Piombino-Baratti · Italy

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Sources: MeteoAlarm · buoys · Open-Meteo · Copernicus · Sentinel-2 — high confidence · data 21:13

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Our own forecast engine — not a third-party widget. It weighs these water factors into one go-or-stay verdict for this coast; the 0–10 dial is that verdict, read out as a number.

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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Thunderstorm forecast — an instant red, no exceptions.
An official warning (MeteoAlarm / IPMA) — yellow, or red for the higher ranks.
Missing input data — a would-be green is capped to yellow rather than overstated.
Strong disagreement between forecast models — a green day is pulled back to yellow.
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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don't go · murky water (visibility ~2 m)

wave 0.5 mwind 7 km/hvisibility ~2 m

today, best window 06:00–09:00

fish · Visibility 2 m · Water 22°C

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Sunday · today2026-10-25

07:43–18:19 · full moon

▼ 02:00▲ 09:00▼ 14:00▲ 21:00 · 0.3 m

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Day's trends

Tide-0.40 m

Wave0.94 m

Wind4 km/h

Water22 °C

fish activity: moonset 06:48 · moderate · moon underfoot 12:10 · high · moonrise 17:37 · moderate · moon overhead 00:00 · high

Conditions window06:00–09:00

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Hs 0.52 m · slightperiod 3.8 swind 7→9surge 0.5viz 2 m

0.52 mslight · up to ~1.04 · 278° at an angle

3.8 sswell moderate

7→9gusts 9 km/h

0.5weak surge

0.11m/s

2 mrecent swell

22°C5 mm + hood

▲09:00tide turn near

Atmosphere31 kmovercast

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murky water (visibility ~2 m)
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Cala del TerminePiombino-Baratti

dangerous

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Capo CastelloPiombino-Baratti

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Golfo di Baratti (Sotto Bernardini)Piombino-Baratti

dangerous

exposed head-on to the swell today (city-level)

window: A loaded speargun out of the water is prohibited: you load below and unload before coming out. With ten metres of water 490 m from the shore, the band where you meet the local orders is all of it right here. With Grecale forecast to strengthen it pays to go earlier rather than to stay longer. At Piombino-Baratti it is better to know the prohibition than to discover it from a fine.
tide: Swell from the northeast moves more water in ten minutes than the tide moves in six hours. In a hard Grecale the level rises more than any spring tide manages. If the current takes you past the 490 m of the ten-metre line, head straight back for land. With the shore 40 m from the mark, the alongshore current counts for more than any table.
shelter: The shore in front of the mark faces northeast, about 47°, so everything arriving from that sector gets in unobstructed. In a bay like this the shelter is a few tens of metres wide, tucked against the windward point rather than in the middle of the arc, and in a hard Grecale not even that. With the wind from the southwest at your back you can work; with the swell from the northeast in your face you look and go home. The strip between the shore and the 5 m contour, about 470 m here, is the first to churn and the last to clear.
conditions: On a medium slope the murky inshore strip usually ends well before 910 m. At Piombino-Baratti the clarity is built on the days without swell, not on the hours without wind. Past 490 m from the shore it is the water that decides the day and not the willingness. In Grecale the suspension stays inshore; in Libeccio it is gone in half a day.
hazard: Coves also collect what the sea brings: lost nets and lines on the bottom. The 500 m from used beaches starts at the water's edge, which is 40 m from here: in summer it is the first calculation to make. Keep in mind the 40 m that separate you from the coast when you decide on the last descent. At 40 m from the shore no emergency sorts itself out: come out at the first sign.
access: At Piombino-Baratti the entry at the head of the cove is the one that holds up best even in a made-up sea. The mark is right against the shore, 40 m from the coastline, and ten metres of water is about 490 m out. In a hard Grecale the windward exit becomes unusable: check an alternative. If you do not fancy swimming the 490 m back from ten metres of water, do not go any further out.

Punta BovioPiombino-Baratti

dangerous

exposed head-on to the swell today (city-level)

window: At Piombino-Baratti it is worth losing ten minutes to check the local order rather than arguing about it later. The 500 m from used beaches is measured from the water's edge, and here the shore is 50 m from the mark: in bathing season do the arithmetic before getting in. The bathing season narrows the options: out of season the stretch is whole again. Note the hour you will come out before you get in: from 50 m of shore the way back always looks shorter than it is.
tide: High water pushed by Libeccio counts for more than a spring tide. Between the shore and five metres of water there are 340 m, and no tide shifts that line appreciably. At Piombino-Baratti the tide calendar is no substitute for reading the sea. The inshore current is read off your float, not off the table.
shelter: The further the point sticks out, the sooner it feels the long swell, even when nothing is moving two hundred metres inside it. The open sea lies to the southwest: in Libeccio the swell works straight onto the entry, while from the northeast you stay in the lee of the land. Dead swell from the southwest arrives under a clear sky and no wind at all. At Piombino-Baratti whoever gets in first checks, whoever gets in out of habit is trusting yesterday.
conditions: The 10 m contour runs about 490 m from the shore and is the practical reference for this entry. Getting twenty metres under you takes about 720 m of swimming, so it pays to get in already decided on where to go. The nearest river mouth is the first thing to look at after rain. At Piombino-Baratti it pays to come out feeling you stopped early.
hazard: Never a loaded speargun out of the water (art. 131): you load below and unload before setting foot back on the rock. The current running over the point is stronger than at the sides, and you meet it on the way out more than on the way in. With 340 m out to five metres, the exit is short only if you decide on it in time. The way back from 490 m out is longer than it looks once you are tired.
access: At Piombino-Baratti the point is reached on foot, and the long part of the day is the part out of the water. The entry is immediate: 50 m from the coast, measured on the OSM line. Count the 340 m that separate you from the five-metre contour: they are the measure of the way back. Leave the place as you found it.

Rocky slope toward the channel; exposed to the Mistral, for calm days.

Punta FalconePiombino-Baratti

dangerous

exposed head-on to the swell today (city-level)

window: A hundred metres is the minimum from fixed fishing installations and from vessels anchored outside harbours. Between the shore and five metres of water there are 660 m: that is the stretch you want to cover in good light. The last stretch, the 840 m out to ten metres of water, is the one you will swim tired: put it in the day's arithmetic. At Piombino-Baratti a short legal window beats a long questionable one.
tide: The level barely moves: the 10 m contour stays 840 m from the shore at any hour of the day. With a range that small the entry rock sits at the same level at any hour. At Piombino-Baratti the level changes little, but the current towards the north can be noticeable in the channels. With Tramontana strengthening the inshore current picks up before the swell does.
shelter: You are in the lee in Ostro; the moment the wind goes north, the water under the shore dirties. There is no general shelter here: there is a flank that holds in Tramontana and one that does not, and they swap as the sea turns. With wind from the north building, the window shuts fast: plan the way back with margin. When the swell gets in, the whole coastal strip, 660 m wide here, lifts and the clarity goes.
conditions: A slope this gentle, twenty metres at 1200 m, holds sand in suspension long after the swell. After a blow the coast gives the sight back in two or three days, longer over sand. With Tramontana strengthening, the good window closes without warning. By 840 m from the shore you already know whether it is worth going on.
hazard: Rounding the point is easy on the way out and hard on the way back: the tiredness comes with the sea against you. The marker has to follow you even when you are working 840 m from the shore: 50 m from the vertical below it is the legal maximum. At Piombino-Baratti the conditions change faster than the forecast does. Tell somebody ashore where you are getting in and when you expect to be out.
access: In Tramontana the only workable entry is the one on the opposite flank of the point. Under the shore the bottom is what you see from above, 40 m from the coastline. From the entry point to the shore there are 40 m, and they are the metres that weigh most on the return. At Piombino-Baratti the accesses change with the bathing season.

Point with current toward the Elba channel; dentex, sea bream, leerfish, often crystal water.

Punta della GaleraPiombino-Baratti

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Scoglio della MortePiombino-Baratti

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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 Piombino-Baratti

Where can I spearfish in Piombino-Baratti?

Piombino-Baratti has rock entry points such as Golfo di Baratti (Sotto Bernardini), Punta Falcone and Punta Bovio. Two faces: the Gulf of Baratti looks northwest and hides from sirocco and libeccio, while Punta Falcone and Capo Castello face the Elba channel with current and often crystal water. Below you'll find each spot (access, shelter and hazards) and today's forecast.

When is the best season in Piombino-Baratti?

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 Piombino-Baratti?

~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 Piombino-Baratti 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 Piombino-Baratti?

No — in Piombino-Baratti 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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