France / Normandy
Veules-les-Roses
Veules-les-Roses is a coastal resort area in Normandy, France. Its longest mapped beach stretches about 3.7 km and has a pebble surface. The sea averages 18.3 °C in August, its warmest month, and 7.7 °C in February; it never reaches 21 °C on average.
Average sea surface temperature by month. Current month outlined.
The sea peaks at 18.3 °C in August. Most swimmers find water below 20 °C cold; a wetsuit is common here.
OpenStreetMap shows no lifeguard station within 1 km. Seasonal lifeguard posts are often unmapped, so check on site.
Services in the resort
- 16Restaurants, cafés & bars
- 5Public toilets
- –Showers
- 13Car parks
- –Lifeguard stations
- 5Hotels & guesthouses
- 1Campsites
- 1Grocery shops
- 3Bus stops (1.5 km)
- 1Cash machines
- 1Viewpoints
Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 13 restaurants, 2 cafés and 1 bar. 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 “Veules-Plage”, 700 m from the beach centre, was rated Sufficient for the 2025 season. It was Excellent in 2 of its 11 classified seasons since 2015.
- 2015Good
- 2016Good
- 2017Good
- 2018Good
- 2019Excellent
- 2020Good
- 2021Excellent
- 2022Good
- 2023Sufficient
- 2024Sufficient
- 2025Sufficient
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 Veules-les-Roses
Beach-day index 2.6/10 · France median 4.9
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sea °C | 8.4 °C | 7.7 °C | 7.9 °C | 9.5 °C | 11.8 °C | 14.5 °C | 16.8 °C | 18.3 °C | 17.8 °C | 15.8 °C | 13.1 °C | 10.4 °C |
| High °C | 7° | 7° | 10° | 13° | 15° | 18° | 20° | 20° | 18° | 15° | 11° | 8° |
| Low °C | 3° | 3° | 4° | 6° | 9° | 12° | 14° | 15° | 13° | 10° | 7° | 4° |
| Rain mm | 76 | 64 | 57 | 43 | 60 | 52 | 60 | 70 | 53 | 82 | 90 | 92 |
| Cloud % | 77 | 74 | 68 | 63 | 67 | 66 | 63 | 63 | 61 | 69 | 75 | 76 |
| Wind m/s | 6.8 | 6.6 | 6.0 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 5.0 | 5.9 | 6.2 | 6.7 |
| Daylight h | 8.5 | 10.1 | 11.8 | 13.7 | 15.4 | 16.3 | 16.0 | 14.5 | 12.7 | 10.9 | 9.1 | 8.1 |
| Record high/low | 13°/-6° | 14°/-7° | 18°/-5° | 22°/-2° | 25°/4° | 30°/7° | 32°/10° | 32°/10° | 26°/7° | 24°/1° | 18°/-1° | 14°/-4° |
| Beach index | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.5 | 2.9 | 2.7 | 3.4 | 4.7 | 5.2 | 4.3 | 2.6 | 2.2 | 2.1 |
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 5.2/10, held back mainly by cool air (highs of 20 °C) and cold water (18.3 °C).
At its warmest the water here is 3.8 °C cooler than the France median for August (22.1 °C).
Across the year the sea averages 12.7 °C, cooler than 81% of the coastal beaches in the atlas.
December is the wettest month (92 mm) and April the driest (43 mm); the yearly total is about 800 mm.
Daylight runs from 8.1 hours in December to 16.3 hours in June; in mid-August the sun rises at 06:45 and sets at 21:17 local time.
Orientation, sun and shore
The shore faces north-north-west (335°). Open water fills about 17% of the horizon close by, which makes it a sheltered cove or bay.
The sun sets over the sea in June–July; in mid-June it goes down at 22:06 local time on a bearing of 309°.
The opposite shore is only about 500 m away to the north-north-west, which keeps the water sheltered from big waves.
About 1 km offshore the sea is roughly 4 m deep and 14 m at 3 km, a shallow, gently shelving sea floor. Behind the beach the ground is about 37 m above sea level 500 m inland and 57 m at 1.5 km.
Within 1 km, the land is 46% cropland, 25% tree cover and 23% grassland (satellite land-cover map, 2021): a rural setting among farmland. Water makes up 16% of that circle.
- Crop 46%
- Tree 25%
- Grass 23%
- Built 7%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deauville Normandie airport Deauville | DOL | 73.0 km | south-west |
| Beauvais-Tillé airport Beauvais | BVA | 105 km | south-east |
| Caen Carpiquet airport Caen | CFR | 119 km | south-west |
Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.
Local transport: 3 bus stops within 1.5 km and 13 mapped car parks within 1 km.
4 towns and villages of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 9.3K residents); within 30 km there are 26 (about 92.8K).
Around the beach
Viewpoints
- Belvedere du Point d'Interrogation 570 m NW
Attractions & museums
- Grotte Victor Hugo attraction 630 m N
Nature
- Grotte Victor Hugo cave entrance 630 m N
Campsites
- Camping Les Mouettes 500 m NE
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 5.5 km away.
- Beach outline, surface, rules and public facilities: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), feature w224081995; 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.
- Satellite view: Copernicus Sentinel-2 (ESA), scene S2C_30UYA_20250825_0_L2A.
- Orientation: OpenStreetMap land polygons (ODbL). Depth and terrain: GEBCO 2020 grid.
- Bathing-water quality: European Environment Agency (site FRD2276735M076193).
- Settlements: GeoNames places with 1,000+ inhabitants.
- Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021, 10 m (CC BY 4.0).
- Search popularity: about 5.4K Google searches a month for the name (KeywordTool, October 2026).
Data compiled 2026-10-13. Something wrong? Report a data error.