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Best beach destinations in Europe in October

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

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

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.