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Caorle

also known as Caorle Spiaggia Levante, Spiaggia di Levante

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On this page

Wind
- Month by month
Forecast
Water
Level
The scene
Launch
- Rescue
Hazards
Rules & access
Schools
Tips
Getting there
Photos
FAQ

Nearby Bibione 11 km · Brussa 12 km · Cortellazzo 14 km · Jesolo - Ospedale 20 km · Lignano Sabbiadoro - Isola delle Conchiglie 23 km · Jesolo - Piazza Brescia 23 km · Grado 41 km · Marina Julia 55 km · straight-line distance

SeasonJun to Augthe months riders and schools name How windy13-14 ktsynoptic, cross-shore Launchhugeaccess rules on record, below Watermixed28°C in summer · 6 things riders flag LevelBeginner to advancedwith a caveat, in the Level section Schools3named at this spot From the airport60 min

On the clock

15:00 · 17:00

There is barely a daily cycle. The modelled average lifts about a knot through the afternoon and peaks between 15:00 and 17:00, sitting near 4.5 kt the rest of the day. The days worth driving for come with the weather pattern rather than with the sun, and a Bora can blow at any hour, including through the night.

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.

Caorle is a family beach resort on the Veneto Adriatic coast, and kiting here is what you can get out of the place rather than the reason the town exists. Several schools run lessons on the beach.

Spiaggia di Levante is wide and soft, shelving so gently that you stand a long way out, which forgives a lot on the days the wind turns up.

Two directions work: NE Bora goes cross-on near the Madonna dell'Angelo church and puts up small rideable waves, and SE Scirocco is ridden from the Porto di Falconara canal mouth, where barely-submerged sandbanks sit off the entrance.

Statistical wind records give the spot a very low share of rideable days, while it is reportedly kitable most of the year, and the two pictures do not fit. In summer the sand belongs to swimmers and umbrellas, and breakwater moles close both ends of the beach, partly in the water.

Caorle's beach regulation points to the municipal bathing ordinance and to the Coast Guard ordinance for the town, and no kite-specific corridor or launch zone turned up in either.

The wind

locals call it Bora (NE) and Scirocco (SE)

Direction

cross-shore

Kite sizes

891011121314151617

metres · typical quiver highlighted

Character

synoptic

fills in: There is barely a daily cycle. The modelled average lifts about a knot through the afternoon and peaks between 15:00 and 17:00, sitting near 4.5 kt the rest of the day. The days worth driving for come with the weather pattern rather than with the sun, and a Bora can blow at any hour, including through the night.

Typical strength

Weak. A five-year modelled record puts the mean near 5 kt, with only about 3% of hours reaching 12 kt. When it does blow, the median of those hours is 13-14 kt and the strongest tenth around 17 kt. April is the best of a thin lot at 5% of hours over 12 kt; July and August are close to nothing. Modelled reanalysis at the beach coordinates, no local measurement.

Statistical wind records give Caorle a very low share of rideable days, while the spot is reportedly kitable most of the year. Opportunistic rather than dependable.

March, April and May carry the highest share of hours over 12 kt in the modelled record, at 3-5%, with a smaller winter presence in January and February. June, July and August, which the record has as the best months, are the deadest stretch at 0-1%.

Nothing here is a season in the sense other spots mean it: the rideable days are individual Bora or Scirocco events scattered through the year. Modelled reanalysis rather than a local measurement.

Also on record

The quiver, in words

The days that work are Bora or Scirocco days, and they run 13-17 kt. For a 75-85 kg rider that means a 12 m as the everyday kite and a 10 m for the strong end of a Bora.Below that, which is most of the calendar, it is a 15-17 m or a foil, or it is a beach day. Sizes are worked out from the modelled wind, not from a local kite report.

Dominant direction

NE first. In the modelled record 57% of the hours at 12 kt or more arrive from the NE quadrant, which is the Bora, and about 20% from S to SSE, the Scirocco side. Plain E is a minority of the strong hours.That matches the two working directions riders describe here rather than one fixed easterly.

Forecast

Month by month

Jan22
Feb20
Mar26
Apr28
May25
Jun, riders' month18
Jul, riders' month11
Aug, riders' month16
Sep22
Oct22
Nov18
Dec13

per cent of the month at force 4 or more

Ringed months are the ones riders and schools name: Jun, Jul, Aug.

8Jan10°
8Feb9°
9Mar12°
9Apr15°
9May19°
9Jun24°
9Jul28°
8Aug28°
9Sep25°
8Oct20°
8Nov15°
7Dec11°

avg knots per month · water °C below · season highlighted

Month	Force 4+	Knots	From	Air	Water
Jan	22%	7.6 kt	NNE	4.2°C	10°C
Feb	20%	7.7 kt	NE	6.2°C	9.2°C
Mar	26%	8.9 kt	ENE	9.2°C	12.2°C
Apr	28%	9.4 kt	ENE	12.2°C	14.8°C
May	25%	8.9 kt	NE	18.1°C	19°C
Jun	18%	8.6 kt	SE	22.7°C	24.4°C
Jul	11%	8.5 kt	NE	25.7°C	28.1°C
Aug	16%	8.2 kt	NE	25.5°C	28.3°C
Sep	22%	9.1 kt	NE	20.2°C	24.9°C
Oct	22%	8.3 kt	NE	16.6°C	20.3°C
Nov	18%	7.9 kt	NNE	9.1°C	15.4°C
Dec	13%	7 kt	NNE	5.3°C	11.1°C

modelled

A weather model's cell over this place, not a station on it. Good for comparing places, weaker for one beach.

Modelled from weather reanalysis on a 10–25 km grid (2022-2024), not a ground station: reliable for trade and synoptic winds, understates thermal sea breezes and valley winds. 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.

ERA5 reanalysis grid point (modelled) · Open-Meteo historical weather API — ECMWF ERA5/ERA5-Land reanalysis, not a ground station · 2022-2024

The water

Type

mixed

Standing depth

Wide, gently shelving sand. In Bora, standing depth reportedly runs out to roughly 70 m from shore near the Madonna dell'Angelo church, not independently confirmed.

Tides

The northern Adriatic is the tidal corner of the Mediterranean. There is no gauge at Caorle; the nearest ones, some 40 km down the coast and across the gulf, measured a median daily range near 0.85 m through 2025, with 0.55-1.10 m covering most days and 1.39 m the year's largest swing.On sand that shelves this gently the waterline moves a long way between low and high. Scirocco and low pressure stack water on top of the astronomical tide, the same mechanism that floods Venice.

Temperature

28°C summer · 9°C winter

Wetsuit

Boardshorts/rash vest in summer (air can hit ~35°C); a drysuit or thick wetsuit is needed for winter sessions.

9–28°C water

Choppy in NE Bora, small to medium waves in SE Scirocco. Breakwater moles sit at both ends of the beach and partly in the water. Barely-submerged sandbanks are reported off the Porto di Falconara canal mouth, the second launch, used in southerly wind.

Your level

beginnerintermediateadvanced

The wide, gradually shelving sand with shallow water a long way out suits a beginner. On a Bora day near the Madonna dell'Angelo church, small rideable waves form for wave riders.

The scene

What riders come here for

freeridesmall waveslessonsflat-water lessonssmall-wave riding

A family Adriatic resort beach. The town logs about 4.4 million overnight stays a year, and the sand is shared with sunbathers and swimmers rather than run as a kite zone.

Launch and rules

three ways on to the water, and what each one asks of you

With a school or a boat

3 schools name this spot

See who they are

On your own

Room to launch: huge

access rules on record

Somewhere else

Bibione, 11 km

Bibione Brussa Cortellazzo

Every spot within 40 km is on the map at the top of this page, with its distance under it.

Rescue

The serviced beach carries lifesaving and first aid, run as a legal obligation by the concession consortium, and a red flag goes up when the sea is judged dangerous. That covers bathing hours in the bathing season, not a windy Tuesday in March.

Sea emergencies go to 1530, the Coast Guard's national number, or to 112. No kite-specific rescue boat or downwind pick-up is published for either launch.

Launch

Big, soft-sand beach at Spiaggia di Levante, wide enough to launch several kites at once without crowding. A second, narrower launch is at the Porto di Falconara canal mouth, used in southerly wind.

Space

huge

Rules & access

2026: no kite-specific corridor, launch zone or seasonal window is published online for Caorle. Conduct on the serviced beach follows the municipal ordinance and the Coast Guard ordinance for the town, both of which the beach consortium posts at the entrance to each bathing establishment rather than on the web. Sports and games are confined to the equipped areas, and a red flag closes the water. Ask the beach office or a school where you may rig before you unroll lines, particularly between June and September when the sand is worked as a bathing beach.

Access rules drift faster than anything else we hold — check locally, and propose an edit if this has changed.

Rider tips

Ask locally before you rig: no public description of a marked kite corridor at Caorle was found, and Italian beach ordinances normally require one.
In Bora, the stretch by the Madonna dell'Angelo church is the one named as workable.
In southerly wind go to the Porto di Falconara canal mouth and stay off the sandbanks just under the surface.
Treat a session here as opportunistic; the independent wind data is poor, so do not build a trip around it.
If it is flat calm, the same schools run at Lake Santa Croce.
Winter needs a drysuit or thick rubber; the sea drops to 9 C.
The windless months are the crowded ones. March to May carry the most wind in the long record, June to August the least.
The tide here is real, not Mediterranean-trivial: most days move the water level 0.6-1.1 m, and on this gradient that is a long change in where the shoreline sits.

Getting there

Route

Venice Marco Polo is the practical arrival: 70 km and about an hour by road. Treviso is the same distance on paper and a slower drive, near 70 minutes. Take a car.The two launches sit at opposite ends of the town, the Levante beach for Bora and the Porto di Falconara canal mouth for southerlies, and you will want to move between them on the day.

Transfer

60 min

Staying

Established seaside resort town with a full range of hotels, campsites and apartments geared to summer tourism.

No-wind days

Old town of Caorle (Venetian-style canal streets, cafés); Lake Santa Croce, used by the same kite schools as a wind backup; Venice.

Photos

Caorle, pláž — Aktron, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

FAQ

What is the wind like?

One spot directory describes wind as usually light, below 10 knots.

Is Caorle suitable for beginners?

Beginner, intermediate and advanced levels are all listed for this spot.

What is the water like?

The beach is sandy with shallow, choppy water and small to medium wind waves.

Last updated: August 2026