EU bathing water classification history — Greece and Croatia
Annual classification history for the sites in the 2025 dataset, from the current Directive scheme onward (Greece 2011, Croatia 2012).
- Coverage
- GR, HR
- Years
- 2011–2025
- Rows
- 37,076
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- Source data
- EEA, 2025 season (v1.0)
- Dataset version
- v1, released 2026-11-13
Downloads
Checksums: SHA256SUMS. Machine-readable schema and licensing: datapackage.json.
Classification distribution
Each cell shows two percentages: share of all rows in that line (including any “new” or “not-classified” rows), and — for the four Directive classes only — share of classified rows (excellent + good + sufficient + poor). “New” and “not-classified” rows have no classified share: they're excluded from that total by definition. The classified basis is the one the data notes use (e.g. “share excellent”). See How EU bathing water is classified for why that distinction matters.
| Country | Excellent | Good | Sufficient | Poor | Not classified | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR | 23,018 96.1% of all · 97.8% of classified | 447 1.9% of all · 1.9% of classified | 57 0.2% of all · 0.2% of classified | 8 0% of all · 0% of classified | 414 1.7% of all | 23,944 |
| HR | 12,428 94.6% of all · 97.1% of classified | 284 2.2% of all · 2.2% of classified | 71 0.5% of all · 0.6% of classified | 16 0.1% of all · 0.1% of classified | 333 2.5% of all | 13,132 |
| All | 35,446 95.6% of all · 97.6% of classified | 731 2% of all · 2% of classified | 128 0.3% of all · 0.4% of classified | 24 0.1% of all · 0.1% of classified | 747 2% of all | 37,076 |
Preview
First 10 rows, sorted by site_id.
| site_id | name | country | year | classification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ELBW019136007101 | Kato Samiko | GR | 2011 | excellent |
| ELBW019136007101 | Kato Samiko | GR | 2012 | excellent |
| ELBW019136007101 | Kato Samiko | GR | 2013 | excellent |
| ELBW019136007101 | Kato Samiko | GR | 2014 | excellent |
| ELBW019136007101 | Kato Samiko | GR | 2015 | excellent |
| ELBW019136007101 | Kato Samiko | GR | 2016 | excellent |
| ELBW019136007101 | Kato Samiko | GR | 2017 | excellent |
| ELBW019136007101 | Kato Samiko | GR | 2018 | excellent |
| ELBW019136007101 | Kato Samiko | GR | 2019 | excellent |
| ELBW019136007101 | Kato Samiko | GR | 2020 | excellent |
Column schema
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
site_id | string | EEA bathing water identifier (bathingWaterIdentifier). |
name | string | Site name, title-cased where the source used capitals. |
country | string | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (GR or HR). |
region | string | Natural Earth admin-1 region name (name_en); null if not assigned. |
year | integer | Assessment season (year). |
classification | string | excellent, good, sufficient, poor, or not-classified for that season. |
site_idstring- EEA bathing water identifier (bathingWaterIdentifier).
namestring- Site name, title-cased where the source used capitals.
countrystring- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (GR or HR).
regionstring- Natural Earth admin-1 region name (name_en); null if not assigned.
yearinteger- Assessment season (year).
classificationstring- excellent, good, sufficient, poor, or not-classified for that season.
Known limitations
- Classification reflects a rolling evaluation across the last four bathing seasons (Directive 2006/7/EC) for each year shown, not a same-day water-quality test.
- Coordinates are published exactly as given in the EEA source file; this site has not independently verified them.
- History starts in 2011 for Greece and 2012 for Croatia: the first season of the current EU classification scheme in each country. Earlier seasons used a different, incompatible scheme and are not included.
- "not-classified" means a site that was monitored but did not get enough valid samples to classify that season.
Cite this dataset
APA
WLD Data. (2026). EU bathing water classification history — Greece and Croatia (Version v1) [Data set]. https://wldlogic.com/data/eu-bathing-water-history/
BibTeX
@misc{wld_eu_bathing_water_history,
author = {{WLD Data}},
title = {{EU bathing water classification history — Greece and Croatia}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {WLD Data},
version = {v1},
url = {https://wldlogic.com/data/eu-bathing-water-history/}
}Attribution
Contains data from the European Environment Agency (EEA), “Bathing Water Directive - Status of bathing water, 2025 v.1.0”, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Made with Natural Earth (public domain).
Modified:
- Filtered to Greece and Croatia.
- Restricted to the same sites as the 2025 status dataset.
- History limited to seasons from the current Bathing Water Directive classification scheme onward (Greece 2011, Croatia 2012).
- Classification codes converted to plain-language labels (Directive 2006/7/EC).
This site is not affiliated with or endorsed by the EEA.
Related: Bathing Water Index (water.wldlogic.com) publishes individual site pages built from this data. Found an error? See Methodology or contact us.