The report · Preluk · Windsurf · October · 6 pages
Rijeka, Croatia
Preluk
3% 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.
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.
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.
Not drawn: 42% of daylight hours under 4 kt.
When in the day, October
Share of days over 13 kt at each daylight hour.
Rideable hours, not all hours. Every wind figure in this report is the mean over hours above the threshold.
October's own records
The month's own figures from three Octobers in the record, 2022 to 2026. Not the year's average.
What the percentage hides. A month at 80% can be twenty-four steady days or three windy weeks broken by a dead front.
Full stays, schools & kit
Stays
Lessons
Kit
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.
Per-launch notes
No tide information found for Preluk. No tide data in the pipeline.
No tide information found for Volosko. No tide data in the pipeline.
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.
Offshore wind, deep water & the 300 m line
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.
The shore is rocky and the entry at the old camp is a small pebble beach: wear shoes. The water gets deep quickly and there is no standing area to speak of, so a rider who cannot get back upwind cannot walk back either.
The tramontana blows off the land. From Volosko harbour it is weak and comes in gusts from the left for the first few hundred metres; from the old camp riders head about 100 metres downwind to reach it. It drops off one to two hours after sunrise. Personal craft, windsurf and kitesurf boards among them, may sail freely from sunrise to sunset within 300 metres of the shore, except in an organised bathing area; further out only with an escort by a suitable motor vessel provided by the organiser, renter or holder of the activity.
Getting there, packing & best months
October has no session mean to size from, so no sizes are given.
Best months, Kite. Record.
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.
The record
Hourly wind, 2022 to 2026, from DWD ICON-D2 via Open-Meteo: a 2 km grid, read at the cell 1.0 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 Preluk
Crowds by month: no count exists for Preluk yet. A local order on riding in Preluk bay from the Rijeka harbour master or the City of Opatija. Whether the Marotti centre is open now (its own news page opened the 2025 season on 1 May and shows nothing for 2026; Google showed it closed temporarily on 27 Sep 2026). An off-season water temperature. A water quality classification, and a first-hand reading of the local vibe. Tide tables. A wind record that resolves the short morning tramontana, and a station check. Surveyed coordinates for the entries. A measured water temperature. A licensed photograph on disk. A webcam.
Conditions change. Check local rules and conditions before you ride.
Compiled by WindChaser, 27 Sep 2026. Hero photograph on the spot page by Rsimac, Public domain. 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.