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Marche · Fermo coast · Fermo · Fermo / Porto San Giorgio

Marina Palmense

also known as Porto San Giorgio, Spiaggia di Marina Palmense, Tribalkite Marina Palmense, Tribal Kite Marina Palmense

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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 Kite Beach Civitanova 18 km · Porto Potenza Picena 26 km · La Sentina 28 km · La Pineta 29 km · Numana 39 km · straight-line distance

SeasonFeb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Nov, Decthe months riders and schools name How windy22.3 ktmixed Launchmediumaccess rules on record, below Watersea26.6°C in summer · 7 things riders flag LevelBeginner to advancedwith a caveat, in the Level section Schools2named at this spot From the airportno transfer time publishedPescara (PSR)

When it fills in

Riding is legal from dawn to sunset under the 2022 district rules. No local fill-in or drop-off hour is published: the scirocco and NNW days that work here arrive with the gradient rather than on a clock.

Marina Palmense is a sandy strip of Adriatic beach on the Fermo coast in Marche, just south of Porto San Giorgio, and the kiting on it revolves around ASD Tribalkite, the local club and school. The water is flat to choppy and standable, and the tide does not matter.

Usable wind arrives NNW or SSE, both side-shore, and a southeast Scirocco is the direction the locals wait for. The sand is fine at the launch, but there is gravel farther south and rocks that surface near the southern beach, so look before you body-drag downwind.

Summer is the awkward season: bathing-season corridor rules, beach users and wavebreakers all eat into the space you have. Seasonality is the open question, since one line of guidance gives May to September while another points at February to April and November to December, which is a wide enough spread that a live wind station beats any season table before you commit to the drive. Beginners can start here, but not on their own.

The wind

locals call it Scirocco

Direction

cross-shoreNNW and SSE sideshore

Kite sizes

567891011121314

metres · typical quiver highlighted

Character

mixed

fills in: Riding is legal from dawn to sunset under the 2022 district rules. No local fill-in or drop-off hour is published: the scirocco and NNW days that work here arrive with the gradient rather than on a clock.

Typical strength

22.3 kt average, unconfirmed as to what the figure actually measures

NNW and SSE side-shore flow, with the southeast Scirocco the direction that works best. No wind-strength figure has been published for the main warm-season riding period.

Two readings of the season sit side by side and do not agree: May-September as the best months, or February-April plus November-December with a 22.3 kt figure attached.

Thermal or synoptic

thermal and synoptic

Also on record

22.3

The quiver, in words

No local size guidance is published; the range below is indicative, worked from the recorded directions and strength bands rather than measured here. A 75-85 kg rider covers the light side on 12m, a solid sideshore day on 9m, and drops to 7m when a hard scirocco or an NNW gradient pushes past 25 kt.

Direction to shore

NNW and SSE are listed as side-shore; southeast Scirocco is singled out as favorable.

Forecast

Month by month

Jan33
Feb, riders' month25
Mar, riders' month25
Apr, riders' month36
May, riders' month13
Jun, riders' month18
Jul, riders' month17
Aug, riders' month16
Sep, riders' month24
Oct11
Nov, riders' month33
Dec, riders' month37

per cent of the month at force 4 or more

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

10Jan11°
9Feb11°
9Mar13°
10Apr16°
9May19°
9Jun25°
9Jul29°
9Aug29°
10Sep26°
8Oct22°
10Nov17°
10Dec12°

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

Month	Force 4+	Knots	From	Air	Water
Jan	33%	9.6 kt	NW	7.7°C	10.6°C
Feb	25%	9.1 kt	NW	8.6°C	10.5°C
Mar	25%	9.3 kt	NW	10.2°C	13.1°C
Apr	36%	10 kt	SSE	12.7°C	15.7°C
May	13%	8.8 kt	NW	17.9°C	19.1°C
Jun	18%	9.3 kt	SSE	22.9°C	24.5°C
Jul	17%	9.3 kt	NNW	26.4°C	28.5°C
Aug	16%	9 kt	NNW	25.8°C	28.9°C
Sep	24%	9.6 kt	SSE	21.3°C	25.8°C
Oct	11%	7.9 kt	NW	18.4°C	21.8°C
Nov	33%	10.3 kt	NW	12.7°C	16.7°C
Dec	37%	9.7 kt	WNW	9.3°C	12.3°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

Standable at both high and low tide over the sand in front of the club. Fine sand at the launch, coarser and gravelly to the south, where rocks come up close to shore.

Tides

not tide dependent

Temperature

26.6°C summer · 13°C winter

Wetsuit

Lycra in May-September; wetsuit needed October-May.

11–29°C water

Adriatic flat-to-choppy water on a sandy beach, with fine sand, some gravel farther south, and rocks that can emerge near the southern beach.

Your level

beginnerintermediateadvanced

Beginners do learn here, and there is school traffic on the water, but the bathers, the corridors and the wavebreakers mean the first sessions belong under a school or a local's eye.

The scene

What riders come here for

freeridelearningflat-to-chop practiceschool sessions

Club and school scene built around ASD Tribalkite, with a core of local riders and visitors passing through.

Launch and rules

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

With a school or a boat

2 schools name this spot

See who they are

On your own

Room to launch: medium

access rules on record

Somewhere else

Kite Beach Civitanova, 18 km

Kite Beach Civitanova Porto Potenza Picena La Sentina

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

Rescue

No public rescue boat sits on this beach. Under the 2022 district regulation, whoever holds the authorization for a kite launch corridor has to keep a craft able to recover a rider in an emergency, a first-aid kit, and a VHF radio for calling the Porto San Giorgio Coast Guard operations room on channel 16. Outside the bathing season, or on a day with no corridor rigged, that cover is simply not there.

Sea emergencies: 1530 free around the clock, or 112; the Ancona rescue centre is 071 502101 and the San Benedetto del Tronto Coast Guard 0735 586711; the Fermo hospital emergency department is 0734 6252261.

Launch

Medium sandy launch used by ASD Tribalkite. The beach is wide enough to lay kites out properly, and there are changing rooms nearby.

Space

medium

Rules & access

2022 pleasure-craft regulation for the Porto San Giorgio maritime district, the current published version, running from the Chienti river mouth (excluded) to Campofilone (included) and so covering Marina Palmense.

During the bathing season the first 300 m from shore belong to bathers, and kitesurf, windsurf and surf craft use the authorized launch corridors: 30 m wide at the beach, widening to 80 m at 250 m out, bounded to 300 m by paired lines of orange buoys 20 m apart, the outermost 80 cm across, and used for launching and landing only.

Corridors are public and free to use whoever installed them, and the permit is applied for at the municipality. Kiting is dawn to sunset, in favourable meteo-marine conditions.

Riders must be at least 16, with no minimum age under a national federation or Lega Navale school, must wear a flotation aid at all times, must carry a quick-release and a safety line on the kite, and must launch and return by body-drag out to 100 m, one kite at a time in that strip, right of way to whoever is coming back in.

It is forbidden to leave a kite unattended without disconnecting one side of the wing and winding the lines back on the bar. Whoever operates the corridor keeps a rescue craft, a first-aid kit and a VHF radio on channel 16 ready.

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

Rider tips

Ask ASD Tribalkite or whoever is already rigged which corridor is active before you launch in bathing season.
Walk the southern end first and mark where the wavebreakers and the emerging rocks sit before you ride downwind of them.
Use an SSE Scirocco forecast as the trigger, then check the strength on a live station before you set off.
Carry 1530 and channel 16 in your head. The rescue craft on this beach belongs to the corridor holder, and only while the corridor is up.

Getting there

Airport

Pescara (PSR) about 110 km; Rome Fiumicino (FCO) about 255 km

Route

Drive south from Ancona and exit for Marina Palmense; the spot is close to the Fermo/Porto San Giorgio motorway toll booth.

Staying

Rooms and apartments in Marina Palmense, Porto San Giorgio and along the Fermo coast. No kite-specific lodging was confirmed.

No-wind days

Fermo old town, Porto San Giorgio seafront, Adriatic beach days, cycling and coastal restaurants.

Photos

Belvedere di Torre di Palme, veduta panoramica — Alessia Ciucaloni, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

FAQ

Is Marina Palmense suitable for beginners?

It is listed for any level and has a local school presence, though beginners should follow school or local guidance because of bathers, corridors and wavebreakers.

What is the wind like at Marina Palmense?

Northnorthwest and southsoutheast winds are side-shore here, with the southeast Scirocco singled out as especially favorable.

Are there kite schools at Marina Palmense?

Yes, ASD Tribalkite is the long-running local club and school at the launch.

Are there rules at Marina Palmense?

A 2022 regulation for this stretch of coast reserves the first 300 m from shore for bathing in season and requires kitesurfers to use designated launch corridors during daylight in favorable conditions.

Last updated: August 2026