Bonaire · NOAA satellite data of Mon 5 Oct 2026
Sargassum in Bonaire tomorrow
Low at 9 beaches.
Best tomorrow with a low seaweed risk: Bachelor's Beach — calm water, quiet crowd.
Beach by beach
| Beach | Faces | Sargassum | Sea tomorrow |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1000 Steps | W | Low | Calm |
| Atlantis Beach (Kite City) | SW | Low | Calm |
| Bachelor's Beach | W | Low | Calm |
| Boca Slagbaai | WSW | Low | Calm |
| Cai (Lac Bay) | SSE | Low | Calm |
| No Name Beach (Klein Bonaire) | WNW | Low | Calm |
| Pink Beach | WSW | Low | Calm |
| Sorobon (Lac Bay) | E | Low | Calm |
| Te Amo Beach | W | Low | Calm |
Sargassum: NOAA's class for the stretch of coast nearest the beach, data of Mon 5 Oct 2026. Sea: our rating from the wind forecast.
Is there seaweed on Bonaire tomorrow?
Tomorrow, NOAA's satellite risk for Bonaire is low at 9 beaches (data of Mon 5 Oct 2026). Bonaire's west coast faces away from the trade wind and is one long, calm reef: you swim and snorkel straight from the shore. The east coast is wild, except for Lac Bay, where a reef keeps the water flat.
Tomorrow: 0 of the 2 beaches facing the east half of the compass (north-east to south-east) and 0 of the 7 facing the west half have a medium or high risk. Sargassum drifts in from the open Atlantic on the trade wind and the current, so a coast that faces east usually gets it first; NOAA's risk is worked out from the seaweed within 50–100 km of each stretch of coast and does not know which way a beach faces.
The last two weeks
Beaches per risk level, per NOAA satellite file.
| Day | Low | Medium | High | Worst |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 5 Oct | 9 | Low | ||
| Sun 4 Oct | 9 | Low | ||
| Sat 3 Oct | 9 | Low | ||
| Fri 2 Oct | 9 | Low | ||
| Thu 1 Oct | 9 | Low | ||
| Wed 30 Sep | 9 | Low | ||
| Tue 29 Sep | 9 | Low | ||
| Mon 28 Sep | 9 | Low | ||
| Sun 27 Sep | 9 | Low | ||
| Sat 26 Sep | 9 | Low | ||
| Fri 25 Sep | 9 | Low | ||
| Thu 24 Sep | 9 | Low | ||
| Wed 23 Sep | 9 | Low | ||
| Tue 22 Sep | 9 | Low |
How to read NOAA's risk
NOAA's Sargassum Inundation Risk is an experimental product of NOAA/AOML, NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch and the University of South Florida. Every day it compares the floating seaweed that satellites see within 50–100 km of each stretch of coast with the weeks before, and gives the stretch one of four classes. We show them as three words:
- Low (NOAA: low): little or no seaweed near this coast.
- Medium (NOAA: warning or medium): seaweed at sea nearby; some may wash up, depending on wind and current.
- High (NOAA: high): a lot of seaweed nearby; expect it on the beach and brown water at the edge.
- No data: clouds or no coast segment near the beach; we do not guess.
What it cannot tell you: whether a hotel cleaned its beach this morning, or a raft that arrived overnight. It looks at stretches of coast of a few kilometres, not at one beach. Seaweed on the beach is not dangerous to touch, but rotting piles give off hydrogen sulphide (the smell of rotten eggs), which can bother people with asthma.
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