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Best beach destinations in Europe year-round: ranked by beach score

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria tops the list at 75 /100 averaged across the year. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations in Europe.

Top three averaged across all twelve months: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (75 /100) , Limassol (70 /100) , Nicosia (66 /100) . Between first and 50th place the beach score differs by 40 /100.

# Destination Country Beach score Avg high Avg low Rainfall Wet days Sunshine Sea temp
1 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain 75 /100 22 °C 17 °C 18 mm 4 346 h 21 °C
2 Limassol Cyprus 70 /100 24 °C 16 °C 23 mm 4 342 h 22 °C
3 Nicosia Cyprus 66 /100 25 °C 15 °C 29 mm 5 341 h 22 °C
4 Almería Spain 66 /100 23 °C 15 °C 18 mm 3 340 h 19 °C
5 Elche Spain 65 /100 23 °C 13 °C 24 mm 4 330 h 19 °C
6 Cartagena Spain 64 /100 21 °C 16 °C 22 mm 3 333 h 19 °C
7 La Laguna Spain 63 /100 19 °C 16 °C 23 mm 4 346 h 21 °C
8 Valencia Spain 62 /100 22 °C 14 °C 35 mm 5 322 h 19 °C
9 Alicante Spain 62 /100 22 °C 15 °C 32 mm 5 330 h 19 °C
10 Valletta Malta 62 /100 21 °C 17 °C 32 mm 5 333 h 20 °C
11 Jerez de la Frontera Spain 61 /100 24 °C 13 °C 43 mm 5 331 h 19 °C
12 Athens Greece 60 /100 22 °C 13 °C 32 mm 5 318 h 20 °C
13 Castelló de la Plana Spain 60 /100 21 °C 13 °C 32 mm 4 321 h 19 °C
14 Palma Spain 59 /100 21 °C 15 °C 33 mm 5 327 h 19 °C
15 Catania Italy 59 /100 22 °C 14 °C 47 mm 6 318 h 20 °C
16 Málaga Spain 58 /100 21 °C 15 °C 39 mm 5 329 h 18 °C
17 Palermo Italy 55 /100 21 °C 15 °C 52 mm 8 326 h 20 °C
18 Marbella Spain 55 /100 21 °C 15 °C 55 mm 5 328 h 18 °C
19 Gibraltar Gibraltar 54 /100 21 °C 15 °C 57 mm 6 330 h 18 °C
20 Taranto Italy 54 /100 21 °C 13 °C 47 mm 6 319 h 19 °C
21 Pátra Greece 53 /100 21 °C 13 °C 75 mm 8 314 h 20 °C
22 Thessaloníki Greece 51 /100 20 °C 12 °C 54 mm 7 299 h 19 °C
23 Badalona Spain 51 /100 20 °C 12 °C 49 mm 7 314 h 18 °C
24 Bari Italy 50 /100 20 °C 14 °C 51 mm 8 313 h 19 °C
25 Barcelona Spain 50 /100 19 °C 12 °C 49 mm 7 314 h 18 °C
26 Naples Italy 50 /100 20 °C 13 °C 90 mm 9 308 h 19 °C
27 Messina Italy 50 /100 21 °C 15 °C 78 mm 10 321 h 20 °C
28 Durrës Albania 49 /100 19 °C 14 °C 100 mm 9 313 h 19 °C
29 Toulon France 48 /100 19 °C 12 °C 58 mm 6 314 h 18 °C
30 Sabadell Spain 48 /100 19 °C 11 °C 54 mm 8 312 h 18 °C
31 Reggio Calabria Italy 48 /100 21 °C 14 °C 87 mm 11 321 h 20 °C
32 Marseille France 48 /100 19 °C 12 °C 51 mm 6 317 h 17 °C
33 Lisbon Portugal 47 /100 20 °C 14 °C 46 mm 6 319 h 17 °C
34 Nice France 47 /100 19 °C 12 °C 70 mm 8 313 h 18 °C
35 Livorno Italy 47 /100 19 °C 13 °C 74 mm 8 308 h 19 °C
36 Monaco Monaco 46 /100 18 °C 12 °C 69 mm 8 313 h 18 °C
37 Montpellier France 45 /100 19 °C 11 °C 70 mm 7 307 h 16 °C
38 Constanţa Romania 43 /100 16 °C 9.2 °C 43 mm 7 283 h 15 °C
39 Makhachkala Russia 43 /100 16 °C 10 °C 39 mm 7 276 h 14 °C
40 Odesa Ukraine 43 /100 15 °C 8.4 °C 35 mm 6 267 h 13 °C
41 Varna Bulgaria 43 /100 16 °C 9.5 °C 50 mm 8 279 h 15 °C
42 Novorossiysk Russia 42 /100 16 °C 10 °C 50 mm 8 290 h 16 °C
43 Genoa Italy 42 /100 18 °C 11 °C 109 mm 11 280 h 18 °C
44 Sevastopol Ukraine 42 /100 16 °C 9.9 °C 36 mm 7 292 h 15 °C
45 Mariupol Ukraine 41 /100 14 °C 8.0 °C 39 mm 7 261 h 13 °C
46 San Marino San Marino 40 /100 15 °C 6.6 °C 70 mm 9 294 h 17 °C
47 Taganrog Russia 40 /100 13 °C 8.2 °C 43 mm 8 260 h 13 °C
48 Trieste Italy 39 /100 17 °C 9.6 °C 124 mm 11 280 h 17 °C
49 Sochi Russia 37 /100 17 °C 11 °C 110 mm 11 289 h 17 °C
50 Porto Portugal 35 /100 19 °C 11 °C 105 mm 9 305 h 15 °C

Averaged across all twelve months, and only for destinations with a full twelve-month series and a published climate page. Download this ranking as CSV.

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The same ranking for each month of the year:

How this ranking is built

What is ranked
Our 0–100 beach score (formula on the methodology page), averaged across all twelve months, 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 and a complete twelve-month series. 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.