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San Giuliano

also known as Spiaggia di San Giuliano, Trapani, San Giuliano beach, Trapani San Giuliano

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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 Marausa 12 km · Lo Stagnone 20 km · San Vito Lo Capo 22 km · straight-line distance

SeasonJan, Feb, Mar, Oct, Nov, Decthe months riders and schools name How windy5-9 knotsmixed Launchmediumaccess rules on record, below Watersea26.2°C in summer · 6 things riders flag LevelIntermediate to advancedwith a caveat, in the Level section Schools2named at this spot From the airport25 minTrapani-Birgi (TPS)

On the clock

12:00

No general onset is documented. On one Grecale day riders met around 12:00 in 20-25 knots.

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.

San Giuliano is the sand in front of Trapani, a few minutes from the historic centre, and it is a beach you ride when it blows rather than a trip you book. Grecale and Levante are what light it up: one 2019 Grecale day sat at about 20 knots at noon and built to 25, ridden on a 7 m.

The water is choppy with small to medium waves. The problem is access.

There is no kite entry or exit chute, and through the summer tourist season the beach belongs to bathers, which makes it an off-season option: the window is written as October to end March in one line and October to end May in the next, and nobody has resolved which.

Long-run numbers are thin, an average monthly wind around 5-9 knots and 131 days a year over the 12 knot mark. No 2026 corridor, ordinance or rescue arrangement specific to San Giuliano is on record. If you need a lesson or a session you can count on, Lo Stagnone up the coast is the honest answer.

The wind

locals call it Grecale, Levante

Direction

cross-onNE

Kite sizes

56789

metres · typical quiver highlighted

Character

mixed

fills in: No general onset is documented. On one Grecale day riders met around 12:00 in 20-25 knots.

Typical strength

On a Grecale day, 28 June 2019, about 20 knots at noon rising to about 25 knots. No normal range has been published.

Grecale and Levante both deliver, Grecale best. What limits the beach is summer bathers and the absence of a kite entry and exit chute.

Usable outside the tourist and bathing season, because in summer the beach is full of swimmers and there is no kite chute. The written window contradicts itself: October to end March in one line, October to end May in the next.

Thermal or synoptic

synoptic

Also on record

Average monthly wind is around 5-9 knots, with 131 days a year over the 4 Bft / 12 knot threshold; thermal wind is excluded from that count.

The quiver, in words

A 7 m covered a Grecale day of about 20-25 knots. Nothing broader has been published.

Direction to shore

cross-on/onshore for NE-E by map inference

Dominant direction

NE, E

Forecast

Month by month

Jan, riders' month37
Feb, riders' month19
Mar, riders' month42
Apr30
May10
Jun3
Jul13
Aug11
Sep25
Oct, riders' month16
Nov, riders' month27
Dec, riders' month35

windy days per month (3 h+ at 12 kn+)

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

37%Jan16°
19%Feb15°
42%Mar16°
30%Apr17°
10%May19°
3%Jun23°
13%Jul26°
11%Aug27°
25%Sep25°
16%Oct23°
27%Nov21°
35%Dec18°

windy days per month (3 h+ at 12 kn+) · water °C below · season highlighted

Month	Windy days	Force 4+	12 kn or more	Knots	From	Peaks at	Air	Water	Readings
Jan	37%	52%	42%	12.1 kt	NNW	14:00	11.6°C	16.2°C	62
Feb	19%	39%	26%	9.9 kt	SSE	14:00	11.5°C	15.3°C	57
Mar	42%	53%	48%	12.6 kt	SSW	14:00	12.9°C	15.7°C	62
Apr	30%	47%	37%	10.8 kt	NNE	14:00	15.2°C	16.6°C	60
May	10%	23%	16%	8.7 kt	NNE	14:00	19.2°C	19.1°C	62
Jun	3%	7%	3%	7.2 kt	NW	14:00	24.1°C	23.2°C	60
Jul	13%	19%	18%	8.4 kt	NNE	15:00	27.6°C	26.4°C	62
Aug	11%	16%	13%	8.3 kt	NNE	15:00	27°C	27.4°C	62
Sep	25%	38%	30%	10.1 kt	NNE	15:00	24.5°C	25.3°C	60
Oct	16%	34%	27%	9.7 kt	NNE	14:00	21.2°C	23.4°C	62
Nov	27%	47%	40%	11.1 kt	W	13:00	17°C	20.6°C	60
Dec	35%	50%	44%	11.7 kt	WNW	13:00	13.9°C	17.6°C	62

modelled

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

Modelled from the operational forecast archive at 1.5–7 km (2023-2024), daylight hours only, not a ground station: it resolves thermal, lake and valley winds far better than coarse reanalysis but still tends to understate a strong local thermal. A windy day has at least three consecutive daylight hours at 12 knots or more. 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.

High-resolution weather model (modelled) · Open-Meteo historical forecast archive — best-match operational model (ICON-D2 / AROME / ICON-EU / GFS by region), not a ground station · 2023-2024

The water

Type

sea

Standing depth

Fine sand bottom that shelves gently. This is the beach Trapani families take small children to precisely because you can walk out a long way in shallow water, and the same profile is what gives you a body-drag-friendly launch area off-season.No measured distance or depth has been published, and the Mediterranean tide range is too small for a tide window to matter.

Tides

Small Mediterranean tide range, and no tide restriction has been recorded for the beach.

Temperature

26.2°C summer · 14.1°C winter

Wetsuit

Summer usually no wetsuit or shorty depending on wind chill; winter needs a full suit. Trapani water temperature averages around 26.2 C in August (warmest) and around 14.1 C in February (coldest).

15–27°C water

Sandy urban beach on the Trapani seafront, with choppy, small and medium wave states.

Your level

not for beginners hereintermediateadvanced

Nothing confirms San Giuliano as a beginner beach. It is an urban shoreline with seasonal access limits and no kite chute, so ride it independently only from intermediate up.

The scene

What riders come here for

freeridewavestraplesssmall waves

A local Trapani session beach rather than a kite centre. In summer normal beach users own it; off-season days with wind bring the locals out.

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

Marausa, 12 km

Marausa Lo Stagnone San Vito Lo Capo

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

Rescue

No kite rescue, no club and no lifeguard cover on record. The beach is served by lidi with showers, bars and restaurants, but those are summer businesses and the months this place is actually rideable are the empty ones. Nothing is arranged for an independent rider; bring someone who can drive round to pick you up.

Launch

Long sandy public beach directly on the Trapani waterfront, a few minutes from the historic center.

Space

medium

Rules & access

2026: no Trapani municipal ordinance and no Capitaneria di Porto launch corridor specific to Spiaggia di San Giuliano was located, and there is no marked kite entry or exit chute on the beach. In its absence the standard clause of the 2026 Italian bathing-safety ordinances applies: launching, landing and transit must go through an authorised corridor where one is installed, and where none is, only with no bathers present and on a course as close to perpendicular to the shore as possible. 2019/2022 local guidance reaches the same practical answer - with bathers filling the beach through the summer and no chute, San Giuliano is an off-season spot, above all in Grecale - and contradicts itself on the window, giving October to end March in the running text and October to end May in the summary list.

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

Rider tips

Come on a Grecale or Levante forecast; nothing else here is worth the drive.
Treat it as an off-season beach and check the signage and where the bathers are before you rig.
Expect a plain urban beach: no kite chute, no kite centre, no rescue.
For lessons or early progression go to Lo Stagnone instead, unless a school is supervising you here.
Check the Trapani-area live wind before driving, because this is synoptic and occasional rather than a lagoon thermal you can count on.

Getting there

Airport

Trapani-Birgi (TPS) and Palermo Falcone-Borsellino (PMO).

Route

The beach is on the Trapani waterfront, reached through city streets from the centre. Autoservizi Salemi runs buses from western Sicily to Trapani-Birgi and Palermo airports.

Transfer

25 min

Cost level

medium

Staying

Trapani has hotels, B&Bs and apartments near the historic center and seafront; no kite-specific accommodation at San Giuliano is listed.

No-wind days

Trapani old town, Erice by cable car/road, Egadi Islands ferries, salt pans, Marsala wine, Lo Stagnone lagoon and San Vito lo Capo.

Photos

View on the coast - panoramio — michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

FAQ

When is the best time to kitesurf at San Giuliano?

October to March is the working window, since the beach is crowded with bathers in summer.

Is San Giuliano suitable for beginners?

No source confirms it as beginner-friendly; it is treated as an intermediate-to-advanced urban beach with seasonal access limits.

What is the wind like at San Giuliano?

Grecale (NE) and Levante (E) are the named winds, with an average monthly speed of about 5-9 knots and around 131 windy days a year.

What are the main hazards at San Giuliano?

The beach has no dedicated kite entry or exit chute and is crowded with bathers during the summer tourist season.

Last updated: August 2026