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Porto Potenza Picena

also known as Porto Potenza

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

Nearby La Pineta 4 km · Kite Beach Civitanova 7 km · Numana 14 km · Portonovo 24 km · Marina Palmense 26 km · straight-line distance

SeasonJan, Mar, Decthe months riders and schools name How windy7-12 ktmixed Launchmediumaccess rules on record, below Watersea26.2°C in summer · 5 things riders flag LevelIntermediate to advancedwith a caveat, in the Level section Schools2named at this spot From the airportno transfer time publishedFalconara (AOI)

When it fills in

No onset time is published for this spot.

Porto Potenza Picena is an open Adriatic beach on the Marche coast, and the documentation on it is thin. The water is flat to choppy and tide independent, with NNW and SSE both arriving sideshore.

The count is 227 days a year with usable wind, but the strong months are January, March and December, so this is a winter stop rather than a summer one. The beach is medium and sandy, with toilets, food and a car park, and a wave breaker to keep clear of.

The 2026 bathing-safety ordinance covering Civitanova Marche, Potenza Picena and Porto Recanati reserves the first 300 m from shore for bathers through the season and bans kite transit inside it except through public launch corridors, and whether Porto Potenza Picena has one of those corridors is unconfirmed. Local rescue cover for independent kiters is unconfirmed.

Beginners have nothing to gain here; an intermediate rider working down the Marche coast in winter does.

The wind

Direction

cross-shoreNNW and SSE sideshore

Kite sizes

7891011121314151617

metres · typical quiver highlighted

Character

mixed

Typical strength

Monthly averages of 7-12 kt: 12 kt in January-February, 10 kt in March and November, 11 kt in December.

Clean water and flat-to-choppy conditions; no wind-quality rating is available.

January, March and December rate as the strongest months. The count of 227 days per year with wind uses a minimum threshold of 4 Bft/12 kt and excludes thermal wind, so treat it as indicative.

Also on record

7-12 kt monthly average, indicative.

The quiver, in words

No local size guidance has been published. Indicative only, worked back from the 12 kt threshold behind the local wind-day count: a 75-85 kg rider is on 13-15 m when the wind is barely making that count, 11-12 m through the mid-teens, and 9-10 m once it reaches the low twenties.

Direction to shore

NNW and SSE are reported as sideshore.

Dominant direction

NNW and SSE sideshore; wind-direction data for this spot is otherwise limited.

Forecast

Month by month

Jan, riders' month23
Feb21
Mar, riders' month23
Apr31
May16
Jun19
Jul20
Aug17
Sep21
Oct16
Nov32
Dec, riders' month26

per cent of the month at force 4 or more

Ringed months are the ones riders and schools name: Jan, Mar, Dec.

9Jan11°
9Feb11°
10Mar13°
10Apr15°
9May19°
9Jun24°
10Jul28°
9Aug29°
10Sep26°
8Oct22°
10Nov17°
9Dec13°

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

Month	Force 4+	Knots	From	Air	Water
Jan	23%	9.1 kt	WNW	7.7°C	10.7°C
Feb	21%	8.9 kt	WNW	8.7°C	10.5°C
Mar	23%	9.5 kt	SSE	10.6°C	12.9°C
Apr	31%	10 kt	SSE	13.1°C	15.4°C
May	16%	9.1 kt	NW	18.5°C	18.7°C
Jun	19%	9.4 kt	SE	23.6°C	24°C
Jul	20%	9.5 kt	SE	26.9°C	28.1°C
Aug	17%	9.2 kt	NW	26.2°C	28.5°C
Sep	21%	9.6 kt	NW	21.7°C	25.8°C
Oct	16%	8.1 kt	SSE	18.6°C	21.8°C
Nov	32%	9.8 kt	WNW	12.8°C	16.8°C
Dec	26%	9.4 kt	WNW	9.4°C	12.5°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

Not measured for this beach. The district rule does hand you a marker to read off the sand: through the bathing season every frontage must flag the safe-water limit - where the bottom reaches 1.00 m - with white buoys or a sign, or else post that the limit is unmarked.How far the shallow band actually runs at Porto Potenza Picena, and whether the wave breaker sits inside or outside it, is unconfirmed.

Tides

Tide independent.

Temperature

26.2°C summer · 11.3°C winter

Wetsuit

Shorts or lycra in summer, a shorty in spring and autumn, a normal wetsuit in winter. Air runs 20-38 C May-September and 5-20 C October-May.

11–29°C water

Open Adriatic water: flat to choppy, clean, with a wave breaker to watch. The coast here is used for windsurfing and kitesurfing, with lessons or rental possible.

Your level

not for beginners hereintermediateadvanced

Intermediate and expert. Lessons happen somewhere on this coast, but nothing confirms this launch as beginner ground.

The scene

What riders come here for

freeridechopsmall wavesflat water

Busy months

June · July · August

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

La Pineta, 4 km

La Pineta Kite Beach Civitanova Numana

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

Rescue

Nothing here is set up for kiters. Through the bathing season the district rule puts a lifeguard on each bathing establishment's frontage and on the municipality's free beaches, a minimum of eight continuous hours a day from 10:00 to 18:00, longer where the place opens longer, with the hours posted on a sign at the entrance.

Behind that lifeguard sits a lookout platform at least 2 m above the sand, a red rowing rescue boat marked SALVATAGGIO, a rescue can or tube, 300 m of floating rescue line on a reel, binoculars, mask and fins; a rescue board, a SUP or a jetski may be added to that but never swapped in for the boat.

Outside the season there is no cover and the beach has to post a sign saying so. Kite instruction in the water needs a support boat sitting near the students, ready to help. At sea, call 1530 or 112. The Civitanova Marche Coast Guard office is on 0733 810395 and the Porto Recanati beach detachment on 071 4605033.

Launch

Medium sandy beach with toilets, food and parking. It is a short walk in, and the spot is reachable by car or by train.

Space

medium

Rules & access

2026: the Civitanova Marche bathing-safety ordinance, n. 11 of 9 May 2026, covers Civitanova Marche, Potenza Picena and Porto Recanati. Through the bathing season - third week of May to third week of September, which the Marche region may shift by a week either way - the first 300 m from the shoreline is reserved for bathers and closed to the transit of surf, windsurf and kitesurf; its outer edge is marked with red buoys 50 m apart. Launching and landing happen only through public launch corridors, and swimming inside a corridor is itself prohibited. The corridors are specified by the district's boating regulation, ordinanza n. 8 of 23 April 2025. Minimum age 16. Daylight only, sunrise to sunset, with fair weather and visibility. A flotation aid worn at all times: lifejacket, floating harness or floating wetsuit. A kite-only corridor runs 300 m out, 30 m wide at the beach and widening to 80 m by the 150 m mark, edged with orange buoys 20 m apart over the first 150 m and 50 m apart beyond, red buoys at the 150 m line, and 80 cm outer buoys reading CORRIDOIO RISERVATO AI KITESURF - VIETATA OGNI ALTRA ATTIVITA, with the same wording on a sign at the water's edge. Whoever holds the authorisation must keep a first-aid kit, a VHF for the Coast Guard on channel 16, and a boat able to recover a kitesurfer. A corridor takes two riders at once, one going out and one coming in. Where a free beach has no corridor at all, you may still cross the bathing strip when no bathers are in the water, on a course as near perpendicular to the shore as you can hold and with the kite down. Corridors are authorised case by case by the municipality on the Coast Guard's opinion, and no ordinance lists which Porto Potenza Picena frontages hold one, so check on the sand.

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

Rider tips

Find out whether a launch corridor is open before you ride in the bathing season; inside 300 m is bathers only (2026).
Aim at January, March or December: the monthly averages sit at 12 kt in January-February, 10 kt in March, 11 kt in December.
Read the 227-days-a-year wind figure loosely, because it counts a minimum of 4 Bft/12 kt and leaves thermal wind out.
Give the wave breaker a wide berth on the way out and on the way back in.
Come by train to Porto Potenza Picena if you are travelling light; the beach is a short walk from the station side.
With no corridor, cross the bathing strip only when there are no swimmers in the water, straight out, kite low.
Lifeguard hours run 10:00 to 18:00 as a minimum in season and stop entirely outside it; the times are on a sign at the beach entrance.
Riding here outside the bathing season is the simplest option, which is convenient because the strong months are January, March and December anyway.

Getting there

Airport

Ancona/Falconara (AOI) is the nearest practical airport for the Porto Recanati/Potenza Picena coast.

Route

Access is by car or train with a short walk, approaching south from Ancona and exiting for Porto Potenza Picena.

Staying

Porto Potenza Picena has free beaches and bathing establishments along the waterfront; no kite-friendly accommodation is listed.

No-wind days

Sailing, canoeing and SUP on the water; beach sports, cycling, walks, horse riding, tennis, five-a-side football and bocce on land, with golf nearby.

FAQ

When is the best time to kitesurf at Porto Potenza Picena?

December, January and March are rated the strongest months, with monthly average winds of 10-12 knots and about 227 windy days a year overall.

Is Porto Potenza Picena suitable for beginners?

No, local sources list it for intermediate and advanced riders rather than beginners.

What is the wind like at Porto Potenza Picena?

Wind blows NNW or SSE sideshore, with monthly averages of about 7-12 knots.

Are there rules or restricted zones at Porto Potenza Picena?

A 2026 bathing-safety ordinance reserves the first 300 m from shore for swimmers during the bathing season, with kite transit allowed only through authorized corridors.

Last updated: August 2026