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Places with the best weather in Europe year-round: ranked by comfort score

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria tops the list at 90 /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 (90 /100) , La Laguna (88 /100) , Málaga (85 /100) . Between first and 50th place the comfort differs by 18 /100.

# Destination Country Comfort Avg high Avg low Rainfall Wet days Sunshine Sea temp
1 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain 90 /100 22 °C 17 °C 18 mm 4 346 h 21 °C
2 La Laguna Spain 88 /100 19 °C 16 °C 23 mm 4 346 h 21 °C
3 Málaga Spain 85 /100 21 °C 15 °C 39 mm 5 329 h 18 °C
4 Alicante Spain 85 /100 22 °C 15 °C 32 mm 5 330 h 19 °C
5 Elche Spain 85 /100 23 °C 13 °C 24 mm 4 330 h 19 °C
6 Cartagena Spain 84 /100 21 °C 16 °C 22 mm 3 333 h 19 °C
7 Valencia Spain 84 /100 22 °C 14 °C 35 mm 5 322 h 19 °C
8 Castelló de la Plana Spain 83 /100 21 °C 13 °C 32 mm 4 321 h 19 °C
9 Murcia Spain 83 /100 24 °C 12 °C 25 mm 4 329 h –
10 Marbella Spain 83 /100 21 °C 15 °C 55 mm 5 328 h 18 °C
11 Almería Spain 82 /100 23 °C 15 °C 18 mm 3 340 h 19 °C
12 Jerez de la Frontera Spain 81 /100 24 °C 13 °C 43 mm 5 331 h 19 °C
13 Limassol Cyprus 81 /100 24 °C 16 °C 23 mm 4 342 h 22 °C
14 Palma Spain 81 /100 21 °C 15 °C 33 mm 5 327 h 19 °C
15 Sevilla Spain 80 /100 25 °C 13 °C 40 mm 5 320 h –
16 Gibraltar Gibraltar 80 /100 21 °C 15 °C 57 mm 6 330 h 18 °C
17 Catania Italy 80 /100 22 °C 14 °C 47 mm 6 318 h 20 °C
18 Lisbon Portugal 79 /100 20 °C 14 °C 46 mm 6 319 h 17 °C
19 Badajoz Spain 79 /100 23 °C 11 °C 37 mm 5 311 h –
20 Palermo Italy 78 /100 21 °C 15 °C 52 mm 8 326 h 20 °C
21 Barcelona Spain 78 /100 19 °C 12 °C 49 mm 7 314 h 18 °C
22 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat Spain 78 /100 19 °C 12 °C 53 mm 7 312 h 18 °C
23 Athens Greece 77 /100 22 °C 13 °C 32 mm 5 318 h 20 °C
24 Córdoba Spain 77 /100 24 °C 13 °C 42 mm 5 320 h –
25 Nicosia Cyprus 77 /100 25 °C 15 °C 29 mm 5 341 h 22 °C
26 Bari Italy 77 /100 20 °C 14 °C 51 mm 8 313 h 19 °C
27 Toulon France 76 /100 19 °C 12 °C 58 mm 6 314 h 18 °C
28 Valletta Malta 76 /100 21 °C 17 °C 32 mm 5 333 h 20 °C
29 Nice France 76 /100 19 °C 12 °C 70 mm 8 313 h 18 °C
30 Monaco Monaco 76 /100 18 °C 12 °C 69 mm 8 313 h 18 °C
31 Marseille France 76 /100 19 °C 12 °C 51 mm 6 317 h 17 °C
32 Sabadell Spain 76 /100 19 °C 11 °C 54 mm 8 312 h 18 °C
33 Porto Portugal 76 /100 19 °C 11 °C 105 mm 9 305 h 15 °C
34 Granada Spain 76 /100 21 °C 10 °C 44 mm 7 330 h –
35 Taranto Italy 75 /100 21 °C 13 °C 47 mm 6 319 h 19 °C
36 Zaragoza Spain 75 /100 21 °C 10 °C 29 mm 5 315 h –
37 Livorno Italy 75 /100 19 °C 13 °C 74 mm 8 308 h 19 °C
38 Terrassa Spain 75 /100 19 °C 10.0 °C 55 mm 8 312 h –
39 Naples Italy 74 /100 20 °C 13 °C 90 mm 9 308 h 19 °C
40 Durrës Albania 74 /100 19 °C 14 °C 100 mm 9 313 h 19 °C
41 Albacete Spain 74 /100 20 °C 8.9 °C 30 mm 5 313 h –
42 Rome Italy 74 /100 20 °C 11 °C 70 mm 8 307 h –
43 Madrid Spain 74 /100 20 °C 8.9 °C 33 mm 5 315 h –
44 Pátra Greece 73 /100 21 °C 13 °C 75 mm 8 314 h 20 °C
45 Messina Italy 73 /100 21 °C 15 °C 78 mm 10 321 h 20 °C
46 Ciudad Lineal Spain 73 /100 20 °C 8.5 °C 34 mm 5 315 h –
47 Montpellier France 73 /100 19 °C 11 °C 70 mm 7 307 h 16 °C
48 Alcalá de Henares Spain 73 /100 20 °C 8.9 °C 39 mm 6 310 h –
49 Braga Portugal 73 /100 19 °C 9.3 °C 129 mm 10 301 h –
50 Tirana Albania 72 /100 20 °C 11 °C 94 mm 9 311 h –

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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How this ranking is built

What is ranked
Our 0–100 comfort score for sightseeing weather (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 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.