Italy / Sicily
San Vito Lo Capo
San Vito Lo Capo is a coastal resort area in Sicily, Italy. Its longest mapped beach (Spiaggia San Vito lo Capo) stretches about 1.6 km and has a sand surface. The sea averages 26.4 °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.
The beach is tagged as supervised.
Services in the resort
- 137Restaurants, cafés & bars
- 2Public toilets
- –Showers
- 17Car parks
- –Lifeguard stations
- 299Hotels & guesthouses
- 1Campsites
- 7Grocery shops
- 1Water-sports spots
- 6Bus stops (1.5 km)
- 4Pharmacies & clinics
- 2Cash machines
- 1Historic sites
Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 122 restaurants, 3 cafés, 11 bars and 1 fast-food outlet. Accommodation: 299 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 “Spiaggia San Vito - Hotel Capo San Vito”, 370 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 San Vito Lo Capo
Beach-day index 7.3/10 · 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 | 14.5 °C | 15.6 °C | 18.1 °C | 21.8 °C | 25.1 °C | 26.4 °C | 24.8 °C | 22.3 °C | 19.3 °C | 16.5 °C |
| High °C | 14° | 14° | 15° | 17° | 20° | 23° | 26° | 27° | 25° | 22° | 19° | 16° |
| Low °C | 12° | 12° | 13° | 15° | 18° | 22° | 25° | 25° | 23° | 21° | 17° | 14° |
| Rain mm | 101 | 91 | 73 | 58 | 26 | 19 | 8 | 16 | 67 | 94 | 88 | 100 |
| Cloud % | 67 | 66 | 58 | 52 | 44 | 29 | 16 | 19 | 43 | 50 | 62 | 67 |
| Wind m/s | 6.2 | 6.2 | 5.7 | 4.8 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 4.2 | 4.5 | 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° | 21°/7° | 23°/10° | 27°/13° | 31°/17° | 32°/21° | 33°/22° | 30°/19° | 28°/14° | 24°/12° | 20°/6° |
| Beach index | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 5.4 | 8.5 | 9.8 | 9.7 | 9.0 | 7.3 | 4.6 | 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 25.1 °C and 8 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 0.6 °C warmer than the Italy median for August (25.8 °C).
Across the year the sea averages 19.5 °C, warmer than 60% of the coastal beaches in the atlas.
January is the wettest month (101 mm) and July the driest (8 mm); the yearly total is about 740 mm.
Daylight runs from 9.5 hours in December to 14.8 hours in June; in mid-July the sun rises at 05:57 and sets at 20:32 local time.
Orientation, sun and shore
The shore faces north-north-east (20°). Open water fills about 36% 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 April–September.
Straight out to the north-north-east about 500 km of open sea lies before the next coast, enough for large swells to build. The beach is on an island of about 25,102 km².
About 1 km offshore the sea is roughly 17 m deep and 125 m at 3 km. Behind the beach the ground is about 12 m above sea level 500 m inland and 46 m at 1.5 km.
Within 1 km, the land is 55% built-up land, 23% grassland and 8% tree cover (satellite land-cover map, 2021): an urban beach. Water makes up 52% of that circle.
- Built 55%
- Grass 23%
- Tree 8%
- Crop 8%
- Bare 6%
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 | 30.8 km | east |
| Vincenzo Florio Airport Trapani-Birgi Trapani (TP) | TPS | 37.0 km | south-west |
| Pantelleria Airport Pantelleria (TP) | PNL | 166 km | south-west |
Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.
Local transport: 6 bus stops within 1.5 km and 17 mapped car parks within 1 km.
2 towns and villages of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 3.8K residents); within 30 km there are 16 (about 188.3K).
Photos
From above
Around the beach
Historic sites
- Grotta dei Cavalli archaeological site 1.4 km W
Nature
- Zubbia della Piana di San Vito cave entrance 1.3 km NW
- Grotta dei Cavalli cave entrance 1.4 km W
Diving & boat hire
- Muoversi in Autonomia 460 m NW
Campsites
- Sole e Mare Camping 600 m NE
Map and nearby beaches
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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 w47574518; 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_33SUC_20250901_0_L2A.
- Orientation: OpenStreetMap land polygons (ODbL). Depth and terrain: GEBCO 2020 grid.
- Bathing-water quality: European Environment Agency (site IT019081020003).
- Settlements: GeoNames places with 1,000+ inhabitants.
- Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021, 10 m (CC BY 4.0).
- Search popularity: about 22.2K Google searches a month for the name (KeywordTool, October 2026).
Data compiled 2026-10-13. Something wrong? Report a data error.