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Beach guide

Clube Naval do Seixal pools

Free, despite what most guides say — and listed in the 2026 portaria with a bathing season but without lifeguard cover.

Checked against the portaria and the municipality’s own pages on July 26, 2026.

What it actually is

Surface
Lava rock pools
Municipality
Porto Moniz

Sea pools on the north coast, where the swell arrives first and hardest. The municipality’s own page calls the site free to access, in those words, and there is no till anywhere in Seixal.

No Blue Flag for 2026. A flag is an application as much as an award, so a beach without one has not necessarily failed anything.

What the state says about it

Annex IV of Portaria n.º 204-A/2026/1 lists it as a designated bathing water, with a 2026 season running June 1, 2026 to September 30, 2026.

It does not appear in the “praia de banhos” column. The annex’s own footnote says that means assistance to bathers is not assured — not “sometimes”, not “in season”. Not assured.

Neither of those is our judgement. It is which column the beach appears in.

Portaria n.º 204-A/2026/1 · Diário da República, 1.ª série, n.º 84, Suplemento · Anexo IV

What it costs

Free. There is no entry charge.

All fourteen beaches, compared

Getting there

It sits in the concelho of Porto Moniz, which is how the portaria files it.

We print no bus route for this one. Route numbers are published here only for the four destinations checked against the operator’s own guides, and this is not among them.

Getting around without a car