Bathing Water Index

Souvala — Bathing Water Quality

Souvala is a coastal bathing site in Central Greece, Greece. In the EEA's 2025 assessment its water quality was classified as Good, the second of the four classes. This is lower than its Excellent rating in 2024; it has been rated Good in 2 of 15 classified seasons since 2011.

At a glance

Classification
GoodEEA assessment 2025
Water type
Coastal
Region
Central Greece, Greece
Seasons on record
15 since 2011
Assessment year
2025

This is an annual classification of microbiological water quality, not a real-time safety assessment. Check local signage and authorities before swimming.

Classification history

Seasons from 2011, the first season classified under the current Bathing Water Directive scheme in Greece.

Classification by season, 2011–2025ExcellentGoodSufficientPoorNot classified20112013201520172019202120232025
SeasonClassification
2025Good
2024Excellent
2023Good
2022Excellent
2021Excellent
2020Excellent
2019Excellent
2018Excellent
2017Excellent
2016Excellent
2015Excellent
2014Excellent
2013Excellent
2012Excellent
2011Excellent

Location

Coordinates
38.46830, 23.59560

Region: Central Greece

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Nearby bathing sites

Designated sites within 25 km in the same country, by straight-line distance.

  • Asteria Chalkidas0.7 kmExcellent
  • Kourenti0.7 kmExcellent
  • Papathanasiou1.1 kmExcellent
  • Agios Minas2.4 kmExcellent
  • Liani Ammos2.5 kmGood
  • Nea Lampsakos4.1 kmExcellent

In context

Central Greece has 162 designated bathing sites in this dataset. Of the 162 sites there classified in 2025, 97.5% were rated Excellent.

See all published sites in Central Greece

Sources and methodology

Dataset: EEA — Bathing Water Directive, status of bathing water, version eea_t_bathing-water-status_p_1990-2025_v01_r00. Classification year: 2025. Data retrieved: October 31, 2026.

Facts on this page last changed with the data version of October 31, 2026.

EEA dataset recordHow classifications work

Data: European Environment Agency (EEA), "Bathing Water Directive - Status of bathing water, 2025 v.1.0", https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/070d9baa-448d-4168-8514-7dadb3ad876d. © Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV), European Environment Agency. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Modified by this site: filtered to Greece and Croatia and to sites assessed in 2025; codes converted into plain-language classes; Greek site names, published in capital letters, converted to title case; history limited to seasons from the current Bathing Water Directive classification onward (Greece 2011, Croatia 2012); regions assigned from the coordinates using Natural Earth admin-1 boundaries; statistics computed by this site. This site is not affiliated with or endorsed by the EEA.