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Bathing sites with excellent water quality (14.40)

Bathing sites with excellent water quality. Coastal water 2024
Catalonia Spain European Union-27
Number 255 2,021 14,630
Excellent-number 243 1,860 12,997
Excellent-% 95.3 92.0 88.8
Units: Number.
Source Catalonia: Ministry of Territory, Housing and Ecological Transition. Catalan Water Agency. Source Spain and European Union: Eurostat.
Bathing sites with excellent water quality. Inland water 2024
Catalonia Spain European Union-27
Number 7 274 7,218
Excellent-number 4 150 5,655
Excellent-% 57.1 54.7 78.3
Units: Number.
Source Catalonia: Ministry of Territory, Housing and Ecological Transition. Catalan Water Agency. Source Spain and European Union: Eurostat.

Last update: July 2, 2025. Revised series on July 30, 2025.

IQSAB

These statistics have a specific section with all the information available: Summer Bathing Water Quality Indicators (IQSAB).

Methodological note

The indicator measures the number and proportion of coastal and inland bathing sites with excellent water quality. The indicator assessment is based on microbiological parameters (intestinal enterococci and Escherichia coli).

The new Bathing Water Directive requires Member States to identify and assess the quality of all inland and marine bathing waters and to classify these waters as 'poor', 'sufficient', 'good' or 'excellent'.