France / Hauts-de-France
Sainte-Cécile-Plage
Sainte-Cécile-Plage is a coastal resort area in Hauts-de-France, France. Its longest mapped beach stretches about 2.1 km and has a sand surface. The sea averages 17.7 °C in August, its warmest month, and 7.9 °C in February; it never reaches 21 °C on average.
Average sea surface temperature by month. Current month outlined.
The sea peaks at 17.7 °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
- 12Restaurants, cafés & bars
- 3Public toilets
- –Showers
- 11Car parks
- –Lifeguard stations
- 5Hotels & guesthouses
- 3Campsites
- 1Grocery shops
- 1Cash machines
Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 9 restaurants, 1 café and 2 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 “Camiers Sainte Cecile”, 490 m from the beach centre, was rated Good for the 2025 season. It was Excellent in 2 of its 11 classified seasons since 2015.
- 2015Sufficient
- 2016Good
- 2017Sufficient
- 2018Good
- 2019Excellent
- 2020Excellent
- 2021Good
- 2022Sufficient
- 2023Sufficient
- 2024Sufficient
- 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 Sainte-Cécile-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 | 8.9 °C | 7.9 °C | 7.9 °C | 9.3 °C | 11.4 °C | 13.8 °C | 16.1 °C | 17.7 °C | 17.5 °C | 15.7 °C | 13.3 °C | 10.8 °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 | 13.7 | 15.4 | 16.4 | 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 | 3.9 | 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 (17.7 °C) and cool air (highs of 20 °C).
At its warmest the water here is 4.4 °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 16.4 hours in June; in mid-August the sun rises at 06:40 and sets at 21:16 local time.
Orientation, sun and shore
The shore faces west (270°). Open water fills about 36% 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 22:06 local time on a bearing of 310°.
Straight out to the west there is open water for more than 2,000 km, so the beach is exposed to long ocean swell.
The sea floor is still within the shallow coastal margin 1 km out; 3 km offshore the depth is about 13 m. Behind the beach the ground is about 17 m above sea level 500 m inland and 21 m at 1.5 km.
Within 1 km, the land is 48% tree cover, 29% built-up land and 17% grassland (satellite land-cover map, 2021): a partly built-up setting. Water makes up 23% of that circle.
- Tree 48%
- Built 29%
- Grass 17%
- Bare 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 | 107 km | east |
| Ostend-Bruges International Airport Oostende | OST | 114 km | north-east |
| London Southend Airport Southend-on-Sea, Essex | SEN | 127 km | north-west |
Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.
Local transport: rail station Dannes - Camiers (2.2 km) and 11 mapped car parks within 1 km.
7 towns and villages of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 28.3K residents); within 30 km there are 39 (about 221.1K).
Photos
From above
Around the beach
Attractions & museums
- Opalaventure Park attraction 950 m SE
Campsites
- Camping Arc International 140 m NE
- Camping de la Mer 320 m NW
Map and nearby beaches
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| Beach | Distance | Warmest sea | Length | Surface |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Cécile-Plage | – | 17.7 °C | 2.1 km | Sand |
| Le Touquet-Paris-Plage | 6.1 km S | 17.7 °C | 8.1 km | Sand |
| Hardelot-Plage | 6.8 km N | 17.7 °C | – | – |
| Équihen-Plage | 11.6 km N | 17.7 °C | 173 m | – |
- Le Touquet-Paris-Plage6.1 km SCompare
- Hardelot-Plage6.8 km NCompare
- Équihen-Plage11.6 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 6.3 km away.
- Beach outline, surface, rules and public facilities: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), feature w504614119; 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 S2C_31UCS_20250825_0_L2A.
- Orientation: OpenStreetMap land polygons (ODbL). Depth and terrain: GEBCO 2020 grid.
- Bathing-water quality: European Environment Agency (site FRE1262201M062220).
- Settlements: GeoNames places with 1,000+ inhabitants.
- Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021, 10 m (CC BY 4.0).
- Search popularity: about 9.9K Google searches a month for the name (KeywordTool, October 2026).
Data compiled 2026-10-13. Something wrong? Report a data error.