Venice Hospitality Challenge
Venice · ItalyAlso known as Gran Premio della Città di Venezia
2024 · Overall
- 1Hotel Excelsior (team)
- Type
- Inshore
- Scoring
- Not known yet
- Boats
- Not yet listed
- Usually
- October
- Next
- Oct 2027 (usual month; dates not announced)
- Organiser
- Yacht Club Venezia
- Waters
- Adriatic
- First held
- —
Where and when
Race dates
Usually in October
Race days 2024
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026Not confirmed | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2025Not confirmed | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 202419 Oct 2024 | Hotel Excelsior (team)Overall | Not published | — | NE 9.2 kn, gusts 21.6waves up to 0.94 m | 23 | Official |
| 202314 Oct 2023 | Arca SGR - Ca' Sagredo HotelOverallFurio Benussi | Not published | — | SW 4 kn, gusts 14.4waves up to 0.28 m | 11 | Official |
| 202215 Oct 2022 | Maxi JenaOverallMilos Radonjic | Not published | 16 | E 3.6 kn, gusts 11.9waves up to 0.04 m | 8 | Official |
| 202116 Oct 2021 | Maxi Jena - Sina Centurion PalaceOverallMilos Radonjic | Not published | 16 | NE 4.5 kn, gusts 14.4waves up to 0.42 m | 12 | 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.
Podiums and class winners
2024 · 1 results
FinalSource: veveglass.comAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
2023 · 3 results
FinalSource: saily.itAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
- 1.Arca SGR - Ca' Sagredo Hotel · Furio Benussi
- 2.Way of Life - The Gritti Palace · Gaspar Vincec
- 3.Prosecco DOC Shockwave 3 - Hotel Excelsior · Mitja Kosmina
2022 · 3 results
FinalSource: nautica.newsAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
2021 · 6 results
FinalSource: forbes.itAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
- 1.Maxi Jena - Sina Centurion Palace · Milos Radonjic
- 2.Way of Life - The Gritti Palace
- 3.Arca SGR - Ca' Sagredo
Race metrics
Toughness
Compare all races- Wind 6.4/305.3 kn mean
- Gusts 5.2/1515.6 kn
- Sea 2/200.4 m waves
- Distance 0/25not published
- 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 Venice (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: 2024 (23).
Weather calendar · Venice
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 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 5.1 | 5.7 | 5.9 | 5.1 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.2 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.3 |
| Windy days% ≥ 20 kn | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Wavesm, daily max | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| From | N | NE | E | E | E | E | E | NE | NE | NE | N | N |
Typical wind at Venice
Mean knots by month, 2021–2025. Race months in full colour.
Where the wind comes from
Share of days by direction in Oct.
Fact sheet
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- Race
- Venice Hospitality Challenge
- Kind
- inshore sailing race from Venice, Italy
- Editions on record
- 4 since 2021
- Typical fleet
- 16 boats (16 in the latest edition)
- Latest overall winner
- Hotel Excelsior (team) (2024)
- Organiser
- Yacht Club Venezia
- Next edition
- usually Oct 2027
Results as published by the organiser Weather: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0 Dates as announced
Sources
- nautica.news — previously recorded
- casagredohotel.com — previously recorded
- yachtclubvenezia.it — 9th edition (Oct 2022): 16 maxi yachts incl. Slovenian boats (Maxi Jena winner, Way of Life 'la barca slovena')
- yachtclubvenezia.it — Yacht Club Venezia: XII edition 'Gran Premio Città di Venezia – Venice Hospitality Challenge', 18 Oct 2025