Calanque de Morgiou
Morgiou is a steep-sided calanque with a working fishing port and about thirty occupied cabanons. A stairway cut into the rock marks the day Louis XIII came here to fish, 7 November 1622.
WhatCalanque, MarseilleCalanques
WhenJune to October17° in Nov
Getting there Bus On foot Car Boat60 min walk-in
CostPublic shoreFree
AccessRoad closed to cars on set summer dates; massif closed on red fire-risk days, June to September
- 14°J
- 13°F
- 13°M
- 14°A
- 16°M
- 19°J
- 21°J
- 23°A
- 21°S
- 19°O
- 17°N
- 15°D
Expect the sea at about 23 °C in August and 13 °C in February, going by the 1991 to 2020 averages. The swimming season runs from June to October.
Getting in
- Access
- The park gives about an hour on foot from the Les Baumettes bus terminus. The Ville de Marseille closes the Morgiou road to cars from 07:00 to 19:00 on set dates, and the park says the road is often jammed at weekends and in summer. Marseille lists the Calanque de Morgiou as a bathing zone without lifeguards. From 1 June to 30 September the Bouches-du-Rhône prefecture sets access to the Calanques massif day by day (order of 22 April 2025): green allows access, red bans it, and the map for the next day is published around 18:00.
- Public transport
- RTM bus 22 to the Les Baumettes terminus, then about an hour on foot.
- Also here
- Coastal walk
Cost and facilities
- Entry
- Free, public shore
- Official site
- calanques-parcnational.fr
- Facilities
- Restaurant
About Calanque de Morgiou
Unlike neighbouring Sormiou, Morgiou is lived in all year round, a fishing hamlet with steeper walls that the park describes as exposed to north winds. With no spring on site, rainwater tanks ran dry in summer and donkey trains brought water from Mazargues. The walls of a small fort, begun in 1614, stand on the Morgiou ridge, and a fire track reached the hamlet by car only in the 1950s and 1960s.