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Sečovlje / Seča (Portorož)

Istria County · Cape Seča, near Portorož · Portorož / Lucija

also known as Cape Seča, Portorož, Sečovlje / Seča, Rt Seča, Seča pri Ribiču, Piran - Portorož

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On this page

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

Riding essentials

Season

Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Sep, Oct, Nov

Months riders and schools name

How windy

5-15 kt

Character: mixed

Room to launch

access rules on record, below

Water

mixed

25 °C in summerFlat to choppy, and clean

Hazards

Reported by riders

Level

Beginner to advanced

With a caveat: see Your level

BeginnerIntermediateAdvanced

Crowds

medium crowds · busy Jun Jul Aug Sep

Schools

named at this spot

From the airport

Trieste Airport (TRS)

Transfer times under Getting there

On the clock

13:00 · 15:00

Two different clocks. Maestral is thermal: it needs the day to warm, fills in through late morning and peaks between 13:00 and 15:00, then softens towards evening. Bora and Jugo are gradient winds that ignore the clock, often blowing hardest at first light - that is where the spot's reputation for stronger mornings comes from. Averaged over the year the daily curve still tops out in the 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.

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The spot

Seca is the one working kite base on Slovenia's short piece of Adriatic coast, out on Cape Seca between Portoroz and Lucija, and the same centre teaches wing and windsurf off the same sand. You ride open water in the Gulf of Piran, flat to choppy rather than a shallow lagoon, and the shore is rocky, grassy or rocky-pebbly depending on which access you take.

Wind

The wind the school lives on is the W-NW Maestral, common from March to September, strongest in the early afternoon and frequent through summer. Jugo brings warmer southern wind with small waves and chop. Bora flattens the bay, gusts hard, and is locally reckoned the harder wind to start and land in.

Setup and swimmers

For a coast this size the setup is unusually good: courses, rental, boat-supported teaching and paid rescue all run out of the watersports centre at Seca 143. The beach is also an official bathing area, so in summer there are swimmers between you and the water. The Secovlje Salina Nature Park begins immediately to the south and the salt-pan basins are not a riding area.

The wind

locals call it Maestral, Jugo, Bora

Direction

onshoreMaestralcross-offwind blows away from land — rescue cover matters here

Direction to shore

Open water lies from southwest through west to northwest.The W-NW Maestral therefore arrives onshore to cross-on, which is why the school teaches in it.A southwesterly Jugo is cross-on; swing it round to southeast and it turns cross-off.NE-E Bora blows straight off the land, which is why the bay flattens and why the start and the landing get awkward.

Dominant direction

W-NW Maestral from March to September, thermal and early-afternoon. The strong wind is cold-season and synoptic: NE-E Bora and SE-SW Jugo. Over the last decade the northeast sector supplies close to half of all hours above 15 knots and the southerly sector about a quarter.

Kite sizes

4567891011121314151617

metres · typical quiver highlighted

The quiver, in words

Unconfirmed against a local quiver list, but the wind bands make this a big-kite spot for a 75-85 kg rider: Maestral afternoons at 5-15 knots are 12 m or foil territory, Jugo at 15-20 knots sits around a 9-10 m, and Bora at 15-25 knots is a 7-9 m day with something smaller within reach for the bursts.

Character

mixed

When it fills in: see above ↑

Average strength

Light on average. Most hours of the year sit under 10 knots and only a small share of the year clears 15. The working bands are 5-15 knots in Maestral, 15-20 in Jugo and 15-25 in Bora.

Typical strength

Maestral 5-15 kt, occasionally 20 kt after morning Bora; Jugo 15-20 kt, occasionally 30 kt; Bora 15-25 kt, occasionally 40 kt; storm Tramontana/Lebič can reach 90 kt and activities are cancelled.

Maestral is the constant one and the wind the school teaches in. The southern winds are usually warmer and steadier than Bora. Bora is the gusty one, and it is what makes launching and landing here hard.

Two seasons overlap here. From March to September the thermal Maestral does the work, 4-5 days a week at the height of summer, light but consistent, and the reason the centre runs 1 April to 15 November.

Strong synoptic wind is a cold-season affair: February, March and November hold the most windy hours in a decade of records and June to August the fewest.

Summer gives plenty of rideable-but-light days; the spring and autumn shoulders give fewer days, far more of them properly powered.

Forecast

Live forecast

Windguru Windfinder Windy

Month by month

–Jan11°
7 ktFeb9°
–Mar10°
–Apr13°
–May18°
–Jun22°
5 ktJul24°
–Aug24°
–Sep22°
–Oct19°
–Nov16°
–Dec13°

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

Monthly averages. Highlighted: the months riders and schools name (Mar, Apr, May, Sep, Oct, Nov, Jun).

Measured at Portorož Airport, ~3 km from the spot (not stated on page (WeatherSpark uses a multi-year, MERRA-2-based modeled climate record, typically ~1980-2016; no exact station-year count given)).

Every figure, month by monthKnots · Wind from · Air · Water

Month	Knots	Wind from	Air	Water
Jan	no figure	E	5 °C	10.6 °C
Feb	7.3 kt	E	5.6 °C	9.4 °C
Mar	no figure	E	8.9 °C	10 °C
Apr	no figure	E	12.8 °C	12.8 °C
May	no figure	E	17.2 °C	17.8 °C
Jun	no figure	E	21.1 °C	21.7 °C
Jul	5 kt	E	23.3 °C	24.4 °C
Aug	no figure	E	23.3 °C	24.4 °C
Sep	no figure	E	19.4 °C	22.2 °C
Oct	no figure	E	14.4 °C	18.9 °C
Nov	no figure	E	10 °C	15.6 °C
Dec	no figure	E	6.1 °C	12.8 °C

How this was measuredmeasured · not stated on page (WeatherSpark uses a multi-year, MERRA-2-based modeled climate record, typically ~1980-2016; no exact station-year count given)

A ground station recorded this, at the distance the page names.

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.

Portorož Airport · weatherspark · not stated on page (WeatherSpark uses a multi-year, MERRA-2-based modeled climate record, typically ~1980-2016; no exact station-year count given)

The water

Type

mixed

Standing depth

No standing flat worth the name.Charted depths on the open-water side of the launch are around 2 m about 100-200 m out, 4-5 m by 300-400 m and 10 m by 500-600 m, so a few strokes off the beach you are already swimming.Beginner work here is done from a boat rather than by walking out.Interpolated from a bathymetric grid, not surveyed close to shore.

Tides

Small and semi-diurnal. Across a fortnight the swing runs from almost nothing at neaps - days when high and low differ by under 10 cm - to about 1.1 m at springs, with roughly half a metre on an ordinary day. The launch works at any state of tide and nothing about the riding changes with it.

Temperature

25 °C summer · 10 °C winter

Modelled monthly average: 9–24 °C

Wetsuit

Summer is often rideable in boardshorts or a shorty; spring/autumn need a full suit, and winter needs a warm 4/3 to 5/4 with boots depending on wind chill.

Conditions

Flat to choppy, and clean. Southern winds put small waves and chop into parts of Piran Bay; Bora leaves the bay almost flat with small waves at Seca. The public beach is rocky and grassy, and the strip the kite launch uses is grass.

Your level

BeginnerIntermediateAdvanced

Courses and private lessons take beginners as well as experienced riders, with a boat, an instructor and a water-rescue person on the beginner sessions. The spot rates beginner through expert, but Bora and the storm winds are experienced-only: the Bora launch and landing are demanding, and the centre cancels everything in Tramontana or Lebic.

The scene

What riders come here for

freeridebig airlearning with boat supportlight-wind thermal sessionsflat/chopwingwindsurf

Who it suitsbeginner

A small Slovenian-coast scene built around the club at Seca 143, easy to join and mostly the same faces. Summer adds general beach traffic, because Camp Lucija beach is a maintained bathing area as well as a launch.

Launch and rules

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

With a school or a boat

1 school names this spot

See who they are

On your own

Room to launch: ok

Read the access rules

Somewhere else

6 spots nearby

All 6 spots within 40 km are under Nearby

Rescue

Lifeguards

No lifeguards anywhere on this shore - not on the maintained Camp Lucija bathing section and not on the wild stretch beyond it.

Water rescue

The watersports centre runs beginner courses on the water with a boat, an instructor and a dedicated water-rescue person, and in 2026 sells boat-with-driver time, the same boat, at 50 EUR for 30 minutes, 80 EUR for an hour and 100 EUR for 90 minutes, plus 10 EUR per extra passenger.

Seasonal availability

Outside its 1 April to 15 November season there is nothing on the water. General emergencies go to 112.

Launch

The launch sits on the northwest side of Cape Seca, at Plaza Ribic and the adjoining Camp Lucija beach, with the watersports centre at Seca 143.The shore is rocky-pebbly with grass behind it, and the grass is where most people rig. Showers, toilets, a restaurant and a bar are inside the campsite, and beach access follows the campsite's own open season.You can normally drive past the restaurant car park down to the sand, though stones are sometimes laid across the track and then it becomes a carry.

Hazards riders report 19 reported

Wind

strong gusty Bora can exceed 40-60kt in bursts
Bora from NE-E can be gusty and makes kite launch/landing harder at Seča
Tramontana and Lebic summer storm winds arrive 2-3 times a season; while they blow, the centre stops every rental and every lesson, kite or windsurf or SUP.
Bora from NE-E blows off the land at this launch: flat water, but gusty, and a long way downwind if you lose the kite
Bora bursts can reach 40 knots and above
Tramontana and Lebic squalls arrive two or three times a summer and can gust to hurricane strength; rental and lessons stop

Crowds and zones

Swimmers and other beach users in the official bathing area
Ship/boat traffic in Piran Bay
No lifeguards on any part of this shore, maintained bathing section included
Swimmers and campsite beach users through the summer
Boat traffic to and from Marina Portoroz north of the cape

Bottom

Rocky/pebbly/grassy shore entry and possible limited launch space near beach infrastructure
Rocky-pebbly entry with grass behind; booties help outside high summer

Protected areas and rules

Protected Sečovlje Salina Nature Park next door; do not enter salt-pan basins or disturb wildlife
Protected salt-pan park immediately to the south; the basins and channels are off limits

Other

cold water in winter
No lifeguards on the wild section of the Seča beach
Depth reaches head height within a short swim of the beach, so there is nothing to stand on when something goes wrong
Cold water in winter

Rules & access

1 min read

Permits and regulations

As of 2026 no kite-specific permit, licence or seasonal zone has been found in municipal or state maritime sources for Seca; the municipal acts index lists nothing covering navigation or bathing areas. What constrains you is practical.

Camp Lucija and the centre

The maintained Camp Lucija bathing area is a swimming beach with no lifeguards, so stay off it while people are in the water, and beach access itself follows the campsite's open season. The watersports centre operates 1 April to 15 November, 09:00-19:00, and outside those dates there is no support on site.

Nature park and traffic

The Secovlje Salina Nature Park begins immediately to the south: protected, ticketed, with its own rules of conduct and dogs banned from the Lera section, so the salt-pan basins and channels are not a riding area. Boat traffic runs to and from Marina Portoroz across the water north of the cape.

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

Look at the webcam and the weather station before you drive: thermal Maestral and synoptic Bora or Jugo give completely different sessions.
Book the school for a first session. The teaching is boat-supported because there is nothing shallow here to walk out into.
Treat Bora as an advanced day unless someone local confirms the launch is manageable; in a very strong Bora riders move to the more protected bay at Fiesa.
Southerly days are what this cape is built for: small water, warmer air, and the wind holds better than it does in Bora.
Stay off the maintained Camp Lucija swimming section, and expect non-kiters all around it through summer.
Bring booties. The entry is rocky-pebbly and the water is only warm for part of the year.

Getting there

Airport

Portorož Airport is 7 km away for smaller aircraft; the closest major international airport is Trieste Airport (TRS), with Venice and Ljubljana also common alternatives.

Route

By car, drive to Seca and Camp Lucija near Portoroz; the spot is at 45.4996, 13.5867. Public transport reaches Lucija and Portoroz, and the bus from Trieste Airport to Portoroz takes around 1 h 45 min when it runs.

Transfer

About 10 min from central Portorož, about 60-105 min from Trieste Airport depending on private transfer versus bus, and roughly 2-3+ hr from Ljubljana or Venice by road/bus depending on service.

Cost level

medium

Staying

Stay in Portoroz, Lucija, Piran, at Camp Lucija itself or in the apartments around Seca; hotels, rented rooms and apartments are all within a few minutes of the cape.

No-wind days

Chickenloop offers SUP, kayak, wakeboard, water-ski, hydrofoil/foil and boat-tow activities; nearby options include Sečovlje Salina Nature Park, Piran old town, the Forma Viva sculpture park, coastal cycling on the Parenzana route, beaches and wellness in Portorož.

Photos

FAQ

When is the best time to kite at Seca?

The Maestral wind is most frequent from March to September, blowing 4-5 times a week in summer; the local school operates daily from April to mid-November.

Is Seca suitable for beginners?

Yes, the local school runs boat-supported beginner courses with instructor and water-rescue support on the sea.

What is the wind like?

Maestral typically runs 5-15 knots, Jugo 15-20 knots, and Bora 15-25 knots, each with different gustiness and timing.

Are there kite schools or rental?

Chickenloop Kite Club at Seca 143 offers kite, wing and windsurf lessons and rental, open daily from 1 April to 15 November.

Are there rules or restricted zones?

Riders should stay within the established Seca sea spot and avoid the adjacent Secovlje Salina Nature Park, a protected Natura 2000 and Ramsar site.

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Last updated: August 2026