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Warmest sea temperatures in Europe in March

La Laguna tops the list at 19 °C in March. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations.

# Destination Country Sea temp Avg high Rainfall
1 La Laguna Spain 19 °C 16 °C 28 mm
2 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain 19 °C 20 °C 24 mm
3 Limassol Cyprus 17 °C 18 °C 28 mm
4 Nicosia Cyprus 17 °C 19 °C 35 mm
5 Jerez de la Frontera Spain 16 °C 19 °C 58 mm
6 Gibraltar Gibraltar 15 °C 17 °C 79 mm
7 Marbella Spain 15 °C 17 °C 77 mm
8 Málaga Spain 15 °C 17 °C 54 mm
9 Valletta Malta 15 °C 15 °C 32 mm
10 Almería Spain 15 °C 19 °C 26 mm
11 Cartagena Spain 15 °C 17 °C 29 mm
12 Catania Italy 15 °C 17 °C 58 mm
13 Lisbon Portugal 15 °C 17 °C 53 mm
14 Athens Greece 15 °C 16 °C 50 mm
15 Pátra Greece 15 °C 15 °C 101 mm
16 Reggio Calabria Italy 15 °C 15 °C 115 mm
17 Elche Spain 15 °C 19 °C 31 mm
18 Palermo Italy 15 °C 16 °C 67 mm
19 Alicante Spain 15 °C 18 °C 39 mm
20 Messina Italy 15 °C 16 °C 100 mm
21 Palma Spain 14 °C 16 °C 27 mm
22 Naples Italy 14 °C 15 °C 103 mm
23 Durrës Albania 14 °C 14 °C 114 mm
24 Valencia Spain 14 °C 18 °C 38 mm
25 Castelló de la Plana Spain 14 °C 17 °C 34 mm
26 Taranto Italy 14 °C 15 °C 59 mm
27 Bari Italy 14 °C 15 °C 59 mm
28 Porto Portugal 14 °C 16 °C 123 mm
29 Livorno Italy 14 °C 14 °C 63 mm
30 Genoa Italy 14 °C 14 °C 93 mm
31 Nice France 14 °C 15 °C 63 mm
32 Monaco Monaco 14 °C 14 °C 63 mm
33 Toulon France 13 °C 14 °C 47 mm
34 Vigo Spain 13 °C 15 °C 156 mm
35 Badalona Spain 13 °C 16 °C 41 mm
36 Barcelona Spain 13 °C 15 °C 41 mm
37 Sabadell Spain 13 °C 15 °C 44 mm
38 Marseille France 13 °C 15 °C 39 mm
39 Thessaloníki Greece 13 °C 15 °C 61 mm
40 A Coruña Spain 13 °C 15 °C 104 mm
41 Santander Spain 13 °C 15 °C 106 mm
42 Bilbao Spain 13 °C 14 °C 98 mm
43 Oviedo Spain 13 °C 14 °C 99 mm
44 Gijón Spain 13 °C 14 °C 107 mm
45 Donostia / San Sebastián Spain 13 °C 14 °C 120 mm
46 Montpellier France 12 °C 15 °C 54 mm
47 San Marino San Marino 11 °C 10 °C 68 mm
48 Trieste Italy 10 °C 12 °C 99 mm
49 Plymouth United Kingdom 9.3 °C 10 °C 68 mm
50 Saint Peter Port Guernsey 9.2 °C 9.5 °C 60 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.

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