Is Adria good for beginners?

Adria is rated Beginner: the median wave is 0.4 m and 42% of days are mellow (0.4 to 1.2 m).

How warm is the water at Adria?

The yearly mean sea temperature is 19°C, so most of the year you want a 2 mm shorty.

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Adria 13.8

#5731 of 5756 surf spots in the world · 🇮🇹 Italy · Perugia · near Perugia

Needs the right swell, wind is the enemy here, gentle enough to learn.

Beginner

Surf score13.8 /100

Surfable days30% of the year

Clean days0% groundswell + friendly wind

Groundswell0% period 11 s+

Typical size0.4 m 1.3 ft median

Water19°C a 2 mm shorty

Best time to surf Adria

It rarely works. The nearest airport is FCO (125 km) and the nearest town is Perugia (47 km).

Month	Surfable	Clean	Size	Water	Suit
Jan	49%	0%	0.6 m	15°C	4/3
Feb	50%	0%	0.6 m	14°C	4/3
Mar	43%	0%	0.5 m	14°C	4/3
Apr	25%	0%	0.4 m	16°C	3/2
May	23%	0%	0.3 m	18°C	3/2
Jun	11%	0%	0.3 m	24°C	vest
Jul	12%	0%	0.3 m	26°C	boardies
Aug	10%	0%	0.3 m	26°C	boardies
Sep	17%	0%	0.3 m	24°C	vest
Oct	23%	0%	0.3 m	20°C	2mm
Nov	47%	0%	0.5 m	18°C	3/2
Dec	50%	0%	0.6 m	16°C	3/2

What is under Adria

Eight kilometres out along its swell window the sea floor sits over 36 m.

Depth 8 km out36 m

Depth 4 km out24 m

Measured, not estimated: NOAA ETOPO 2022 global relief at 15 arc-seconds, about 460 m per cell, sampled along this spot’s own swell window. At that scale the survey sees passes and channels; it cannot see a reef ledge, so nothing here is said about how the wave breaks.

Why 13.8

Seven parts, each normalised 0 to 1 and multiplied by its weight; the sum is scaled so the best spot in the world scores 100. Wave quality and what the spot does on its best days carry more than half of it, which is what separates this from a ranking of where the water is warm.

Wave quality 34.7%

1.2

Best days 22.4%

1.9

Clean days 18.4%

0.0

Consistency 10.2%

2.9

Season spread 4.1%

0.4

Water comfort 6.1%

2.8

Access 4.1%

2.7

The detail

Faces n/a with 0% open water around it. Friendly morning wind n/a. Mean peak period 4.1 s. Days over 3 m: 0%. On its best tenth of days it reaches 1.1 m, with a peak period of 5 s. Mellow days (0.4 to 1.2 m): 42%. Months that work: 2 of 12. Coordinates 42.833, 12.833 (OpenStreetMap).

What it costs to be here

Living here

€1,500/ month

typically €1,320 – €1,680

Rent, one bedroom€785

Groceries€315

Eating out€180

Getting around€105

Phone + internet€110

Renting by the month, cooking most days, local transport.

One month here

€2,920/ month

typically €2,570 – €3,270

Somewhere to stay€1,720

Eating out€615

Car, transfers, fuel€395

Data + extras€185

Short stays, eating out, a car or transfers.

49% cheaper if you live here instead of visiting

Estimate: World Bank PPP price level for Italy (2025, United States = 1.00) applied to a fixed surfer basket, then adjusted for how remote the spot is. Your own number moves with the season and how you live.

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