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Les Deux Caps

Escalles beach

At the foot of Cape Blanc-Nez, a hundred per cent nature

Escalles beach at the foot of Cape Blanc-Nez

The essentials

Water quality

How this rating is calculated

The regional health agency samples the water several times a season and measures two faecal bacteria: Escherichia coli and intestinal enterococci.

The rating isn’t based on a single sample, but on all the results from the last four seasons. It’s recalculated every year and places the beach into one of four levels, from poor to excellent, based on the share of results that exceed European thresholds.

The upshot: a beach rated excellent can be closed on a stormy day, and a poorly rated beach can have perfect water today. The rating shows the trend, not today’s weather.

Sufficient

Monitored bathing

Health monitoring and supervision

This is the period declared by the local council during which the regional health agency tests the water.

This isn’t the period of lifeguard supervision, which is down to the local council and is often shorter. Check with the town hall before relying on it.

From 15 June to 15 September
The sand
Sable fin
Dogs
Allowed on a lead on the gully. Banned from 15 May to 15 September.Council order on record; the signs on site have the final say.

Escalles beach: what you need to know

At the foot of Cape Blanc-Nez, Escalles beach is a hundred per cent natural beach. Voted France's most beautiful beach in 2016 by Paris-Match magazine, it's reached at low tide via the Escalles gully.

Surrounded by fields of poppies and rapeseed, it offers sunsets loved by locals and artists alike.

  • At the foot of Cape Blanc-Nez
  • 100% nature
  • Sunsets
  • Poppies

Can you swim in Escalles?

The regional health agency monitors this beach under the code FRE1262307M062080. It’s rated sufficient water quality over the last four seasons of testing.

No closures or pollution were reported at this beach during the last monitored season.

Data: Ministry of Health, under Open Licence. Full details of the site are in its bathing water profile.

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