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Bathing water quality in Piedmont, Italy

Piedmont has 90 official bathing waters in the EEA dataset for the 2025 season (87 lake and 3 river). 62.2% were classified Excellent — 27.6 points below the 89.8% across Italy — and 2 were Poor. By province, the Excellent share is highest in Biella (100% of 7) and lowest in Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (56.5% of 46). 36 sites have been Excellent in every season from 2015 to 2025.

Qualità delle acque di balneazione: Piemonte

Su 90 acque di balneazione ufficiali UE in Piemonte, nel 2025 il 62,2% era «eccellente»; acque classificate «scarsa»: 2.

Isola dei Pescatori on Lake Maggiore, Stresa, Verbano, Piedmont, Italy
Photo: Pierre André Leclercq, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
90

official bathing waters

62.2%

Excellent in 2025

2

Poor in 2025

Not live: these are annual official classifications. Check the competent authority for today’s notices before swimming.
Before you swim in Piedmont

Ministry of Health, the Regions, ARPA agencies and municipalities

Bathing season in Italy: Set by each Region. Municipalities issue bathing bans; the portal shows each site’s classification and any current ban.

Annual EEA classes do not show temporary bans, short-term pollution or algae alerts. National information last checked 2026-11-01.

Portale Acque (Ministry of Health) →

Map of official bathing waters in Piedmont

Excellent 56Good 26Sufficient 5Poor 2Not classified 1
PUNTA DI CRABBIA: Excellent (2025)DELL`ORTO: Excellent (2025)ISOLA PESCATORI: Excellent (2025)SPIAGGIA REGINA BLU: Excellent (2025)SOC.CANOTTIERI: Excellent (2025)PASCOLO: Excellent (2025)LIDO CANNERO: Excellent (2025)SOTTO CAMOGNO: Excellent (2025)PALLAVICINO: Excellent (2025)ROCCHETTE - LIDO NAUTICA: Excellent (2025)CAMP.ALLEGRO: Excellent (2025)BAGNI MASSERIA: Excellent (2025)BAGNI GHIGLIOTTA: Excellent (2025)LIDO PARCO: Excellent (2025)SPIAGGIA VEVERA: Excellent (2025)LIDO: Excellent (2025)CAMPEGGIO SOLCIO: Excellent (2025)MIAMI: Excellent (2025)ORTELLO: Excellent (2025)BAGNERA: Excellent (2025)BAGNI COMUNALI E MARINELLA: Excellent (2025)CAMPEGGIO HAWAY: Excellent (2025)VILLA CARLOTTA: Excellent (2025)CAMP.NOSETTO: Excellent (2025)PORTAIOLO: Excellent (2025)ISOLA BELLA: Excellent (2025)ARABA FENICIA: Excellent (2025)RIALACCIO: Excellent (2025)PRAROLO: Excellent (2025)LA QUIETE: Excellent (2025)BUON RIMEDIO: Excellent (2025)GRIGNETO: Excellent (2025)BAGNI MOIA: Excellent (2025)SCARICATORE: Excellent (2025)LIDO: Excellent (2025)VILLA MOTTA: Excellent (2025)LIDO TOCE: Excellent (2025)SPIAGGIA LUNGOLAGO FERIOLO: Excellent (2025)SPIAGGIA VILLA FEDORA: Excellent (2025)LIDO DI BAVENO: Excellent (2025)LIDO COMUNALE: Excellent (2025)CAMP.ISOLINO: Excellent (2025)PICCOLO LAGO: Excellent (2025)BAGNI LAC ET SOLEIL: Excellent (2025)SPIAGGIA CAMPING: Excellent (2025)CAMP.INTERNAZIONALE RIVIERA: Excellent (2025)IMBARCADERO: Excellent (2025)CONTINENTAL: Excellent (2025)CHALET DEL LAGO: Excellent (2025)LIDO ANZASCO: Excellent (2025)CAMP LAGO AZZURRO: Excellent (2025)PORTO DI LAGNA: Excellent (2025)BAGNI PEPPE: Excellent (2025)CARCIANO: Excellent (2025)ISOLA MADRE: Excellent (2025)ISOLINO VECCHIO - FONDOTOCE: Excellent (2025)VILLA TARANTO: Not classified (2025)SCIVOLO GALLI: Good (2025)LIDO DI MEINA: Good (2025)VERDE LAGO: Good (2025)MONTALBANO (LIDO PILASTRI-SP.QUARTINA): Good (2025)SANTINO: Good (2025)GRAN BAIA: Good (2025)SP.CICOGNOLA: Good (2025)VILLA GIANNA: Good (2025)AREA ATTUALE SEDE CANOTTIERI: Good (2025)ZONA LIDO: Good (2025)MADONNA DI CAMPAGNA: Good (2025)LIDO E COLONIA SOLARE SUNA: Good (2025)LIDO ARONA: Good (2025)BAR LEONARDI - PIROLINO: Good (2025)LOCALITA` TRE PONTI: Good (2025)ZONA CANOTTIERI CHALET: Good (2025)CASTELLACCIO: Good (2025)VILLA VOLPI: Good (2025)RIGOLETTO - PALLANZA: Good (2025)CAMP.SMERALDO: Good (2025)LA ROTTA: Good (2025)SPIAGGIA BORROMEO: Good (2025)CAMP.SASSO: Good (2025)BEL SITO - SUNA: Good (2025)PRESSO TORRENTE ERNO: Good (2025)QUARANTINA: Good (2025)SPIAGGIA LIDO CENTRO SPORTIVO: Sufficient (2025)INCRINO: Sufficient (2025)PANIZZA: Sufficient (2025)SPIAGGIA PUBBLICA BAGNELLA: Sufficient (2025)SPIAGGIA VIA REP. OSSOLA: Sufficient (2025)ORRIDO S. ANNA: Poor (2025)OSSIDI METALLICI: Poor (2025)Verbano-Cusio-OssolaNovaraTorinoBiellaLiguriaLombardyEmilia-RomagnaAosta Valley
How to read this map: Each dot is one official bathing water, coloured by its 2025 rating; select a dot to open that site. The white area is this region; neighbouring regions are shaded. Sea and large lakes are blue, neighbouring countries grey. Positions: official EEA coordinates. Boundaries: Eurostat NUTS 2024, generalised (© EuroGeographics); lakes: Natural Earth. Outlines are simplified, so a few shoreline dots can sit just offshore.

Piedmont by province

Sites are placed in the Eurostat NUTS 3 provinces that contain their reported coordinates.

2025 EEA classes by province
ProvinceSitesExcellentGoodSufficientPoorNot classified
Verbano-Cusio-Ossola4626 (56.5%)12521
Novara2817 (60.7%)11000
Torino96 (66.7%)3000
Biella77 (100%)0000

Sea, lakes and rivers in Piedmont

2025 EEA classes by water type
Water typeSitesExcellentGoodSufficientPoorNot classified
Lake8756 (64.4%)25501
River30 (0%)1020

Coastal waters are assessed against stricter bacterial limits than lakes and rivers but are diluted far more; see how the classes are calculated.

Most consistent Excellent sites

36 sites were Excellent in all eleven seasons. Ordered by the length of the unbroken Excellent run ending in 2025; the first 24 are shown and every site is in the full list below.

  1. BAGNI COMUNALI E MARINELLA 11 seasons · Biella
  2. BAGNI GHIGLIOTTA 11 seasons · Biella
  3. BAGNI LAC ET SOLEIL 11 seasons · Biella
  4. BAGNI MASSERIA 11 seasons · Biella
  5. BAGNI MOIA 11 seasons · Torino
  6. BAGNI PEPPE 11 seasons · Biella
  7. CAMP.INTERNAZIONALE RIVIERA 11 seasons · Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
  8. CAMP.ISOLINO 11 seasons · Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
  9. CAMP.NOSETTO 11 seasons · Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
  10. CAMPEGGIO HAWAY 11 seasons · Biella
  11. CARCIANO 11 seasons · Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
  12. CHALET DEL LAGO 11 seasons · Torino
  13. CONTINENTAL 11 seasons · Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
  14. DELL`ORTO 11 seasons · Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
  15. GRIGNETO 11 seasons · Torino
  16. IMBARCADERO 11 seasons · Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
  17. ISOLA BELLA 11 seasons · Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
  18. ISOLA MADRE 11 seasons · Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
  19. ISOLA PESCATORI 11 seasons · Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
  20. ISOLINO VECCHIO - FONDOTOCE 11 seasons · Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
  21. LA QUIETE 11 seasons · Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
  22. LIDO 11 seasons · Novara
  23. LIDO 11 seasons · Novara
  24. LIDO ANZASCO 11 seasons · Biella

Rated Poor in 2025

For a Poor site the Bathing Water Directive requires management measures, including a bathing prohibition or advice against bathing, so check the authority before visiting.

Changes from 2024 to 2025

Improved (11)

Declined (7)

How Piedmont rated since 2015

Counts for the sites in today’s 2025 inventory; the Excellent share is calculated over classified sites only.

SeasonClassifiedExcellentExcellent sharePoor
2025895662.9%2
2024905460%3
2023904954.4%3
2022895258.4%7
2021885158%3
2020885663.6%2
2019887079.5%1
2018897382%1
2017886877.3%0
2016887383%0
2015887383%0

Places with the most bathing waters in Piedmont

Each site is matched to its nearest named place (GeoNames, within 8 km in a straight line), so beaches of one resort or lake shore can be compared together. Select a place to show only its sites in the full list.

Top 15 places by number of official bathing waters
PlaceProvinceSitesExcellentPoor
BavenoVerbano-Cusio-Ossola76 (85.7%)0
ViveroneBiella55 (100%)0
MergozzoVerbano-Cusio-Ossola54 (80%)0
StresaVerbano-Cusio-Ossola54 (80%)0
VerbaniaVerbano-Cusio-Ossola52 (40%)0
CannobioVerbano-Cusio-Ossola42 (50%)2
LesaNovara41 (25%)0
BelgirateNovara33 (100%)0
Orta San GiulioNovara33 (100%)0
AronaNovara32 (66.7%)0
AviglianaTorino32 (66.7%)0
PettenascoNovara32 (66.7%)0
SantinoVerbano-Cusio-Ossola32 (66.7%)0
DormellettoNovara31 (33.3%)0
OggebbioVerbano-Cusio-Ossola31 (33.3%)0

All 90 official bathing waters in Piedmont

Grouped by province, alphabetical within each group. Open a site for its 2015–2025 history, nearby alternatives, weather forecast and the national profile link.

Download all 90 sites as CSV (classes 2015–2025, coordinates, nearest place; EEA data, CC BY 4.0)

Verbano-Cusio-Ossola 46 sites · 56.5% Excellent · 2 Poor
Novara 28 sites · 60.7% Excellent
Torino 9 sites · 66.7% Excellent
Biella 7 sites · 100% Excellent

Compared with other regions in Italy

#RegionSitesExcellentPoor
1Umbria21100%0
2Apulia67699.9%0
3Friuli-Venezia Giulia6698.5%0
4Sardinia66496.8%1
5Basilicata6096.7%0
6Veneto17493.1%0
7Trentino4092.5%0
8Lazio40592.1%0
9Marche25491.7%1
10Tuscany37888.9%4
11Molise3588.6%0
12Calabria64988.1%17
13Campania32886.9%14
14Lombardy27385.7%5
15Sicily78384.7%11
16Liguria40783.8%9
17Abruzzo12180.2%8
18Emilia-Romagna9878.6%0
19Piedmont9062.2%2

Regions with at least 15 official bathing waters. Size, water type and how densely sites are designated differ, so the table is context rather than a verdict.

Quick answers

How many bathing waters in Piedmont were rated Excellent in 2025?
56 of 90 (62.2%) in the official EEA 2025 classification; 26 were Good, 5 Sufficient and 2 Poor, and 1 had no class. That ranks Piedmont 19 of 19 Italy regions by Excellent share.
Which province of Piedmont has the highest share of Excellent sites?
Biella: 100% of its 7 sites were Excellent in 2025. Torino follows with 66.7%. Only provinces with at least five sites are compared; see the full table.
Which beaches and lakes in Piedmont have the best long-term record?
36 sites were Excellent in every season from 2015 to 2025, for example BAGNI COMUNALI E MARINELLA, BAGNI GHIGLIOTTA, BAGNI LAC ET SOLEIL. See the ranking.
Which places in Piedmont have the most official bathing waters?
Baveno (7, 85.7% Excellent), Viverone (5, 100% Excellent), Mergozzo (5, 80% Excellent). See the place table; places are the nearest named settlement to each site.
Were any bathing waters in Piedmont rated Poor?
Yes, 2: ORRIDO S. ANNA, OSSIDI METALLICI.
Where do I check whether swimming is allowed today?
On Portale Acque (Ministry of Health) (Ministry of Health, the Regions, ARPA agencies and municipalities). Temporary bans, pollution alerts and closures are published there and on signs at the water, not in the annual EEA class.

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Sources and method

Bathing-water records: European Environment Agency (EEA), data and coordinates reported by Italy, licensed CC BY 4.0. Region and province boundaries: Eurostat NUTS 2024 (© EuroGeographics for the administrative boundaries). Place names: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). A site belongs to the area that contains its reported coordinates; a site up to 10 km off the generalised coastline is placed in the nearest area of Italy. Counts, shares and rankings are calculated by BathingWaterFinder from the official records.