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

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

Top three in July: Valletta (100 /100) , Castelló de la Plana (100 /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 Valletta Malta 100 /100 27 °C 23 °C 0 mm 0 428 h 25 °C
2 Castelló de la Plana Spain 100 /100 28 °C 21 °C 8 mm 1 422 h 25 °C
3 Cartagena Spain 99 /100 28 °C 22 °C 2 mm 0 426 h 24 °C
4 Livorno Italy 99 /100 27 °C 21 °C 24 mm 3 433 h 24 °C
5 Alicante Spain 98 /100 29 °C 22 °C 5 mm 1 427 h 25 °C
6 Durrës Albania 98 /100 27 °C 22 °C 30 mm 4 426 h 24 °C
7 Palermo Italy 97 /100 30 °C 22 °C 7 mm 2 427 h 26 °C
8 Naples Italy 97 /100 29 °C 21 °C 19 mm 4 422 h 25 °C
9 Bari Italy 97 /100 29 °C 22 °C 25 mm 4 424 h 25 °C
10 Messina Italy 96 /100 29 °C 22 °C 19 mm 4 428 h 26 °C
11 Palma Spain 96 /100 30 °C 22 °C 6 mm 1 427 h 25 °C
12 Barcelona Spain 96 /100 27 °C 20 °C 24 mm 4 415 h 24 °C
13 Badalona Spain 96 /100 28 °C 20 °C 24 mm 4 415 h 24 °C
14 Valencia Spain 96 /100 30 °C 21 °C 8 mm 2 423 h 25 °C
15 Taranto Italy 95 /100 31 °C 22 °C 12 mm 2 427 h 25 °C
16 Toulon France 95 /100 28 °C 20 °C 16 mm 3 434 h 22 °C
17 Sevastopol Ukraine 95 /100 26 °C 20 °C 21 mm 4 425 h 23 °C
18 Málaga Spain 94 /100 29 °C 22 °C 1 mm 0 418 h 22 °C
19 Sabadell Spain 94 /100 27 °C 19 °C 33 mm 6 412 h 24 °C
20 Elche Spain 93 /100 31 °C 21 °C 3 mm 1 427 h 25 °C
21 Mariupol Ukraine 93 /100 28 °C 20 °C 36 mm 6 427 h 25 °C
22 Taganrog Russia 93 /100 27 °C 21 °C 36 mm 6 425 h 25 °C
23 San Marino San Marino 93 /100 26 °C 15 °C 38 mm 6 423 h 25 °C
24 Nice France 93 /100 27 °C 20 °C 26 mm 6 434 h 24 °C
25 Reggio Calabria Italy 92 /100 30 °C 21 °C 23 mm 4 427 h 25 °C
26 Pátra Greece 92 /100 31 °C 21 °C 13 mm 3 421 h 25 °C
27 Odesa Ukraine 92 /100 27 °C 20 °C 33 mm 6 410 h 23 °C
28 Monaco Monaco 92 /100 27 °C 20 °C 26 mm 6 434 h 24 °C
29 Constanţa Romania 92 /100 27 °C 19 °C 41 mm 6 417 h 24 °C
30 Novorossiysk Russia 92 /100 28 °C 21 °C 40 mm 7 437 h 24 °C
31 Marbella Spain 92 /100 28 °C 21 °C 1 mm 0 416 h 21 °C
32 Catania Italy 91 /100 32 °C 22 °C 8 mm 2 428 h 25 °C
33 Marseille France 91 /100 28 °C 20 °C 14 mm 2 432 h 21 °C
34 Montpellier France 91 /100 28 °C 19 °C 16 mm 3 421 h 21 °C
35 Makhachkala Russia 91 /100 28 °C 22 °C 39 mm 7 397 h 25 °C
36 Gibraltar Gibraltar 90 /100 28 °C 21 °C 1 mm 0 413 h 21 °C
37 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain 89 /100 24 °C 20 °C 1 mm 0 401 h 22 °C
38 Athens Greece 88 /100 33 °C 22 °C 7 mm 2 419 h 25 °C
39 Varna Bulgaria 88 /100 27 °C 20 °C 55 mm 8 411 h 24 °C
40 Genoa Italy 88 /100 27 °C 20 °C 54 mm 9 422 h 24 °C
41 Almería Spain 88 /100 32 °C 23 °C 1 mm 0 423 h 23 °C
42 Limassol Cyprus 88 /100 33 °C 24 °C 1 mm 0 431 h 26 °C
43 Trieste Italy 85 /100 27 °C 19 °C 88 mm 10 407 h 25 °C
44 Thessaloníki Greece 85 /100 32 °C 22 °C 41 mm 6 424 h 26 °C
45 Jerez de la Frontera Spain 84 /100 33 °C 20 °C 1 mm 0 419 h 23 °C
46 Sochi Russia 83 /100 26 °C 20 °C 84 mm 11 423 h 25 °C
47 Lisbon Portugal 80 /100 26 °C 18 °C 2 mm 1 419 h 18 °C
48 La Laguna Spain 80 /100 21 °C 18 °C 1 mm 0 405 h 22 °C
49 Nicosia Cyprus 75 /100 36 °C 24 °C 2 mm 1 431 h 27 °C
50 Porto Portugal 73 /100 25 °C 17 °C 22 mm 4 421 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

June: top 5

  1. Palermo 95 /100
  2. Taranto 95 /100
  3. Limassol 94 /100
  4. Alicante 94 /100
  5. Pátra 93 /100

Full ranking for June

August: top 5

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

Full ranking for August

How this ranking is built

What is ranked
Our 0–100 beach score (formula on the methodology page), in July, 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.