Italy / Sicily
Isola delle Femmine
Isola delle Femmine is a coastal resort area in Sicily, Italy. Its longest mapped beach (Spiaggia de Isola delle Femmine) stretches about 2.4 km and has a sand surface. The sea averages 26.8 °C in August, its warmest month, and 14.4 °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
- 54Restaurants, cafés & bars
- 2Public toilets
- –Showers
- 3Drinking water
- 6Car parks
- –Lifeguard stations
- 30Hotels & guesthouses
- 2Campsites
- 10Grocery shops
- 5Water-sports spots
- 1Bus stops (1.5 km)
- 2Pharmacies & clinics
- 1Cash machines
Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 37 restaurants, 6 cafés and 11 bars. Accommodation: 30 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 “Anti Via Kennedy”, 270 m from the beach centre, was rated Excellent for the 2025 season. It was Excellent in 5 of its 11 classified seasons since 2015.
- 2015Excellent
- 2016Excellent
- 2017Excellent
- 2018Excellent
- 2019Good
- 2020Good
- 2021Sufficient
- 2022Sufficient
- 2023Good
- 2024Good
- 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 Isola delle Femmine
Beach-day index 7.4/10 · Italy median 6.5
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sea °C | 15.0 °C | 14.4 °C | 14.6 °C | 15.7 °C | 18.4 °C | 22.2 °C | 25.6 °C | 26.8 °C | 25.2 °C | 22.5 °C | 19.5 °C | 16.7 °C |
| High °C | 14° | 14° | 15° | 17° | 20° | 23° | 26° | 27° | 25° | 23° | 19° | 16° |
| Low °C | 13° | 12° | 13° | 15° | 18° | 22° | 25° | 26° | 24° | 21° | 18° | 15° |
| Rain mm | 110 | 94 | 78 | 61 | 25 | 22 | 9 | 16 | 70 | 97 | 91 | 105 |
| Cloud % | 69 | 67 | 59 | 53 | 44 | 29 | 16 | 20 | 45 | 51 | 62 | 69 |
| Wind m/s | 6.2 | 6.2 | 5.7 | 4.8 | 4.3 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 5.7 | 6.4 |
| Daylight h | 9.8 | 10.8 | 11.9 | 13.2 | 14.2 | 14.8 | 14.6 | 13.7 | 12.5 | 11.3 | 10.1 | 9.5 |
| Record high/low | 18°/7° | 19°/7° | 23°/8° | 25°/11° | 28°/14° | 31°/17° | 31°/22° | 33°/23° | 30°/20° | 28°/15° | 25°/13° | 21°/7° |
| Beach index | 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 3.1 | 5.5 | 8.5 | 9.8 | 9.7 | 9.0 | 7.4 | 4.8 | 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 July–August; July scores 9.8/10 with highs of 26 °C, sea at 25.6 °C and 9 mm of rain.
In July that is 0.3 points above the median of the 925 beaches in Italy covered by this atlas.
At its warmest the water here is 1.0 °C warmer than the Italy median for August (25.8 °C).
Across the year the sea averages 19.7 °C, warmer than 61% of the coastal beaches in the atlas.
January is the wettest month (110 mm) and July the driest (9 mm); the yearly total is about 780 mm.
Daylight runs from 9.5 hours in December to 14.8 hours in June; in mid-July the sun rises at 05:55 and sets at 20:30 local time.
Orientation, sun and shore
The shore faces north-west (310°). Open water fills about 42% of the horizon close by, which makes it an open stretch of shore.
The sun sets over the sea in every month; in mid-June it goes down at 20:31 local time on a bearing of 301°.
Straight out to the north-west about 800 km of open sea lies before the next coast, enough for large swells to build. The beach is on an island of about 25,097 km².
About 1 km offshore the sea is roughly 26 m deep and 66 m at 3 km. Behind the beach the ground is about 18 m above sea level 500 m inland and 102 m at 1.5 km.
Within 1 km, the land is 64% built-up land, 18% tree cover and 9% grassland (satellite land-cover map, 2021): an urban beach. Water makes up 60% of that circle.
- Built 64%
- Tree 18%
- Grass 9%
- Bare 5%
- Crop 3%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Falcone–Borsellino Airport Palermo | PMO | 12.6 km | west |
| Vincenzo Florio Airport Trapani-Birgi Trapani (TP) | TPS | 72.2 km | south-west |
| Comiso Airport Comiso | CIY | 179 km | south-east |
Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.
Local transport: 1 bus stop within 1.5 km, rail station Isola delle Femmine (480 m), rail station Palermo Sferracavallo (2.5 km) and 6 mapped car parks within 1 km.
5 towns and villages of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 62.1K residents); within 30 km there are 36 (about 987.5K).
Around the beach
Attractions & museums
- Palazzo Riso museum 550 m S
Islands in view
- Isola delle Femmine 1.6 km NW
Diving & boat hire
- Isola Gommoni 140 m NE
- Elettronica Noleggia 150 m SE
- Isolaboats 250 m N
- Noleggio Gommoni Veraboat 250 m N
- Palermo Adventure 330 m N
Campsites
- La Playa Camping 300 m SW
- Camping la Playa 350 m SW
Map and nearby beaches
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| Beach | Distance | Warmest sea | Length | Surface |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isola delle Femmine | – | 26.8 °C | 2.4 km | Sand |
| Mondello | 8.6 km E | 27.0 °C | 1.5 km | Sand |
| Spiaggia dell'Arenella | 12.8 km E | 27.0 °C | 249 m | Sand |
- Mondello8.6 km ECompare
- Spiaggia dell'Arenella12.8 km ECompare
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 11.8 km away.
- Beach outline, surface, rules and public facilities: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), feature w262812420; restaurants, cafés, bars and lodging: Overture Maps places (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).
- Towns and time zone: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Airports: OurAirports (public domain). Sunrise and sunset: NOAA solar equations.
- Satellite view: Copernicus Sentinel-2 (ESA), scene S2A_33SUC_20230706_0_L2A.
- Orientation: OpenStreetMap land polygons (ODbL). Depth and terrain: GEBCO 2020 grid.
- Bathing-water quality: European Environment Agency (site IT019082043001).
- 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.