Today's measured sea off Alexandria — waves, swell, wind and water temperature — with what the green, yellow and red flags mean. The flag on the beach is the only word on whether you may swim.
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What the sea off Alexandria is doing today, and what the flags on the beach mean.
Those are two different things, and only one of them is on this page. The measured sea state below — wave height, swell, wind, water temperature — comes from a weather model and updates through the day. Whether you may go into the water is decided by the flag flying on the beach you are standing on, raised by the governorate's Central Administration for Tourism and Resorts.
This page does not show today's flag colour and never will. There is no public feed of it, it changes from day to day and from beach to beach, and a colour that was right yesterday would be worse than nothing on a page about drowning. The flag on the pole is the authority. Look at it before you get in, and do what the lifeguards tell you.
What the flag colours mean
This page cannot tell you today's flag
Who raises the flags
The west and the east do not get the same sea
What a beach costs
A point in open water off the western sector, not a named beach. The model has no beach-by-beach detail here, and the nearest sea square it reads sits offshore. Coordinates from OpenStreetMap.
A lively sea — hard work to swim in; think twice
| Day | Waves | Wind | Looks like |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 31 Jul | 1.1 m · 4 ft | 12 km/h NW (onshore) | A lively sea — hard work to swim in; think twice |
| Sat 1 Aug | 0.8 m · 3 ft | 9 km/h NW (onshore) | A lively sea — hard work to swim in; think twice |
| Sun 2 Aug | 0.7 m · 2 ft | 9 km/h NW (onshore) |
The model reads one square of sea for this stretch, so Abu al-Abbas gets the same numbers.
A lively sea — hard work to swim in; think twice
| Day | Waves | Wind | Looks like |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 31 Jul | 1.0 m · 3 ft | 12 km/h NW (onshore) | A lively sea — hard work to swim in; think twice |
| Sat 1 Aug | 0.7 m · 2 ft | 10 km/h NW (onshore) | A light swell — expect some movement in the water |
| Sun 2 Aug | 0.6 m · 2 ft | 10 km/h NW (onshore) | A light swell — expect some movement in the water |
| Mon 3 Aug |
One square of sea covers Stanley and Glym, so both read the same.
A light swell — expect some movement in the water
| Day | Waves | Wind | Looks like |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 31 Jul | 0.8 m · 2 ft | 12 km/h NW (onshore) | A light swell — expect some movement in the water |
| Sat 1 Aug | 0.6 m · 2 ft | 10 km/h NW (onshore) | A light swell — expect some movement in the water |
| Sun 2 Aug | 0.5 m · 2 ft | 9 km/h NW (onshore) | A light swell — expect some movement in the water |
| Mon 3 Aug | 0.4 m · 1 ft |
A lively sea — hard work to swim in; think twice
| Day | Waves | Wind | Looks like |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 31 Jul | 0.9 m · 3 ft | 11 km/h NW (onshore) | A lively sea — hard work to swim in; think twice |
| Sat 1 Aug | 0.6 m · 2 ft | 9 km/h NW (onshore) | A light swell — expect some movement in the water |
| Sun 2 Aug | 0.5 m · 2 ft | 10 km/h NW (onshore) | A light swell — expect some movement in the water |
| Mon 3 Aug | 0.5 m · 2 ft | 11 km/h NNW (onshore) | A light swell — expect some movement in the water |
A forecast is not a lifeguard
Forecast updated 30 July at 0:30. Weather and marine data by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).
| A light swell — expect some movement in the water |
| Mon 3 Aug | 0.6 m · 2 ft | 11 km/h NNW (onshore) | A light swell — expect some movement in the water |
| Tue 4 Aug | 0.8 m · 3 ft | 14 km/h NNW (onshore) | Small but choppy — harder work than it looks from the beach |
| 0.5 m · 2 ft |
| 11 km/h NNW (onshore) |
| A light swell — expect some movement in the water |
| Tue 4 Aug | 0.7 m · 2 ft | 13 km/h NNW (onshore) | A light swell — expect some movement in the water |
| 10 km/h NNW (onshore) |
| A light swell — expect some movement in the water |
| Tue 4 Aug | 0.6 m · 2 ft | 13 km/h NNW (onshore) | A light swell — expect some movement in the water |
| Tue 4 Aug | 0.7 m · 2 ft | 13 km/h NNW (onshore) | A light swell — expect some movement in the water |