Italy / Sardinia
Budoni
Budoni is a coastal resort area in Sardinia, Italy. Its longest mapped beach (Spiaggia di Budoni) stretches about 2.1 km and has a sand surface. The sea averages 25.7 °C in August, its warmest month, and 13.6 °C in February; it is 21 °C or warmer in June–October.
Average sea surface temperature by month. Current month outlined.
OpenStreetMap shows no lifeguard station within 1 km. Seasonal lifeguard posts are often unmapped, so check on site.
Services in the resort
- 57Restaurants, cafés & bars
- 1Public toilets
- –Showers
- 13Car parks
- –Lifeguard stations
- 13Hotels & guesthouses
- 10Grocery shops
- 3Bus stops (1.5 km)
- 1Pharmacies & clinics
- 2Cash machines
Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 43 restaurants, 5 cafés and 9 bars. Accommodation: 13 hotels and guesthouses.
Counted within 1 km of the beach (bus stops 1.5 km) from OpenStreetMap features and Overture Maps places, release of 2026-10. Unmapped does not mean absent.
Bathing water quality
The official EU bathing-water site “Pedra 'E Cupa”, 170 m from the beach centre, was rated Excellent for the 2025 season. It was Excellent in 11 of its 11 classified seasons since 2015.
- 2015Excellent
- 2016Excellent
- 2017Excellent
- 2018Excellent
- 2019Excellent
- 2020Excellent
- 2021Excellent
- 2022Excellent
- 2023Excellent
- 2024Excellent
- 2025Excellent
Source: European Environment Agency, EU Bathing Water Directive assessments · national site profile. Classes are based on four seasons of bacteriological sampling.
Month by month
October at Budoni
Beach-day index 6.5/10 · Italy median 6.5
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sea °C | 14.0 °C | 13.6 °C | 13.9 °C | 14.9 °C | 17.5 °C | 21.0 °C | 24.2 °C | 25.7 °C | 24.1 °C | 21.4 °C | 18.4 °C | 15.6 °C |
| High °C | 13° | 13° | 14° | 16° | 19° | 23° | 26° | 26° | 24° | 21° | 18° | 15° |
| Low °C | 12° | 11° | 12° | 14° | 17° | 21° | 24° | 24° | 22° | 20° | 16° | 13° |
| Rain mm | 66 | 55 | 56 | 51 | 44 | 18 | 9 | 16 | 55 | 65 | 100 | 72 |
| Cloud % | 69 | 66 | 62 | 59 | 51 | 33 | 20 | 25 | 44 | 52 | 63 | 65 |
| Wind m/s | 6.6 | 6.5 | 6.3 | 5.3 | 5.0 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 4.9 | 5.3 | 6.2 | 6.7 |
| Daylight h | 9.6 | 10.6 | 11.9 | 13.3 | 14.4 | 15.1 | 14.8 | 13.8 | 12.5 | 11.2 | 10.0 | 9.3 |
| Record high/low | 18°/7° | 17°/6° | 23°/7° | 20°/10° | 25°/11° | 30°/15° | 31°/20° | 31°/20° | 30°/18° | 26°/13° | 22°/10° | 19°/7° |
| Beach index | 2.3 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 4.5 | 7.8 | 9.6 | 9.5 | 8.4 | 6.5 | 3.6 | 2.5 |
Long-term monthly averages: air from NASA POWER (2001–2020), sea from NOAA OISST (1991–2020); records are the extremes of 2001–2020. How the index works.
When to go
The beach-day index peaks in July–August; July scores 9.6/10 with highs of 26 °C, sea at 24.2 °C and 9 mm of rain.
That matches the median for beaches in Italy in the same month.
Across the year the sea averages 18.7 °C, cooler than 51% of the coastal beaches in the atlas.
November is the wettest month (100 mm) and July the driest (9 mm); the yearly total is about 610 mm.
Daylight runs from 9.3 hours in December to 15.1 hours in June; in mid-July the sun rises at 06:01 and sets at 20:51 local time.
Orientation, sun and shore
The shore faces north-east (55°). Open water fills about 44% of the horizon close by, which makes it an open stretch of shore.
At no time of year does the sun set over the sea here: sunset bearings run from 239° to 302°, behind the land.
Sunrise is over the sea in every month.
Straight out to the north-east the next coast is roughly 200 km away, so waves are mostly wind-driven sea rather than ocean swell. The beach is on an island of about 23,451 km².
About 1 km offshore the sea is roughly 12 m deep and 37 m at 3 km. Behind the beach the ground is about 2 m above sea level 500 m inland and 13 m at 1.5 km, a flat coastal plain.
Within 1 km, the land is 50% grassland, 18% built-up land and 10% tree cover (satellite land-cover map, 2021): a partly built-up setting. Water makes up 62% of that circle.
- Grass 50%
- Built 18%
- Tree 10%
- Bare 10%
- Shrub 6%
- Wetland 4%
Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m). Orientation from OpenStreetMap land polygons sampled in 36 directions; depths and heights from the GEBCO 2020 grid (about 450 m cells), indicative only.
Getting there
| Airport | Code | Distance | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport Olbia (SS) | OLB | 27.3 km | north-west |
| Figari Sud-Corse Airport Figari | FSC | 103 km | north-west |
| Alghero-Fertilia Airport Alghero | AHO | 121 km | west |
Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.
Local transport: 3 bus stops within 1.5 km and 13 mapped car parks within 1 km.
4 towns and villages of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 7.2K residents); within 30 km there are 9 (about 21.7K).
From above
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Data on this page
- Air temperature, rain, cloud, wind, humidity: NASA POWER climatology 2001–2020, 0.5° grid.
- Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 monthly normals 1991–2020, nearest ocean cell 15.9 km away.
- Beach outline, surface, rules and public facilities: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), feature w102784793; restaurants, cafés, bars and lodging: Overture Maps places (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).
- Water body, status and length: Wikidata (CC0).
- Towns and time zone: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Airports: OurAirports (public domain). Sunrise and sunset: NOAA solar equations.
- Photos: Wikimedia Commons, author and licence under each image.
- Satellite view: Copernicus Sentinel-2 (ESA), scene S2B_32TNL_20240830_1_L2A.
- Orientation: OpenStreetMap land polygons (ODbL). Depth and terrain: GEBCO 2020 grid.
- Bathing-water quality: European Environment Agency (site IT020104009005).
- Settlements: GeoNames places with 1,000+ inhabitants.
- Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021, 10 m (CC BY 4.0).
- Search popularity: about 18.1K Google searches a month for the name (KeywordTool, October 2026).
Data compiled 2026-10-13. Something wrong? Report a data error.