Updates on Alicante Beaches for the Summer Season

Alicante is known for its year-round swimming season, even in February. While only a few brave souls venture into the Mediterranean during autumn and winter, the city is already transitioning from the cold to spring and summer, when the beaches of Alicante become crowded.

It's time to renew services and prepare for the peak swimming season in 2025, which brings significant updates: open water swimming lanes at San Juan Beach and Albufereta, as well as a safe diving area at Cabo de las Huertas.

The open water swimming lanes will be established at San Juan, stretching 500 meters at a distance of 150 meters from the shore, with buoys every 50 meters. At Albufereta, the lanes will extend 2,000 meters, also 150 meters from the shore, and these will be permanent.

Improvements are also being made to the safe diving area at Cabo de las Huertas, a popular spot for diving enthusiasts near Cala de los Judíos. This will involve a 3,000-meter buoying at 150 meters from the shore, with buoys every 50 meters and closure of the coastal band up to the shore.

All these updates are included in the new buoying contract for Alicante's beaches, which was put out to tender this Thursday with a base budget of 298,397 euros for two years, extendable for three more annual terms, making a total of five years.

The contract's scope covers the entire coastline of the municipal area. The beaches to be buoyed include San Juan, Almadraba, Albufereta, and Finca Adoc, Postiguet, Cocó, San Gabriel, Urbanova, Tabarca, and the safe diving area between Cabo de las Huertas and Cala de los Judíos.

The tasks to be undertaken by the awarded company include buoying the coastal band to delineate the swimming area on the beaches; creating nautical access channels connecting the navigable area with the beach for boat use and lifeguard services; buoying a swimming channel for open water swimming at San Juan Beach and Albufereta Beach; perimeter buoying for the protection of breakwaters at Postiguet Beach and San Gabriel; and buoying a safe diving area at Cabo de las Huertas.

Special swimming zones for the elderly, those with reduced mobility, and disabilities will also be marked, and necessary signage will be placed at all coastal points where user information is required.

Additionally, the contract advances environmental protection and marine conservation with the installation of ecological buoys featuring special anchors at Tabarca Island and Cabo de las Huertas.

Infrastructure Councillor Cristina García and Tourism Councillor Ana Poquet both emphasized that "safety on our beaches is paramount, and the new contract includes improvements and signage to ensure safe swimming."