Italy / Apulia
Torre Mozza
Torre Mozza is a coastal resort area in Apulia, Italy. Its longest mapped beach stretches about 5.1 km and has a sand surface. The sea averages 26.2 °C in August, its warmest month, and 13.7 °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
- 10Restaurants, cafés & bars
- 1Public toilets
- –Showers
- 5Car parks
- –Lifeguard stations
- 15Hotels & guesthouses
Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 6 restaurants, 1 café and 3 bars. Accommodation: 15 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 Mozza”, 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 Torre Mozza
Beach-day index 6.4/10 · Italy median 6.5
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sea °C | 14.0 °C | 13.7 °C | 14.0 °C | 15.2 °C | 18.2 °C | 22.2 °C | 25.0 °C | 26.2 °C | 24.5 °C | 21.4 °C | 18.1 °C | 15.5 °C |
| High °C | 13° | 13° | 15° | 16° | 20° | 24° | 27° | 27° | 25° | 21° | 18° | 15° |
| Low °C | 11° | 11° | 13° | 14° | 18° | 22° | 25° | 25° | 23° | 20° | 16° | 13° |
| Rain mm | 93 | 83 | 79 | 51 | 41 | 25 | 17 | 22 | 70 | 100 | 118 | 114 |
| Cloud % | 62 | 61 | 57 | 52 | 42 | 28 | 16 | 16 | 36 | 46 | 58 | 59 |
| Wind m/s | 6.6 | 6.7 | 6.1 | 5.2 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 5.2 | 6.2 | 6.6 |
| Daylight h | 9.6 | 10.7 | 11.9 | 13.2 | 14.4 | 15.0 | 14.8 | 13.8 | 12.5 | 11.2 | 10.0 | 9.4 |
| Record high/low | 17°/3° | 17°/2° | 18°/6° | 22°/7° | 26°/13° | 30°/15° | 36°/21° | 32°/22° | 29°/17° | 26°/14° | 22°/10° | 19°/5° |
| Beach index | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.9 | 5.3 | 8.6 | 9.6 | 9.6 | 8.7 | 6.4 | 3.5 | 2.2 |
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 9.6/10 with highs of 27 °C, sea at 25.0 °C and 17 mm of rain.
That matches the median for beaches in Italy in the same month.
Across the year the sea averages 19.0 °C, warmer than 53% of the coastal beaches in the atlas.
November is the wettest month (118 mm) and July the driest (17 mm); the yearly total is about 810 mm.
Daylight runs from 9.4 hours in December to 15.0 hours in June; in mid-July the sun rises at 05:30 and sets at 20:15 local time.
Orientation, sun and shore
The shore faces south-west (215°). Open water fills about 33% of the horizon close by, which makes it an open stretch of shore.
The sun sets over the sea in October–March; in mid-December it goes down at 16:23 local time on a bearing of 240°.
Straight out to the south-west about 800 km of open sea lies before the next coast, enough for large swells to build.
About 1 km offshore the sea is roughly 5 m deep and 8 m at 3 km, a shallow, gently shelving sea floor. Behind the beach the ground is about 4 m above sea level 500 m inland and 59 m at 1.5 km.
Within 1 km, the land is 53% grassland, 13% cropland and 11% tree cover (satellite land-cover map, 2021): a largely natural setting. Water makes up 37% of that circle.
- Grass 53%
- Crop 13%
- Tree 11%
- Wetland 10%
- Built 9%
- Bare 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brindisi Airport Brindisi | BDS | 90.5 km | north |
| Crotone Sant'Anna Pythagoras Airport Isola di Capo Rizzuto (KR) | CRV | 134 km | south-west |
| Corfu Ioannis Kapodistrias International Airport Kerkyra (Corfu) | CFU | 152 km | east |
Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.
Local transport: 5 mapped car parks within 1 km.
6 towns and villages of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 23.6K residents); within 30 km there are 57 (about 274.5K).
Around the beach
Islands in view
- Scoglio la Giurlita 2.0 km W
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 3.7 km away.
- Beach outline, surface, rules and public facilities: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), feature w369274549; 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 IT016075090002).
- Settlements: GeoNames places with 1,000+ inhabitants.
- Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021, 10 m (CC BY 4.0).
- Search popularity: about 1.6K Google searches a month for the name (KeywordTool, October 2026).
Data compiled 2026-10-13. Something wrong? Report a data error.