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Can I swim at Robin Hoods Bay?

North Yorkshire, England · Coastal

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About this bathing water

Rating for last season
Sufficient (2025)
Water
Coastal
Area
North Yorkshire, England
Monitored outfalls within 5km
5 (nearest 0.2km)
Affected by heavy rain
Yes, per the regulator

Robin Hoods Bay was rated Sufficient for 2025 — the minimum passing grade in the Bathing Water Regulations. That grade comes from bacterial samples taken over several seasons, so it describes the beach's record rather than the water on any given day.

The Environment Agency issues a pollution risk forecast for this beach every morning during the bathing season, and the water company publishes the status of its storm overflows every few minutes.

The regulator records this as a bathing water whose quality can be affected by heavy rain, which is why rainfall in the last 24 hours is shown above.

Other beaches nearby

WhitbyNorth Yorkshire, England · 9.1 km awaySandsendNorth Yorkshire, England · 11.8 km awayScarborough North BayNorth Yorkshire, England · 17.2 km awayRunswick BayNorth Yorkshire, England · 18.0 km awayScarborough South BayNorth Yorkshire, England · 18.7 km awayCayton BayNorth Yorkshire, England · 23.3 km away

Check the official source

Robin Hoods Bay's official page at the Environment Agency · See it on a map

This page is not official. It reads published data and presents it plainly; if a sign at the beach says otherwise, believe the sign.