France / Occitanie
Gruissan-Plage
Gruissan-Plage is a coastal resort area in Occitanie, France on the Mediterranean Sea. Its longest mapped beach (Plage des Chalets) stretches about 1.8 km and has a sand surface. The sea averages 21.9 °C in August, its warmest month, and 11.7 °C in February; it is 21 °C or warmer in July–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
- 11Restaurants, cafés & bars
- 2Public toilets
- –Showers
- 1Drinking water
- 10Car parks
- –Lifeguard stations
- 7Hotels & guesthouses
- 2Grocery shops
- 1Water-sports spots
- 11Bus stops (1.5 km)
Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 5 restaurants, 2 cafés, 3 bars and 1 fast-food outlet. Accommodation: 7 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 “Les Chalets”, 620 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 Gruissan-Plage
Beach-day index 4.6/10 · France median 4.9
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sea °C | 12.4 °C | 11.7 °C | 12.2 °C | 13.5 °C | 15.9 °C | 19.1 °C | 21.1 °C | 21.9 °C | 20.2 °C | 18.3 °C | 16.0 °C | 13.7 °C |
| High °C | 8° | 9° | 13° | 16° | 20° | 26° | 29° | 29° | 24° | 19° | 13° | 9° |
| Low °C | 1° | 1° | 4° | 7° | 10° | 14° | 17° | 16° | 13° | 10° | 5° | 2° |
| Rain mm | 57 | 44 | 53 | 65 | 58 | 35 | 26 | 30 | 48 | 80 | 71 | 51 |
| Cloud % | 71 | 65 | 64 | 64 | 65 | 54 | 45 | 47 | 50 | 61 | 69 | 67 |
| Wind m/s | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.8 | 4.1 | 4.0 |
| Daylight h | 9.3 | 10.5 | 11.9 | 13.4 | 14.6 | 15.4 | 15.1 | 14.0 | 12.6 | 11.1 | 9.8 | 9.0 |
| Record high/low | 18°/-8° | 21°/-11° | 23°/-7° | 27°/-1° | 33°/2° | 42°/6° | 37°/10° | 40°/11° | 34°/4° | 30°/-3° | 23°/-4° | 18°/-9° |
| Beach index | 2.8 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 2.8 | 4.6 | 8.0 | 8.7 | 8.9 | 7.8 | 4.6 | 3.0 | 2.9 |
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 8.9/10 with highs of 29 °C, sea at 21.9 °C and 30 mm of rain.
In August that is 0.9 points above the median of the 625 beaches in France covered by this atlas.
Across the year the sea averages 16.3 °C, cooler than 67% of the coastal beaches in the atlas.
October is the wettest month (80 mm) and July the driest (26 mm); the yearly total is about 620 mm.
Daylight runs from 9.0 hours in December to 15.4 hours in June; in mid-August the sun rises at 06:52 and sets at 20:52 local time.
Orientation, sun and shore
The shore faces south-east (125°). Open water fills about 44% of the horizon close by, which makes it an open stretch of shore.
At no time of year does the sun set over the sea here: sunset bearings run from 238° to 304°, behind the land.
Sunrise is over the sea in every month.
Straight out to the south-east about 1,200 km of open sea lies before the next coast, enough for large swells to build.
About 1 km offshore the sea is roughly 8 m deep and 27 m at 3 km, a shallow, gently shelving sea floor. Behind the beach the ground is about 1 m above sea level 500 m inland and 4 m at 1.5 km, a flat coastal plain.
Within 1 km, the land is 35% built-up land, 33% bare ground, sand or rock and 19% wetland (satellite land-cover map, 2021): a partly built-up setting. Water makes up 59% of that circle.
- Built 35%
- Bare 33%
- Wetland 19%
- Grass 13%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Béziers Vias airport Béziers | BZR | 31.1 km | north-east |
| Perpignan-Rivesaltes (Llabanère) Airport Perpignan/Rivesaltes | PGF | 45.0 km | south-west |
| Carcassonne Salvaza Airport Carcassonne | CCF | 67.0 km | west |
Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.
Local transport: 11 bus stops within 1.5 km and 10 mapped car parks within 1 km.
2 towns and villages of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 4.6K residents); within 30 km there are 38 (about 217.5K).
From above
Around the beach
Attractions & museums
- surf house attraction 720 m S
Diving & boat hire
- Akila Gruissan - Pole Mer 700 m S
Map and nearby beaches
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| Beach | Distance | Warmest sea | Length | Surface |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gruissan-Plage | – | 21.9 °C | 1.8 km | Sand |
| Narbonne-Plage | 7.5 km NE | 21.9 °C | 4.2 km | – |
| Valras-Plage | 21.4 km NE | 21.9 °C | 2.4 km | Sand |
| Sérignan-Plage | 26.4 km NE | 21.9 °C | – | – |
| Vias-Plage | 33.7 km NE | 22.0 °C | 992 m | – |
| Le Barcarès | 34.9 km S | 21.9 °C | 1.9 km | – |
- Narbonne-Plage7.5 km NECompare
- Valras-Plage21.4 km NECompare
- Sérignan-Plage26.4 km NECompare
- Vias-Plage33.7 km NECompare
- Le Barcarès34.9 km SCompare
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 2.6 km away.
- Beach outline, surface, rules and public facilities: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), feature w49248872; restaurants, cafés, bars and lodging: Overture Maps places (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).
- Water body, status and length: Wikidata (CC0).
- 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 S2A_31TEH_20250811_1_L2A.
- Orientation: OpenStreetMap land polygons (ODbL). Depth and terrain: GEBCO 2020 grid.
- Bathing-water quality: European Environment Agency (site FRJ1111170M011115).
- Settlements: GeoNames places with 1,000+ inhabitants.
- Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021, 10 m (CC BY 4.0).
- Search popularity: about 22.2K Google searches a month for the name (KeywordTool, October 2026).
Data compiled 2026-10-13. Something wrong? Report a data error.