Best beach destinations in Europe in February

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria tops the list at 56 /100 in February. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations.

# Destination Country Beach score Avg high Rainfall
1 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain 56 /100 19 °C 32 mm
2 La Laguna Spain 44 /100 16 °C 36 mm
3 Almería Spain 36 /100 17 °C 24 mm
4 Jerez de la Frontera Spain 34 /100 17 °C 53 mm
5 Limassol Cyprus 32 /100 16 °C 42 mm
6 Elche Spain 32 /100 16 °C 20 mm
7 Nicosia Cyprus 31 /100 16 °C 48 mm
8 Cartagena Spain 31 /100 16 °C 21 mm
9 Valencia Spain 29 /100 16 °C 27 mm
10 Málaga Spain 27 /100 16 °C 48 mm
11 Alicante Spain 27 /100 16 °C 29 mm
12 Gibraltar Gibraltar 25 /100 15 °C 76 mm
13 Castelló de la Plana Spain 25 /100 15 °C 28 mm
14 Vladivostok Russia 25 /100 -3.5 °C 14 mm
15 Marbella Spain 24 /100 15 °C 72 mm
16 Valletta Malta 21 /100 14 °C 50 mm
17 Catania Italy 21 /100 15 °C 60 mm
18 Palma Spain 20 /100 14 °C 33 mm
19 Odesa Ukraine 20 /100 3.4 °C 29 mm
20 Lisbon Portugal 20 /100 14 °C 52 mm
21 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat Spain 20 /100 13 °C 33 mm
22 Sabadell Spain 20 /100 13 °C 33 mm
23 Marseille France 19 /100 12 °C 41 mm
24 Constanţa Romania 19 /100 6.3 °C 33 mm
25 Montpellier France 19 /100 12 °C 50 mm
26 Barcelona Spain 19 /100 13 °C 35 mm
27 Athens Greece 18 /100 13 °C 48 mm
28 Toulon France 18 /100 12 °C 48 mm
29 Makhachkala Russia 18 /100 5.2 °C 27 mm
30 Varna Bulgaria 18 /100 7.1 °C 37 mm
31 Severodvinsk Russia 17 /100 -7.4 °C 22 mm
32 Mariehamn Aland Islands 17 /100 -0.2 °C 28 mm
33 Mariupol Ukraine 16 /100 1.5 °C 37 mm
34 Nice France 16 /100 12 °C 60 mm
35 Monaco Monaco 16 /100 12 °C 60 mm
36 Stockholm Sweden 16 /100 0.6 °C 31 mm
37 Oulu Finland 15 /100 -5.9 °C 29 mm
38 Taganrog Russia 15 /100 0.5 °C 42 mm
39 Taranto Italy 14 /100 13 °C 56 mm
40 Genoa Italy 14 /100 11 °C 78 mm
41 Thessaloníki Greece 14 /100 11 °C 48 mm
42 Sevastopol Ukraine 14 /100 6.0 °C 40 mm
43 San Marino San Marino 14 /100 6.9 °C 72 mm
44 Livorno Italy 14 /100 11 °C 66 mm
45 Gdańsk Poland 14 /100 2.6 °C 30 mm
46 Trieste Italy 13 /100 8.6 °C 97 mm
47 Novorossiysk Russia 13 /100 6.2 °C 49 mm
48 Tallinn Estonia 13 /100 -2.0 °C 36 mm
49 Copenhagen Denmark 12 /100 3.3 °C 42 mm
50 Vantaa Finland 12 /100 -2.8 °C 42 mm

Only destinations with a published page for that month are ranked. The ranking is ours; the underlying values are reproduced from the source.

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.

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