: NOAA solar equations.
- Satellite view: Copernicus Sentinel-2 (ESA), scene S2B_31UCR_20260318_0_L2A.
- Orientation: OpenStreetMap land polygons (ODbL). Depth and terrain: GEBCO 2020 grid.
- Bathing-water quality: European Environment Agency (site FRE1262108M062270).
- Settlements: GeoNames places with 1,000+ inhabitants.
- Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021, 10 m (CC BY 4.0).
- Search popularity: about 27.1K Google searches a month for the name (KeywordTool, October 2026).
Data compiled 2026-10-13. Something wrong? Report a data error.