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

Limassol tops the list at 98 /100 in October. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations in Europe.

Top three in October: Limassol (98 /100) , Nicosia (96 /100) , Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (87 /100) . Between first and 50th place the beach score differs by 64 /100.

# Destination Country Beach score Avg high Avg low Rainfall Wet days Sunshine Sea temp
1 Limassol Cyprus 98 /100 27 °C 19 °C 16 mm 4 332 h 25 °C
2 Nicosia Cyprus 96 /100 27 °C 17 °C 36 mm 5 331 h 25 °C
3 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain 87 /100 24 °C 20 °C 28 mm 5 331 h 23 °C
4 Athens Greece 86 /100 23 °C 15 °C 28 mm 4 292 h 23 °C
5 Elche Spain 83 /100 24 °C 15 °C 35 mm 5 298 h 22 °C
6 Almería Spain 83 /100 24 °C 16 °C 23 mm 4 309 h 21 °C
7 Valletta Malta 82 /100 23 °C 20 °C 49 mm 6 303 h 24 °C
8 Cartagena Spain 81 /100 23 °C 18 °C 33 mm 4 301 h 22 °C
9 Valencia Spain 79 /100 23 °C 15 °C 53 mm 6 289 h 22 °C
10 Alicante Spain 78 /100 23 °C 16 °C 45 mm 7 299 h 22 °C
11 Catania Italy 78 /100 23 °C 17 °C 71 mm 8 284 h 23 °C
12 Castelló de la Plana Spain 76 /100 22 °C 15 °C 50 mm 6 290 h 22 °C
13 Jerez de la Frontera Spain 75 /100 24 °C 15 °C 76 mm 7 300 h 20 °C
14 La Laguna Spain 74 /100 21 °C 18 °C 34 mm 6 329 h 24 °C
15 Palma Spain 74 /100 23 °C 17 °C 54 mm 8 299 h 22 °C
16 Palermo Italy 74 /100 23 °C 17 °C 81 mm 10 293 h 23 °C
17 Pátra Greece 74 /100 22 °C 14 °C 75 mm 8 292 h 23 °C
18 Taranto Italy 71 /100 22 °C 15 °C 71 mm 7 290 h 22 °C
19 Messina Italy 68 /100 23 °C 17 °C 97 mm 11 293 h 22 °C
20 Thessaloníki Greece 68 /100 21 °C 13 °C 59 mm 7 255 h 21 °C
21 Reggio Calabria Italy 67 /100 22 °C 16 °C 105 mm 11 293 h 23 °C
22 Málaga Spain 65 /100 22 °C 16 °C 57 mm 6 297 h 20 °C
23 Naples Italy 63 /100 21 °C 14 °C 134 mm 11 275 h 22 °C
24 Bari Italy 62 /100 21 °C 15 °C 64 mm 8 284 h 20 °C
25 Marbella Spain 62 /100 22 °C 16 °C 81 mm 7 297 h 19 °C
26 Durrës Albania 61 /100 21 °C 16 °C 141 mm 10 286 h 21 °C
27 Gibraltar Gibraltar 60 /100 22 °C 17 °C 87 mm 8 299 h 19 °C
28 Badalona Spain 59 /100 21 °C 14 °C 92 mm 10 278 h 21 °C
29 Barcelona Spain 58 /100 20 °C 14 °C 92 mm 10 278 h 21 °C
30 Sabadell Spain 56 /100 20 °C 13 °C 96 mm 10 275 h 21 °C
31 Nice France 54 /100 20 °C 14 °C 111 mm 9 272 h 20 °C
32 Lisbon Portugal 53 /100 21 °C 16 °C 78 mm 9 287 h 18 °C
33 Monaco Monaco 53 /100 19 °C 14 °C 110 mm 9 272 h 20 °C
34 Toulon France 53 /100 20 °C 14 °C 100 mm 9 270 h 20 °C
35 Marseille France 52 /100 20 °C 14 °C 83 mm 8 278 h 19 °C
36 Livorno Italy 51 /100 20 °C 14 °C 126 mm 11 263 h 20 °C
37 Sochi Russia 50 /100 19 °C 13 °C 138 mm 10 266 h 20 °C
38 Novorossiysk Russia 48 /100 18 °C 11 °C 52 mm 8 264 h 20 °C
39 Genoa Italy 46 /100 19 °C 13 °C 183 mm 12 224 h 20 °C
40 Varna Bulgaria 45 /100 17 °C 11 °C 52 mm 7 233 h 18 °C
41 Sevastopol Ukraine 43 /100 17 °C 11 °C 41 mm 7 269 h 18 °C
42 Constanţa Romania 42 /100 17 °C 11 °C 44 mm 6 239 h 18 °C
43 Montpellier France 41 /100 19 °C 12 °C 138 mm 11 266 h 18 °C
44 Makhachkala Russia 40 /100 17 °C 12 °C 49 mm 8 239 h 18 °C
45 Santander Spain 38 /100 19 °C 12 °C 113 mm 13 257 h 18 °C
46 San Marino San Marino 38 /100 16 °C 8.1 °C 88 mm 10 254 h 19 °C
47 Bilbao Spain 37 /100 19 °C 13 °C 98 mm 14 246 h 18 °C
48 Trieste Italy 36 /100 17 °C 11 °C 183 mm 13 239 h 19 °C
49 Porto Portugal 36 /100 20 °C 13 °C 166 mm 12 266 h 17 °C
50 Donostia / San Sebastián Spain 34 /100 19 °C 13 °C 134 mm 14 244 h 18 °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

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

November: top 5

  1. Limassol 78 /100
  2. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 76 /100
  3. Nicosia 74 /100
  4. La Laguna 61 /100
  5. Valletta 57 /100

Full ranking for November

How this ranking is built

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