Zeeland · Netherlands

Cadzand-Bad / Zeeland beach

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Cadzand-Bad and the Zeelandic beaches are Europe's friendliest hobbyist shark-tooth destination. Sand replenishment dredged from the North Sea floor delivers tens of thousands of small Miocene-Pliocene teeth onto the beach every summer. Walk barefoot, watch the swash, fill a vial.

✗ Limited inputs

today

Great

Recent storm winds - fresh gravel exposure likely.

Today at a glance

Updated 2026-07-21T08:48:11.810Z

Solid hunting day. Moderate NE winds (6 mph); seas 2–3 ft, some stir.

Next 3 days: Today is the pick (82); Thu runs cooler at 60.

Best Window Today

Daylight hours

This site does not depend on a tidal low. Hunt during the coolest, brightest part of the day and use the wind and conditions notes below.

Hunt score

Great

Astronomical low

—

No tide window

Low-window wind

0 mph

Light — negligible effect

Tonight's moon

First quarter

49% illuminated

Sunrise 3:55 AM · Sunset 7:51 PM

Wind right now

6 mph from NE

Gusts 14 mph · best from NW

Light wind — minimal effect on the tide line either way.

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🌤️ Weather & Wave Forecast

Impact on visibility and stir-up over the next 5 days.

Onshore Wind: Pushes water in (tide sits higher) and stirs up the bottom. Good for "new" teeth, bad for visibility.

Offshore Wind: Water blown out (tide sits lower). Maximum beach exposure for hunting the low tide line.

Why today scores 82

The Hunt Score blends tide range, lunar phase, daylight timing, recent stir, wind setup, and surf.

Best low

No tide-driven low

Wind deviation

Neutral beach by 0.0 ft

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Analysis

Highly favorable. Worth the drive.

Tide range

0.0 / 50

Today's swing is 0.0 ft (saturates at 6 ft = 50 pts).

Spring tide

0.0 / 15

Within ±2 days of a new or full moon = wider swing.

Daylight timing

0.0 / 15

Low in daylight = you can actually hunt.

Recent stir

0.0 / 10

Past 72h onshore wind churn (only counts hours that already happened).

Wind setup at low

0.0 / 10

Forecast wind piles 0.0 ft of water around the low.

Surf bonus

0.0 / 5

1–4 ft of recent surf = clean sorting; >7 ft = unfishable.

Recent rainfall

0.0 / 3

No measurable rain in the past 48h — no runoff signal.

Storm multipliermultiplier

1.00×

Peak gust 27 mph — below 25 mph threshold, no boost applied.

Event boostadded

No active events for this site today.

Show the math

components: 0.0 + 0.0 + 0.0 + 0.0 + 0.0 + 0.0 + 0.0 = 0.0 final = 0

What's NOT in this score

We are deliberate about which factors to include. These are not currently in the model:

Hunt pressure. A “hunts this week” chip is shown on each location page for transparency, but it does not change the score yet. We need more outcomes per site before a penalty would be statistically meaningful.
Wave period / swell direction. We use wave height only. Long-period groundswell sorts material differently than short wind chop, but Open-Meteo doesn't expose period reliably.
Barometric pressure trend. Falling pressure = approaching storm = building stir. Currently we wait for the wind to actually arrive.
Water temperature, clarity, salinity. Affects comfort but not (directly) what teeth wash up.
Weekday vs weekend. A 70 on Tuesday is often better in practice than a 70 on Saturday because of crowds, but we don't adjust for that.
Beach renourishment. Fresh sand buries everything. We capture this only when an admin logs a manual event — there's no auto-detection.

If you think we should add one of these, log a hunt with notes — every rated outcome helps us decide which signals actually predict tooth count.

Hunt Score

Sum of components, clamped 0–100.

Score model 2026.04.29 · how this is calculated

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Geology

FormationsReworked North Sea Pliocene/Miocene clays, Replenishment sand

EpochsMiocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene

Age~20 million years to recent

Star speciesCarcharodon hastalis, Isurus oxyrinchus

Technique

Walk the high-tide line and freshly nourished beach sections. Get low — most teeth here are 5-15mm and best spotted from a few inches away. Best in the first weeks after a sand replenishment.

Access

Open public beach. No permits required for personal-interest hobby collecting on Dutch coastal beaches.

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Legality & ethics

Dutch heritage rules permit personal collection of common fossils on the foreshore. Significant scientific specimens should be reported to Naturalis Biodiversity Center.

Hazards

Cold North Sea water
Strong onshore wind
Sunburn even on cloudy days

Insider tips

Watch the Rijkswaterstaat sand replenishment schedule — the first month after a refill is gold
Bring a small magnifier; you will be amazed at the tiny shark and ray teeth
The Cadzand local museum has reference collections to ID your finds

References & further reading