Italy / Sicily
Giardini Naxos
Giardini Naxos is a coastal resort area in Sicily, Italy. Its longest mapped beach stretches about 863 m and has a sand surface. The sea averages 26.2 °C in August, its warmest month, and 14.6 °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
- 89Restaurants, cafés & bars
- –Public toilets
- –Showers
- 1Drinking water
- 6Car parks
- –Lifeguard stations
- 81Hotels & guesthouses
- 1Campsites
- 8Grocery shops
- 2Water-sports spots
- 17Bus stops (1.5 km)
- 1Pharmacies & clinics
Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 70 restaurants, 5 cafés, 13 bars and 1 fast-food outlet. Accommodation: 81 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 “Foce Torrente S. Giovanni”, 490 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 Giardini Naxos
Beach-day index 7.7/10 · Italy median 6.5
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sea °C | 15.2 °C | 14.6 °C | 14.7 °C | 15.7 °C | 18.1 °C | 21.7 °C | 24.7 °C | 26.2 °C | 25.0 °C | 22.6 °C | 19.7 °C | 16.7 °C |
| High °C | 13° | 13° | 15° | 18° | 22° | 27° | 30° | 30° | 26° | 23° | 18° | 15° |
| Low °C | 9° | 9° | 10° | 12° | 16° | 20° | 23° | 24° | 21° | 18° | 15° | 11° |
| Rain mm | 80 | 73 | 62 | 44 | 24 | 20 | 12 | 17 | 64 | 82 | 94 | 95 |
| Cloud % | 54 | 55 | 52 | 48 | 39 | 25 | 14 | 17 | 39 | 45 | 50 | 54 |
| Wind m/s | 5.4 | 5.6 | 5.3 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 5.0 | 5.6 |
| Daylight h | 9.8 | 10.8 | 11.9 | 13.1 | 14.2 | 14.8 | 14.6 | 13.7 | 12.5 | 11.3 | 10.2 | 9.6 |
| Record high/low | 19°/3° | 22°/2° | 28°/4° | 25°/6° | 31°/11° | 38°/14° | 40°/19° | 37°/20° | 35°/17° | 31°/12° | 26°/8° | 21°/4° |
| Beach index | 2.6 | 2.6 | 2.8 | 3.5 | 6.3 | 9.2 | 9.7 | 9.7 | 9.1 | 7.7 | 4.6 | 3.0 |
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; July scores 9.7/10 with highs of 30 °C, sea at 24.7 °C and 12 mm of rain.
That matches the median for beaches in Italy in the same month.
Across the year the sea averages 19.6 °C, warmer than 60% of the coastal beaches in the atlas.
December is the wettest month (95 mm) and July the driest (12 mm); the yearly total is about 670 mm.
Daylight runs from 9.6 hours in December to 14.8 hours in June; in mid-July the sun rises at 05:48 and sets at 20:21 local time.
Orientation, sun and shore
The shore faces east-south-east (105°). Open water fills about 33% 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 241° to 301°, behind the land.
Sunrise is over the sea in every month.
Straight out to the east-south-east about 1,200 km of open sea lies before the next coast, enough for large swells to build. The beach is on an island of about 25,339 km².
About 1 km offshore the sea is roughly 26 m deep and 331 m at 3 km. Behind the beach the ground is about 55 m above sea level 500 m inland and 83 m at 1.5 km, so the beach is backed by steep slopes or cliffs.
Within 1 km, the land is 56% tree cover, 19% built-up land and 14% grassland (satellite land-cover map, 2021): a partly built-up setting. Water makes up 42% of that circle.
- Tree 56%
- Built 19%
- Grass 14%
- Shrub 9%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reggio Calabria Airport Reggio Calabria | REG | 42.4 km | north-east |
| Catania-Fontanarossa Airport Catania | CTA | 44.8 km | south-west |
| Comiso Airport Comiso | CIY | 110 km | south-west |
Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.
Local transport: 17 bus stops within 1.5 km, rail station Taormina-Giardini (1.5 km), rail station Alcantara (2.4 km) and 6 mapped car parks within 1 km.
15 towns and villages of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 46.1K residents); within 30 km there are 67 (about 284.8K).
Photos
From above
Around the beach
Attractions & museums
- ECP Unipegaso Naxos attraction 400 m SW
Nature
- Pietra Perciata peak 1.3 km W
Islands in view
- Scoglio della Croce 2.5 km E
Diving & boat hire
- Mykonos Beach Naxos 770 m S
- Mykonos Beach 780 m S
Campsites
- Petralia Parking Giardini Naxos 780 m SW
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 10.1 km away.
- Beach outline, surface, rules and public facilities: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), feature w44018607; 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_33SWB_20250627_0_L2A.
- Orientation: OpenStreetMap land polygons (ODbL). Depth and terrain: GEBCO 2020 grid.
- Bathing-water quality: European Environment Agency (site IT019083032005).
- 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.