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Chałupy

Pomeranian Voivodeship · Hel Peninsula - Chałupy · Puck County · Władysławowo

also known as Chalupy, Chałupy 3, Chałupy 6, Hel / Chałupy

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The spot
Wind
Forecast
Month by month
Water
Level
The scene
Launch
Schools
Tips
Getting there
Photos
FAQ

Riding essentials

Season

May–Oct

Months riders and schools name

How windy

10-25 kt

Character: synoptic · cross-shore

Room to launch

tight

access rules on record, below

Water

mixed

18–20 °C in summerThe main kitesurfing water is the sheltered Puck Bay side: flat to choppy, sandy and shallow

Hazards

Reported by riders

Level

Beginner to advanced

With a caveat: see Your level

BeginnerIntermediateAdvanced

Crowds

high crowds · busy Jul Aug

Schools

named at this spot

From the airport

Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)

Transfer times under Getting there

When it fills in

No daily cycle to plan around. The wind here is frontal, so it can already be up at dawn, fill in at midday or arrive with a squall line in the evening, and it dies when the system moves through rather than at a set hour. Nothing thermal or trade-driven blows at Chałupy 3 or 6, so read the synoptic charts and a live bay station instead of waiting for an afternoon breeze.

Nearbystraight-line distance

Backup spotsWhere riders go when the wind doesn't work here.

Władysławowono page yet
Chałupy 3also a name for this spot
Chałupy 6also a name for this spot
Mewia Rewa / Ryf Mewno page yet
Hel Cypelno page yet

The spot

Chałupy sits on the Hel Peninsula, a sand spit narrow enough to cross on foot in a few minutes, with Puck Bay on one side and the open Baltic Sea on the other. You ride the bay: sandy, shallow, flat to choppy, waist deep for hundreds of metres, which is why it is one of the most forgiving places to learn in Central Europe.

The beach

The launches belong to campsites, and in July and August they are full of lesson packs, rental gear, families and a holiday crowd that keeps going after dark.

Wind and season

W-SW is the direction the bay wants; N and E push the better riders across to the Baltic side or off to another peninsula spot. Nothing here is thermal or trade-driven, so a good day arrives with a front and leaves with it, at whatever hour that happens to be. The warm season runs May to September, but the windiest months sit outside high summer, so bring rubber and take the shoulder.

Water level

The thing nobody warns you about is the water level: the wrong pressure or the wrong direction drains the bay, and a metre of standing depth becomes fin-deep ground.

The wind

locals call it Prevailing/frontal W-SW Baltic wind

Direction

cross-shore

Dominant direction

W and SW on the bay side; NW, S and SE can also work at Chałupy 6, while N and E are more suitable on the open Baltic side or other peninsula/bay spots.

Kite sizes

567891011121314151617

metres · typical quiver highlighted

The quiver, in words

9-14 m is the working band for a 75-85 kg rider: 13-14 m on the 10-14 kt bay days, 10-12 m through the common 15-20 kt, 9 m once a front pushes past 22 kt. Keep a 7-8 m for the roughly 35 days a year that touch 30-35 kt.

Character

synoptic

When it fills in: see above ↑

Typical strength

10-25 kt on a normal working day, which is the 4-6 Bft quoted for the peninsula; about 35 days a year reach 30-35 kt, and those arrive with a front rather than building slowly.

W-SW gives the best bay sessions, side-shore to side-on and reasonably stable. Outside settled summer spells the wind is frontal, which means gusty or squally and only as good as the weather map.

May to September is the practical warm-water and campsite season; the base at Chałupy 3 runs 29 April to 24 September. March to October is usable if you bring rubber, and the windiest statistics sit outside high summer - autumn, winter and spring beat July and August for strength.

July and August give the warmest water and the heaviest crowding. Every good day comes from a passing system rather than a thermal.

Forecast

Live forecast

Windguru Windfinder Windy

Month by month

15 ktJan4°
14 ktFeb3°
12 ktMar3°
10 ktApr5°
9 ktMay9°
10 ktJun13°
10 ktJul17°
10 ktAug18°
12 ktSep16°
13 ktOct12°
14 ktNov9°
14 ktDec6°

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

Modelled monthly averages. Highlighted: the months riders and schools name (May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct).

Modelled from weather reanalysis on a 10–25 km grid (30-year modeled climatology (reanalysis); Hel town is ~7 km east along the same narrow peninsula, same open Baltic exposure), not a ground station: reliable for trade and synoptic winds, understates thermal sea breezes and valley winds.

Every figure, month by monthKnots · Wind from · Air · Water

Month	Knots	Wind from	Air	Water
Jan	14.7 kt	W	0.6 °C	3.9 °C
Feb	13.6 kt	W	0.6 °C	2.8 °C
Mar	12.3 kt	W	2.8 °C	2.8 °C
Apr	10.2 kt	W	7.2 °C	5 °C
May	9.1 kt	W	11.7 °C	8.9 °C
Jun	9.6 kt	W	15 °C	13.3 °C
Jul	9.7 kt	W	17.8 °C	17.2 °C
Aug	10.2 kt	W	17.8 °C	18.3 °C
Sep	11.6 kt	W	13.9 °C	16.1 °C
Oct	13 kt	W	10 °C	12.2 °C
Nov	13.7 kt	W	5 °C	8.9 °C
Dec	14.3 kt	W	2.2 °C	5.6 °C

How this is modelledmodelled · 30-year modeled climatology (reanalysis); Hel town is ~7 km east along the same narrow peninsula, same open Baltic exposure

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

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.

WeatherSpark modeled climatology at Hel, Pomerania (Hel Peninsula) · WeatherSpark (NASA MERRA-2 reanalysis, 30-yr modeled 'typical year') · 30-year modeled climatology (reanalysis); Hel town is ~7 km east along the same narrow peninsula, same open Baltic exposure

The water

Type

mixed

Standing depth

The Puck Bay side stays roughly waist deep for the first 200-500 m out, averaging about 1 m near shore depending on the water level, so you can stand and restart a long way from the beach.Depth is not uniform: the bars shift, and a spell of the wrong pressure or direction drains enough water out of the bay to leave fin-deep ground where there was a metre.

Tides

Almost non-tidal for riding purposes: Baltic tide amplitudes are small, and local water levels are dominated by wind, air pressure, seiches and storm-surge effects rather than predictable ocean tides.

Temperature

Summer (°C) About 18–20 °C on average in July-August, with short warm spells reported into the low 20s C; Puck Bay can feel warmer than the open Baltic because it is shallow and sheltered.

Winter (°C) About 1–5 °C at the coldest on the open Chałupy coast; Puck Bay can form ice in winter, especially in shallow parts.

Modelled monthly average: 3–18 °C

Wetsuit

5/4 mm with hood, gloves and boots from October-May, 4/3 mm in June and September, 3/2 mm or a 2 mm shorty in July-August. Pack the 4/3 anyway: shorty days are not guaranteed.

Currents

No meaningful tide current is reported for the bay-side spot; on the Baltic Sea side expect open-coast wave/chop conditions and only ride there with suitable onshore wind.

Conditions

The main kitesurfing water is the sheltered Puck Bay side: flat to choppy, sandy and shallow.

The Baltic Sea side is a few minutes across the narrow peninsula and is used for choppy water or small waves when the wind is appropriate.

The Mewia Rewa/Ryf Mew sandbar between Rewa and Kuźnica creates very shallow, flat water but is a separate boat-access option rather than the normal Chałupy beach launch.

Low wind-driven Baltic/Puck Bay water levels can expose or thin out already-shallow areas.

Your level

BeginnerIntermediateAdvanced

Beginners belong on the flat Puck Bay side, where the schools work and you can stand a long way out. Freestyle and freeride riders get the same flat to choppy water. Advanced riders wait for the frontal days, cross to the Baltic side on a suitable onshore N or E, or drive to the sandbar and peninsula spots.

The scene

What riders come here for

freestyleflat waterfreeridebeginner lessonswingfoilfamily kite camps

Who it suitsbeginner

Poland's social kite and windsurf resort, and it behaves like one: campsite launches, school groups everywhere, restaurants, surf bars and rental racks around Chałupy 3, Solar/Chałupy 4 and Chałupy 6, and a holiday crowd that carries on well after the wind drops.

Launch and rules

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

With a school or a boat

10 schools name this spot

See who they are

On your own

Room to launch: tight

Read the access rules

Somewhere else

6 spots nearby

All 6 spots within 40 km are under Nearby

Rescue

Cover is school-run, not municipal.

The base at Chałupy 3 keeps a large motorboat that belays its own training and picks up kitesurfers in trouble, with instructors on radio; a rescue team is also reported at Chałupy 6.

Which boat covers you depends on whose water you launch into, so ask before you count on it.

The guarded bathing area sits on the Baltic side of the spit, not on the bay where you ride.

Launch

A chain of bay-side launches at campsites and schools - Chałupy 3, Solar/Chałupy 4, Chałupy 6, Ekolaguna - with around fifteen wind, kite, wake and SUP operations sharing this stretch of shore.Rigging is on sand, or on grass and mats depending on the campsite.The beaches at Chałupy 3 and 6 are small, so most riders walk out and launch from shallow water rather than from a wide strip of sand.

Hazards riders report 13 reported

Wind

Cold water and squally frontal winds in shoulder season
The bay's shallow sandbank line (running roughly Rewa-Kuźnica) can leave very little water at low wind-driven levels
Very shallow sandbars and changing wind-driven water levels on Puck Bay.
Wind-driven water levels: a spell of the wrong pressure or direction drains Puck Bay and thins out already shallow ground

Crowds and zones

Crowded launch and riding zones in peak summer
Crowded water, launches and school zones in July-August.

Bottom

Shallow, changeable sandbars across the bay

Waves and currents

The Baltic Sea side has chop/small waves and open-coast exposure rather than the beginner-friendly bay conditions.

Protected areas and rules

The 2026 guarded bathing beach is on the Baltic side at entrance 21 and runs 01/07/2026-31/08/2026; stay out of bathing water, even though no 2026 municipal kite ordinance is published.
Around fifteen wind, kite, wake and SUP operations share this stretch of bay shore, so lesson corridors and rental gear are part of the traffic

Other

Small/tight launch areas at Chałupy 3 and 6, with many beginners and school groups close to shore.
N and E are not the standard bay-side directions; cross to the Baltic side or move to another spot only if the direction and your level fit.
Cold water outside midsummer, with winter and shoulder-season frontal weather requiring full cold-water equipment.

Rules & access

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2026: the guarded bathing area is on the open Baltic side of the spit, at beach entrance 21 (ul. Bosmanska), 70 m of shoreline, running 01/07/2026-31/08/2026 under Wladyslawowo council resolution XXV/350/2026 of 25 February 2026, while the kiting happens on the Puck Bay side, so the two uses do not normally meet.

Kiting rules

No municipal kite ordinance, permit scheme or marked kite corridor is published for the bay launches in 2026; in practice the campsites and schools that hold the beach set the access and teaching zones.

Maritime authority

The maritime office's acts for these waters cover wind farms, ports, pipelines and wreck diving, not watersports.

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

Schools that ride here

Rider tips

Learn on the Puck Bay side: sand, flat water and standing depth for the first 200-500 m out.
For W-SW use the bay launches; for N or E ask locally before crossing to the Baltic side, because that is a rougher, more exposed session.
Ride early or late in July and August and keep out of the lesson corridors at Chałupy 3, Solar/Chałupy 4 and Chałupy 6.
Do not wait for an afternoon thermal. Read the synoptic chart and a live bay station, then drive out.
At 80 kg bring 13-14 m for the light bay days, 10-12 m for the usual 15-20 kt, 9 m when a front lands and a 7-8 m for the 30 kt-plus days.
Ask the base you launch from whether its rescue boat covers independent riders, and book a Chałupy 3/4/6 campsite spot months ahead for the Polish summer holidays.

Getting there

Airport

Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)

Route

It is about 61 km by road from Gdańsk Airport to Chałupy, along the single peninsula road that jams solid in high summer.Without a car, take the PKM/SKM train from the airport to Gdynia or Gdańsk, then a Polregio/PKP train down the Hel line to Chałupy; summer adds seasonal trains and buses.Seasonal boats and catamarans run to Hel town, but none of them drops you at Chałupy.

Transfer

About 60-95 minutes by car/bus in clear traffic; about 110-180 minutes by train/public transport depending on transfer and season.

Cost level

medium; public transport is low-cost for Poland, while campsite/accommodation demand is high in July-August and private transfers/taxis are much more expensive.

Staying

Best rider accommodation is campsite-based at Chałupy 3, Solar/Chałupy 4 and Chałupy 6, with caravans, tents, camper spots and some school-linked surf-house lodging. Hotel Meridian and Hotel 77 in Chałupy are hotel options within walking distance of the bay spots; private rooms in Chałupy exist but should be booked early for summer holidays.

No-wind days

SUP, the cable park at Sławutówko, surfing or an hour of beach on the Baltic side, cycling the Hel Peninsula, the seal centre and the coastal defence and military history sites at Hel, plus the restaurants and beach bars.

Photos

FAQ

When is the best time to kitesurf at Chałupy?

The practical warm-water season runs May to September, though spring and autumn are often windier for those bringing colder-water gear.

Is Chałupy suitable for beginners?

Yes, beginners use the flat, shallow Puck Bay side with standing depth extending a long way from shore and numerous schools.

What is the wind like at Chałupy?

The best bay sessions come on stable W-SW wind, typically 10-25 knots, following a synoptic, frontal Baltic pattern rather than a fixed trade or thermal system.

Are there kite schools at Chałupy?

Yes, several PZKite-listed schools operate from campsites including Chałupy 3 and Chałupy 6, some with motorboat rescue cover for their students.

What hazards should riders know about at Chałupy?

Hazards include shallow, changeable sandbars, tight launch areas at the campsite beaches, and crowded lesson zones during July and August.

The bigger pictureEverything about Hel Peninsula - Chałupy

Last updated: August 2026