France / New Aquitaine
Contis-Plage
Contis-Plage is a coastal resort area in New Aquitaine, France. Its longest mapped beach stretches about 3.6 km and has a sand surface. The sea averages 21.8 °C in August, its warmest month, and 11.8 °C in February; it is 21 °C or warmer in August.
Average sea surface temperature by month. Current month outlined.
OpenStreetMap shows no lifeguard station within 1 km. Seasonal lifeguard posts are often unmapped, so check on site.
Services in the resort
- 14Restaurants, cafés & bars
- 6Public toilets
- –Showers
- 3Drinking water
- 12Car parks
- –Lifeguard stations
- 5Hotels & guesthouses
- 2Campsites
- 2Grocery shops
- 2Bus stops (1.5 km)
- 1Cash machines
- 3Viewpoints
Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 9 restaurants, 2 cafés and 3 bars. Accommodation: 5 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 “Plage De Contis”, 370 m from the beach centre, was rated Excellent for the 2025 season. It was Excellent in 11 of its 11 classified seasons since 2015.
- 2015Excellent
- 2016Excellent
- 2017Excellent
- 2018Excellent
- 2019Excellent
- 2020Excellent
- 2021Excellent
- 2022Excellent
- 2023Excellent
- 2024Excellent
- 2025Excellent
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 Contis-Plage
Beach-day index 4.5/10 · France median 4.9
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sea °C | 12.5 °C | 11.8 °C | 12.2 °C | 13.4 °C | 15.8 °C | 18.7 °C | 20.9 °C | 21.8 °C | 20.5 °C | 18.1 °C | 15.6 °C | 13.7 °C |
| High °C | 11° | 11° | 13° | 16° | 19° | 22° | 24° | 24° | 22° | 19° | 14° | 11° |
| Low °C | 7° | 6° | 8° | 10° | 13° | 16° | 18° | 18° | 16° | 14° | 10° | 7° |
| Rain mm | 110 | 78 | 77 | 69 | 72 | 58 | 39 | 44 | 55 | 83 | 127 | 106 |
| Cloud % | 79 | 71 | 68 | 64 | 65 | 60 | 53 | 54 | 53 | 65 | 74 | 75 |
| Wind m/s | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 4.8 |
| Daylight h | 9.2 | 10.5 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.7 | 15.5 | 15.2 | 14.1 | 12.6 | 11.1 | 9.7 | 8.9 |
| Record high/low | 17°/-2° | 19°/-5° | 22°/-2° | 26°/4° | 30°/7° | 36°/10° | 37°/14° | 38°/14° | 34°/10° | 27°/4° | 22°/1° | 18°/-3° |
| Beach index | 2.2 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.8 | 3.7 | 6.3 | 8.0 | 8.3 | 7.1 | 4.5 | 2.3 | 2.3 |
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 July–August; August scores 8.3/10 with highs of 24 °C, sea at 21.8 °C and 44 mm of rain.
In August that is 0.3 points above the median of the 625 beaches in France covered by this atlas.
Across the year the sea averages 16.2 °C, cooler than 67% of the coastal beaches in the atlas.
November is the wettest month (127 mm) and July the driest (39 mm); the yearly total is about 920 mm.
Daylight runs from 8.9 hours in December to 15.5 hours in June; in mid-August the sun rises at 07:08 and sets at 21:12 local time.
Orientation, sun and shore
The shore faces west (280°). Open water fills about 42% 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 21:49 local time on a bearing of 304°.
Straight out to the west there is open water for more than 2,000 km, so the beach is exposed to long ocean swell.
About 1 km offshore the sea is roughly 7 m deep and 25 m at 3 km, a shallow, gently shelving sea floor. Behind the beach the ground is about 12 m above sea level 500 m inland and 14 m at 1.5 km, a flat coastal plain.
Within 1 km, the land is 44% tree cover, 26% bare ground, sand or rock and 21% grassland (satellite land-cover map, 2021): a mixed, lightly developed setting. Water makes up 33% of that circle.
- Tree 44%
- Bare 26%
- Grass 21%
- Built 9%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biarritz Pays Basque airport Biarritz | BIQ | 71.1 km | south |
| San Sebastián Airport Hondarribia | EAS | 89.9 km | south-west |
| Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport Bordeaux | BOD | 95.1 km | north-east |
Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.
Local transport: 2 bus stops within 1.5 km and 12 mapped car parks within 1 km.
2 towns and villages of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 3K residents); within 30 km there are 9 (about 17.6K).
Photos
From above
Around the beach
Lighthouses & piers
- Phare de Contis lighthouse 580 m NE
Campsites
- Aire Camping-Car 430 m NE
- Yelloh Village Lous Seurrots - Contis Plage 530 m SE
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 5.6 km away.
- Beach outline, surface, rules and public facilities: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), feature w894331126; 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.
- Photos: Wikimedia Commons, author and licence under each image.
- Satellite view: Copernicus Sentinel-2 (ESA), scene S2B_30TXP_20231010_0_L2A.
- Orientation: OpenStreetMap land polygons (ODbL). Depth and terrain: GEBCO 2020 grid.
- Bathing-water quality: European Environment Agency (site FRI1340266M040030).
- Settlements: GeoNames places with 1,000+ inhabitants.
- Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021, 10 m (CC BY 4.0).
- Search popularity: about 12.1K Google searches a month for the name (KeywordTool, October 2026).
Data compiled 2026-10-13. Something wrong? Report a data error.