RMYC Double Handed Round Comino Race
Valletta (Grand Harbour / Marsamxett) · Malta
- Type
- Coastal · 30 nm
- Scoring
- Not known yet
- Boats
- Not yet listed
- Usually
- January, February
- Next
- Jan 2027 (usual month; dates not announced)
- Organiser
- Royal Malta Yacht Club
- Waters
- Central Med
- First held
- —
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202631 Jan 2026 | Not published | — | — | W 13 kn, gusts 45.3waves up to 1.98 m | 54 | — |
| 2025Not confirmed | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2024Not confirmed | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2023Not confirmed | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2022Not confirmed | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2021Not confirmed | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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.
Race metrics
Toughness
Compare all races- Wind 15.6/3013 kn mean
- Gusts 15/1545.3 kn
- Sea 10/202 m waves
- Distance 13.1/2530 nm
- Duration 0/101 day
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 Valletta (Grand Harbour / Marsamxett) (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 (54).
Weather calendar · Valletta (Grand Harbour / Marsamxett)
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 | 11.3 | 10.3 | 11.3 | 11.0 | 9.1 | 6.8 | 6.8 | 6.8 | 7.8 | 8.4 | 9.5 | 10.5 |
| Windy days% ≥ 20 kn | 24 | 18 | 19 | 23 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 19 |
| Wavesm, daily max | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 1.6 |
| From | W | W | W | N | NW | NW | NW | NW | W | NW | W | NW |
Typical wind at Valletta (Grand Harbour / Marsamxett)
Mean knots by month, 2021–2025. Race months in full colour.
Where the wind comes from
Share of days by direction in Jan, Feb.
Fact sheet
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- Race
- RMYC Double Handed Round Comino Race
- Kind
- coastal sailing race from Valletta (Grand Harbour / Marsamxett), Malta
- Editions on record
- 1 since 2021
- Course
- 30 nautical miles
- Organiser
- Royal Malta Yacht Club
- Next edition
- usually Jan 2027
- Official site
- https://rmyc.org
Results as published by the organiser Weather: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0 Dates as announced