Fontane Bianche

Freshwater springs come up through the seabed. The town has 900 people.

How we rated it: up one for a sourced find, freshwater springs that flow from the seabed. Photo: Davide Mauro · CC BY-SA 4.0

The hang

Fontane Bianche is about 12 km from Syracuse: a 3 km stretch of beach, in Lonely Planet's words, with freshwater springs that flow up from the seabed. The town behind it is tiny, about 900 people. The piece of sand we measured is 821 metres. Its sea was the warmest of Italy's ten in 2025.

The real intel

Best months · warmest sea: July (28.2 °C), then August and September. Coolest: February (15.5 °C). The warmest water of Italy's ten. One year of data, 2025.
Best months · emptiest: No crowd data.
Getting there: About 12 km from Syracuse.
The catch nobody tells you: Nothing on record.

The year at Fontane Bianche

July: the warmest sea and the fewest wet days. Book that.

Sea (°C)

15.5

17.2

20.3

24.9

28.2

27.9

27.4

21.4

18.3

Air (°C)

13.3

12.6

14.8

15.5

25.8

28.8

27.2

20.1

16.7

13.8

Sun (h/day)

8.4

8.7

9.3

10.6

12.1

13.9

12.8

11.5

8.3

7.5

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

3 beaches within 6 km, as the gull flies.

2.4 kmSpiaggia del Gelsomineto465 m of beach, measured. Not rated yet.
3.1 kmSpiaggetta di Punta Gallina100 m of beach, measured. Not rated yet.
4.0 kmSpiaggia di Gallina501 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: 821 m
Mean width: 32.2 m
Area: 26,432 m²
Warmest sea (2025): 28.2 °C in Jul
Coldest sea (2025): 15.5 °C in Feb
Sea by month, °C: Jan 16.0 · Feb 15.5 · Mar 16.0 · Apr 17.2 · May 20.3 · Jun 24.9 · Jul 28.2 · Aug 27.9 · Sep 27.4 · Oct 24.0 · Nov 21.4 · Dec 18.3