Ashdod / Kshtot Beach

Ashdod is a Mediterranean port city about 32 km south of Tel Aviv with an open, sandy coastline and a modern marina/promenade (HaTayelet); Kshtot Beach is one of its kite-used stretches, part of the wider Israeli summer thermal-wind kiting circuit that runs along this coast.

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Ashdod beach coastline, closest at 45m — FireSky / CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Kshatot Beach Ashdod, exact name match — FireSky / CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

people playing volleyball at HaKshatot Beach — מקף־עברי / CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

sign at entrance to Arches (Kshatot) Beach — ישראל פרקר / CC BY 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons

Wind

best months	May Jun Jul Aug Sep
season notes	Israeli Mediterranean coast summers are driven by a daily onshore thermal sea breeze; current wind observed here was recorded from the northwest.
direction to shore	onshore/cross-onshore (NW)
quality	thermal

Water

type	chop, open Mediterranean coast
wetsuit	boardshorts in summer, shorty/steamer likely needed in winter

Levels

intermediate	yes
advanced	yes

Launch & crowd

description	Sandy open beach near the Ashdod promenade/marina area.
busy months	Jul Aug

Monthly wind statistics

Station: Ashdod (WeatherSpark modeled climatology) (weatherspark, ~0 km) — Windfinder pages returned HTTP 429 rate-limit for the whole batch, so this uses WeatherSpark's direct Ashdod page (exact match, no fallback distance). WeatherSpark's 24h averages are fairly flat (6.8-7.8 kt) and slightly favor winter, which conflicts with the batch's known_best_months of May-Sep - that pattern is consistent with a reliable summer sea-breeze/thermal (common on this coast) that a 24-hour mean does not isolate from calmer nights. No Beaufort probability data available from this source.

Month	Wind ≥4 Bft	Avg kn	Dir	Air °C	Water °C
Jan	—%	7.7	W	13.9	18.3
Feb	—%	7.8	W	13.9	17.2
Mar	—%	7.4	W	16.1	17.2
Apr	—%	6.9	W	18.9	18.9
May	—%	6.8	W	21.7	21.1
Jun	—%	7.1	W	24.4	24.4
Jul	—%	7.2	W	26.7	26.7
Aug	—%	7	W	27.2	27.8
Sep	—%	7.1	N/transitional	26.1	27.8
Oct	—%	7.1	N	23.3	26.1
Nov	—%	7.3	N	19.4	23.3
Dec	—%	7.5	W	15.6	20.6

Hazards

large commercial port immediately north (largest port in Israel) - stay clear of shipping lanes/harbor approach
open beach, no lagoon protection

Travel basics

airport	TLV - Ben Gurion Airport (~35 km)
cost level	mid

Nearby: Bat Yam / Tayo Beach, Herzliya Marina / HaTzuk

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · windfinder.com