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Le pays du Touquet

Merlimont beach

Quieter and more natural than its bigger neighbours

Merlimont beach and its villas

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.

Excellent

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 8 May to 14 September
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Merlimont beach: what you need to know

South of Le Touquet, Merlimont beach offers sporting activities such as sand yachting and shellfish gathering.

Lined with large villas nearly a century old and a promenade that's perfect for summer walks, it's popular with locals and known as a clean beach.

Quieter and more natural than other big beaches on the Opal Coast, it's ideal for a relaxing day out.

  • Quiet
  • Shellfish gathering
  • Sand yachting
  • Large villas

Can you swim in Merlimont?

The regional health agency monitors this beach under the code FRE1262571M062260. It’s rated excellent 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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