Hornsea

18.6°C Water temp · Aug 2

United Kingdom Coastal 1 - Excellent 18.6°C

Satellite view of Hornsea — Satellite © Esri

Hornsea Beach is a resort beach on the East Yorkshire coast. It is one kilometre in length. The beach is backed by coastal defences and a seafront promenade. Along the promenade are a small number of tourist establishments and behind this the town of Hornsea.

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Water

Coastal bathing water

Location

East Riding of Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorks

Season

Designated bathing water since 1988. Official monitoring season runs from May to September.

Water Quality

Excellent (2025). Assessed under rBWD

Risks

Bathing water quality may sometimes be affected by storm and emergency overflows. They may operate during and after heavy rainfall when the sewer system becomes overwhelmed by the amount of surface water entering it. It prevents sewage from backing up pipes and flooding properties.

There is an emergency overflow just to the south of the bathing water. During normal weather conditions the overflow takes the drainage from Stream Dyke however under very wet weather conditions and when there are problems with the sewerage network system it will discharge effluent into the North Sea.

This bathing water is included in the Surfers Against Sewage “Safer Seas Service”. This service can alert you to Combined Storm Sewer Overflow discharges via a phone App and in addition, it includes the Environment Agency Pollution Risk Forecast warnings where they are available. Further details of the service can be found at - http://www.sas.org.uk/safer-seas-service/