About this swim spot
Windermere (Ambleside / Waterhead) is a lake on the ENG coast and one of around 2,000 UK swim spots Hattie Knows monitors continuously. Lake conditions are dominated by wind, water temperature and any blue-green algae alerts. Hattie aggregates the local-authority and Environment Agency feeds.
Every Hattie verdict combines direct ingest from all 12 UK water companies' Event Duration Monitoring feeds, EA / NRW / SEPA / DAERA bathing-water samples, Met Office and Open-Meteo forecasts, UKHO tide tables, and live flood warnings — fused into a single read of whether it is safe to swim right now.
Nearby swim spots
- Grasmere (the actual lake) 5 km away
- Windermere (Millerground) 5.3 km away
- Coniston Water (Monk Coniston) 8.1 km away
- Coniston Water, Monk Coniston 8.4 km away
- Coniston Water, Boating Centre 9.6 km away