Omaha Beach

Normandy · 🇫🇷 France

A vast, wind-swept strand of huge tides and deep history — the most storied of the 1944 D-Day landing beaches.

Sea temperature

~17°C in the warm season

Water

Cool, calm Channel blue

Sand

Wide flat golden sand

Swimming

Shallow and calm at high tide; vast flats at low tide

Best time to visit

May-Sep

Setting

A vast, solemn D-Day landing beach backed by memorials and a cemetery

Beach type

Cold-water coast

Region

Europe

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Photo: Jebulon (CC0) · source