The report · Lo Stagnone, Marsala · Kite · January · 6 pages
Sicily, Italy
Lo Stagnone, Marsala
50% of January days clear 12 kt for three daylight hours or more.
Hour-by-hour & month-by-month wind
Rideable-day share by month, all three sports
Share of days with three or more daylight hours over each sport's threshold, counted from the record at 12 kt, Windsurf 13 kt and Wing 12 kt.
Blue fill scales with the share. Selected month outlined. Threshold per row: Kite 12 kt · Windsurf 13 kt · Wing 12 kt.
Where the wind sits, January
Share of daylight hours in each speed band, blue above the threshold.
Not drawn: 13% of daylight hours under 4 kt.
When in the day, January
Share of days over 12 kt at each daylight hour.
Rideable hours, not all hours. Every wind figure in this report is the mean over hours above the threshold.
January's own records
The month's own figures from four Januaries in the record, 2022 to 2026. Not the year's average.
What the percentage hides. A month at 80% can be twenty-four steady days or three windy weeks broken by a dead front.
Full stays, schools & kit
Stays
Lessons
Kit
Price band $ to $$$ only where sourced; none shown means none held. Contact details and brands stocked join this table when the operator directory is connected.
Launch notes and centre rules
KiteLab says the lagoon has no tides to speak of. No tide data in the pipeline.
Tide data not yet available for this spot. The record holds wind, air and waves, not tide. Until a tide source is connected, the tables above stay empty rather than estimated. What the guide says about tide is on the next page, in words.
The bathing zone, shallows & anemones
Every hazard on the spot page, repeated here in full. Read this before you get wet.
Conditions change. Check local rules and conditions before you ride.
The lagoon is no more than 1 to 1.5 metres deep, over grassy shallows: a fall or a jump lands in shallow water. Anemones in the warm water can cause allergic skin reactions, especially on bare legs.
Inside the reserve the bathing zone is the 200 metres from the shoreline, and in the bathing season, in bathing hours, windsurfers and kitesurfers may not ride in it or land kites on beach concessions. At Duotone Pro Center the first 100 metres are for launching and landing, riders move out to 200 metres before riding freely, and a helmet and impact vest are mandatory.
Getting there, packing & best months
Derived from the mean of about 16 kt over the rideable hours in the record, December to March, not from a fitted quiver. The schools’ summer season reads lighter in the record.
Best months, Kite. Record.
Sources, and their limits
Where each section of this report comes from. Record is measured. Modelled is computed by a formula because no measurement exists yet; it looks like data and is not. Written is WindChaser's editorial copy, compiled from the sources below.
The record
Hourly wind, 2022 to 2026, from DWD ICON-EU via Open-Meteo: a 7 km grid, read at the cell 1.0 km from the spot. It knows the wind over the cell, not the gust on the sand in front of you, and it knows the bearing, not the coastline: "side-onshore" is a rider's reading of the bearing. Each month is counted over three to four years.
What we could not source for Lo Stagnone, Marsala
Crowds by month: no count exists for Lo Stagnone yet. Ordinance 1/2019 of the Marsala maritime district, which governs kitesurfing in the reserve. The reserve’s own rules on riding. A water quality classification, and a first-hand reading of the local vibe. A station check on the wind record, which reads lighter in summer than the schools describe. Surveyed launch coordinates. A measured water temperature. A licensed photograph.
Conditions change. Check local rules and conditions before you ride.
Compiled by WindChaser, 25 Sep 2026. Hero photograph on the spot page by GrilloSurf, CC BY-SA 4.0. Report generated 22 Oct 2026 from record version 2026.10; a report and its spot page are rendered from the same data and cannot disagree.