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Badalona - Platja dels Pescadors
also known as Platja del Pont d'en Botifarreta, Club Natacio Badalona launch
Nearby Montgat 3 km · Platja del Bogatell 7 km · Premia de Mar 10 km · Vilassar de Mar / Cabrera de Mar 14 km · Castelldefels 31 km · Segur de Calafell 61 km · Coma-ruga 68 km · straight-line distance
Garbi and Levante
15:00 · 16:00 · 17:00
On thermal days the wind builds from mid-morning, is usable around midday, peaks between 15:00 and 17:00 and dies at dusk — modelled hourly means roughly double from a night floor near 4 knots to about 8.3 knots at 16:00. Gradient Levante and Garbi days keep no such timetable and can be in at dawn.
The marks are the clock times the record names, laid on a 24-hour day. The bar between the first and the last covers those hours; it is not a promise of wind.
The wind
locals call it Garbi / Levante
Direction
Kite sizes
metres · typical quiver highlighted
Character
mixed
fills in: On thermal days the wind builds from mid-morning, is usable around midday, peaks between 15:00 and 17:00 and dies at dusk — modelled hourly means roughly double from a night floor near 4 knots to about 8.3 knots at 16:00. Gradient Levante and Garbi days keep no such timetable and can be in at dawn.
Typical strength
No local station and no published range. The regional sea breeze that drives the thermal days runs 2-7 m/s, about 4-14 knots, and modelled afternoon means for this beach sit at 5.8-9.2 knots by month, strongest in March and April. Indicative: the sessions worth driving for come from a synoptic SW Garbi or E Levante gradient, not from the breeze.
Thermal or synoptic
both
Also on record
20.7
The quiver, in words
Indicative, derived from the wind range rather than from local reporting: a 75-85 kg rider needs 12-17 m or a foil for the ordinary thermal afternoon and 9-12 m when a Garbi or Levante gradient day gets past 18 knots. Take a smaller wave-capable kite for Levante, which brings the shorebreak with it.
Direction to shore
Usable side-onshore to side-shore conditions; Levante is cross-onshore and more wave exposed.
Forecast
Month by month
- Jan8
- Feb14
- Mar, riders' month23
- Apr, riders' month15
- May6
- Jun18
- Jul13
- Aug8
- Sep8
- Oct26
- Nov, riders' month13
- Dec11
windy days per month (3 h+ at 12 kn+)
Ringed months are the ones riders and schools name: Mar, Apr, Nov.
- 8%Jan14°
- 14%Feb14°
- 23%Mar14°
- 15%Apr16°
- 6%May18°
- 18%Jun22°
- 13%Jul25°
- 8%Aug28°
- 8%Sep25°
- 26%Oct22°
- 13%Nov18°
- 11%Dec16°
windy days per month (3 h+ at 12 kn+) · water °C below · season highlighted
| Month | Windy days | Force 4+ | 12 kn or more | Knots | From | Peaks at | Air | Water | Readings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 8% | 18% | 13% | 7.8 kt | NNW | 11:00 | 8.4°C | 14.2°C | 62 |
| Feb | 14% | 21% | 19% | 8.6 kt | NNW | 15:00 | 10.1°C | 13.6°C | 57 |
| Mar | 23% | 39% | 29% | 10.4 kt | SSW | 16:00 | 12.4°C | 14.3°C | 62 |
| Apr | 15% | 37% | 30% | 10.1 kt | S | 16:00 | 14.1°C | 15.6°C | 60 |
| May | 6% | 24% | 11% | 9.2 kt | S | 15:00 | 17.7°C | 18.4°C | 62 |
| Jun | 18% | 38% | 32% | 10.3 kt | SSW | 16:00 | 22.6°C | 21.9°C | 60 |
| Jul | 13% | 34% | 21% | 10.2 kt | SSW | 15:00 | 25.4°C | 25.4°C | 62 |
| Aug | 8% | 35% | 24% | 10.1 kt | SSE | 16:00 | 25.9°C | 27.5°C | 62 |
| Sep | 8% | 27% | 22% | 9.8 kt | SSW | 16:00 | 21.6°C | 25.2°C | 60 |
| Oct | 26% | 44% | 32% | 10.4 kt | SSW | 16:00 | 19.2°C | 22°C | 62 |
| Nov | 13% | 25% | 22% | 8.8 kt | NNW | 14:00 | 14.3°C | 17.9°C | 60 |
| Dec | 11% | 16% | 13% | 7.9 kt | NNW | 10:00 | 10.1°C | 15.9°C | 62 |
modelled
A weather model's cell over this place, not a station on it. Good for comparing places, weaker for one beach.
Modelled from the operational forecast archive at 1.5–7 km (2023-2024), daylight hours only, not a ground station: it resolves thermal, lake and valley winds far better than coarse reanalysis but still tends to understate a strong local thermal. A windy day has at least three consecutive daylight hours at 12 knots or more. The typical daily max and the direction are columns of the table above, month by month. Highlighted months are the riding season from the spot record.
High-resolution weather model (modelled) · Open-Meteo historical forecast archive — best-match operational model (ICON-D2 / AROME / ICON-EU / GFS by region), not a ground station · 2023-2024
The water
Type
sea
Tides
Mediterranean beach; no kite-source tide dependency found.
Temperature
25°C summer · 13°C winter
Wetsuit
Shorty or no wetsuit in high summer; full wetsuit in winter.
Your level
The scene
What riders come here for
Launch and rules
three ways on to the water, and what each one asks of you
With a school or a boat
2 schools name this spot
On your own
Room to launch: Wide for a metropolitan beach: Pescadors is 470 m long and about 55 m deep, Pont d'en Botifarreta 625 m by 50 m, Patins a Vela only 120 m by 45 m. From June to September the whole frontage is buoyed off 200 m out and the sand is heavily used.
Somewhere else
Montgat, 3 km
Every spot within 40 km is on the map at the top of this page, with its distance under it.
Rescue
Launch
The sand in front of the Club Natació is not Platja dels Pescadors but Platja dels Patins a Vela, the short 120 m beach immediately south between carrer de Mar and avinguda de Martí Pujol — and that is where the marked nautical channel is, next to the city dog beach.Platja dels Pescadors itself runs 470 m by about 55 m between the Riera de Matamoros and carrer de Mar, with the fishing boats, the Llotja and a lifeguard chair, but no channel of its own. The second channel is 625 m up the coast at Platja del Pont d'en Botifarreta, by Club Nàutic Bétulo.Badalona station is 150 m from Pescadors and the carrer de Mar underpass takes you under the N-II to the sand.
Space
Wide for a metropolitan beach: Pescadors is 470 m long and about 55 m deep, Pont d'en Botifarreta 625 m by 50 m, Patins a Vela only 120 m by 45 m. From June to September the whole frontage is buoyed off 200 m out and the sand is heavily used.
Rules & access
Access rules drift faster than anything else we hold — check locally, and propose an edit if this has changed.
Rider tips
- Scout the sand in front of Club Natacio before you rig; the beach is urban and full of hard edges.
- Treat Levante as the technical day: more waves, more shorebreak, less room to land.
- Plan the trip for outside high season and confirm the current municipal restriction locally before you commit the day.
- Pack a full wetsuit outside high summer; winter water sits around 13 C.
- Scout the sand in front of Club Natació before you rig; the beach is urban and full of hard edges.
- If you ride in the bathing months, use one of the two marked nautical channels — Patins a Vela or Pont d'en Botifarreta. There is no channel at Pescadors itself.
- March and April are the strongest afternoons of the year on the modelled record, and they fall outside the buoyed season.
Getting there
Airport
Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)
Route
Badalona is north of central Barcelona on the coastal rail line. Badalona station is 150 m from Platja dels Pescadors, with the carrer de Mar underpass leading beneath the N-II to the sand; city buses BD-1, BD-4, BD-5, BD-7 and BD-26 stop nearby and street parking is on carrer Eduard Maristany.
Cost level
medium
Staying
Badalona and Barcelona city accommodation.
No-wind days
Badalona beachfront and marina · Barcelona city sightseeing · SUP or beach sports when conditions allow
Photos
Last updated: August 2026