Italy / Apulia
Torre dell'Orso
Torre dell'Orso is a coastal resort area in Apulia, Italy. Its longest mapped beach stretches about 770 m and has a sand surface. The sea averages 25.8 °C in August, its warmest month, and 13.4 °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
- 31Restaurants, cafés & bars
- 1Public toilets
- –Showers
- 18Car parks
- –Lifeguard stations
- 34Hotels & guesthouses
- 1Campsites
- 3Grocery shops
- 1Water-sports spots
- 16Bus stops (1.5 km)
- 1Historic sites
Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 21 restaurants, 1 café, 8 bars and 1 fast-food outlet. Accommodation: 34 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 “Torre Dell'orso Alla Pineta”, 250 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 Torre dell'Orso
Beach-day index 5.8/10 · Italy median 6.5
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sea °C | 13.5 °C | 13.4 °C | 13.7 °C | 14.8 °C | 17.9 °C | 21.9 °C | 24.8 °C | 25.8 °C | 23.9 °C | 20.5 °C | 17.3 °C | 14.8 °C |
| High °C | 13° | 13° | 14° | 16° | 19° | 23° | 26° | 26° | 24° | 21° | 18° | 15° |
| Low °C | 11° | 12° | 13° | 15° | 18° | 22° | 25° | 25° | 23° | 20° | 16° | 13° |
| Rain mm | 99 | 90 | 82 | 56 | 48 | 31 | 21 | 24 | 85 | 106 | 125 | 119 |
| Cloud % | 71 | 69 | 65 | 61 | 53 | 38 | 24 | 26 | 48 | 58 | 70 | 70 |
| Wind m/s | 6.5 | 6.6 | 6.1 | 5.1 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 4.7 | 5.1 | 6.1 | 6.5 |
| Daylight h | 9.6 | 10.7 | 11.9 | 13.2 | 14.4 | 15.0 | 14.8 | 13.8 | 12.5 | 11.2 | 10.0 | 9.3 |
| Record high/low | 17°/2° | 18°/1° | 17°/6° | 22°/7° | 24°/13° | 30°/16° | 33°/21° | 30°/22° | 29°/17° | 26°/13° | 22°/9° | 19°/4° |
| Beach index | 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.8 | 4.8 | 8.0 | 9.5 | 9.5 | 8.2 | 5.8 | 3.0 | 1.9 |
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 24.8 °C and 21 mm of rain.
That matches the median for beaches in Italy in the same month.
Across the year the sea averages 18.5 °C, cooler than 53% of the coastal beaches in the atlas.
November is the wettest month (125 mm) and July the driest (21 mm); the yearly total is about 890 mm.
Daylight runs from 9.3 hours in December to 15.0 hours in June; in mid-July the sun rises at 05:28 and sets at 20:15 local time.
Orientation, sun and shore
The shore faces north-east (50°). Open water fills about 31% 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 240° to 302°, behind the land.
Sunrise is over the sea in March–October.
Straight out to the north-east 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 27 m deep and 84 m at 3 km. Behind the beach the ground is about 9 m above sea level 500 m inland and 20 m at 1.5 km.
Within 1 km, the land is 35% grassland, 27% built-up land and 26% tree cover (satellite land-cover map, 2021): a partly built-up setting. Water makes up 38% of that circle.
- Grass 35%
- Built 27%
- Tree 26%
- Crop 11%
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 | 59.4 km | north-west |
| Corfu Ioannis Kapodistrias International Airport Kerkyra (Corfu) | CFU | 147 km | south-east |
| Tirana International Airport Mother Teresa Rinas | TIA | 167 km | north-east |
Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.
Local transport: 16 bus stops within 1.5 km and 18 mapped car parks within 1 km.
2 towns and villages of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 8.5K residents); within 30 km there are 64 (about 334.2K).
Around the beach
Attractions & museums
- Giardini Del Sole attraction 420 m SW
- Gardens of the Sun attraction 500 m SW
Historic sites
- Torre di Guardia monument 230 m SE
Nature
- Grotta di San Cristoforo cave entrance 970 m SE
- Grotta della Poesia cave entrance 1.2 km N
Diving & boat hire
- Water Sport Torre dell'Orso 760 m SE
Campsites
- Camping Village Sentinella 830 m W
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 12.5 km away.
- Beach outline, surface, rules and public facilities: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), feature w125685743; 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.
- Satellite view: Copernicus Sentinel-2 (ESA), scene S2B_33TYE_20230827_0_L2A.
- Orientation: OpenStreetMap land polygons (ODbL). Depth and terrain: GEBCO 2020 grid.
- Bathing-water quality: European Environment Agency (site IT016075043008).
- 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.