Medcomms Round Malta Race
Valletta (Grand Harbour / Marsamxett) · MaltaAlso known as Round Malta Race
- Type
- Coastal · 50 nm
- Scoring
- Not known yet
- Boats
- Not yet listed
- Usually
- December
- Next
- 13 Dec 2026
- Organiser
- Royal Malta Yacht Club
- Waters
- Central Med
- First held
- —
Where and when
Race dates
Usually in December
Race days 2025
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202613 Dec 2026Coming up | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 202513 Dec 2025 | Not published | — | 30 | E 5.1 kn, gusts 19.4waves up to 0.52 m | 30 | — |
| 202413 Dec 2024 | Not published | — | 19 | SE 12.5 kn, gusts 33waves up to 1.56 m | 49 | Official |
| 202313 Dec 2023 | Not published | — | 27 | SW 10.8 kn, gusts 26.2waves up to 1.46 m | 44 | Official |
| 2022Not confirmed | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 202113 Dec 2021 | Not published | — | — | N 14 kn, gusts 26waves up to 1.72 m | 49 | Official |
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 12.7/3010.6 kn mean
- Gusts 8.7/1526.1 kn
- Sea 6.5/201.3 m waves
- Distance 15/2550 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: 2021 (49).
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 Dec.
Fact sheet
For press, partners and sponsors: the race in a dozen lines, from published sources. Copy it whole; please keep the source line.
- Race
- Medcomms Round Malta Race
- Kind
- coastal sailing race from Valletta (Grand Harbour / Marsamxett), Malta
- Editions on record
- 4 since 2021
- Typical fleet
- 27 boats (30 in the latest edition)
- Course
- 50 nautical miles
- Organiser
- Royal Malta Yacht Club
- Next edition
- 13 Dec 2026
- Official site
- https://rmyc.org
Results as published by the organiser Weather: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0 Dates as announced
Sources
- rmyc.org — previously recorded
- rmyc.org — previously recorded
- rmyc.org — RMYC report 'Elusive 2 wins Yacht Lift Round Malta Race': northbound course of approximately fifty nautical miles (read via search excerpt; rmyc.org returns 403 to automated fetches)
- rmyc.org — RMYC: Medcomms Round Malta Race closes the 2025 season with a record fleet (southbound course Marsamxett – Fairway buoy – Munxar – Bengħajsa – Ċirkewwa – South Comino Channel – Marsamxett)