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Emilia-Romagna · Ravenna coast · Ravenna
Lido di Savio
also known as Sporting Beach, Bagno Sporting Beach
Nearby Milano Marittima 5 km · Cesenatico (Valverde) 13 km · Punta Marina 17 km · Marina di Ravenna 21 km · 39 Beach Rimini 32 km · Rimini Bagno 78 35 km · Vela Club Marano 39 km · straight-line distance
On the clock
11:00 · 14:00 · 16:00 · 18:00 · 19:00
Summer wind here is an afternoon sea breeze. Modelled speed is lowest overnight, starts climbing around 11:00, peaks between 14:00 and 16:00 and falls away after 18:00 to 19:00. The Bora days that give the stronger sessions follow the weather map instead and can hold through the night. Indicative modelling, no local measurement.
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
Direction
Character
mixed
fills in: Summer wind here is an afternoon sea breeze. Modelled speed is lowest overnight, starts climbing around 11:00, peaks between 14:00 and 16:00 and falls away after 18:00 to 19:00. The Bora days that give the stronger sessions follow the weather map instead and can hold through the night. Indicative modelling, no local measurement.
Typical strength
No local measurement exists. In modelled hourly wind, hours over 12 kt are roughly two to three times more common from October to May than in June, July and August, and the summer excess sits in the afternoon sea-breeze window. So the strong days belong to the cold-season and shoulder-season northerlies rather than the holiday months. Indicative only, no figure that a rider should plan a trip around.
Direction to shore
The beach faces ENE. E is straight onshore, NE arrives side-onshore from the left and SE side-onshore from the right, N is cross-shore, and anything from W or SW blows offshore. Whatever the direction, the authorised corridor is the only legal way through the 300 m bathing strip, and the wavebreakers sit about 150 m out.
Dominant direction
Bora from the NE in the cold half of the year, and a thermal E to SE sea breeze on summer afternoons. Indicative pattern taken from modelled wind, with no local station to confirm it.
Forecast
Month by month
- Jan33
- Feb28
- Mar37
- Apr38
- May30
- Jun36
- Jul34
- Aug24
- Sep29
- Oct19
- Nov28
- Dec24
per cent of the month at force 4 or more
- 10Jan8°
- 9Feb8°
- 10Mar12°
- 11Apr15°
- 10May19°
- 10Jun25°
- 10Jul28°
- 9Aug29°
- 10Sep25°
- 9Oct21°
- 10Nov15°
- 9Dec10°
avg knots per month · water °C below · season highlighted
| Month | Force 4+ | Knots | From | Air | Water |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 33% | 9.8 kt | WNW | 5.6°C | 7.8°C |
| Feb | 28% | 9.4 kt | WNW | 7°C | 8.4°C |
| Mar | 37% | 9.9 kt | ESE | 10.1°C | 12.2°C |
| Apr | 38% | 10.7 kt | SE | 12.8°C | 15.4°C |
| May | 30% | 10.1 kt | ESE | 18.1°C | 19.3°C |
| Jun | 36% | 9.9 kt | ESE | 23.5°C | 24.6°C |
| Jul | 34% | 10.3 kt | ESE | 26.5°C | 28.4°C |
| Aug | 24% | 9.4 kt | E | 25.8°C | 28.9°C |
| Sep | 29% | 10.3 kt | SE | 21.4°C | 25°C |
| Oct | 19% | 8.9 kt | SE | 18°C | 20.7°C |
| Nov | 28% | 9.6 kt | WNW | 10.8°C | 14.9°C |
| Dec | 24% | 9.1 kt | WNW | 7°C | 10.2°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
The sea off this beach is shallow, but no kite-specific depth range is confirmed.
Tides
Small but not absent. Around 0.8 m between low and high on springs at Ravenna and about 0.3 m on neaps, two of each in a day. It moves the waterline on a flat beach and changes nothing else about a session.
Temperature
26.5°C summer · 7.9°C winter
Wetsuit
No wetsuit guidance for this beach specifically. Ravenna and Cervia water runs warm through summer and cold in winter, so kit accordingly.
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
3 schools name this spot
On your own
Room to launch: Sandy beach, reportedly narrow at the corridor.
Somewhere else
Milano Marittima, 5 km
Every spot within 40 km is on the map at the top of this page, with its distance under it.
Rescue
Launch
Bagno Sporting Beach runs sailing, windsurf and kitesurf courses and lessons. The kite corridor is official and the beach at that point is narrow.
Space
Sandy beach, reportedly narrow at the corridor.
Rules & access
Access rules drift faster than anything else we hold — check locally, and propose an edit if this has changed.
Rider tips
- Call Bagno Sporting Beach before you drive out; they know where the corridor is and whether it is open.
- Ask on site where the jet-ski training area starts and stay off it.
- In summer, treat the first 300 m from shore as swimmers' water unless you are inside the authorized corridor.
- Bologna (BLQ) is about 1 h 12-16 min away by road; Forli (FRL) at about 25 km is closer if the flights work.
- Call Bagno Sporting Beach on +39 348 745 5540 before you drive out; they know where the corridor is and whether it is open.
- Ask on site where the jet-ski training circuit starts and stay off it.
- In summer, treat the first 300 m from shore as swimmers' water unless you are inside the authorised corridor; the buoy line marking it should be no more than 100 m between buoys.
- Outside the third weekend of May to the third weekend of September there is no lifeguard duty on this coast at all.
- Forli at 32 km by road is the closest airport if the flights work; Bologna is about 1 h 25.
- The wind that makes this coast worth a session is the cold-season NE, not the summer breeze.
Getting there
Airport
Forli (FRL) about 25 km, Rimini (RMI) about 39 km, Bologna (BLQ) about 86-88 km.
Route
Lido di Savio sits 20 km south of Ravenna, next to Milano Marittima, between the Savio river and the Cervia pinewood. Forli is the nearest airport at 32 km by road, about 40 minutes; Bologna is 110 km, about 1 h 25.
Transfer
42 min
Staying
Seafront hotels, with more rooms, restaurants and shops on the inner streets.
No-wind days
Cycling the seafront and the pinewood paths, the Cervia salt pans, Labirinto Dedalo, the Ravenna mosaics, Mirabilandia and Safari Ravenna.
Photos
FAQ
Is Lido di Savio suitable for beginners?
Yes, Bagno Sporting Beach offers kitesurf courses and lessons for beginners and intermediate riders, though advanced conditions were not verified.
Are there rules or restricted zones?
In 2026 the Emilia-Romagna beach ordinance reserves the first 300 m from shore for bathing except through the beach's official kite corridor.
What are the main hazards?
A narrow beach at the kite corridor, wavebreakers about 150 m offshore, and summer beach-user pressure are reported.
Last updated: August 2026