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Places with the best weather in Europe in September: ranked by comfort score

Galaţi tops the list at 97 /100 in September. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations in Europe.

Top three in September: Galaţi (97 /100) , Plovdiv (97 /100) , Astrakhan (97 /100) . Between first and 50th place the comfort differs by 4.8 /100.

# Destination Country Comfort Avg high Avg low Rainfall Wet days Sunshine Sea temp
1 Galaţi Romania 97 /100 23 °C 14 °C 40 mm 5 298 h –
2 Plovdiv Bulgaria 97 /100 24 °C 14 °C 43 mm 5 314 h –
3 Astrakhan Russia 97 /100 24 °C 14 °C 15 mm 4 294 h –
4 Tiraspol Moldova 97 /100 22 °C 13 °C 42 mm 6 284 h –
5 Volgograd Russia 96 /100 22 °C 12 °C 32 mm 5 288 h –
6 Volgodonsk Russia 96 /100 22 °C 13 °C 34 mm 5 297 h –
7 Rostov-on-Don Russia 96 /100 22 °C 13 °C 37 mm 6 301 h –
8 Craiova Romania 96 /100 24 °C 14 °C 49 mm 6 300 h –
9 Sofia Bulgaria 96 /100 22 °C 12 °C 36 mm 6 302 h –
10 Niš Serbia 95 /100 24 °C 13 °C 36 mm 6 294 h –
11 Bucharest Romania 95 /100 23 °C 13 °C 61 mm 6 296 h –
12 Chisinau Moldova 95 /100 22 °C 13 °C 48 mm 7 280 h –
13 Mykolayiv Ukraine 95 /100 22 °C 13 °C 42 mm 6 296 h –
14 Valladolid Spain 95 /100 25 °C 12 °C 30 mm 5 331 h –
15 Mariupol Ukraine 95 /100 21 °C 14 °C 33 mm 6 303 h 20 °C
16 Shakhty Russia 95 /100 22 °C 12 °C 38 mm 6 295 h –
17 Kryvyy Rih Ukraine 95 /100 22 °C 12 °C 46 mm 6 280 h –
18 Odesa Ukraine 95 /100 21 °C 15 °C 39 mm 5 296 h 20 °C
19 Simferopol Ukraine 95 /100 23 °C 12 °C 33 mm 6 319 h –
20 Pristina Kosovo 95 /100 22 °C 12 °C 45 mm 7 300 h –
21 Varna Bulgaria 95 /100 23 °C 16 °C 52 mm 6 303 h 22 °C
22 Zaporizhzhya Ukraine 95 /100 22 °C 13 °C 43 mm 6 291 h –
23 Iaşi Romania 94 /100 22 °C 12 °C 50 mm 7 280 h –
24 Donetsk Ukraine 94 /100 21 °C 11 °C 41 mm 7 287 h –
25 Prizren Kosovo 94 /100 24 °C 14 °C 54 mm 7 304 h –
26 Skopje North Macedonia 94 /100 26 °C 14 °C 33 mm 6 305 h –
27 Szeged Hungary 94 /100 23 °C 13 °C 52 mm 8 286 h –
28 Ciudad Lineal Spain 94 /100 26 °C 14 °C 22 mm 4 338 h –
29 Constanţa Romania 94 /100 22 °C 15 °C 50 mm 6 309 h 22 °C
30 Logroño Spain 94 /100 23 °C 13 °C 33 mm 7 311 h –
31 Sevastopol Ukraine 94 /100 22 °C 16 °C 35 mm 6 322 h 22 °C
32 Krasnodar Russia 94 /100 24 °C 14 °C 44 mm 6 313 h –
33 Luhansk Ukraine 94 /100 21 °C 11 °C 39 mm 7 287 h –
34 La Laguna Spain 94 /100 22 °C 19 °C 14 mm 2 349 h 24 °C
35 Dnipro Ukraine 93 /100 21 °C 12 °C 46 mm 7 281 h –
36 Debrecen Hungary 93 /100 22 °C 13 °C 57 mm 8 281 h –
37 Belgrade Serbia 93 /100 23 °C 14 °C 55 mm 8 286 h –
38 Albacete Spain 93 /100 26 °C 14 °C 35 mm 5 326 h –
39 Madrid Spain 93 /100 26 °C 14 °C 21 mm 4 338 h –
40 Burgas Bulgaria 93 /100 24 °C 15 °C 50 mm 6 317 h –
41 Taganrog Russia 93 /100 21 °C 15 °C 39 mm 6 303 h 19 °C
42 Armavir Russia 93 /100 24 °C 14 °C 57 mm 7 302 h –
43 Ploieşti Romania 93 /100 22 °C 12 °C 57 mm 7 300 h –
44 Kropyvnytskyi Ukraine 93 /100 21 °C 12 °C 49 mm 7 271 h –
45 Timişoara Romania 93 /100 23 °C 13 °C 59 mm 8 287 h –
46 Burgos Spain 93 /100 22 °C 11 °C 39 mm 6 323 h –
47 Budapest Hungary 93 /100 21 °C 12 °C 57 mm 8 276 h –
48 Alcalá de Henares Spain 92 /100 27 °C 14 °C 27 mm 4 335 h –
49 Braga Portugal 92 /100 24 °C 14 °C 79 mm 7 323 h –
50 Novorossiysk Russia 92 /100 24 °C 16 °C 44 mm 7 325 h 23 °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

August: top 5

  1. Voronezh 94 /100
  2. Samara 94 /100
  3. Saratov 94 /100
  4. La Laguna 93 /100
  5. Lipetsk 93 /100

Full ranking for August

October: top 5

  1. Athens 97 /100
  2. Elche 96 /100
  3. Castelló de la Plana 95 /100
  4. Valencia 95 /100
  5. Murcia 94 /100

Full ranking for October

How this ranking is built

What is ranked
Our 0–100 comfort score for sightseeing weather (formula on the methodology page), in September, 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 fewest wet days.
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.