Italy / Apulia
Gallipoli
Gallipoli is a coastal resort area in Apulia, Italy. Its longest mapped beach stretches about 257 m and has a sand surface. The sea averages 26.3 °C in August, its warmest month, and 13.4 °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
- 148Restaurants, cafés & bars
- 1Public toilets
- –Showers
- 5Drinking water
- 19Car parks
- –Lifeguard stations
- 113Hotels & guesthouses
- 5Grocery shops
- 5Water-sports spots
- 1Marinas & slipways
- 20Bus stops (1.5 km)
- 2Pharmacies & clinics
- 3Cash machines
- 1Bike rental
- 4Viewpoints
Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 116 restaurants, 12 cafés, 17 bars and 3 fast-food outlets. Accommodation: 113 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.
Month by month
October at Gallipoli
Beach-day index 6.9/10 · Italy median 6.5
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sea °C | 13.9 °C | 13.4 °C | 13.8 °C | 15.0 °C | 18.2 °C | 22.3 °C | 25.1 °C | 26.3 °C | 24.7 °C | 21.6 °C | 18.2 °C | 15.5 °C |
| High °C | 13° | 13° | 15° | 18° | 22° | 27° | 30° | 30° | 26° | 22° | 18° | 14° |
| Low °C | 9° | 9° | 10° | 13° | 16° | 21° | 24° | 24° | 21° | 17° | 14° | 10° |
| Rain mm | 68 | 62 | 66 | 50 | 40 | 29 | 25 | 23 | 68 | 84 | 93 | 83 |
| Cloud % | 60 | 60 | 55 | 50 | 43 | 30 | 17 | 18 | 37 | 44 | 54 | 56 |
| Wind m/s | 6.0 | 6.2 | 5.8 | 5.1 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 4.9 | 5.7 | 6.0 |
| Daylight h | 9.6 | 10.7 | 11.9 | 13.2 | 14.4 | 15.0 | 14.8 | 13.8 | 12.5 | 11.2 | 10.0 | 9.4 |
| Record high/low | 18°/1° | 19°/0° | 23°/4° | 26°/5° | 30°/12° | 37°/15° | 40°/20° | 38°/20° | 35°/14° | 29°/11° | 24°/7° | 19°/2° |
| Beach index | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 3.3 | 6.4 | 9.2 | 9.5 | 9.6 | 9.0 | 6.9 | 3.7 | 2.6 |
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 June–September; August scores 9.6/10 with highs of 30 °C, sea at 26.3 °C and 23 mm of rain.
That matches the median for beaches in Italy in the same month.
At its warmest the water here is 0.5 °C warmer than the Italy median for August (25.8 °C).
Across the year the sea averages 19.0 °C, warmer than 53% of the coastal beaches in the atlas.
November is the wettest month (93 mm) and August the driest (23 mm); the yearly total is about 690 mm.
Daylight runs from 9.4 hours in December to 15.0 hours in June; in mid-August the sun rises at 05:58 and sets at 19:47 local time.
Orientation, sun and shore
The shore faces west (265°). Open water fills about 89% of the horizon close by, which makes it an exposed spot with water on most sides.
The sun sets over the sea in every month; in mid-June it goes down at 20:18 local time on a bearing of 302°.
Sunrise is over the sea in May–July and November–February.
Straight out to the west the next coast is roughly 80 km away, so waves are mostly wind-driven sea rather than ocean swell.
About 1 km offshore the sea is roughly 17 m deep and 21 m at 3 km. Behind the beach the ground is about 0 m above sea level 500 m inland and 15 m at 1.5 km, a flat coastal plain.
Within 1 km, the land is 89% built-up land and 8% bare ground, sand or rock (satellite land-cover map, 2021): an urban beach. Water makes up 84% of that circle.
- Built 89%
- Bare 8%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brindisi Airport Brindisi | BDS | 67.1 km | north |
| Crotone Sant'Anna Pythagoras Airport Isola di Capo Rizzuto (KR) | CRV | 141 km | south-west |
| Bari Karol Wojtyła International Airport Bari | BRI | 158 km | north-west |
Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.
Local transport: 20 bus stops within 1.5 km, rail station Gallipoli (1.1 km), rail station Gallipoli Via Salento (2.1 km) and 19 mapped car parks within 1 km.
3 towns and villages of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 29.5K residents); within 30 km there are 43 (about 343.6K).
Photos
From above
Around the beach
Viewpoints
- View on beautiful balcony 220 m E
Attractions & museums
- Il Frantoio del Vicere museum 30 m SW
- Museo del Mare museum 30 m N
- Frantoio Ipogeo di Palazzo Granafei museum 40 m W
- Museo Civico Emanuele Barba museum 40 m W
- Sala Collezione Coppola museum 40 m NW
- Gallipoli museum 50 m NE
Islands in view
- Isola di Gallipoli 290 m NE
- Isola del Campo 560 m W
- Scoglio dei Piccioni 580 m SW
- Isola di Sant'Andrea 2.3 km W
Marinas
- Porto San Giorgio 290 m N
Diving & boat hire
- Noleggio bici gallipoli 200 m E
- Boat And Sea Noleggio Barche 200 m SE
- Ananoe Noleggio Barche 460 m E
- Tirelli Yacht and Tourism 600 m E
- Bici Rent 860 m E
Map
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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 11.6 km away.
- Beach outline, surface, rules and public facilities: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), feature w172233020; 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_33TYE_20230827_0_L2A.
- Orientation: OpenStreetMap land polygons (ODbL). Depth and terrain: GEBCO 2020 grid.
- Settlements: GeoNames places with 1,000+ inhabitants.
- Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021, 10 m (CC BY 4.0).
- Search popularity: about 5.4K Google searches a month for the name (KeywordTool, October 2026).
Data compiled 2026-10-13. Something wrong? Report a data error.