Isola del Giglio · Italy

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Sources: MeteoAlarm · buoys · Open-Meteo · Copernicus · Sentinel-2 — high confidence · data 21:14

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Swell & wave memory: Height, period and direction of the swell, plus the wake of recent storms — an old storm still stirs the water, and the engine remembers.
Wind & gusts: Speed and gusts, hour by hour — wind speed and an onshore push chop the surface and cut visibility.
Tide phase: Timing and range of the tide, calibrated per coast — big spring tides pull the verdict toward caution.
Water temperature: Sea-surface temperature — sharply cold water vetoes a green verdict.
Currents & outflow: Direction and drift of the current — it pushes you, and it drags turbid coastal water across where you dive.
Rain runoff & air clarity: Rain muddies the water inshore through land runoff, while fog and haze cut visibility at the surface.
Coast shape & exposure: How the coast faces the swell — a sheltered cove keeps the water clean; an exposed, head-on point takes a penalty.

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Night hours — where night spearfishing is banned by law the window is forced red; where it is legal (Australia outside NSW, New Zealand, South Africa) it is capped at yellow, never green.

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Isola del Giglio — solo, off the rocks

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caution — solo off the rocks is risky, check on site · the sea hasn't settled after the swell

wave 0.4 mwind 9 km/hvisibility ~5 mwindow 06:00–21:00

today, best window 09:00–12:00

fish · Visibility 5 m · Water 22.2°C

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Sunday · today2026-10-25

07:40–18:19 · full moon

▼ 02:00▲ 09:00▼ 14:00▲ 21:00 · 0.4 m

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Day's trends

Tide-0.41 m

Wave0.48 m

Wind18 km/h

Water22 °C

fish activity: moonset 06:46 · moderate · moon underfoot 12:10 · high · moonrise 17:37 · moderate · moon overhead 00:00 · high

Conditions window06:00–09:00

caution — solo off the rocks is risky, check on site fish

Hs 0.52 m · slightperiod 3.6 swind 7→13surge 0.5viz 5 m

0.52 mslight · up to ~1.04 · 317° at an angle

3.6 sswell moderate

7→13gusts 13 km/h

0.5weak surge

0.14m/s

5 mrecent swell

22.2°C5 mm + hood

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Cala delle CaldaneIsola del Giglio

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Faraglione di CampeseIsola del Giglio

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window: With ten metres of water 430 m from the shore, the band where you meet the local orders is all of it right here. Between the shore and five metres of water there are 340 m: that is the stretch you want to cover in good light. At Isola del Giglio it is better to know the prohibition than to discover it from a fine. In the dark the window shuts by law and not by choice.
tide: Under half a metre of range means the only real variable left is the swell. At Isola del Giglio nobody plans an outing around the tide, and they are right not to. The way back, 340 m to the five-metre band, is decided beforehand and not on the way. A surge pushed by Grecale can raise the level more than the tide itself.
shelter: The coast here runs E–W and opens to the northeast: that is what decides which forecast to read. Over the cap of a shoal the swell stands up before it reaches the shore: what looks flat from land can break over the top. With Grecale building, shorten the session instead of lengthening the route. At Isola del Giglio the difference between a bad day and a good one is a hundred metres of coast, not an hour of waiting.
conditions: Getting twenty metres under you takes about 530 m of swimming, so it pays to get in already decided on where to go. With 200 m reached about 3900 m out, the limit of the day is set by your breath and not by the distance. At Isola del Giglio the good days are few and have to be taken when they come. In Grecale the suspension stays inshore; in Libeccio it is gone in half a day.
hazard: The danger of an isolated rock is the distance from land, not the depth. At Isola del Giglio, as along the whole Italian coast, the surface marker and the 50 m radius are not negotiable. Hypothermia works slowly: you feel it on the way out, not during. At 0 m from the shore no emergency sorts itself out: come out at the first sign.
access: For a shoal or a detached rock the access is a swim, and the distance is counted on the way out. The mark is right against the shore, 0 m from the coastline, and ten metres of water is about 430 m out. From the entry point to the shore there are 0 m, and they are the metres that weigh most on the return. Respect private accesses and local prohibitions: they are the reason the stretch is still open.

Stack at the bay mouth, walls; exposed to Libeccio/westerly.

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Isola della CappaIsola del Giglio

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Punta PietraltaIsola del Giglio

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Punta del FenaioIsola del Giglio

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window: At Isola del Giglio as anywhere else, the hours of the session are the hours of the sun. The 500 m from used beaches is measured from the water's edge, and here the shore is 30 m from the mark: in bathing season do the arithmetic before getting in. With Maestrale forecast to strengthen it pays to go earlier rather than to stay longer. The last stretch, the 100 m out to ten metres of water, is the one you will swim tired: put it in the day's arithmetic.
tide: In a hard Maestrale the level rises more than any spring tide manages. Even at springs the band out to five metres stays 90 m wide: the level does not change the route. The direction of the current changes with the wind of the last few hours. Water pushing you towards the northwest, that is towards the open sea, is the signal to come out.
shelter: The point cuts the sea into two faces; on the same forecast one of them works and the other does not, and which is which you see from above before going down. Look at the opening to the northwest before you look at the wind: in Maestrale the sea builds in a few hours, in Scirocco it comes down just as fast. The 100 m that separate the shore from ten metres of water tell you how much sea it takes to ruin the day. If the swell starts working inside the 90 m of coastal strip, the session is over.
conditions: In poor clarity at Isola del Giglio it pays to work short and close to the bottom instead of heading out. A slope this steep keeps the dirty strip narrow: past 100 m the sight is nearly always better. The best water nearly always arrives from offshore on a light Scirocco. With Maestrale strengthening, the good window closes without warning.
hazard: Breath-hold alone is not prohibited, but it doubles every consequence: plan accordingly. Rounding the point is easy on the way out and hard on the way back: the tiredness comes with the sea against you. Check your gear beforehand, not in the water. Keep in mind the 30 m that separate you from the coast when you decide on the last descent.
access: At Isola del Giglio the point is reached on foot, and the long part of the day is the part out of the water. From here to the 5 m contour is about 90 m, and it pays to measure them on the way out so as not to find them long on the way back. Count the 90 m that separate you from the five-metre contour: they are the measure of the way back. With Maestrale strengthening the exit is brought forward, not discussed.

Punta del TamburoIsola del Giglio

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Punta delle Secche / Secca del CampeggioIsola del Giglio

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window: The orders of the Capitaneria responsible for Isola del Giglio can add seasonal prohibitions, and they outrank the general rule. With Grecale in the forecast the useful window shortens by itself, long before sunset. Note the hour you will come out before you get in: from 100 m of shore the way back always looks shorter than it is. A check takes two minutes to settle if your declaration is in order.
tide: Between the shore and five metres of water there are 450 m, and no tide shifts that line appreciably. The current you will find towards the northeast will nearly always be wind-driven and not tidal. At Isola del Giglio the local currents depend more on the shape of the bottom than on the hour. In a channel it is the current that decides the route: plan it before getting in.
shelter: You are in the lee in Libeccio; the moment the wind goes northeast, the water under the shore dirties. In Grecale the detached rocks break the swell but hand it back confused, and that crossed sea tires you more than a clean wave. With wind from the northeast building, the window shuts fast: plan the way back with margin. The strip between the shore and the 5 m contour, about 450 m here, is the first to churn and the last to clear.
conditions: The outside water arrives when the wind from the southwest pushes it in; with an old sea it stays offshore for days. The bottom drops straight away: the 10 m contour runs about 230 m out and the 20 m contour 370 m. By 230 m from the shore you already know whether it is worth going on. Past 230 m from the shore it is the water that decides the day and not the willingness.
hazard: In Grecale the passage between the shoal and the coast becomes the most dangerous part of the route. The marker has to follow you even when you are working 230 m from the shore: 50 m from the vertical below it is the legal maximum. The way back from 230 m out is longer than it looks once you are tired. If you are alone, halve everything: depth, times and distance from shore.
access: In Grecale the crossing out to the shoal is worth thinking about twice, because on the way back you will have it against you. The opening 100 m transit is already part of the session: count the breath it costs. At Isola del Giglio the return is planned on the afternoon swell, not on the morning one. If you do not fancy swimming the 230 m back from ten metres of water, do not go any further out.

SOLO is the biggest risk: underwater you can black out from lack of oxygen silently and fatally, with no one around. Solo is never truly «safe». Below are the best weather windows; carry a buoy, tell someone your plan and exit time, and any doubt — don't go.

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Check the cam BEFORE you leave. Foam, brown/green murk, or waves washing the entry rocks = No-go. At night/in fog the cam is useless — treat it as «unknown», NOT «green».

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What's in season,
what the law says.

In season now

European seabass
<4 m · — · dawn/dusk
min. 25 cm · legal target
Gilthead seabream
1–4 m · over sand/weed · dawn
min. 20 cm · legal target
White seabream
1–5 m · in the surf on the reef · dawn
min. 23 cm · legal target
Two-banded seabream
1–8 m · — · dawn
min. 18 cm · legal target
Sharpsnout seabream
2–10 m · — · dawn
min. 18 cm · legal target
Annular seabream
0–5 m · — · daytime
min. 12 cm · legal target
Common dentex
min. 15 cm · Sardinia 30 cm · legal target
Red porgy
min. 18 cm · legal target
Common pandora
min. 18 cm · Sardinia 20 cm · legal target
Axillary seabream
min. 15 cm · Sardinia 18 cm · legal target
Blackspot seabream
min. 33 cm · legal target
Striped seabream
0–5 m · — · dawn
min. 20 cm · legal target
Black seabream
2–6 m · — · —
min. 15 cm · legal target
Bogue
min. 15 cm · legal target
Salema
0–2 m · — · daytime
min. 15 cm · legal target
Dusky grouper
5–40 m · — · daytime
min. 45 cm · RESTRICTED · max 1 grouper/day; BANNED in Sardegna & MPAs
Wreckfish
min. 45 cm · RESTRICTED · max 1 grouper/day; BANNED in Sardegna & MPAs
Brown meagre
2–15 m · — · twilight
min. 20 cm · RESTRICTED · protected in several MPAs · (verify against the norm in force)
Greater amberjack
min. 15 cm · Sardinia 60 cm · legal target · (verify against the norm in force)
Leerfish
min. 15 cm · Sardinia 60 cm · legal target
Grey mullet
0–2 m · — · —
min. 20 cm · Sardinia 25 cm · legal target
Red scorpionfish
3–20 m · — · daytime
min. 15 cm · legal target
Moray eel
1–15 m · — · twilight
min. 25 cm · Sardinia 60 cm · legal target
European conger
2–25 m · — · night
min. 25 cm · Sardinia 50 cm · legal target
Wrasse
min. 15 cm · legal target
Red mullet
min. 11 cm · legal target
Atlantic bonito
min. 25 cm · legal target
Common octopus
1–6 m · — · twilight
min. 450 g · legal target
Cuttlefish
legal target · (verify against the norm in force)

Law

✓NO paid licence, but a free MASAF REGISTRATION is mandatory (recreational sea-fishing declaration, online via SIAN/SPID, annual) — it is not a «licence».
✓Free-diving only: scuba/rebreather/hookah BANNED (art. 128-bis DPR 1639/68). The 16+ rule comes from a different act — D.Lgs 4/2012, art. 6 c. 5; handing a speargun to an under-16 is an offence (art. 13-octies c. 3 b, as replaced by L. 75/2026).
✓Night prohibited: spearfishing only from dawn to sunset (art. 129e DPR 1639/68).
✓Distances (art. 129 DPR 1639/68): ≥500 m from beaches with bathers; ≥100 m from fixed gear/set nets and from vessels anchored outside ports.
✓Buoy MANDATORY (art. 130 DPR 1639/68): float with a red flag bearing a white diagonal stripe, visible ≥300 m; the diver stays within 50 m of the buoy/support boat.
✓The speargun may not be kept armed out of the water (art. 131 DPR 1639/68) — load only when submerged.
✓The spearfisher may NOT gather corals, crustaceans or molluscs — the second paragraph of the same article (art. 128-bis DPR 1639/68; the same rule in D.M. 249/1987, art. 2). BUT cephalopods are EXCLUDED: octopus, cuttlefish and squid may be taken — the exception is kept in terms by the official guidance (circolare 6227201 of 23.07.1987). Mussels — up to 3 kg per person per day, but only with the Capo del Compartimento Marittimo's authorisation. The 5 kg daily cap counts EVERYTHING taken that day (D.Lgs 4/2012, art. 13-octies c. 4, as replaced by L. 75/2026).
✓You MAY carry a speargun and a breathing apparatus on the same boat — but at most ONE cylinder of up to 10 L per vessel, and using it to fish is prohibited (art. 128-ter DPR 1639/68). While you are down, at least one person must stay aboard ready to intervene, and there must be a rope long enough to recover the diver.
✓Sale of recreational catch is PROHIBITED (EU control regime, Reg. CE 1224/2009).
✓The 5 kg/person daily cap IS in force and carries a fine: €500–3 000 up to 10 kg, €2 000–12 000 up to 50 kg, €12 000–50 000 above (D.Lgs 4/2012, art. 13-octies c. 4, as replaced by Law 21 Apr 2026 no. 75). Exception: a single fish heavier than 5 kg. Recovery-plan species and bluefin tuna: +1/3 (c. 5).

⛔ Date mussels (Lithophaga lithophaga) — TOTAL BAN: fishing, possession, transport, sale (D.M. 16/10/1998; EU-protected). Never touch.

Safety protocol

Sets: watch the wave trains ≥15 min before entering; Hmax ≈ 2×Hs, the wash can run 50 m past the foam line. A lull >10 min with period >12 s = a big set «overdue», do NOT enter; enter right after a full set passes and re-check at minute 30.
Exit FIRST: find your exit AND a backup before entering. On a rocky/boulder shore a 0.5 m rise in swell can make the exit impossible — getting pinned/unable to climb out is the main killer.
Headland rip: prominent points often have a permanent topographic rip regardless of the model — locate it, enter/exit on the windward side, never swim against it.
Cold: wetsuit per the SST chip; the first shiver = a metabolic surge and a drop in breath-hold → get out at the first steady shiver. Cap the session at 45–60 min below 15 °C.
Solo discipline: buoy up; tell someone the spot and exit time; conservative breath-hold (never push it in cold/murky/surfy water); visibility <3 m — don't enter.
Afternoon wind: on many coasts the wind builds from midday — plan to be out of the water by midday; the chop builds — get out.
UV 11:00–15:00 (UVI ≥6): sunscreen and cover up on the surface interval.
Solo is a fundamental risk (hypoxic blackout with no buddy). Any doubt = No-go.

FAQ — spearfishing in Isola del Giglio

Where can I spearfish in Isola del Giglio?

Isola del Giglio has rock entry points such as Punta delle Secche / Secca del Campeggio, Faraglione di Campese and Punta del Fenaio. Island granite and screes with deep water close in: 66–86 m at 1 km and over 100 m within 1.8 km. Below you'll find each spot (access, shelter and hazards) and today's forecast.

When is the best season in Isola del Giglio?

A long season from May to October, peaking in summer. On Elba and the islands visibility is excellent on calm days; on the mainland it's the small-sea, offshore-wind window that counts.

How cold is the water in Isola del Giglio?

~13–26 °C depending on season, a touch warmer at the islands. A 3 mm suit in summer, 5 mm in the shoulder months. On Elba the water is clear and deep right below the rock.

Is Isola del Giglio good for a beginner?

Intermediate and up: the Argentario rock and the islands drop into depth, with little shallow shelf. Apnea comfort and picking a calm day help. Buoy always.

Do I need a licence in Isola del Giglio?

No — in Isola del Giglio there is no paid licence; a free MASAF declaration is mandatory (the recreational sea-fishing communication, online via SIAN/SPID, renewed each year), which is not a «licence». Breath-hold only (no scuba), with a marker buoy and no selling the catch. See the guide.

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