Live wind
Wind safety and operating limits not verified. No ride or kite-size recommendation.
Water & wetsuit
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About this spot
Spots4Kite describes Tsimari (also listed as Dioni Katochi Beach or "Flatland") as a sandspit with an open-sea riding side and a shallow, very flat lagoon behind it, worked by a west to north-west wind that is onshore or side-onshore on the sea side and offshore or side-offshore in the lagoon. The guide highlights May to September with ordinary thermals of 10–16 knots starting around 17:00–18:00 and reinforced frontal days at 20–25 knots; another guide gives a higher typical range of 15–25 knots, most commonly 15–20, with July and August the peak.
The guide supports beginners on the sea-facing side, but no measured walkable extent is published and the lagoon's flat water comes with an offshore wind, so no beginner claim is carried over here. A dated first-hand report documents storm-driven changes to the shoreline and access, and the guide's own camping notes are internally inconsistent, so current access and permission need local confirmation; no permanent school is documented by a qualified source.
Sources
- Spots4Kite — Tsimari Dioni Katochi Beach
Sandspit with sea side and shallow flat lagoon, W–NW onshore outside/offshore inside, May–September thermals of 10–16 kn from about 17:00, frontal days 20–25 kn, embedded coordinates.
- Kitesurf The World — Tsimari
Alternative typical range 15–25 kn (most often 15–20), July–August peak, and the advice to choose the side with onshore wind.
- Spots4Kite — Kitesurfing at Tsimari (first-hand report)
Dated 2022 report documenting storm-driven shoreline and access changes.
3-day forecast
Speed / gusts in knots. Safety data not verified; rideability colours and kite advice are withheld.
Conditions
- Water
- flat, choppy
- Depth
- Not verified — shallow nearshore reported, walkable extent unpublished
- Seabed
- sand
- Skill
- intermediate
- Beginners
- Not for beginners — intermediate and up
- Wind range
- Not verified — no ride recommendation
Access & parking
Named beach only; current launch boundaries, permissions and access restrictions need local confirmation.
Parking: Not verified
Amenities
- Not verified
Needs local verification: Coordinate: Spots4Kite embedded spot pin; shoreline changes mean it is a spot-area reference, not a current waterline. Coordinates are approximate spot markers, not surveyed launch points. Wind safety and operating limits remain unknown; no ride or kite-size advice is issued. Sources confirm only the facts explicitly attributed to them.
Local hazards
- Lagoon side is offshore — flat water there is not a beginner area
- Sandbar and access shift after storms
- Remote, no rescue service documented
- Camping/access status inconsistent between the guide's own notes