France / Occitanie

Torreilles-Plage

Torreilles-Plage is a coastal resort area in Occitanie, France. Its longest mapped beach (Plage Torreilles) stretches about 2.3 km. The sea averages 21.9 °C in August, its warmest month, and 11.9 °C in February; it is 21 °C or warmer in July–August.

Average sea surface temperature by month. Current month outlined.

Satellite image of Torreilles-Plage and its surroundings
Satellite view, 2.4 × 1.6 km centred on the beach, 2025-08-11. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025.
No lifeguard mapped

OpenStreetMap shows no lifeguard station within 1 km. Seasonal lifeguard posts are often unmapped, so check on site.

Services in the resort

  • 23Restaurants, cafés & bars
  • 11Public toilets
  • –Showers
  • 25Car parks
  • –Lifeguard stations
  • 3Hotels & guesthouses
  • 8Campsites
  • 2Grocery shops
  • 12Bus stops (1.5 km)
  • 1Cash machines
  • 3Bike rental

Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 20 restaurants, 1 bar and 2 fast-food outlets. 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 “Plage Centre”, 140 m from the beach centre, was rated Excellent for the 2025 season. It was Excellent in 11 of its 11 classified seasons since 2015.

  1. 2015Excellent
  2. 2016Excellent
  3. 2017Excellent
  4. 2018Excellent
  5. 2019Excellent
  6. 2020Excellent
  7. 2021Excellent
  8. 2022Excellent
  9. 2023Excellent
  10. 2024Excellent
  11. 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 Torreilles-Plage

Sea18.3 °C
Day high20 °C
Night low13 °C
Rain72 mm
Cloud cover61%
Wind5.4 m/s
Daylight11.1 h07:59–19:07

Beach-day index 4.9/10 · France median 4.9

Monthly averages at Torreilles-Plage
MeasureJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Sea °C12.6 °C11.9 °C12.3 °C13.5 °C15.8 °C19.0 °C21.2 °C21.9 °C20.3 °C18.3 °C16.1 °C13.9 °C
High °C11°11°14°17°20°25°28°28°24°20°15°11°
Low °C5°5°7°10°13°17°20°19°16°13°9°6°
Rain mm513951614927212543725942
Cloud %646264666757505256616260
Wind m/s6.36.45.95.65.54.95.04.84.95.46.26.0
Daylight h9.410.511.913.314.615.315.114.012.611.19.89.1
Record high/low18°/-2°19°/-6°23°/-1°25°/4°30°/5°38°/10°34°/14°36°/14°33°/9°28°/3°23°/1°19°/-2°
Beach index2.62.72.62.64.47.88.68.87.74.92.92.7

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 8.8/10 with highs of 28 °C, sea at 21.9 °C and 25 mm of rain.

In August that is 0.8 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.

October is the wettest month (72 mm) and July the driest (21 mm); the yearly total is about 540 mm.

Daylight runs from 9.1 hours in December to 15.3 hours in June; in mid-August the sun rises at 06:53 and sets at 20:52 local time.

Day highNight lowSeaRain (mm)
Climate and sea temperature at Torreilles-PlageMonthly averages. Lines: daytime high, night low, sea surface temperature. Bars: rainfall in millimetres.0°5°10°15°20°25°30°0 mm50 mm100 mmJanuary: 51 mm rainFebruary: 39 mm rainMarch: 51 mm rainApril: 61 mm rainMay: 49 mm rainJune: 27 mm rainJuly: 21 mm rainAugust: 25 mm rainSeptember: 43 mm rainOctober: 72 mm rainNovember: 59 mm rainDecember: 42 mm rainJanuary: sea 12.6 °CFebruary: sea 11.9 °CMarch: sea 12.3 °CApril: sea 13.5 °CMay: sea 15.8 °CJune: sea 19 °CJuly: sea 21.2 °CAugust: sea 21.9 °CSeptember: sea 20.3 °COctober: sea 18.3 °CNovember: sea 16.1 °CDecember: sea 13.9 °CJanuary: high 10.7 °CFebruary: high 11.2 °CMarch: high 14 °CApril: high 16.9 °CMay: high 20.3 °CJune: high 25.2 °CJuly: high 28 °CAugust: high 27.7 °CSeptember: high 24.1 °COctober: high 20 °CNovember: high 14.8 °CDecember: high 11.4 °CJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Orientation, sun and shore

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The shore faces east (90°). Open water fills about 42% 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 east about 300 km of open sea lies before the next coast, enough for large swells to build.

About 1 km offshore the sea is roughly 14 m deep and 29 m at 3 km. Behind the beach the ground is about 2 m above sea level 500 m inland and 2 m at 1.5 km, a flat coastal plain.

Within 1 km, the land is 40% grassland, 34% built-up land and 8% tree cover (satellite land-cover map, 2021): a partly built-up setting. Water makes up 50% of that circle.

  • Grass 40%
  • Built 34%
  • Tree 8%
  • Shrub 8%
  • Bare 6%
  • Wetland 4%
MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Sunset over sea––––––––––––
Sunrise over seayesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes

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

Airports with scheduled flights
AirportCodeDistanceDirection
Perpignan-Rivesaltes (Llabanère) Airport Perpignan/RivesaltesPGF14.0 kmwest
Béziers Vias airport BéziersBZR66.9 kmnorth
Carcassonne Salvaza Airport CarcassonneCCF77.6 kmnorth-west

Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.

Local transport: 12 bus stops within 1.5 km and 25 mapped car parks within 1 km.

10 towns and villages of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 50.3K residents); within 30 km there are 58 (about 336K).

Around the beach

Attractions & museums

  • La Ferme du Barcarès attraction 880 m NW

Campsites

  • Camping Marvilla Parks Les Dunes 140 m E
  • Camping Homair 180 m W
  • Camping La Palmeraie 200 m W
  • Camping Les Tropiques 230 m N
  • Camping Le Trivoly 260 m W
  • Camping Le Calypso 280 m NW

Map and nearby beaches

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Compared with the nearest beaches
BeachDistanceWarmest seaLengthSurface
Torreilles-Plage–21.9 °C2.3 km–
Le Barcarès3.0 km N21.9 °C1.9 km–
Saint-Cyprien-Plage15.4 km S22.0 °C2.0 kmSand

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 13.8 km away.
  • Beach outline, surface, rules and public facilities: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), feature r17670876; 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_31TEH_20250811_1_L2A.
  • Orientation: OpenStreetMap land polygons (ODbL). Depth and terrain: GEBCO 2020 grid.
  • Bathing-water quality: European Environment Agency (site FRJ1566212M066470).
  • 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.