Portobello’s year-round sea swimmers, East Lothian’s beaches and the upper Tweed. Hattie tracks 49 wild-swim spots across Edinburgh, Lothians & Borders — 48 sea spots and 1 lake — each with a live verdict before you get in.
Every Edinburgh, Lothians & Borders spot draws on the official feeds Hattie checks through the day: storm-overflow (sewage) reports straight from the water companies, the regulator's bathing-water classifications, river levels, tides, wind and rainfall. Tap any spot for the live picture, the data behind it, and what other swimmers have reported.
Swim spots in Edinburgh, Lothians & Borders
- Aberdour (Silversands)
- Aberdour Harbour (Black Sands)
- Blakewell Shad
- Broad Sands
- Broad Sands
- Burntisland
- Burntisland Sands
- Coldingham
- Cramond Foreshore
- Drum Sands
- Drum Sands
- Dunbar
- Dunbar (Belhaven)
- East Sands of Leith
- Eyemouth
- Fidra
- Fisherrow Sands
- Fisherrow Sands
- Fisherrow Sands
- Gosford Sands
- Granton
- Gullane
- Gullane Bents
- Gullane Bents
- Gullane Sands
- Hedderwick Sands
- Joppa Shore
- Kinghorn (Harbour Beach)
- Kinghorn (Pettycur)
- Kirkcaldy (Seafield)
- Longniddry
- Moorburn Beach
- Musselburgh Sands
- North Berwick (Milsey Bay)
- North Berwick (West)
- Pease Bay
- Peffer Sands
- Portobello (Central)
- Portobello (West)
- Portobello, Edinburgh
- Quarrel Sands
- Ravensheugh Sands
- Royston Beach
- Seacliff
- Seton Sands
- Thorntonloch
- Tyne Sands
- Whitesands
- Yellowcraig