Grande Plage des Sables-d'Olonne

Les Sables-d'Olonne, Vendée · 🇫🇷 France

A safe golden crescent beneath the Remblai promenade, front garden of the Vendée Globe's home town.

The sea at Grande Plage des Sables-d'Olonne (Les Sables-d'Olonne, Vendée, France) is typically around 20°C in the warm season; the best months to visit are Jun-Sep.

Sea temperature

~20°C in the warm season

Water

Clean green-blue Atlantic, calmer than most of this coast

Sand

Fine pale-gold sand, enormous at low tide

Swimming

Gently shelving, sheltered by the harbour channel and patrolled all summer; a safe family swim

Surf

Usually small; surfers head around the corner to Tanchet

Best time to visit

Jun-Sep

Setting

A perfect town-hugging crescent under the Remblai promenade of the Vendée Globe port

Beach type

City & resort

Region

Europe

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