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Today at Spiaggia Libera Santa Stefania: Good for paddleboarding — 79/100 for expert level. Wind 10 kn S · Tide -0.6 to -0.3 m. Best window around 00:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Spiaggia Libera Santa Stefania: 0.7m waves with moderate cross-shore wind. Windsurfing looks Excellent in the afternoon, with Kite Surfing also worth considering. Water temperature is 21°C / 70°F.
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Spiaggia Libera Santa Stefania faces E, tucked away from the prevailing westerly swell — the aspect that gives paddleboarding the flat, sheltered water it needs more often than an exposed coast would.
Today's wind is cross-shore at 10 kn. At that strength expect a textured surface for paddleboarding, and the shelter of the bay to matter more than the forecast number.
Over the published window Spiaggia Libera Santa Stefania clears 60/100 for paddleboarding 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, 6 of 10 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 30 scored spots within reach today, Spiaggia Libera Santa Stefania ranks 4th for paddleboarding. The order changes by discipline: the same conditions that put a spot top for one sport can drop it down the list for another.
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.
An undeveloped, free public beach on the flat Adriatic coast, backed by century-old pine forest, with fine sand shelving into shallow water; open access, no fee. About 500m north, a river mouth produces shifting-sandbar waves, mainly lefts, on southeast swell at high tide; this stretch itself sees only small wind-swell, suiting wind, kite and paddleboard use. It lies within a Blue Flag zone on the fringe of the Po Delta Park.
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Wind at Spiaggia Libera Santa Stefania today: 10 kn S (gusting 32 kn). Wind direction relative to the shore affects paddleboarding 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 Spiaggia Libera Santa Stefania today: 1.1 m, 3 s period from SE, mushy 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 paddleboarding at Spiaggia Libera Santa Stefania today is around 02:00 UTC, when conditions score 77/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Spiaggia Libera Santa Stefania scores 80/100 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.
Spiaggia Libera Santa Stefania 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.
Spiaggia Libera Santa Stefania is a coastal location near Marina Romea 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 Spiaggia Libera Santa Stefania, 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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