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Tip of the moment
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Tip of the moment
Siracusa · Sicilia
Today's take
A short window around 18:00.
Water temperature
27.7 °C
Verdict
Glassy
When to go
Good from 18:00 to 19:00.
Pin colours:swimmablecautionnot advisedconditions not loaded yet
Forecasts come from ~8 km resolution models: very local effects (a sheltering pier, a lagoon pass) are not captured.
Sea-state data comes from a marine model cell about 7.3 km from this point — local nearshore conditions can differ.
The sea state is read as close to the beach as the model allows, without our having verified that this water is the water at the shore (indented coast, ria, head of a bay). Take it as an order of magnitude: what comes in from open sea may not reach this far.
Wave heights are significant heights: individual waves up to 2× this height still occur.
Four wave models are compared for this point: EWAM, GWAM, Météo-France WAM and ECMWF WAM.
Tide times derived from modelled sea level (± a few tens of minutes) — not official tide tables.
Missing data is shown as missing — never silently estimated.
Beach locations from OpenStreetMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
Weather and marine data: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0), wave models from the Deutscher Wetterdienst (CC BY 4.0). Forecasts are not guarantees. · Data fetched at 16:02 UTC
Windows, comfort score and verdicts are computed by oswim from this data — modified values, not the institutes' raw figures.
min 2 · max 12 km/h · east sector · gusts 28 km/h
Visibility · 21 – 40 km
Good visibility.
Loss of bearings and collision risk
Post-rain pollution · 0 – 3.8 mm over 24 h
When it rains hard, runoff from roads and fields and sewer overflows carry bacteria out to sea. Nothing significant has fallen in the last 24 hours.
Official sampling is weekly at best; between two samples, recent rain is the recognized warning signal (EEA)
Jellyfish: no recent info. If you're there, tell us what you see — even “none” helps the next swimmer.
Worth knowing
The sea snail Aptyxis syracusana, whose name pays tribute to Syracuse itself, has been recorded in these waters, a fitting reminder of this coast's deep connection to its local marine life.
Spot profile pending on-site verification.