France / New Aquitaine
Ondres-Plage
Ondres-Plage is a coastal resort area in New Aquitaine, France on the North Atlantic Ocean. Its longest mapped beach (Plage Ondres-Océan) stretches about 2.3 km and has a sand surface. The sea averages 22.1 °C in August, its warmest month, and 12.0 °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
- 6Restaurants, cafés & bars
- 2Public toilets
- –Showers
- 1Drinking water
- 4Car parks
- –Lifeguard stations
- 1Hotels & guesthouses
- 1Campsites
- 5Bus stops (1.5 km)
- 1Viewpoints
Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 5 restaurants and 1 bar. Accommodation: 1 hotel or guesthouse.
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 D'ondres”, 110 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 Ondres-Plage
Beach-day index 4.9/10 · France median 4.9
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sea °C | 12.6 °C | 12.0 °C | 12.4 °C | 13.6 °C | 15.9 °C | 18.9 °C | 21.2 °C | 22.1 °C | 20.7 °C | 18.3 °C | 15.7 °C | 13.7 °C |
| High °C | 11° | 11° | 14° | 17° | 20° | 24° | 26° | 26° | 24° | 20° | 14° | 11° |
| Low °C | 6° | 5° | 7° | 9° | 12° | 15° | 17° | 17° | 15° | 13° | 9° | 6° |
| Rain mm | 107 | 76 | 77 | 74 | 78 | 64 | 44 | 46 | 57 | 83 | 126 | 101 |
| Cloud % | 79 | 73 | 71 | 72 | 72 | 68 | 64 | 64 | 63 | 69 | 76 | 77 |
| Wind m/s | 3.8 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 3.0 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 3.1 | 3.6 | 3.8 |
| Daylight h | 9.3 | 10.5 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.7 | 15.4 | 15.1 | 14.0 | 12.6 | 11.1 | 9.7 | 9.0 |
| Record high/low | 18°/-3° | 20°/-5° | 23°/-3° | 28°/3° | 33°/6° | 38°/9° | 39°/13° | 41°/12° | 36°/8° | 29°/2° | 24°/-0° | 18°/-4° |
| Beach index | 2.4 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 4.1 | 6.9 | 8.4 | 8.7 | 7.7 | 4.9 | 2.5 | 2.4 |
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 8.7/10 with highs of 26 °C, sea at 22.1 °C and 46 mm of rain.
In August that is 0.7 points above the median of the 625 beaches in France covered by this atlas.
Across the year the sea averages 16.4 °C, cooler than 67% of the coastal beaches in the atlas.
November is the wettest month (126 mm) and July the driest (44 mm); the yearly total is about 930 mm.
Daylight runs from 9.0 hours in December to 15.4 hours in June; in mid-August the sun rises at 07:09 and sets at 21:11 local time.
Orientation, sun and shore
The shore faces west-north-west (300°). 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 21:48 local time on a bearing of 304°.
Straight out to the west-north-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 13 m deep and 27 m at 3 km. Behind the beach the ground is about 8 m above sea level 500 m inland and 11 m at 1.5 km, a flat coastal plain.
Within 1 km, the land is 50% tree cover, 26% grassland and 20% bare ground, sand or rock (satellite land-cover map, 2021): a largely natural setting. Water makes up 46% of that circle.
- Tree 50%
- Grass 26%
- Bare 20%
- Built 3%
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 | 12.4 km | south |
| San Sebastián Airport Hondarribia | EAS | 34.6 km | south-west |
| Pau Pyrénées Airport Pau/Pyrénées (Uzein) | PUF | 89.1 km | east |
Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.
Local transport: 5 bus stops within 1.5 km and 4 mapped car parks within 1 km.
7 towns and villages of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 82.8K residents); within 30 km there are 50 (about 287.9K).
Photos
From above
Around the beach
Viewpoints
- Promenade de l'océan 60 m E
Campsites
- Camping Sandaya Ondres Océan 650 m E
Map
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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 12.2 km away.
- Beach outline, surface, rules and public facilities: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), feature w552158217; 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 S2B_30TXP_20260914_0_L2A.
- Orientation: OpenStreetMap land polygons (ODbL). Depth and terrain: GEBCO 2020 grid.
- Bathing-water quality: European Environment Agency (site FRI1340209M040140).
- Settlements: GeoNames places with 1,000+ inhabitants.
- Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021, 10 m (CC BY 4.0).
- Search popularity: about 2.9K Google searches a month for the name (KeywordTool, October 2026).
Data compiled 2026-10-13. Something wrong? Report a data error.