France / Hauts-de-France
Blériot-Plage
Blériot-Plage is a coastal resort area in Hauts-de-France, France. Its longest mapped beach (Plage de Calais) stretches about 1.2 km and has a sand surface. The sea averages 17.6 °C in August, its warmest month, and 7.9 °C in March; it never reaches 21 °C on average.
Average sea surface temperature by month. Current month outlined.
The sea peaks at 17.6 °C in August. Most swimmers find water below 20 °C cold; a wetsuit is common here.
Average wind speed at 10 m reaches 7.7 m/s in January, the windiest month.
OpenStreetMap shows no lifeguard station within 1 km. Seasonal lifeguard posts are often unmapped, so check on site.
Services in the resort
- 6Restaurants, cafés & bars
- 5Public toilets
- –Showers
- 1Drinking water
- 24Car parks
- –Lifeguard stations
- 3Hotels & guesthouses
- 4Campsites
- 4Grocery shops
- 57Bus stops (1.5 km)
- 3Pharmacies & clinics
- 4Bike rental
Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 4 restaurants and 2 bars. Accommodation: 3 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 “Sangatte Bleriot Plage”, 580 m from the beach centre, was rated Good for the 2025 season. It was Excellent in 0 of its 11 classified seasons since 2015.
- 2015Good
- 2016Good
- 2017Good
- 2018Good
- 2019Good
- 2020Good
- 2021Good
- 2022Good
- 2023Good
- 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 Blériot-Plage
Beach-day index 2.4/10 · France median 4.9
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sea °C | 9.1 °C | 8.0 °C | 7.9 °C | 9.2 °C | 11.2 °C | 13.7 °C | 16.0 °C | 17.6 °C | 17.4 °C | 15.8 °C | 13.4 °C | 10.9 °C |
| High °C | 7° | 7° | 9° | 12° | 15° | 17° | 20° | 20° | 18° | 15° | 11° | 8° |
| Low °C | 4° | 4° | 5° | 7° | 10° | 13° | 15° | 15° | 14° | 11° | 8° | 5° |
| Rain mm | 70 | 58 | 52 | 39 | 52 | 54 | 62 | 68 | 56 | 81 | 86 | 84 |
| Cloud % | 79 | 76 | 71 | 63 | 66 | 64 | 62 | 64 | 65 | 73 | 79 | 79 |
| Wind m/s | 7.7 | 7.4 | 6.5 | 5.4 | 5.5 | 5.1 | 5.2 | 5.3 | 5.8 | 6.7 | 7.1 | 7.5 |
| Daylight h | 8.4 | 10.0 | 11.8 | 13.8 | 15.5 | 16.5 | 16.1 | 14.6 | 12.7 | 10.8 | 9.0 | 8.0 |
| Record high/low | 13°/-4° | 14°/-4° | 16°/-4° | 21°/-0° | 23°/6° | 27°/8° | 31°/12° | 29°/12° | 25°/8° | 23°/4° | 17°/0° | 14°/-3° |
| Beach index | 2.0 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 2.7 | 2.9 | 4.1 | 4.7 | 3.8 | 2.4 | 2.0 | 2.0 |
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
No month reaches 5.5 on the beach-day index; the best is August at 4.7/10, held back mainly by cold water (17.6 °C) and cool air (highs of 20 °C).
At its warmest the water here is 4.5 °C cooler than the France median for August (22.1 °C).
Across the year the sea averages 12.5 °C, cooler than 82% of the coastal beaches in the atlas.
November is the wettest month (86 mm) and April the driest (39 mm); the yearly total is about 760 mm.
Daylight runs from 8.0 hours in December to 16.5 hours in June; in mid-August the sun rises at 06:38 and sets at 21:16 local time.
Orientation, sun and shore
The shore faces north-north-west (345°). Open water fills about 22% of the horizon close by, which makes it a sheltered cove or bay.
The sun sets over the sea in June–July; in mid-June it goes down at 22:07 local time on a bearing of 310°.
The opposite shore is only about 500 m away to the north-north-west, which keeps the water sheltered from big waves.
The sea floor is still within the shallow coastal margin 1 km out; 3 km offshore the depth is about 15 m. Behind the beach the ground is about 3 m above sea level 500 m inland and 3 m at 1.5 km, a flat coastal plain.
Within 1 km, the land is 38% built-up land, 34% grassland and 17% cropland (satellite land-cover map, 2021): a partly built-up setting. Water makes up 15% of that circle.
- Built 38%
- Grass 34%
- Crop 17%
- Bare 5%
- Tree 4%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ostend-Bruges International Airport Oostende | OST | 78.5 km | east |
| Lille Airport Lesquin | LIL | 100 km | south-east |
| London Southend Airport Southend-on-Sea, Essex | SEN | 104 km | north-west |
Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.
Local transport: 57 bus stops within 1.5 km, rail station Calais-Ville (2.2 km) and 24 mapped car parks within 1 km.
8 towns and villages of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 100.5K residents); within 30 km there are 40 (about 261.5K).
Around the beach
Campsites
- Camping du Fort Lapin 610 m W
- Camping Le Grand Gravelot 940 m NE
- Camping Calais LA Plage 980 m NE
- Aire de Camping-Car Calais 980 m E
Map and nearby beaches
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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 16.3 km away.
- Beach outline, surface, rules and public facilities: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), feature w35894485; 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 S2A_31UDS_20240919_0_L2A.
- Orientation: OpenStreetMap land polygons (ODbL). Depth and terrain: GEBCO 2020 grid.
- Bathing-water quality: European Environment Agency (site FRE1262774M062060).
- Settlements: GeoNames places with 1,000+ inhabitants.
- Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021, 10 m (CC BY 4.0).
- Search popularity: about 4.4K Google searches a month for the name (KeywordTool, October 2026).
Data compiled 2026-10-13. Something wrong? Report a data error.