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Paros, Greece

Pounda

WindsurfOctober

30% of October days clear 13 kt for three daylight hours or more.

October sits outside the best months here. This report carries the record for October as it is, and no direction or session norm, because there is none to quote. Section 02 shows the year-by-year spread; section 06 shows which months to come instead.

01Hour-by-hour & month-by-month windrecord only02The month's own records03Full stays, schools & kit04Launch notes and the ferry portno data05Greek rules, chop & crowds06Getting there, packing & best months07Sources, and their limits
Guide
Compiled by WindChaser
25 Sep 2026Record
2022 to 2026, hourly
Open-Meteo, DWD ICON-EU 7 kmNormals
2022 to 2026
Three Octobers
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Hour-by-hour & month-by-month wind

Rideable-day share by month, all three sports

Share of days with three or more daylight hours over each sport's threshold, counted from the record at 12 kt, Windsurf 13 kt and Wing 12 kt.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecKite435852384346595255343634Windsurf365242343545534550303428Wing435852384346595255343634

Blue fill scales with the share. Selected month outlined. Threshold per row: Kite 12 kt · Windsurf 13 kt · Wing 12 kt.

Where the wind sits, October

Share of daylight hours in each speed band, blue above the threshold.

4–7
8–11
12–15
16–19
20–23
24–27
28–31

Not drawn: 16% of daylight hours under 4 kt.

When in the day, October

Share of days over 13 kt at each daylight hour.

8am
9
10
11
12pm
1pm
2
3
4
5
6pm

Rideable hours, not all hours. Every wind figure in this report is the mean over hours above the threshold.

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October's own records

The month's own figures from three Octobers in the record, 2022 to 2026. Not the year's average.

Rideable days11 of 31Three Octobers in the record
Wind, rideable hours16 ktMean over daylight hours at 12 kt+
Air20.9°CMaximum
Hours over 12 kt3.9 a dayDaylight, all days averaged
BeforeSeptember55%16 rideable days in 30
Your monthOctober34%11 rideable days in 31
AfterNovember36%11 rideable days in 30

What the percentage hides. A month at 80% can be twenty-four steady days or three windy weeks broken by a dead front.

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Full stays, schools & kit

Stays

Anapnoe Watersports ResortHotel · On the beachSeven rooms and four suites with private pools on Pounda Beach, beside ParosKite.
Remvi StudiosApartments · 450 m to Kite BeachFamily-run studios on Pounda beach with kitchens, sea views and free parking, a short walk from Paros Kite Beach.
Pounda Resort Paros$$·Hotel · 800 m to Kite BeachFour-star, formerly the Holiday Sun, on Pounda Bay with a pool, a restaurant and parking, about 800 m from Paros Kite Beach.
Seesoo Paros$$$Apartments · 1.4 km to Kite BeachEleven solar-powered apartments with kitchenettes on the shore north of Pounda, for guests aged 13 and up, open April to October.

Lessons

ParosKiteSchool · Kite · Windsurf · WingKite lessons since 1993, plus windsurf and wing. Small groups and private lessons. April to October.
Paros Kite Pro Center$$·School · KiteIKO kite lessons since 2002, in groups of two or private, with radio help and jetski support.

Kit

ParosKiteRental · Kite · Windsurf · WingRental and a shop selling kite, windsurf and wing gear.
Paros Kite Pro CenterRental · KiteKite rental after an IKO level check.

Price band $ to $$$ only where sourced; none shown means none held. Contact details and brands stocked join this table when the operator directory is connected.

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Launch notes and the ferry port

Pounda kite beach
Low—Mid—High—

No tide information found for this beach.

Tide data not yet available for this spot. The record holds wind, air and waves, not tide. Until a tide source is connected, the tables above stay empty rather than estimated. What the guide says about tide is on the next page, in words.

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Greek rules, chop & crowds

Every hazard on the spot page, repeated here in full. Read this before you get wet.

Conditions change. Check local rules and conditions before you ride.

EmergenciesIn an emergency call 112. It is free from mobile and fixed phones and reaches the ambulance, fire service and police.
The ferry portThe Antiparos ferry runs from the port at Pounda, a short walk from the kite beach. The kitesurfing decision prohibits kiting inside harbours and keeps the riding area at least one nautical mile from harbour entrances, unless the port committee reduces that to no less than 500 metres. Ask the schools which water is open near the port.
Kitesurf rulesThe kitesurfing decision requires a helmet, harness, line knife, quick release, leash and buoyancy jacket. Launch only with no people or obstacles within 100 metres. Kiting is prohibited before sunrise and after sunset, within 200 metres of anchored ships, rocks, reefs and moving boats, within 200 metres of the point swimmers usually reach where the water is not buoyed, more than one nautical mile from the shore, and when the wind blows towards open sea with no motorboat cover. As amended by General Port Regulation No. 20, kiting is prohibited in wind above 7 Beaufort or 61 km/h.
Windsurf rulesGeneral Port Regulation No. 20 prohibits windsurfing in wind above 7 Beaufort, before sunrise and after sunset, within 200 metres of the point swimmers usually reach where the water is not buoyed, and within 100 metres of the outer swimming buoys. Windsurfers must wear a personal buoyancy aid.
Chop, gusts and crowdsIn stronger wind the channel is very choppy with strong gusts. In July and August the water is crowded, mostly with students. The water is shallow a long way out: take care jumping near the shore.
Shallow water and the ferry port

The shoreline is long and shallow with a sandy bottom: a fall or a jump near the shore lands in shallow water. The Antiparos ferry port is a short walk from the kite beach. The kitesurfing decision prohibits kiting inside harbours and keeps the riding area at least one nautical mile from harbour entrances unless the port committee reduces that to no less than 500 metres. Ask the schools which water is open near the port.

Chop, gusts and the crowd

In stronger wind the channel is very choppy with strong gusts. The ferry to Antiparos crosses about every 45 minutes. In July and August the water is crowded, mostly with students: ride upwind or downwind of the teaching zones and keep a wide berth.

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Getting there, packing & best months

Nearest airportParos (PAS)About 5 km by road. Some riders fly to Mykonos and take the ferry.
SeasonJune to SeptemberThe Meltemi months in the record. July is the pick. The schools open from April to October.
Getting aroundCar or taxiAbout 10 km from Parikia, around 13 minutes by road. The Antiparos ferry leaves from Pounda, about every 45 minutes.
What to pack
BeachSand. A long, shallow shoreline with a sandy bottom and room to set up.DepthShallow. Shallow a long way out: good for learning, and a hard landing near the shore.Water21 to 25°C. June to September, from compiled research, not measured. A long wetsuit in June and September, a shorty in high summer.LaunchBy the schools. Rig and launch on the sand in front of the schools.KitRent or bring. Both schools rent kit. ParosKite has a shop.
Kite sizes for October

October has no session mean to size from, so no sizes are given.

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Best months, Kite. Record.

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Sources, and their limits

Where each section of this report comes from. Record is measured. Modelled is computed by a formula because no measurement exists yet; it looks like data and is not. Written is WindChaser's editorial copy, compiled from the sources below.

§WhatSourceLimit
01Kite month sharesRecordCounted at 12 kt for three daylight hours from icon_eu at 7 km, cell 4.01 km from the spot, December 2022 to September 2026, 3 to 4 years a month, no station correction. The cell is 4 km away: a guide, not a beach reading.
01Windsurf and Wing month sharesRecordCounted at 13 kt (Windsurf) and 12 kt (Wing) from the same series, by the same rule as the Kite share.
01Direction, strength, when it blowsWrittenSide-shore Meltemi from the schools’ own pages. Strength and time of day read from the record.
02The month’s recordsRecordThree to four years a month. ERA5 over the same window reads higher in every month, so treat the shares as a guide until a station check ships.
03Stays, schools and kitWrittenChecked on each business’s own website or a named rider source, most recently on 27 September 2026. Price bands only where a price is published.
04Tide windowsMissingNo tide source in the pipeline. The section renders its empty state.
05Rules, the port, chop and crowdsWrittenRules from the kitesurfing decision and General Port Regulation No. 20, read first hand. No local port regulation for Pounda found. Chop and crowds from a spot guide.
06Airports, access, packing, kite sizesWrittenRoad distances from OSRM routing. Water temperature from compiled research, not measured. Sizes derived from the session mean.
MapsMissingNo drawn maps for this spot. No surveyed coordinates for the launch.

The record

Hourly wind, 2022 to 2026, from DWD ICON-EU via Open-Meteo: a 7 km grid, read at the cell 4.0 km from the spot. It knows the wind over the cell, not the gust on the sand in front of you, and it knows the bearing, not the coastline: "side-onshore" is a rider's reading of the bearing. Each month is counted over three to four years.

What we could not source for Pounda

Crowds by month: no count exists for Pounda yet. The local port regulation for the Pounda ferry port. A water quality classification, and a first-hand reading of the local vibe. Tide information. A station check on the wind record, whose cell is 4 km from the beach. A surveyed launch. A measured water temperature. A licensed photograph.

Conditions change. Check local rules and conditions before you ride.

Compiled by WindChaser, 25 Sep 2026. Hero photograph on the spot page by Alex Healing, CC BY 2.0. Report generated 22 Oct 2026 from record version 2026.10; a report and its spot page are rendered from the same data and cannot disagree.

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