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Capo Miseno

also known as Miseno

advanced onlyhigh crowds

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On this page

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

Nearby Fusaro / Lido Fusaro 5 km · Varcaturo 13 km · Ischitella / Lido Don Pablo 20 km · Castellammare di Stabia / Lido Lo Scoglio 34 km · straight-line distance

SeasonApr to Septhe months riders and schools name How windyno knot figure publishedmixed Launchmediumaccess rules on record, below Watersea26.9°C in summer · 13 things riders flag LevelIntermediate to advancedwith a caveat, in the Level section

Schoolsnone named here

From the airportno transfer time publishedNaples Airport

When it fills in

No onset time is published for this spot.

Capo Miseno sits at the Bacoli end of the Phlegraean coast west of Naples, and it is a sea spot rather than a school beach. The entry is shallow, the water chops up, the waves stay small to medium, and tide does not come into it. WNW and ESE are the sideshore directions to look for.

Intermediate and expert riders get something out of it; anyone still fighting to stay upwind should learn elsewhere, because there is a wave breaker in the water and cliffs at the east end to be pushed onto. In June, July and August the beach fills with bathers, and that decides more sessions here than the forecast does.

No local knot range has ever been published, so you pick kite size off the general forecast and off what you can see on the water. The only kite ordinance that turns up is Ordinanza 34/2011 for the Ancona maritime district, which has nothing to do with Bacoli, so the rules at this beach stay unconfirmed.

The wind

Direction

cross-shore

Character

mixed

Good weather runs March to November, with a wetsuit outside that window. No spot-specific wind-strength range has been published.

Strength

No knot figure is published for this spot.

Direction to shore

WNW and ESE sideshore

Dominant direction

WNW and ESE are the sideshore directions. W, N, NE, E, SE, S, SW and NW all appear as ideal winds too, which reads more like a full compass than local knowledge.

Forecast

Month by month

Jan44
Feb38
Mar40
Apr, riders' month40
May, riders' month33
Jun, riders' month14
Jul, riders' month14
Aug, riders' month20
Sep, riders' month33
Oct23
Nov41
Dec34

per cent of the month at force 4 or more

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

10Jan17°
10Feb15°
11Mar15°
11Apr17°
10May20°
9Jun25°
9Jul28°
10Aug28°
10Sep26°
9Oct24°
11Nov21°
10Dec18°

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

Month	Force 4+	Knots	From	Air	Water
Jan	44%	10.4 kt	NE	10.3°C	16.5°C
Feb	38%	10.3 kt	NE	10.9°C	15.1°C
Mar	40%	10.9 kt	SE	12.2°C	15.3°C
Apr	40%	10.5 kt	W	14.4°C	16.7°C
May	33%	9.5 kt	SSE	19°C	19.7°C
Jun	14%	8.8 kt	W	23.9°C	24.5°C
Jul	14%	9.4 kt	W	27.5°C	27.7°C
Aug	20%	9.5 kt	W	26.9°C	28°C
Sep	33%	10.3 kt	SSE	23°C	25.6°C
Oct	23%	8.7 kt	SE	20.1°C	23.5°C
Nov	41%	11.1 kt	NE	15.2°C	20.5°C
Dec	34%	9.9 kt	NE	12.3°C	17.9°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

sea

Standing depth

shallow access reported

Tides

tide independent

Temperature

26.9°C summer · 14.5°C winter

Wetsuit

Reportedly a wetsuit outside the warm season, and a full suit through winter on the Naples averages.

15–28°C water

Shallow at the entry, choppy, with small to medium waves, and the water is clean. Naples averages 26.9 C in August and 14.5 C in February.

Your level

not for beginners hereintermediateadvanced

Rated intermediate and expert, with advanced used elsewhere for the same conditions. Nothing calls it a beginner beach.

The scene

What riders come here for

wavefreeride

Heavy beach tourism in summer. Nothing is known about the local rider scene.

Launch and rules

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

With a school or a boat

No school names this spot

Nobody has been recorded teaching or running a boat here.

On your own

Room to launch: medium

access rules on record

Somewhere else

Fusaro / Lido Fusaro, 5 km

Fusaro / Lido Fusaro Varcaturo Ischitella / Lido Don Pablo

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

Rescue

+39 081 5261160

No lifeguard post belongs to this beach. Under the 2025 Pozzuoli ordinance cover exists only where a bathing establishment or the comune has set a post up, and only while it is open to the public; a beach open for other reasons has to sign that there is no rescue service.

Each staffed post must hold at least one qualified lifeguard, a rescue craft usable in rough water, and a means of emergency communication. For lifeguard purposes the season runs from the third Saturday in May to the third Sunday in September, so outside those months, and on any unmanned stretch of sand, plan on self-rescue.

At sea the call is the Coast Guard on 1530, free from any phone, or Pozzuoli direct on +39 081 5261160; medical emergencies go to 118.

Launch

Sandy beach at Miseno, under Capo Miseno, with toilets, food and parking reported.

Space

medium

Rules & access

Bacoli sits in the Pozzuoli maritime district, and the governing document is Ordinanza 42/2025 of the Ufficio Circondariale Marittimo di Pozzuoli, which names kitesurf explicitly.

During the bathing season the band of water 200 m out from the shoreline, or 100 m off sheer rock and rocky coast, is reserved for bathers: no kite transit through it, no stopping in it, and no launching or landing across it except by a marked launch corridor.

Corridors are 20 m wide, 10 m where the beach frontage is narrower, edged with yellow floats strung on a line at no more than 50 m spacing and marked at the seaward mouth by two larger floats with white flags; they are public use even when a beach club built them, and swimming inside one is banned.

Further out, Ordinanza 62/2013 of the Naples maritime compartment bans pleasure craft including windsurf and kitesurf from navigating, stopping or mooring within 300 m of beaches and 200 m of sheer coasts, and the corridor is the way through that band.

For lifeguard purposes the 2025 ordinance fixes the season from the third Saturday in May to the third Sunday in September; the actual opening dates are set by Comune di Bacoli's own bathing ordinance 192/2007. A Bacoli mayoral order, n.

82 of 14 June 2024, closes the ground and the water beneath the rocky cliff faces for rockfall risk, which is the corner at the east end of this beach. Nothing kite-specific to Capo Miseno itself has been published.

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

Rider tips

Check the launch against current Guardia Costiera and Comune di Bacoli notices before you rig; nothing kite-specific for Capo Miseno has been confirmed.
Park at the sandy beach, where the toilets and the food are, and rig where you leave the car.
Find the wave breaker before you launch and keep it downwind of your rigging spot.
Give the cliffs at the east end a wide margin; that is the corner you do not want to drift into.
In June, July and August judge the session by how much sand the bathers have taken, not by the wind.
Cross the bathing strip through a marked corridor: yellow floats on a line, 20 m wide, two white-flagged floats at the seaward mouth.
The cliff corner east of the beach has been closed ground since June 2024, on land and in the water underneath it.

Getting there

Airport

Naples Airport, 20.3 km from Miseno and Bacoli.

Staying

Food and parking are at the beach; where to stay is unconfirmed.

No-wind days

Capo Miseno viewpoints · Bacoli and the Phlegraean coast

Photos

Le Isole del Golfo ed il faro di Miseno — SignorDeFazio, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

FAQ

What is the wind like?

WNW and ESE are reported as the sideshore working directions, though no reliable local knot range has been verified.

Is Capo Miseno suitable for beginners?

No, it is rated for intermediate and expert riders rather than beginners.

What is the water like?

Entry is shallow with chop and small to medium waves, and conditions are reported as tide independent.

What hazards should riders know about?

A wave breaker, cliffs at the east end of the beach and heavy summer beach tourism are the main reported hazards.

Last updated: August 2026