Chia

Coves of light sand, three lagoons, and flamingos.

How we rated it: up one for a sourced find, the pink flamingos on its lagoons. Photo: Carlo Pelagalli · CC BY-SA 3.0

The hang

Chia is a string of coves in Sardinia, an hour's drive from Cagliari airport: beaches of fine or coarse light sand between small rocky promontories, in Wikipedia's description. Behind them are three coastal lagoons, used by pink flamingos and other protected species. We measured one cove, 266 metres of sand.

The real intel

Best months · warmest sea: August (26.6 °C), then July and September. Coolest: February (15.2 °C). One year of data, 2025.
Best months · emptiest: No crowd data.
Getting there: About an hour's drive from Cagliari airport.
The catch nobody tells you: Nothing on record.

The year at Chia

Warmest sea in August. Fewest wet days in July. Pick your fight.

Sea (°C)

15.5

15.2

15.3

16.2

18.8

23.8

26.2

26.6

23.6

20.2

17.4

Air (°C)

12.5

12.4

13.9

15.3

19.1

25.3

26.5

24.1

20.2

15.5

13.9

Sun (h/day)

7.9

9.2

9.8

10.3

11.8

13.9

13.3

12.7

10.9

9.9

8.3

6.5

Rain (days)

One year of data, 2025, from Open-Meteo at this beach's coordinates. A rain day is 1 mm or more. The red bar is the month to aim for in each row.

The neighbours

6 beaches within 6 km, as the gull flies.

727 mSa Colonia736 m of beach, measured. Not rated yet.
1.2 kmCala del morto87 m of beach, measured. Not rated yet.
1.6 kmCampana474 m of beach, measured. Not rated yet.
2.6 kmSu Giudeu1,276 m of beach, measured. Not rated yet.
3.1 kmSpiaggia di Pinus Village156 m of beach, measured. Not rated yet.
3.4 kmCala Cipolla146 m of beach, measured. Not rated yet.

Straight-line distances from the mapped beach shapes (OpenStreetMap). Roads are longer, and in Bali they are much longer.

The crowd

No crowd data.

The facts · we measured

Length: 266 m
Mean width: 38.1 m
Area: 10,125 m²
Warmest sea (2025): 26.6 °C in Aug
Coldest sea (2025): 15.2 °C in Feb
Sea by month, °C: Jan 15.5 · Feb 15.2 · Mar 15.3 · Apr 16.2 · May 18.8 · Jun 23.8 · Jul 26.2 · Aug 26.6 · Sep 26.0 · Oct 23.6 · Nov 20.2 · Dec 17.4