Italy / The Marches
Grottammare
Grottammare is a coastal resort area in The Marches, Italy. Its longest mapped beach stretches about 1.9 km and has a sand surface. The sea averages 25.9 °C in August, its warmest month, and 12.0 °C in February; it is 21 °C or warmer in June–September.
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
- 85Restaurants, cafés & bars
- –Public toilets
- –Showers
- 4Drinking water
- 62Car parks
- –Lifeguard stations
- 41Hotels & guesthouses
- 16Grocery shops
- 24Bus stops (1.5 km)
- 2Pharmacies & clinics
- 1Cash machines
- 2Viewpoints
- 2Historic sites
Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 66 restaurants, 7 cafés, 11 bars and 1 fast-food outlet. Accommodation: 41 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 “1500 M Nord Foce Tesino”, 300 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 Grottammare
Beach-day index 5.3/10 · Italy median 6.5
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sea °C | 13.1 °C | 12.0 °C | 12.0 °C | 13.8 °C | 17.9 °C | 22.2 °C | 25.1 °C | 25.9 °C | 23.2 °C | 19.7 °C | 16.7 °C | 14.6 °C |
| High °C | 12° | 12° | 13° | 15° | 19° | 23° | 26° | 26° | 23° | 19° | 16° | 14° |
| Low °C | 10° | 10° | 11° | 14° | 17° | 22° | 25° | 25° | 22° | 18° | 15° | 12° |
| Rain mm | 69 | 76 | 65 | 51 | 50 | 36 | 26 | 32 | 69 | 64 | 83 | 78 |
| Cloud % | 77 | 73 | 69 | 64 | 59 | 46 | 34 | 36 | 54 | 64 | 74 | 74 |
| Wind m/s | 5.4 | 5.5 | 4.9 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 5.0 | 5.6 |
| Daylight h | 9.3 | 10.5 | 11.9 | 13.4 | 14.6 | 15.3 | 15.1 | 14.0 | 12.6 | 11.1 | 9.8 | 9.0 |
| Record high/low | 18°/2° | 18°/2° | 20°/2° | 22°/6° | 26°/12° | 29°/13° | 32°/20° | 31°/20° | 29°/16° | 25°/10° | 22°/8° | 19°/3° |
| Beach index | 2.4 | 2.4 | 2.6 | 2.9 | 4.7 | 8.2 | 9.5 | 9.4 | 8.0 | 5.3 | 3.0 | 2.4 |
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 9.5/10 with highs of 26 °C, sea at 25.1 °C and 26 mm of rain.
That matches the median for beaches in Italy in the same month.
Across the year the sea averages 18.0 °C, cooler than 58% of the coastal beaches in the atlas.
November is the wettest month (83 mm) and July the driest (26 mm); the yearly total is about 700 mm.
Daylight runs from 9.0 hours in December to 15.3 hours in June; in mid-July the sun rises at 05:38 and sets at 20:42 local time.
Orientation, sun and shore
The shore faces east-north-east (75°). Open water fills about 39% 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 238° to 304°, behind the land.
Sunrise is over the sea in every month.
Straight out to the east-north-east the next coast is roughly 200 km away, so waves are mostly wind-driven sea rather than ocean swell.
About 1 km offshore the sea is roughly 6 m deep and 11 m at 3 km, a shallow, gently shelving sea floor. Behind the beach the ground is about 57 m above sea level 500 m inland and 82 m at 1.5 km, so the beach is backed by steep slopes or cliffs.
Within 1 km, the land is 49% built-up land, 32% tree cover and 9% grassland (satellite land-cover map, 2021): an urban beach. Water makes up 31% of that circle.
- Built 49%
- Tree 32%
- Grass 9%
- Shrub 5%
- Bare 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abruzzo Airport Pescara | PSR | 67.3 km | south-east |
| Marche Airport Falconara Marittima (AN) | AOI | 80.8 km | north-west |
| Perugia San Francesco d'Assisi – Umbria International Airport Perugia (PG) | PEG | 111 km | west |
Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.
Local transport: 24 bus stops within 1.5 km, rail station Grottammare (400 m) and 62 mapped car parks within 1 km.
7 towns and villages of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 70.6K residents); within 30 km there are 80 (about 315.3K).
From above
Around the beach
Viewpoints
- Logge 590 m N
- Torrione della battaglia 610 m N
Attractions & museums
- Museo Illustrazione Contemporanea museum 190 m NE
- Museo del Torrione della Battaglia museum 580 m S
Historic sites
- Rocca Monte Varmine (Rocca Montevarmine) castle 60 m W
- Monumento Alla Vela monument 540 m N
Islands in view
- Scoglio di San Nicola 1.1 km N
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 15.0 km away.
- Beach outline, surface, rules and public facilities: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), feature r11088596; 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_33TUH_20231002_0_L2A.
- Orientation: OpenStreetMap land polygons (ODbL). Depth and terrain: GEBCO 2020 grid.
- Bathing-water quality: European Environment Agency (site IT011044023002).
- Settlements: GeoNames places with 1,000+ inhabitants.
- Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021, 10 m (CC BY 4.0).
- Search popularity: about 2.4K Google searches a month for the name (KeywordTool, October 2026).
Data compiled 2026-10-13. Something wrong? Report a data error.