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Best beach destinations in Europe in August: ranked by beach score

Durrës tops the list at 100 /100 in August. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations in Europe.

Top three in August: Durrës (100 /100) , Valletta (99 /100) , Cartagena (99 /100) . Between first and 50th place the beach score differs by 27 /100.

# Destination Country Beach score Avg high Avg low Rainfall Wet days Sunshine Sea temp
1 Durrës Albania 100 /100 28 °C 22 °C 32 mm 3 400 h 25 °C
2 Valletta Malta 99 /100 28 °C 24 °C 3 mm 1 389 h 27 °C
3 Cartagena Spain 99 /100 29 °C 23 °C 7 mm 1 392 h 26 °C
4 Castelló de la Plana Spain 98 /100 28 °C 22 °C 19 mm 3 387 h 26 °C
5 Toulon France 98 /100 28 °C 20 °C 17 mm 3 397 h 23 °C
6 Sevastopol Ukraine 97 /100 27 °C 20 °C 21 mm 4 402 h 24 °C
7 Málaga Spain 97 /100 29 °C 22 °C 5 mm 1 396 h 23 °C
8 Alicante Spain 97 /100 30 °C 23 °C 14 mm 3 393 h 26 °C
9 Livorno Italy 97 /100 28 °C 21 °C 39 mm 5 391 h 25 °C
10 Naples Italy 96 /100 30 °C 21 °C 23 mm 4 392 h 26 °C
11 Taganrog Russia 96 /100 27 °C 20 °C 30 mm 5 380 h 24 °C
12 Marseille France 96 /100 28 °C 20 °C 22 mm 3 397 h 22 °C
13 Palma Spain 95 /100 31 °C 23 °C 17 mm 2 395 h 26 °C
14 Mariupol Ukraine 95 /100 27 °C 20 °C 30 mm 5 381 h 24 °C
15 Odesa Ukraine 95 /100 27 °C 20 °C 37 mm 5 385 h 24 °C
16 Bari Italy 95 /100 29 °C 22 °C 24 mm 5 400 h 26 °C
17 Constanţa Romania 95 /100 27 °C 20 °C 36 mm 5 391 h 25 °C
18 Marbella Spain 95 /100 28 °C 22 °C 4 mm 1 395 h 22 °C
19 Palermo Italy 94 /100 30 °C 23 °C 19 mm 3 393 h 27 °C
20 Taranto Italy 94 /100 31 °C 22 °C 14 mm 3 402 h 26 °C
21 Nice France 94 /100 27 °C 21 °C 27 mm 6 393 h 25 °C
22 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain 94 /100 25 °C 21 °C 2 mm 1 375 h 23 °C
23 Monaco Monaco 94 /100 27 °C 21 °C 28 mm 6 393 h 25 °C
24 Novorossiysk Russia 94 /100 29 °C 21 °C 37 mm 6 394 h 25 °C
25 Messina Italy 94 /100 30 °C 22 °C 25 mm 5 392 h 27 °C
26 Varna Bulgaria 94 /100 27 °C 20 °C 40 mm 6 386 h 25 °C
27 Valencia Spain 93 /100 30 °C 22 °C 22 mm 4 384 h 26 °C
28 Barcelona Spain 93 /100 27 °C 21 °C 40 mm 6 383 h 25 °C
29 Badalona Spain 93 /100 28 °C 21 °C 40 mm 6 383 h 25 °C
30 Gibraltar Gibraltar 93 /100 28 °C 22 °C 4 mm 1 395 h 22 °C
31 Elche Spain 93 /100 31 °C 21 °C 9 mm 2 393 h 26 °C
32 Montpellier France 91 /100 28 °C 19 °C 33 mm 5 390 h 22 °C
33 Makhachkala Russia 91 /100 28 °C 22 °C 51 mm 7 369 h 26 °C
34 Pátra Greece 91 /100 32 °C 21 °C 13 mm 3 399 h 26 °C
35 Sabadell Spain 91 /100 27 °C 19 °C 50 mm 7 379 h 25 °C
36 Catania Italy 91 /100 32 °C 23 °C 14 mm 3 387 h 26 °C
37 Reggio Calabria Italy 90 /100 31 °C 22 °C 32 mm 5 392 h 26 °C
38 San Marino San Marino 90 /100 26 °C 16 °C 50 mm 7 387 h 26 °C
39 Almería Spain 89 /100 32 °C 23 °C 4 mm 1 395 h 24 °C
40 Athens Greece 89 /100 33 °C 22 °C 5 mm 1 401 h 26 °C
41 Limassol Cyprus 87 /100 33 °C 24 °C 1 mm 0 398 h 27 °C
42 Sochi Russia 87 /100 26 °C 21 °C 70 mm 9 389 h 26 °C
43 Trieste Italy 86 /100 28 °C 19 °C 111 mm 10 378 h 25 °C
44 Genoa Italy 86 /100 28 °C 20 °C 65 mm 10 371 h 25 °C
45 Jerez de la Frontera Spain 86 /100 33 °C 20 °C 3 mm 1 398 h 23 °C
46 La Laguna Spain 86 /100 22 °C 19 °C 6 mm 1 380 h 23 °C
47 Thessaloníki Greece 85 /100 32 °C 22 °C 40 mm 6 397 h 27 °C
48 Lisbon Portugal 82 /100 27 °C 19 °C 4 mm 1 392 h 19 °C
49 Nicosia Cyprus 74 /100 36 °C 24 °C 3 mm 1 399 h 28 °C
50 Porto Portugal 73 /100 26 °C 17 °C 30 mm 4 385 h 17 °C

Monthly values for the month named in the ranking; only destinations with a published climate page are ranked. Download this ranking as CSV.

The same ranking one month earlier and later

July: top 5

  1. Valletta 100 /100
  2. Castelló de la Plana 100 /100
  3. Cartagena 99 /100
  4. Livorno 99 /100
  5. Alicante 98 /100

Full ranking for July

September: top 5

  1. Athens 100 /100
  2. Almería 97 /100
  3. Cartagena 97 /100
  4. Valletta 96 /100
  5. Elche 96 /100

Full ranking for September

How this ranking is built

What is ranked
Our 0–100 beach score (formula on the methodology page), in August, highest first.
Period
1991–2020 climate normals: the same 30 years for every destination, so the list compares like with like.
Who is included
50 destinations in Europe with a published climate page. Neighbouring places that share a climate series are shown once.
Ties
Equal values are ordered by sea temperature.
Sources
ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis via Open-Meteo; sea temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1. Measured values are reproduced unchanged; only the ordering and the score is ours.

Data sources and method

Normal period
1991–2020
Dataset version
era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: ranking order, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.