Coastguard / sea rescue196

17112

Emergency · France

En mer : VHF canal 16

The beach can be dangerous. At night, tides, access and landmarks are harder to assess. Keep a way back and check official notices.

In immediate danger, contact the official emergency services. Mareloa does not replace emergency services or local signs.

Sources : Ministère de la Mer · Service-Public.fr · Service-Public · numéros d’urgence

Emergency

Emergency · France

En mer : VHF canal 16

The beach can be dangerous. At night, tides, access and landmarks are harder to assess. Keep a way back and check official notices.

In immediate danger, contact the official emergency services. Mareloa does not replace emergency services or local signs.

Sources : Ministère de la Mer · Service-Public.fr · Service-Public · numéros d’urgence

Plage des Sables Vignier, Charente-MaritimeSaint-Pierre-d'Oléron

Coastguard / sea rescue196

17112

Emergency · France

En mer : VHF canal 16

The beach can be dangerous. At night, tides, access and landmarks are harder to assess. Keep a way back and check official notices.

In immediate danger, contact the official emergency services. Mareloa does not replace emergency services or local signs.

Sources : Ministère de la Mer · Service-Public.fr · Service-Public · numéros d’urgence

Emergency

Emergency · France

En mer : VHF canal 16

The beach can be dangerous. At night, tides, access and landmarks are harder to assess. Keep a way back and check official notices.

In immediate danger, contact the official emergency services. Mareloa does not replace emergency services or local signs.

Sources : Ministère de la Mer · Service-Public.fr · Service-Public · numéros d’urgence

Plage des Sables Vignier, Charente-Maritime

Near Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron · 6.5 km

6 beaches near this one

Practical information

Tide

NowTide unavailable—

Next eventTide curve unavailable—

Tide curve unavailable

Sea conditions

Estimated surface10:00 PM: ≈ 20.3 °C
Waves: 0.7 m
Period: 8.3 s
Swell: 0.6 m NW
Modelled current: 0.7 km/h

Surface temperature · 24 h≈ 20.1 °C – 20.3 °C

11:00 PM20.3 °C

04:00 AM20.2 °C

10:00 AM20.1 °C

04:00 PM20.2 °C

10:00 PM20.1 °C

Local conditions

UV: 0.0
Cloud cover: 100 %
Sunrise: 08:10 AM
Sunset: 07:36 PM

Hourly temperature forecast

This point remains readable, but it is outside the common selectable horizon.

Seven-day weather outlook

Length: 843 mSource record 9/15/2026 · Open source
Shade features nearby: Not documentedNearby, does not guarantee shade on the beach.recorded by the source · Source record 9/15/2026 · Open source
Horizon (relief): N 0° · NE 1° · E 2° · SE 3° · S 1° · SW 0° · W 0° · NW 0°Relief only, excludes vegetation and buildings.Source record 9/26/2026 · Open source
Shore axis: 8°Source record 9/15/2026 · Open source

Sun and shore orientation

October 6, 2026 · Estimated times · local time

Sunrise

08:08 AM

Shore orientation unavailable

Sunset

07:37 PM

Shore orientation unavailable

Calculation method

Wind on the beach

Wind at your back

estimate

Bathing supervision

Season over; next season's hours are not published yet

Du 04/07 au 30/08/2026 : 11:00-19:00.

Recorded on 9/27/2026 · Open source · Licence

GIP Littoral — Plages de Nouvelle-Aquitaine (data.gouv.fr), Licence Ouverte 2.0

Hours may change: check the signage and flags on site.

Do you know this beach?

The animation may show sand as a visual default; that does not confirm the real surface. What is the ground actually made of here?

What is the ground made of?

Practical information recorded by the source

This information is source-recorded and may not describe the current situation.

Nearby services: toilets 2 · restaurant 1 · shop 1 · bus stop 1recorded by the source · Source record 9/15/2026 · Open source
Accessible toilets: Yesrecorded by the source · Source record 9/15/2026 · Open source

Practical facilities

Mapped within 1,000 m of the beach reference point, as the crow flies.

Mapped facilities describe the source record; availability, opening and access can change.

Toilets, showers and water

2

Toilets
120 m from the beach reference point, as the crow flies.
Wheelchair access
Yes
Fee
No
Representative mapped point; not an entrance or route.
Source · Data from Sep 14, 2026 · © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Toilets
625 m from the beach reference point, as the crow flies.
Mapped point
Source · Data from Sep 14, 2026 · © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Access and accessibility

—

Not documented.

Public transport and bikes

3

Bus stop · Plage des Bonnes
634 m from the beach reference point, as the crow flies.
Mapped point
Source · Data from Sep 14, 2026 · © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Bus stop · Les Gros Joncs
961 m from the beach reference point, as the crow flies.
Mapped point
Source · Data from Sep 14, 2026 · © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Bus stop · Les Gros Joncs
989 m from the beach reference point, as the crow flies.
Mapped point
Source · Data from Sep 14, 2026 · © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Parking

4

Car park
157 m from the beach reference point, as the crow flies.
Representative mapped point; not an entrance or route.
Source · Data from Sep 14, 2026 · © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Car park
340 m from the beach reference point, as the crow flies.
Representative mapped point; not an entrance or route.
Source · Data from Sep 14, 2026 · © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Car park
647 m from the beach reference point, as the crow flies.
Representative mapped point; not an entrance or route.
Source · Data from Sep 14, 2026 · © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Car park
871 m from the beach reference point, as the crow flies.
Fee
No
Access
Yes
Representative mapped point; not an entrance or route.
Source · Data from Sep 14, 2026 · © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Show catalogue context

Local area: 17recorded by the source · Source record 9/15/2026 · Open source
Catalogue record: Mapped beachrecorded by the source · Source record 9/15/2026 · Open source
Coast: CharentesSource record 9/15/2026 · Open source
Water body: OceanSource record 9/15/2026 · Open source

Today’s windows

Calculated at 10:06 PM

shore gatheringCheck first10:06 PM – 01:06 AM

shore gathering

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10:06 PM – 01:06 AM

Confidence 25 % · rules coast-v5

Sources Données météo par Open-Meteo.com

beach runCheck first08:00 AM – 09:30 AM

beach run

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08:00 AM – 09:30 AM

Confidence 35 % · rules coast-v5

Sources Données météo par Open-Meteo.com

coastal walkCheck first10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

coastal walk

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10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Confidence 35 % · rules coast-v5

Sources Données météo par Open-Meteo.com

family beach timeCheck first02:00 PM – 05:00 PM

family beach time

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02:00 PM – 05:00 PM

Confidence 0 % · rules coast-v5

Sources Données météo par Open-Meteo.com

photographyCheck first05:34 PM – 07:34 PM

photography

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05:34 PM – 07:34 PM

Confidence 35 % · rules coast-v5

Sources Données météo par Open-Meteo.com

sunsetCheck first06:49 PM – 08:19 PM

sunset

Check first

06:49 PM – 08:19 PM

Confidence 35 % · rules coast-v5

Sources Données météo par Open-Meteo.com

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Discovery score: distance, available annual classification and catalogue quality. It is neither real-time health advice nor a safety conclusion.

Seven-day tide

Modelled tidal range · source reference

Tide calendar

Tide and currents

Reflex

A baïne is a hollow in the sand filled with water that can create a current pulling out to sea: even a strong swimmer cannot fight it. Reflex: swim parallel to the shore to get out of it, never straight against it.

Source: SNSM (Sauveteurs en Mer)

Did you know

A sandbank can look stable and then be surrounded by the sea within minutes: between 1 May and 1 August 2025, CROSS Gris-Nez recorded 38 people cut off by the tide, notably around the Somme bay.

Source: Préfecture maritime de la Manche et de la mer du Nord

Did you know

In the Mont-Saint-Michel bay, the sea can rise by about 6 km/h: it is best never to venture in alone, and always to cross the bay with a guide.

Source: Normandie Tourisme

The place in pictures

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No freely licensed photograph of Plage des Sables Vignier has yet passed our location, licence and credit review.

Sources and method

Tide heights: Heights retain the vertical reference supplied by the source and are not an official hydrographic zero.
Sea temperature and conditions: Temperature and conditions come from a limited-resolution coastal model, not an observation at the beach. Do not use for navigation or to conclude that bathing is safe.
Beach characteristics: These place characteristics are recorded from the linked sources. They describe the place, not current conditions.

Source & freshness

Données météo par Open-Meteo.comFresh

Modelled data · Weather forecast

Method and source ↗Licence ↗

Données marines par Open-Meteo.comFresh

Modelled data · Marine forecast

Method and source ↗Licence ↗

Météo-France — Vigilance météorologique, Licence OuverteUnavailable

Official regulation

Method and source ↗Licence ↗

© OpenStreetMap contributors — named coastal features, ODbL; geographic catalogue, not current bathing-health informationAging

Official catalogue · Bathing water quality

Method and source ↗Licence ↗

© OpenStreetMap contributors — OSM database base 2026-09-14T20:21:51Z; offline reviewed snapshot, ODbLFresh

Catalogue review

Method and source ↗Licence ↗

Copernicus DEM GLO-30 -- (c) DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; distributed via the AWS Open Data Registry (bucket copernicus-dem-30m).Fresh

Additional source

Method and source ↗

Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. et Airbus DS, fourni par l'UE et l'ESAFresh

Copernicus DEM (elevation)

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NOAA OISST v2.1 (NOAA PSL)Fresh

NOAA OISST (sea temperature)

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© contributeurs OpenStreetMap (ODbL)Fresh

OpenStreetMap (coastline layout)

Method and source ↗Licence ↗

EOT20 — Hart-Davis et al. (2021), DGFI-TUM, CC BY 4.0Modelled reference

Modelled data · Tide model

Method and source ↗Licence ↗

GIP Littoral — Plages de Nouvelle-Aquitaine (data.gouv.fr), Licence Ouverte 2.0Fresh

Bathing supervision (open data)

Method and source ↗Licence ↗

© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0Fresh

Bathing supervision (open data)

Method and source ↗Licence ↗

Préfecture de Charente-Maritime — source officielleUnavailable

Administrative directory

Method and source ↗

Vigilance Météo-France indisponible : Client error '404 Not Found' for url 'https://meteofrance.s3.sbg.io.cloud.ovh.net/data/vigilance/metropole/2026/10/06/141456/CDP_CARTE_EXTERNE.json' For more information check: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/404.

Tide unavailable: the activities stay unknown.

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