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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Off Agami — western sector · 0.2 m · 1 ft · wind WNW 11 km/h
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
Green: entering the water is allowed. Yellow: the sea is unsettled; you may go in, but with care and only inside the marked area. Red: swimming is forbidden outright — not "take care", not "strong swimmers only". No entry to the water at all.
This page cannot tell you today's flag
No colour is shown here, for any beach, ever. The flags are announced as a daily statement, sometimes beach by beach and sometimes district by district, with no feed anyone can read automatically — and a stale colour on a page about drowning would be dangerous. Nothing on this page maps a wave height onto a flag colour either: the administration publishes no such threshold and we will not invent one. Read the flag on the beach.
Who raises the flags
The Central Administration for Tourism and Resorts, part of Alexandria Governorate, working from the Egyptian Meteorological Authority's reports on waves and currents. It announces the day's flags by beach or by district, and they can change overnight. In practice you find out from the flag on the pole and from the lifeguards standing under it.
The west and the east do not get the same sea
The western beaches — Agami, Hanoville, Dekheila, out towards Abu Talat — are usually flagged as a whole sector at once, and they are the ones closed most often. Dr Samar El-Shennawy of Alexandria University explains why: along the western coast, meeting currents form strong pulling eddies that can take a swimmer in seconds, made worse in places by badly placed breakwaters, and they form exactly where holidaymakers think the water looks calmest. Agami has been closed repeatedly for this reason. On the city corniche the flags are set beach by beach and can differ on the same day — on 26 July 2026 the administration had Stanley and every Agami beach red, Bahari al-Mumayyaz green, and beaches at Montazah, Glym and Gomrok yellow. One naming trap: the administration's "eastern sector" includes Anfoushi and Ras el-Tin, which are the westernmost parts of the old city, so its sector names are not compass directions.
What a beach costs
There are 43 public beaches from Abu Qir in the east to Abu Talat in the west, graded into six price bands, and the administration held the 2026 prices at 2025’s. Two are free outright — Abtal al-Tahaddi in Gomrok and Hanoville al-Aam in Agami — and so are their chairs, umbrellas, toilets and changing rooms. A general beach is 5 EGP a person. Where a chair and umbrella are brought to you it is 10 EGP, or 5 if you bring your own; Abu al-Abbas, Dekheila east and west, Agami and Hanoville sit in that band. Beaches graded distinguished are 15 EGP (Abu Qir al-Sharqi, Aroos al-Bahr, al-Silsila) or 20 EGP (Wanly, al-Asafeer, Iskandar); those graded tourist are 25 EGP (Stanley, Mahmoud Said) or 30 EGP (Tahouna al-Mandara). Watch the two Hanovilles: Hanoville al-Aam is the free one, and the beach called simply Hanoville is in the 10 EGP band. Reported by Masrawy on 11 July 2026 and by Al-Ahram Gate on 7 April 2026, both quoting the Tourism and Resorts Administration. Neither source names all 43, so this is the grading rather than a full list of beaches — ask at the gate.
Off Agami — western sector
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.
Calm sea — about as settled as this coast gets
Waves
0.2 m · 1 ft
Swell
7s from the NNW
Wind
11 km/h from the WNW — onshore
Sea temperature
26.4°C
Next few days
Day
Waves
Wind
Looks like
Tue 13 Oct
0.5 m · 2 ft
8 km/h N (onshore)
A light swell — expect some movement in the water
Wed 14 Oct
0.8 m · 2 ft
20 km/h W (onshore)
Small but choppy — harder work than it looks from the beach
Thu 15 Oct
1.8 m · 6 ft
Al-Anfoushi
The model reads one square of sea for this stretch, so Abu al-Abbas gets the same numbers.
Calm sea — about as settled as this coast gets
Waves
0.2 m · 1 ft
Swell
5s from the NW
Wind
12 km/h from the WNW — onshore
Sea temperature
26.4°C
Next few days
Day
Waves
Wind
Looks like
Tue 13 Oct
0.5 m · 2 ft
8 km/h NNW (onshore)
A light swell — expect some movement in the water
Wed 14 Oct
0.6 m · 2 ft
20 km/h WSW (cross-shore)
Small but choppy — harder work than it looks from the beach
Thu 15 Oct
1.5 m · 5 ft
18 km/h W (cross-shore)
A lively sea — hard work to swim in; think twice
Stanley
One square of sea covers Stanley and Glym, so both read the same.
Calm sea — about as settled as this coast gets
Waves
0.1 m · 0 ft
Swell
3s from the NW
Wind
11 km/h from the WNW — onshore
Sea temperature
26.3°C
Next few days
Day
Waves
Wind
Looks like
Tue 13 Oct
0.3 m · 1 ft
8 km/h NNW (onshore)
A light swell — expect some movement in the water
Wed 14 Oct
0.5 m · 2 ft
21 km/h WSW (cross-shore)
Small but choppy — harder work than it looks from the beach
Thu 15 Oct
1.2 m · 4 ft
18 km/h W (cross-shore)
A lively sea — hard work to swim in; think twice
Mandara
Calm sea — about as settled as this coast gets
Waves
0.2 m · 1 ft
Swell
6s from the WNW
Wind
12 km/h from the WNW — onshore
Sea temperature
26.3°C
Next few days
Day
Waves
Wind
Looks like
Tue 13 Oct
0.4 m · 1 ft
9 km/h N (onshore)
A light swell — expect some movement in the water
Wed 14 Oct
0.6 m · 2 ft
25 km/h WSW (cross-shore)
Small but choppy — harder work than it looks from the beach
Thu 15 Oct
1.4 m · 5 ft
20 km/h W (cross-shore)
A lively sea — hard work to swim in; think twice
Fri 16 Oct
1.1 m · 3 ft
18 km/h NW (onshore)
A lively sea — hard work to swim in; think twice
A forecast is not a lifeguard
These are open-water model forecasts, not spot-by-spot readings — shelter, tide and wind change what the water actually feels like at each beach. Beaches on this coast have real rip currents: swim and surf between the flags when lifeguards are on, and if in doubt, don’t go out. In an emergency call 123 for an ambulance. The police are 122 and the tourist police 126.
Forecast updated 12 October at 14:51. Weather and marine data by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).