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

Limassol tops the list at 78 /100 in November. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations in Europe.

Top three in November: Limassol (78 /100) , Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (76 /100) , Nicosia (74 /100) . Between first and 50th place the beach score differs by 63 /100.

# Destination Country Beach score Avg high Avg low Rainfall Wet days Sunshine Sea temp
1 Limassol Cyprus 78 /100 22 °C 15 °C 29 mm 5 276 h 22 °C
2 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain 76 /100 22 °C 18 °C 28 mm 6 295 h 22 °C
3 Nicosia Cyprus 74 /100 21 °C 13 °C 36 mm 5 272 h 22 °C
4 La Laguna Spain 61 /100 19 °C 16 °C 40 mm 8 291 h 22 °C
5 Valletta Malta 57 /100 20 °C 17 °C 67 mm 9 260 h 21 °C
6 Almería Spain 56 /100 20 °C 12 °C 29 mm 4 274 h 18 °C
7 Cartagena Spain 54 /100 19 °C 13 °C 32 mm 5 260 h 19 °C
8 Elche Spain 54 /100 19 °C 10 °C 33 mm 5 255 h 19 °C
9 Athens Greece 53 /100 18 °C 11 °C 50 mm 6 236 h 20 °C
10 Valencia Spain 53 /100 19 °C 11 °C 46 mm 5 246 h 19 °C
11 Catania Italy 53 /100 19 °C 12 °C 68 mm 8 238 h 20 °C
12 Alicante Spain 52 /100 19 °C 12 °C 42 mm 6 254 h 19 °C
13 Jerez de la Frontera Spain 50 /100 19 °C 10 °C 70 mm 7 261 h 18 °C
14 Castelló de la Plana Spain 50 /100 18 °C 10 °C 43 mm 5 244 h 19 °C
15 Palma Spain 48 /100 18 °C 13 °C 52 mm 8 240 h 19 °C
16 Palermo Italy 47 /100 19 °C 14 °C 68 mm 10 257 h 20 °C
17 Pátra Greece 43 /100 17 °C 10 °C 127 mm 10 227 h 20 °C
18 Málaga Spain 43 /100 18 °C 13 °C 73 mm 7 258 h 17 °C
19 Messina Italy 41 /100 18 °C 14 °C 108 mm 12 242 h 20 °C
20 Taranto Italy 41 /100 17 °C 11 °C 87 mm 8 228 h 19 °C
21 Marbella Spain 40 /100 18 °C 12 °C 94 mm 8 258 h 17 °C
22 Gibraltar Gibraltar 40 /100 18 °C 13 °C 100 mm 9 260 h 18 °C
23 Reggio Calabria Italy 38 /100 17 °C 12 °C 115 mm 13 242 h 20 °C
24 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat Spain 36 /100 16 °C 9.3 °C 59 mm 7 233 h 17 °C
25 Thessaloníki Greece 35 /100 15 °C 7.9 °C 58 mm 7 199 h 18 °C
26 Badalona Spain 35 /100 16 °C 8.9 °C 61 mm 8 234 h 17 °C
27 Bari Italy 35 /100 17 °C 12 °C 71 mm 9 221 h 17 °C
28 Durrës Albania 34 /100 17 °C 12 °C 172 mm 12 224 h 19 °C
29 Sabadell Spain 33 /100 15 °C 7.5 °C 59 mm 7 232 h 17 °C
30 Lisbon Portugal 32 /100 17 °C 12 °C 84 mm 10 234 h 17 °C
31 Naples Italy 32 /100 17 °C 11 °C 174 mm 13 220 h 19 °C
32 Nice France 27 /100 15 °C 9.4 °C 134 mm 10 221 h 17 °C
33 Toulon France 26 /100 15 °C 10 °C 112 mm 10 218 h 17 °C
34 Monaco Monaco 26 /100 15 °C 9.4 °C 131 mm 10 221 h 17 °C
35 Marseille France 25 /100 15 °C 9.3 °C 91 mm 9 222 h 17 °C
36 Livorno Italy 23 /100 15 °C 10 °C 128 mm 13 210 h 18 °C
37 Vladivostok Russia 21 /100 3.6 °C -1.6 °C 34 mm 5 234 h 7.3 °C
38 Genoa Italy 20 /100 14 °C 8.5 °C 197 mm 12 175 h 18 °C
39 Odesa Ukraine 19 /100 8.8 °C 4.3 °C 32 mm 6 139 h 12 °C
40 Constanţa Romania 18 /100 11 °C 5.9 °C 42 mm 6 174 h 14 °C
41 Mariupol Ukraine 18 /100 6.3 °C 2.3 °C 37 mm 6 134 h 8.1 °C
42 Varna Bulgaria 18 /100 12 °C 6.4 °C 47 mm 6 180 h 14 °C
43 Novorossiysk Russia 18 /100 11 °C 5.7 °C 55 mm 8 195 h 15 °C
44 Montpellier France 17 /100 14 °C 8.0 °C 123 mm 11 215 h 16 °C
45 Sochi Russia 17 /100 14 °C 7.8 °C 132 mm 11 210 h 16 °C
46 Porto Portugal 16 /100 16 °C 9.6 °C 166 mm 13 212 h 16 °C
47 Taganrog Russia 16 /100 5.8 °C 2.2 °C 43 mm 7 135 h 8.0 °C
48 San Marino San Marino 16 /100 11 °C 3.9 °C 97 mm 11 188 h 16 °C
49 Sevastopol Ukraine 16 /100 12 °C 6.7 °C 45 mm 8 193 h 14 °C
50 Makhachkala Russia 15 /100 11 °C 6.1 °C 45 mm 8 183 h 13 °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

October: top 5

  1. Limassol 98 /100
  2. Nicosia 96 /100
  3. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 87 /100
  4. Athens 86 /100
  5. Elche 83 /100

Full ranking for October

December: top 5

  1. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 64 /100
  2. La Laguna 50 /100
  3. Limassol 46 /100
  4. Almería 42 /100
  5. Nicosia 41 /100

Full ranking for December

How this ranking is built

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