2026 · Overall
- 2Danish teamDEN
- 1Yacht Club ItalianoITA
- 3Gstaad Yacht ClubSUI
- Type
- Inshore
- Scoring
- One-design
- Boats
- Dinghies · Team racing
- Usually
- January
- Next
- Jan 2027 (usual month; dates not announced)
- Organiser
- Yacht Club de Monaco
- Waters
- Ligurian
- First held
- 2010 · 16 years ago
Where and when
Race dates
Usually in January
Race days 2026
Wind and waves at the venue: monthly climate 2021–2025 and the last edition's race days (ERA5 and marine reanalysis, Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0).
Six seasons
| Year | Winner (handicap, corrected) | Line honours (first home, elapsed) | Boats | Wind and sea | Toughness | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202614 Jan 2026 – 18 Jan 2026 | Yacht Club ItalianoOverall | Not published | 15 | NE 4.9 kn, gusts 31.3waves up to 1.16 m | 29 | Official |
| 2025Not confirmed | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 202411 Jan 2024 – 14 Jan 2024 | Turkish national teamOverall | Not published | 18 | N 3.4 kn, gusts 20.6waves up to 0.84 m | 20 | Official |
| 202312 Jan 2023 – 15 Jan 2023 | JKU Deep BlueOverall | Not published | — | N 2.7 kn, gusts 18.3waves up to 1.18 m | 20 | Official |
| 202213 Jan 2022 – 16 Jan 2022 | US national teamOverall | Not published | — | N 2.2 kn, gusts 13waves up to 0.64 m | 15 | Official |
| 2021Cancelled | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Line honours go to the first boat home, on elapsed time. Overall winner is the best on handicap (IRC or ORC corrected time), so they are often different boats. Wind is the daily mean at the start venue over the racing days; gusts and waves are the highest of those days. Open-Meteo historical weather (ERA5) and marine APIs, CC BY 4.0; venue point only, not the full course.
Podiums and class winners
2026 · 3 results
FinalSource: yacht-club-monaco.mcAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
- 1.Yacht Club Italiano · ITA
- 2.Danish team · DEN
- 3.Gstaad Yacht Club · SUI
2024 · 3 results
FinalSource: yacht-club-monaco.mcAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
- 1.Turkish national team · TUR
- 2.Spanish team · ESP
- 3.Croatian team · CRO
2023 · 3 results
FinalSource: yacht-club-monaco.mcAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
- 1.JKU Deep Blue · CRO
- 2.US national team · USA
- 3.Club Náutico de Cambrils · ESP
2022 · 3 results
FinalSource: yacht-club-monaco.mcAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
- 1.US national team · USA
- 2.Jedriličarski Klub Uljanik · CRO
- 3.Chiemsee Yacht Club · GER
Race metrics
Toughness
Compare all races- Wind 4/303.3 kn mean
- Gusts 6.9/1520.8 kn
- Sea 5/201 m waves
- Distance 0/25not published
- Duration 5/104 days
How the score works
Our own index, not an official rating. Five inputs, each scaled to its share of 100: mean wind (up to 25 kn → 30 points), strongest gust (45 kn → 15), highest waves (4 m → 20), course length on a log scale (700 nm → 25) and days of racing (7 days → 10). Wind and waves are ERA5 reanalysis at Monaco (Open-Meteo) on the race days, so an offshore course can see more than the venue does. A missing input counts as zero and is marked. Roughest edition we hold: 2026 (29).
Weather calendar · Monaco
Month by month at the venue, 2021–2026 (ERA5 and marine reanalysis). Race months in orange.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean windkn | 3.7 | 3.8 | 4.8 | 4.3 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 3.5 |
| Windy days% ≥ 20 kn | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Wavesm, daily max | 0.9 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.8 |
| From | N | N | NE | SE | S | SE | S | S | S | N | N | N |
Typical wind at Monaco
Mean knots by month, 2021–2025. Race months in full colour.
Where the wind comes from
Share of days by direction in Jan.
Fact sheet
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- Race
- Monaco Optimist Team Race
- Kind
- inshore sailing race from Monaco, Monaco
- First held
- 2010
- Editions on record
- 4 since 2021
- Typical fleet
- 16 boats (15 in the latest edition)
- Nations in the results
- 8
- Latest overall winner
- Yacht Club Italiano (2026)
- Organiser
- Yacht Club de Monaco
- Next edition
- usually Jan 2027
Results as published by the organiser Weather: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0 Dates as announced
Sources
- monacolife.net — YCM 2026 programme
- yacht-club-monaco.mc — YCM event page: annual since 2010; 2027 edition 13-17 Jan