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Kitesurfing in
TurkeyTHERMAL LIKE CLOCKWORK
The dependable thermal
Turkey's kitesurfing ace runs on a timetable. At Gökova, a mountain-framed gulf, the thermal switches on around midday nearly every day from May to October, over water that stays shallow, sandy and flat for hundreds of metres. Alaçatı adds the Meltemi and a bay that made its name in windsurfing before kites arrived. Both put the hotel and the school on the same stretch of beach.
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Alaçatı
The flat, shallow thermal bay of the Çeşme peninsula: hotels on the windsurf sand, a designated kite zone across the bay, Pırlanta's kite beach nearby.
Wind
16–25 KTS · THERMAL
Season
MAY-SEP
Water
FLAT · SHALLOW 200 M
Where to stay and learn in Turkey
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7-day wind forecast for Alaçatı
REFERENCE SPOT: ALAÇATI · UPDATED DAILY
Alaçatı Bay (Çark Beach) · Alaçatı STATIC · OPEN-METEO · SYNCED 19.10
TODAY
19.10
5KTS · GUST 10
NNE · 12m+
LIGHT TUE
20.10
5KTS · GUST 11
NNE · 12m+
LIGHT WED
21.10
3KTS · GUST 7
ENE · 12m+
LIGHT THU
22.10
7KTS · GUST 14
SSE · 12m+
LIGHT FRI
23.10
12KTS · GUST 24
S · 12m
OK SAT
24.10
7KTS · GUST 12
N · 12m+
LIGHT SUN
25.10
4KTS · GUST 8
N · 12m+
LIGHT GO 16–24 kts · OK 12–15 · STRONG 25+ · LIGHT <12 — Open-Meteo data, cached & rewritten nightly by the agent as static HTML.
Turkey kitesurf spec sheet
CHECKED NIGHTLY BY THE AGENT
Wind
Daily thermal 14-20 kts, May → OctoberSTARTS ~NOON, RARELY GUSTY
Water temp
~24-27°C in seasonPEAK AUG 27°C
Flight
~4h direct from London to Dalaman, then ~1h
Time zone
UTC+3 · 1-2h ahead of CETNEAR-ZERO JETLAG
Entry
Most EU passports visa-free, 90 days
Best window
May-June & September-OctoberJUL-AUG HOT 32°C+
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