Hidden gem
Activity
Zambratija bay
A quiet bay north of Katoro, above the oldest sewn boat in the Mediterranean.
Photo: Ato 01 / CC BY-SA 4.0
Photo: Mihael Grmek / CC BY-SA 4.0
Umag is Croatia's front door from the west, the first town past the Slovenian border, and it plays the role well: a small Venetian old town on a harbour peninsula, a long ribbon of resort coast, and the country's biggest tennis moment, the ATP tournament that has filled July evenings here since 1990. Sports infrastructure is the town's quiet speciality, from the stadium complex to sea-front training grounds.
The hinterland completes it: Momjan wine country, olive roads and the truffle towns of inner Istria are all within forty minutes.
The next 7 days
Weather data by Open-Meteo.comClimate month by month
Ten-year averages for Umag, so you can see what a month usually looks like rather than what this week happens to do.
| Month | Day °C | Night °C | Rain days | Sea °C |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9 | 3 | 8 | 13 |
| February | 10 | 4 | 9 | 11 |
| March | 13 | 6 | 8 | 12 |
| April | 16 | 9 | 9 | 14 |
| May | 20 | 14 | 14 | 18 |
| June | 25 | 19 | 8 | 23 |
| July | 28 | 21 | 8 | 26 |
| August | 28 | 21 | 7 | 27 |
| September | 24 | 17 | 10 | 24 |
| October | 19 | 13 | 10 | 21 |
| November | 14 | 9 | 12 | 18 |
| December | 11 | 5 | 9 | 15 |
Air 2015 to 2024, sea 2022 to 2024. A rain day is 1 mm or more. Data by Open-Meteo.com
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Umag in a nutshell
29 places, 1 routes.
What is actually worth your time in Umag?
Start with Savudrija lighthouse, Stella Maris Tennis Centre, and Novigrad old town. After that it depends on what you enjoy: the guide holds 29 places in Umag, sorted into sights, activities, food and shopping, so you can skip whole categories that bore you.
Savudrija lighthouseHow do you get away from the crowds in Umag?
Follow the hidden gems: 14 places that rarely make the guidebooks, most of them a few streets off the main drag. Savudrija lighthouse, Stella Maris Tennis Centre, and Novigrad old town are good ones to start with.
Zambratija bayNo time to plan? Just follow a route.
Pick one of The Umag peninsula. Each walk runs stop by stop in a fixed order, so the only decision left is where to have lunch.
Chapel of St PeregrineOur tips
What we would do around Umag
Day trips within reach of Umag, plus the routes and quiet corners our editors keep coming back to.
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Hidden gems in Umag
Legendary
Sight
Savudrija lighthouse
The oldest lighthouse on the Adriatic, in service since 1818.
Photo: Mihael Grmek / CC BY-SA 4.0
Hidden gem
Activity
Zambratija bay
A quiet bay north of Katoro, above the oldest sewn boat in the Mediterranean.
Photo: Ato 01 / CC BY-SA 4.0
Hidden gem
Sight
Chapel of St Peregrine
A stone chapel right at the waterline, behind a dry-stone wall and pines.
Photo: Jonatan Melik Kurinčič / CC0
Places
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Sights
16
Sights
16 Legendary
Sight
Savudrija lighthouse
The oldest lighthouse on the Adriatic, in service since 1818.
Photo: Mihael Grmek / CC BY-SA 4.0
Hidden gem
Sight
Chapel of St Peregrine
A stone chapel right at the waterline, behind a dry-stone wall and pines.
Photo: Jonatan Melik Kurinčič / CC0
14 more places
- Novigrad old town
- May Day Square
- Buje old town
- Sipar
- Villa rustica, Katoro
- Fulvio Tomizza memorial
- Rt Zub lighthouse
- Novigrad Lapidarium
- Umag Town Museum
- Church of St Peregrine
- Church of St John the Apostle, Savudrija
- Antonio Coslovich Theatre Hall
- Monument to the fallen fighters
- Buje Ethnographic Museum
Activities
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Activities
12 Hidden gem
Activity
Zambratija bay
A quiet bay north of Katoro, above the oldest sewn boat in the Mediterranean.
Photo: Ato 01 / CC BY-SA 4.0
Activity
Stella Maris beach
A long beach beside the sports centre, with pine shade along the shore.
Photo: Adam Chamczyk / CC BY 3.0
Activity
Pozioi town beach
Concrete platforms and shingle south of the old town, walkable from the square.
Photo: Adam Chamczyk / CC BY 3.0
Activity
Polynesia beach, Katoro
The swimming spot at Katoro, with a shallow entry and a view towards Savudrija.
Photo: Adam Chamczyk / CC BY 3.0
Food & drink
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Food & drink
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Umag stories & guides
Local know-how to make the most of your visit.
ItineraryUmag in a day: a peninsula two hundred metres wide, and clay courts
The northernmost town on the Croatian coast, closer to Trieste than to Pula. The old town fits on a peninsula barely two hundred metres across, and once a year the country's only ATP clay tournament fills it.
25 August 2026Umag3 min
GuideUmag: what to see between the old town and Savudrija
Umag is the first Croatian town you reach from Slovenia, an old town on a peninsula two hundred metres wide, and fourteen kilometres of coast that ends at the oldest lighthouse on the Adriatic.
20 August 2026Umag5 min
Umag: quick answers
- How do I get to Umag?
- By road it is the closest Croatian resort to central Europe: Trieste airport is about an hour, Ljubljana two, Pula seventy kilometres south. In season, fast boats connect nearby Poreč with Venice and Trieste.
- When is the ATP tournament?
- In the second half of July, evenings, on the clay of the Stella Maris stadium. Accommodation across the town books out for the week, so either plan around it or book months ahead.
- What are the beaches like?
- Rock slabs, paved terraces and small pebble coves along a green coast, with the resort zones north and south adding pools where nature stays stony. For sand, locals drive to the lagoons around Savudrija.
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