Is Saraceno good for beginners?

Saraceno is rated Beginner: the median wave is 0.3 m and 31% of days are mellow (0.4 to 1.2 m).

How warm is the water at Saraceno?

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

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Saraceno 14.9

#5721 of 5756 surf spots in the world · 🇮🇹 Italy · Chieti · near Pescara

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

Beginner

Photo: Jules Verne Times Two · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Surf score14.9 /100

Surfable days20% of the year

Clean days0% groundswell + friendly wind

Groundswell0% period 11 s+

Typical size0.3 m 0.9 ft median

Water19°C a 2 mm shorty

Best time to surf Saraceno

It rarely works. The nearest airport is NAP (146 km) and the nearest town is Pescara (53 km).

Month	Surfable	Clean	Size	Water	Suit
Jan	35%	0%	0.4 m	14°C	4/3
Feb	32%	0%	0.4 m	13°C	4/3
Mar	30%	0%	0.3 m	13°C	4/3
Apr	20%	0%	0.3 m	16°C	4/3
May	11%	0%	0.2 m	19°C	3/2
Jun	3%	0%	0.2 m	24°C	vest
Jul	3%	0%	0.2 m	27°C	boardies
Aug	6%	0%	0.2 m	27°C	boardies
Sep	11%	0%	0.2 m	25°C	vest
Oct	16%	0%	0.3 m	20°C	2mm
Nov	39%	0%	0.5 m	17°C	3/2
Dec	34%	0%	0.4 m	15°C	4/3

What is under Saraceno

Eight kilometres out along its swell window the sea floor drops to 71 m, shoaling steadily over the last kilometres.

Depth 8 km out71 m

Depth 4 km out28 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 14.9

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%

6.0

Best days 22.4%

0.1

Clean days 18.4%

0.0

Consistency 10.2%

1.6

Season spread 4.1%

0.0

Water comfort 6.1%

2.7

Access 4.1%

2.5

The detail

Faces 70° with 44% open water around it. Friendly morning wind 76% of days. Mean peak period 4.9 s. Days over 3 m: 0%. On its best tenth of days it reaches 0.8 m, with a peak period of 7 s. Mellow days (0.4 to 1.2 m): 31%. Months that work: 0 of 12. Coordinates 42.152, 14.719 (OpenStreetMap).

What it costs to be here

Living here

€1,280/ month

typically €1,120 – €1,430

Rent, one bedroom€667

Groceries€268

Eating out€153

Getting around€89

Phone + internet€94

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

One month here

€2,480/ month

typically €2,180 – €2,780

Somewhere to stay€1,460

Eating out€523

Car, transfers, fuel€336

Data + extras€157

Short stays, eating out, a car or transfers.

49% cheaper if you live here instead of visiting

Remote spot, so the local estimate is 15% below the country average. 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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