Find the complete list of
395 Blue Flag labeled beaches in 2019
at the bottom of the article
A label hoisted high!
Having become a reference for all holidaymakers, the Blue Flag is an eco-label born in 1985 at the initiative of the Foundation for Environmental Education in Europe. He rewards the environmental policy of coastal areas and inland waters. Supported by the UNWTO and the UN, the Blue Flag counts a little more each year in the tourism landscape in France, but also in the world.
Flag of the Blue Flag label
Conditions of attribution
The Blue Flag can be assigned to a municipality by the seaside or at a marina. This is why in 2008, the city of Cassis lost the label, but kept the one attributed to its port. A municipality only keeps its label for one year. If she wants to keep it, she must run again the following year.
To obtain the Blue Flag, municipalities must first apply themselves. At the same time, the implementation of a global environmental policy aimed at meeting the various mandatory criteria for obtaining the label is launched. Listed in a sustainable development approach, the municipality's environmental policy must strictly follow the recommendations issued each year by the national jury. Thus, this jury is particularly sensitive to the mode of waste management, water quality and protection of aquatic fauna. The personal initiatives of the municipalities such as improving the reception of disabled people are also welcome.
Plouhinec beach labeled Blue Flag
Very positive results
Hoisting the Blue Flag flag on a beach is therefore a long-term job that needs to be prepared and maintained throughout the year. Because if this whole journey seems long and tedious, it is nevertheless worth it. Indeed, a study shows that 80% of French people prefer to spend a holiday in a city benefiting from the Blue Flag.
But the Pavillon Bleu label aims to cross French borders and become a global standard for the quality of the beaches and marinas. The United Nations is supporting this project as well as the World Tourism Organization. The stake for seaside resorts is therefore essential, because the label is becoming essential for European holidaymakers in their choice of a destination by the water. At a time when French resorts are suffering from increasingly fierce competition from countries like Croatia, their salvation may come from their ability to meet the challenge of environmental quality.
The very rewarding image that it guarantees to its owners also has an impact on the dynamism and therefore the frequentation of the stations concerned. Thus, beyond the assurance of a protected and enhanced environment, these certified municipalities provide the opportunity to practice varied and high-quality nautical activities, other strong expectations of holidaymakers.
By receiving the Blue Flag label, the municipalities undertake to create actions to promote and raise awareness about water. They bring together many local or departmental associations.
The next plans?
In this period of awareness of the need for sustainable tourism, we are increasingly sensitive to the efforts of resorts to protect and improve our environment. But in this era of globalization, a challenge awaits the Blue Flag label: to impose its rules on far-flung destinations in France such as in Africa or Asia ...
Praia do Castelejo in the Algarve in Portugal, labeled Blue Flag
Currently more than 45 countries in the world are rewarded by the label! Countries that are part of Europe but also Japan, South Africa, Brazil and many on the American continent!
So what does the label have in store for 2019?
List of 395 Blue Flag labeled beaches in 2019
AUVERGNE-RHÔNE-ALPES
01 – AIN
- Malafretaz: Main beach
03 - COMBINE
- Vieure: Beach of the lake of Vieure
07 - ARDÈCHE
- Saint-Just d'Ardèche: Beach of Saint Just d'Ardèche
- Saint-Martin d'Ardèche: Grain de sel beach, Sauze beach
15 - CANTAL
- Trémouille : Lastioulles
43 - HAUTE-LOIRE
- Champagnac-le-Vieux: Plan d'eau beach
- Le Bouchet-Saint-Nicolas: Lake Bouchet beach
63 - PUY-DE-DÔME
- Aydat: Plage d'Aydat
- Chambon-sur-Lac: Chambon beach
- La Tour d'Auvergne: Plan d'eau beach
- Murol Grande: Lake Chambon beach
73 - SAVOIE
- Grésy-sur-Isère: Grésy-sur-Isère leisure center
- Macot-La-Plagne: La Plagne Tarentaise Versants d'Aime leisure center
- Saint-Pierre d'Albigny: Carouge lake beach
74 - HAUTE-SAVOIE
- Excenevex: Main beach
- Excenevex: Municipal beach Amphion-les-Bains
- Saint-Gingolph: Municipal beach of Saint-Gingolph
- Saint-Jorioz: Municipal beach
- Thonon-les-Bains: Saint-Disdille Beach, Veyrier-du-Lac Nautical Center Beach: La Brune Beach
BURGUNDY-FRANCHE-COMTÉ
21 – CÔTE-D’OR
- Arnay-le-Duc Fouché
39 - JURA
- Clairvaux-les-Lacs: Beach of the Grand Lac de Clairvaux
58 - NIÈVRE
- Montsauche-les-Settons: Peninsula Beach
France
22 - CÔTES-D'ARMOR
- Trevou-Tréguignec : Trestel
- Plouha: Brehec Plage - Vieux- Brehec, Pors Moguer
29 - FINISTÈRE
- Clohars-Carnoët: Bellangenet, Grands Sables, Kerrou
- Fouesnant-les Glénan: Kerler, Maner Coat Clevarec, Kerambigorn, Cap Coz (middle), Glenan Saint Nicolas
- Le Conquet: Pors Liogan
- Moëlan-sur-Mer: Kerfany, Trenez
- Névez: Dourveil, Tahiti, Rospico, Saint Nicolas
- Plougasnou : Primel Tregastel
- Plouhinec: Gwendrez, Mesperleuc
- Pouldreuzic: Pledges
- Roscoff: Saint-Luc (Roch-kroum)
- Saint-Pol-de-Léon: Sainte Anne
35 - ILLE-ET-VILAINE
- Iffendic: Lake of Trémelin
- Saint-Briac-sur-Mer: La Salinette, Port Hue
56 - MORBIHAN
- Carnac: Saint-Colomban, Grande Plage
- Guidel: La Falaise, Le Loc'h, Pen er Malo
- Plouhinec: Kervegant, Le Magouero
CENTER-VAL DE LOIRE
36 - INDIRE
- Eguzon-Chantôme: Chambon A
37 - INDRE-ET-LOIRE
- Joué-les-Tours: Bathing Bretonnières
41 - LOIR-ET-CHER
- Villiers-sur-Loir: Beach at the leisure center
CORSE
2A - SOUTH CORSICA
- Ajaccio Trottel, Sacred Land
GREAT EAST
08 - ARDENNES
- Charleville Mézières: Swimming in the Warenne
10 - DAWN
- Dienville: Dienville Plage
- Géraudot : Géraudot
- Lusigny-sur-Barse: Lusigny beach
- Mesnil-Saint-Père: Mesnil-Saint-Père
HAUTS-DE-FRANCE
02 - AISNE
- Monampteuil: Axo'Plage
62 - PAS-DE-CALAIS
- Berck-sur-Mer: Center beach
80 - SUM
- Cayeux-sur-Mer Town Beach
ILE-DE-FRANCE
77 - SEINE-ET-MARNE
- Annet-sur-Marne: Leisure Island of Jablines-Annet
- Souppes-sur-Loing: Swimming in Souppes-sur-Loing
- Torcy: Torcy beach
NORMANDIE
14 - CALVADOS
- Colleville-Montgomery : Colleville plage
- Courseulles-sur-Mer: In front of Swimming pool access, Pleasure island
- Honfleur: Butin Beach
- Pont-l'Évêque: Lake of Pont-l'Évêque
50 - SOME
- Agon Coutainville: Center Beach
- Barneville-Carteret Plage de la Potinière, Plage de Barneville
- Bréhal: RD 592 Plage de St Martin de Bréhal
- Carolles: Carolles beach
- Donville-les-Bains: Lude
- Granville: Le Plat-Gousset
- Jullouville: The Casino, The Boaters
- The Piles: Sciotot
- Portal: Semaphore
- Saint-Pair-sur-Mer: Kairon opposite CD 373
- Siouville-Hague: Cale John Hunter Beach
76 - SEINE-MARITIME
- Dieppe: Puys Beach
- Fécamp: Fécamp
- Le Havre: Le Havre beach
- Saint-Jouin-Bruneval: Saint-Jouin Plage
NEW AQUITAINE
17 - CHARENTE MARITIME
- La Rochelle: Chef de Baie, La Concurrence, Les Minimes
- Le-Bois-Plage-en-Ré: Gros-Jonc, Les Gollandières (container V)
- Le-Grand-Village-Plage: Giraudière Beach
- Royan: Le Chay
- Saint-Georges-d'Oléron: Boyardville Beach, La Gautrelle Beach, Plaisance Beach, Sables Vignier Beach
- Saint-Trojan-les-Bains: The big beach, Gatseau
19 - CORRÈZE
- Ambrugeat-Meymac: Séchemailles lake
- Egletons: Lake beach
- Masseret: Water Plan Masseret - Lamongerie
- Neuvic d'Ussel: The Beach
- Treignac: Les Bariousses
24 - DORDOGNE
- Carsac de Gurson: Lac de Gurson beach
- La Jemaye-Ponteyraud: Grand Etang beach
- Saint-Estèphe: Grand Etang beach
- Saint-Saud-Lacoussière: The large pond of Gourgousse
- Tamnies: Tamniès Leisure Pond
33 - GIRONDE
- Bordeaux: Lake beach
- Grayan and the Hospital: Le Gurp, Euronat (naturist)
- Hourtin: Hourtin Océan, Lac La Jetée (Port beach), Lac Piqueyrot
- Le Verdon-sur-Mer: Ocean beach of Saint-Nicolas
- Naujac-sur-Mer: Le Pin Sec
- Soulac-sur-Mer: L'Amélie, Central Beach, Naïades Beach
40 - COUNTRY
- Seignosse: Les Estagnots, Le Penon
47 - LOT-ET-GARONNE
- Lougratte: Lac de Lougratte
64 - PYRENEES-ATLANTICS
- Guiche: Base de Pop
87 - HAUTE-VIENNE
- Saint-Hilaire-les-Places: Pleasure lake
OCCITANIE
11 - AUDE
- Fleury d'Aude: Les Cabanes de Fleury, Saint-Pierre-La-Mer
- Gruissan: Grazel, Les Chalets, Mateille-Ayguades
- Leucate: La Franqui (Peninsula), Leucate Beach (Peninsula), Naturists (Port Leucate), Le Kyklos, Copacabana (Port Leucate)
- Narbonne-Plage: Center Beach, Karantes Beach, Languedoc Beach, Créneau Naturel Beach
- Port-la-Nouvelle: Front de Mer beach
12 - AVEYRON
- Salles-Curan: Vernhes beach 1, Vernhes beach 2
30 - GARD
- Le-Grau-du-Roi: Le Boucanet, Right Bank, Left Bank, North Port Camargue, South Camargue Port, Pointe de l'Espiguette
31 - HAUTE GARONNE
- Montréjeau: Lake Montréjeau
32 - GERS
- Castéra-Verduzan: Leisure Center
34 - HÉRAULT
- Agde: Grau d'Agde / Saint Vincent, La Tamarissière, Le Môle, Les Battuts, Plage Naturiste, Richelieu, Rochelongue, La Roquille, La Plagette
- Clermont-l'Hérault: Lac du Salagou - campsite beach
- Frontignan La Peyrade: The entrance, The Port, La Bergerie, Les Aresquiers, Le Grau
- La Grande Motte: Grand Travers, Echirolles Beach, Couchant Beach
- / Rose des Sables, Saint Clair / Point Zéro
- Marseillan: Honor Beach, Robinson
- Mauguio Carnon: Carnon Center, Carnon / Degrasse, Carnon l'Avranche (De Grasse / Suffren), Carnon les Dunes (cross section)
- Palavas-les-Flots: Rive Gauche - Le Grec, Rive Droite - Saint Pierre, Rive Gauche - St Maurice, Rive Gauche - St Roch, Rive Droite - L'Albatros
- Portiragnes: La Redoute (Blockhaus), Le Bosquet
- Sérignan: Sérignan Plage
- Sète: 3 Dikes, Castellas, Lazaret, Plage de la Baleine, Plage de la Fontaine, Plage du Lido
- Valras-Plage: Casino, De Gaulle, Les Mouettes, Central lifeguard station
- Routes: Farinette
- Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone: Pilou Beach, Prévost Beach
46 – LOT
- Montcuq en Quercy Blanc: Saint-Sernin beach
48 - LOZÈRE
- Villefort: Lac de Villefort
66 - PYRENEES-ORIENTALES
- Argelès-sur-Mer: Center-Pins Beach, Marenda- Tamariguer Beach, Racou Beach, South Beach
- Banyuls-sur-Mer: Central Beach
- Canet-en-Roussillon: Sardinal Beach (North of the port), Roussillon Beach, Central Beach, Grand Large Beach, Marenda Beach, Mar Estang Beach
- Port Barcarès: Lydia beach, South Digue beach of the Port, Village beach
- Port-Vendres: Bernardi beach, Usine beach
- Saint Cyprien: Art Beach PS1, Art Beach PS2, Port Beach, Capellans Beach, Lagoon Beach
- Sainte-Marie-La-Mer: Municipal campsite beach, 4th Epi beach, 3rd Epi beach, 2nd Epi beach, 1st Epi beach, Central Beach
- Torreilles: Center Beach, North Beach, South Beach
81 - TARN
- Rivers: Aiguelèze
- Trébas-les-bains: Leisure center of Trébas
82 - TARN-ET-GARONNE
- Laguépie: Edge of the viaur
- Molières: Lake Beach Sand
- Monclar-de-Quercy: Lake Beach toboggan side
PAYS DE LA LOIRE
44 - LOIRE-ATLANTIQUE
- La Baule-Escoublac: Facing Avenue du Général de Gaulle, Facing Avenue de la Grande Dune, Facing Esplanade Benoît
- La Bernerie-en-Retz: Grande Plage, Maurice Giros lake
- La Turballe: Les Bretons 1, Pen Bron (VVF), Ker Élisabeth
- Plessé: Etang de Buhel
- Pornic: Birochère, Pond, La Noeveillard, Le Porteau, Portmain
- Pornichet: Bonne Source, Sainte-Marguerite, Les Libraires
- Prefailles: L'Anse du Sud, Port Meleu
- Saint-Brevin-les-Pins: Ermitage Beach, Rochelets Beach, Ocean Beach
- Saint-Michel-Chef-Chef: Gohaud beach, The big beach of Tharon
- Saint-Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu: Beach of the parc de la boulogne
- Saint-Nazaire: M. hulot beach, Courance beach, Jaunais beach
72 - SARTHE
- La Flèche: La Monnerie beach
85 - SALE
- La Barre de Monts: Fromentine, La Bergère / La Grande Côte
- La Faute-sur-Mer: Grand'Plage, Barrique Beach
- La Tranche sur Mer: La Terrière, Les Generelles, central beach, La Grière, Sainte Anne, La Porte des Iles, Guardhouse
- Longeville-sur-Mer: Le Petit Rocher, Les Conches
- Notre Dame de Monts: Central Beach
- Saint-Jean-de-Monts: The Big Beach
- Talmont-Saint-Hilaire: Le Veillon
- Xanton-Chassenon: Lake Albert
PROVENCE-ALPES -CÔTES D'AZUR
04 - ALPES DE HAUTE PROVENCE
- Ubaye-Serre-Ponçon: Beach of Saint Vincent les Forts
05 - HIGH MOUNTAINS
- Chorges: Trémouilles beach
- Crots : Chanterenne
- Embrun: North Beach
- Rousset: Old Wood
- Sauze du Lac: Port Saint Pierre (beach)
- Savines le Lac: Savin'Plage, Combette Beach
06 - ALPES-MARITIMES
- Antibes: Les Groules, Fontonne East, Fontonne West, Antibes-les-Pins East, Antibes-les-Pins West, Garoupe West, La Salis, Marineland, Fort Carré
- Cannes: Bijou, Shipyards, Trou (Roubine), Font de Veyre, Gazagnaire, Merchandise station, Ile Sainte Marguerite East, Ile Sainte Marguerite West, Midi, Moure Rouge, Rochers de la Bocca, Riou (Plage de la Nadine), Saint
- Georges, Sud Aviation
- Mandelieu-La Napoule: Sable d'Or Beach
- Nice: Carras, Coco Beach, Magnan, Saint Hélène
- Vallauris: Noon
13 - BOUCHES-DU-RHÔNE
- Cassis: Bestouan, Grande Mer
- Fos-sur-Mer: Cavaou, Grande Plage
- Marignane: Jaï north
- Port-de-Bouc : Bottai
- Sausset-les-Pins: Corniche
83 - VAR
- Hyères: Ayguade, Almanarre Nord, La Bergerie, Les Salins
- La Croix-Valmer: Gigaro, The Customs The Landing
- La Londe-les-Maures: L'Argentière, Miramar, Tamaris
- La-Seyne-sur-Mer: Sablettes, Sablettes Saint Elme
- Le Lavandou: Aiguebelle, Anglade, Cavalière, la Fossette, Lavandou ville, Pramousquier, Saint Clair
- Le Pradet: Les Bonnettes, La Garonne, Le Monaco, Les Oursinières
- Rayol Canadel-sur-Mer: Canadel, Pramousquier East Beach, Rayol
- Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer: La Madrague, Les Lecques Saint Come Ouest
- Saint-Mandrier-sur-Mer: La Coudouliere, La Vieille, Saint-Asile, Touring, Le Canon
- Sainte-Maxime: Garonnette, La Croisette, La Nartelle, Ceonrstree-ville
- Six-Fours-Les-Plages: Bonnegrace Kennedy, Bonnegrace Center first aid station, Le Cros, La Coudouliere, Les Roches Brunes
- Toulon: Mistral, Plage des Pins, Plage du Lido, Plage de la Source
To find out more: official website of the Blue Flag
