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Keros (Limnos)

Northern Aegean · Limnos - Keros/Gomati · Lemnos Regional Unit · Kalliopi

also known as Keros Bay, Limnos / Keros, Keros Beach

Part of Keros – Gomati, Limnos →

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On this page

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

Riding essentials

Season

May–Sep

Months riders and schools name

How windy

17-25 kt

Character: mixed · cross-shore

Room to launch

huge

access rules on record, below

Water

mixed

23.9 °C in summer

Hazards

Reported by riders

Level

Beginner to advanced

With a caveat: see Your level

BeginnerIntermediateAdvanced

Crowds

medium crowds · busy Jun Jul Aug

Schools

named at this spot

From the airport

25 min

Hephaestus' (LXS)

On the clock

08:30 · 09:00 · 10:30 · 15:00 · 15:30

Builds from around 08:30-09:00 and is properly on by 10:30, holding to roughly 15:00-15:30. After that the north wind usually weakens and swings more offshore, so the good hours are morning to early afternoon.

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.

Nearbystraight-line distance

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

Keros Wave / South Kerosno page yet
Aliki
Saravarino page yet
Red Rock Beachno page yet
Kotsinasno page yet

The spot

The bay

Keros is the kite bay of eastern Limnos, close to Kalliopi, with several schools working off the same sand. The good part is that one bay gives three kinds of water: flat at the northern end, chop through the middle, small wind waves toward the south, all of it over sand with a waist-deep band off the beach.

Wind & timing

The wind is the North Aegean Meltemi, N to NE, best June to September and hardest in July and August, running about 12-25 kt in peak season. It comes in four- and five-day cycles, not every day. After about 15:00 it usually softens and swings more offshore, so the good hours are morning to early afternoon.

For different riders

Beginners do well here because of the shallow sand and the school setup, and freeriders can move between sections as the day changes.

Landscape & access

The bay sits inside a Natura 2000 landscape of dunes and salt lakes, so you keep off the dunes and park where you are told. The catch, if you turn up with your own gear, is space: port-police buoys mark a swimmer strip where kiting is banned, and how much beach is left outside the school zones in July and August is disputed, so check it before you rig.

The wind

locals call it Meltemi

Direction

cross-shoreN to NE

Dominant direction

N to NE, most often N or NNE. Because the bay curves, the same wind reads side-onshore in one section and side-shore in another, and it turns more side-offshore late in the day. Southerlies appear occasionally in May and September and mean bigger kites.

Kite sizes

5678910111213141516

metres · typical quiver highlighted

The quiver, in words

For a 75-85 kg rider, 9-12 m covers most of July and August, and an 8 m earns its place in the bag for the hard Meltemi days.June and September lean bigger, roughly 12-14 m.May and October, when southerlies turn up, can want 14 m or more.Lighter riders get by on 7 and 9 m.School fleets on the beach put most July-August customers on 8-10 m.

Character

mixed

When it fills in: see above ↑

Average strength

Monthly means quoted for the island run about 16 kt in May, 20 kt in June, 24 kt in July, 23 kt in August, 19 kt in September and 16 kt in October. No long-term measured station record has been published for the bay itself, so treat those figures as indicative rather than gauged.

Typical strength

Peak Meltemi runs about 17-25 kt. The shoulder weeks sit nearer 12-20 kt, and the full summer range quoted for the bay is 10-24 kt. In Beaufort terms it is a 4-6 spot with occasional 7.

Moderate, regular Meltemi in cycles rather than guaranteed daily wind; north wind can become more offshore and lighter after about 15:00. The north of the bay is flatter but potentially gustier, with cleaner side-on wave conditions toward the south.

June to September is the core period. Roughly 65-75 of the 90 summer days go over 12 kt, arriving in four- and five-day Meltemi cycles rather than daily. Mid-May and October ride the edges; the season is sold variously as May to September, May to October and June to November.

Winter is unreliable, occasionally excellent. Southerlies in May and September change the direction and the kite size.

Forecast

Live forecast

Windguru Windfinder Windy

Month by month

14 ktJan14°
14 ktFeb13°
13 ktMar13°
10 ktApr14°
9 ktMay18°
8 ktJun22°
9 ktJul24°
10 ktAug24°
10 ktSep23°
12 ktOct20°
13 ktNov17°
14 ktDec15°

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

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

Modelled from weather reanalysis on a 10–25 km grid (reanalysis climatology (multi-decade modeled, not a single station log)), 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 kt	N	7.8 °C	13.9 °C
Feb	14 kt	N	7.8 °C	13.3 °C
Mar	12.5 kt	S	9.4 °C	13.3 °C
Apr	10.3 kt	S	13.3 °C	14.4 °C
May	8.8 kt	N	17.8 °C	17.8 °C
Jun	8.1 kt	N	22.8 °C	21.7 °C
Jul	9.3 kt	N	25.6 °C	23.9 °C
Aug	10.3 kt	N	25 °C	24.4 °C
Sep	10.3 kt	N	21.1 °C	22.8 °C
Oct	11.9 kt	N	16.7 °C	20 °C
Nov	12.9 kt	N	12.2 °C	17.2 °C
Dec	13.9 kt	N	8.9 °C	15 °C

How this is modelledmodelled · reanalysis climatology (multi-decade modeled, not a single station log)

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

A station this far away — often inland or at an airport — can understate accelerated local wind. 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.

Limnos Airport, Greece · WeatherSpark (MERRA-2 reanalysis climate normals) · reanalysis climatology (multi-decade modeled, not a single station log)

The water

Type

mixed

Standing depth

The first 50-100 m off the sand is waist-deep, flat and clean, and the northern section holds that depth well out from shore. Older accounts describe a much wider 80-150 m shallow band. Assume the shorter figure, wade it yourself before committing a beginner to it, and expect the bottom to be sand the whole way.

Tides

Tide-independent. North Aegean range is a few tens of centimetres and has no practical effect on the launch, the shallow area or the rocks at the ends of the bay.

Temperature

23.9 °C summer · 15.3 °C winter

Modelled monthly average: 13–24 °C

Wetsuit

Boardshorts/bikini are commonly enough in July-August; take a vest or shorty for long sessions, a shorty for June/September, and a 3/2 for late season or winter.

Currents

No shorebreak and no current reported inside the bay. What moves you is the wind, not the water: the north flow drifts riders down the bay and turns more offshore in the late afternoon.

Conditions

Three zones in one bay:

very flat water toward the north and upwind end,
small chop in the middle,
small to sometimes medium wind waves toward the south.

The bottom is sand, flat, with no coral and no sea urchins, though rocks sit at the outer ends of the bay.

Lemnos 10-year water-temperature averages are 24.6 °C in July, 25.0 °C in August, 23.2 °C in September and 15.3 °C in winter.

Your level

BeginnerIntermediateAdvanced

Beginners use the shallow sandy water in front of the schools and the middle of the bay.

Intermediates get freeride, progression and bump-and-jump; stronger riders take the flatter north for tricks and the southern end for small waves and downwinders.

On your own gear, confirm the current school and buoy boundaries before launching, because what is left over can be small in high season.

The scene

What riders come here for

freeridewavesflat waterfreestylesmall waveswingfoilwindsurf

Who it suitsbeginner

Relaxed North Aegean surf-camp atmosphere with several schools and beach facilities; June-August are almost fully booked and September is uncrowded, while school zones and swimmer buoys can make independent launching feel constrained in high season.

Launch and rules

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

With a school or a boat

5 schools name this spot

See who they are

On your own

Room to launch: huge

Read the access rules

Somewhere else

2 spots nearby

All 2 spots within 40 km are under Nearby

Rescue

School-linked, not municipal. Rental and course packages from the beach centres include boat rescue, and one centre bundles free boat rescues with equipment storage; in practice cover means you are renting or teaching with them, and renting means proving you can ride independently.

Water monitoring

Instructors watch the water during opening hours, which broadly means late morning through the afternoon. There is no public lifeguard on the bay and nothing at all for a dawn or late session at the southern wave end.

If you arrive with your own kit, ask a centre in advance whether they would come for you and on what terms. No general call-out number is published.

Launch

Large sandy bay, given as 3, 4 or 5 km long depending on who is measuring, with surf stations, beach bars in places and as much rigging room as anyone needs.Sand underfoot, flat and clean through the middle, with a few visible rocks at either outer end.The northern end is the flat-water section, the middle is where lessons run, and the southern end picks up wind swell.

Hazards riders report 11 reported

Wind

Wind can shift more offshore and drop after about 15:00.
North/upwind flat-water area can be gustier.

Crowds and zones

Swimmers and swimmer zones in July-August.

Bottom

sandy bottom keeps collision risk low
Rocks/stones are reported at the outer ends of the bay, despite the main lesson area being sandy.
Seaweed reported over long stretches of the beach outside the maintained school frontage.

Waves and currents

no rescue boat during early dawn sessions at the southern wave zone
Possible strict buoyed exclusion/swimming areas reported; confirm the active kite/surf zones locally before launching independently.
The southern end runs 1-1.5 m wind swell in a working summer Meltemi, which is more than a first-week rider wants to swim in.

Protected areas and rules

Protected Natura 2000 ecosystem, dunes and salt-lake surroundings: do not drive on dunes or beach and do not litter.

Other

No public lifeguard and no published rescue call-out number for riders on their own gear.

Rules & access

1 min read

2026: no municipal or port-police ordinance text for Keros has been published online. On the water the bay is divided into boating, swimming-only and surfing-only zones, with port-police buoys marking a swimmer-protection strip where kitesurfing and windsurfing are banned; enforcement falls on independent riders while the schools work inside their own areas.

Riders turning up without a school have found the space left to them as little as a couple of hundred metres of rocky beach in high summer. That is unconfirmed, and the first thing to check on arrival.

National rules

Greek national rules apply as elsewhere: nothing before sunrise or after sunset, 200 m clear of swimmers, rocks, obstacles and anchored boats, nothing inside ports, no more than one nautical mile out, and licensed operations must mark a buoyed corridor. Elsewhere on Limnos the port authority has required helmets and impact vests at Aliki, so expect the same to be asked of you here.

Environmental protection

The bay sits inside a Natura 2000 landscape of dunes, salt lakes and wetland: no driving on the dunes or the sand, no litter. Moudros Bay, not Keros, falls in the 8 km no-fly zone around Limnos airport.

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

Ride the Meltemi window from mid-morning to early afternoon; after about 15:00 the wind usually drops and swings more offshore.
Bring 9-12 m for July and August at average weight, an 8 m for the hard days and 12-14 m for June or September; lighter riders get by on 7 and 9 m. The water sits at 23-25 C from July to September, so a rash vest does the job with a shorty for long sessions.
Use the north end for flat water, the middle for lessons and progression and the south end for small waves; arrange a pickup if you ride the pre-breakfast downwinder rather than grinding back upwind.
Ask a school or the port police where the active 2026 zones are before you self-launch, especially in July and August.
Rent from a centre if you want boat rescue. The cover follows the rental, not the beach.
Keep off the dunes and do not drive on the sand: the Keros, Aliki and Chortarolimni landscape is protected. A car, scooter or bike is worth having if you sleep anywhere but Kalliopi.

Getting there

Airport

Limnos International Airport 'Ifestos' / 'Hephaestus' (LXS)

Route

Fly to LXS via Athens or Thessaloniki, or bring a car over on the ferry. Kavala-Limnos and Lavrio-Limnos are the useful routes, Kavala the one to take if you are driving, and the crossing runs about 3-4 hours depending on the sailing.

Transfer

25 min

Cost level

medium

Staying

On/near-Keros options include Surf Club Keros glamping/resort, Keros Blue, Kalliopi apartments and other studios/guesthouses. The protected ecosystem limits beachfront accommodation; staying elsewhere on Limnos is practical because the island roads and distances are short.

No-wind days

SUP, canoe, Hobie Cat/dinghy, wingfoil/windsurf lessons, scuba diving/PADI activities, e-bike tours, sandboarding at the Lemnos dunes, salt-lake/birdwatching visits, wineries, archaeological sites and Myrina port town.

FAQ

When is the best time to kite at Keros?

The core season is June to September, with wind arriving in multi-day Meltemi cycles rather than every day.

Is Keros suitable for beginners?

Yes, the waist-deep sandy area near the schools makes it beginner-friendly, while intermediate and advanced riders use the flatter and wavier ends of the bay.

What is the wind like?

A North Aegean Meltemi from N to NE, typically 12-20 knots in June and 15-25 knots in July and August, usually starting in the morning and easing after about 15:00.

Are there kite schools at Keros?

Yes, several schools operate on the beach, including Surf Club Keros, Siroko Wind Club and Duotone Pro Center Limnos.

Are there rules or restrictions?

As of 2026, reports describe designated boating, swimming and surfing zones enforced by the port police, and the bay sits within a protected Natura 2000 landscape.

The bigger pictureEverything about Limnos - Keros/Gomati

Last updated: August 2026