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Today at Putzu Idu: Epic! for kite surfing — 94/100 for expert level. Wind 15 kn SE · Waves 1.0 m, 6 s · Tide -0.4 to -0.3 m. Best window around 03:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Putzu Idu: 0.7m waves with strong cross-shore wind. Wing Foiling looks Epic! in the morning, with Windsurfing also worth considering. Water temperature is 23°C / 74°F.
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Putzu Idu faces SW, open to the prevailing westerlies, so the wind arrives off the water rather than filtered through the land — the clean, steady flow kite surfing wants, and the reason gusts here are sea breezes rather than land turbulence.
Today's wind is cross-shore at 15 kn. Straight cross-shore is the classic kite surfing direction: it lets you hold a line along the beach rather than fighting to get back to it.
Over the published window Putzu Idu clears 60/100 for kite surfing at every ability from Beginner to Expert — an unusually broad spot, which normally means a range of conditions rather than one narrow sweet spot. Today, 9 of 11 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 31 scored spots within reach today, Putzu Idu is the best of them for kite surfing — so if you are travelling for it, this is the one.
Satellite-derived bathymetry with 10 m pixels and 10 cm vertical resolution out to ~40 m depth. The shape of the seabed is what determines where and how waves break.
Most apps run a single global model at 9–25 km. We blend regional NWP from national meteorological offices at 1.3–2 km — UK Met Office UKV, Météo-France AROME HD, ItaliaMeteo ICON-2I — with ECMWF IFS for the 8-day horizon. Finer resolution means the sea breeze, cliff funnelling and bay shadowing that changes everything for a session.
A nearshore wave model propagates the spectrum across the bathymetric mesh — modelling refraction, shoaling, dissipation, focusing and breaking as it goes. Most apps stop at swell + wind. We go further.
10 sport models × 4 ability levels weight wave height, period, wind, tide and breaking conditions differently — calibrated against ridden sessions so the scores mean what they say.
A roughly 2 km arc of fine white quartz sand on the northwest Sinis Peninsula, within a marine protected area, with shallow, gradually deepening water suited to swimming, windsurfing, kitesurfing and families. Toward a rocky point north, a right-hand point break produces waves of 2–5+ metres in NW/N Mistral winds, with sea urchins and sharp pumice rock underfoot. Kite activity is seasonally restricted (1 May–30 Sept, age 14+). No lifeguard confirmed.
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Wind at Putzu Idu today: 15 kn SE (gusting 55 kn). Wind direction relative to the shore affects kite surfing conditions significantly — offshore winds produce cleaner, glassier surfaces while onshore winds add chop. These are daily averages; the 4Shor app shows hourly detail.
Waves at Putzu Idu today: 1.0 m, 6 s period from E, peeling character. 4Shor derives nearshore wave conditions from ECMWF IFS 9-km atmospheric data and the IBI regional ocean model, updated hourly.
The best window for kite surfing at Putzu Idu today is around 08:00 UTC, when conditions score 91/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Putzu Idu scores 81/100 today for kite surfing — Excellent. A score of 65–79 is Good for a beginner; 80+ is Excellent (90+ is Epic!); below 45 the session is usually not worth it. 4Shor scores every location across Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced and Expert levels.
Putzu Idu is scored for Surfing, Windsurfing, Kite Surfing, Kite Foiling, Wing Foiling, E-Foiling, Paddleboarding, Swimming, Kayaking, Canoeing in the 4Shor forecast system. Conditions are rated Beginner through Expert for each sport, updated every hour, so you always know whether the session is worth the drive.
Putzu Idu is a coastal location near Mandriola in Italy. It is one of more than 2,500 European water-sport locations scored daily by 4Shor.
4Shor's ShorSense™ system combines satellite-derived seafloor mapping, nearshore wave models, wind and tide data to generate a hyper-local forecast. At Putzu Idu, conditions are scored hourly on a 0–100 scale for each sport and ability level. A score of 80+ means Excellent (90+ Epic!); 65–79 is Good; below 45 the session is usually not worth the drive.
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