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Warmest sea temperatures in Europe in October

Nicosia tops the list at 25 °C in October. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations.

# Destination Country Sea temp Avg high Rainfall
1 Nicosia Cyprus 25 °C 27 °C 36 mm
2 Limassol Cyprus 25 °C 27 °C 16 mm
3 Valletta Malta 24 °C 23 °C 49 mm
4 La Laguna Spain 24 °C 21 °C 34 mm
5 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain 23 °C 24 °C 28 mm
6 Athens Greece 23 °C 23 °C 28 mm
7 Palermo Italy 23 °C 23 °C 81 mm
8 Reggio Calabria Italy 23 °C 22 °C 105 mm
9 Catania Italy 23 °C 23 °C 71 mm
10 Pátra Greece 23 °C 22 °C 75 mm
11 Messina Italy 22 °C 23 °C 97 mm
12 Palma Spain 22 °C 23 °C 54 mm
13 Alicante Spain 22 °C 23 °C 45 mm
14 Elche Spain 22 °C 24 °C 35 mm
15 Valencia Spain 22 °C 23 °C 53 mm
16 Castelló de la Plana Spain 22 °C 22 °C 50 mm
17 Taranto Italy 22 °C 22 °C 71 mm
18 Naples Italy 22 °C 21 °C 134 mm
19 Cartagena Spain 22 °C 23 °C 33 mm
20 Durrës Albania 21 °C 21 °C 141 mm
21 Thessaloníki Greece 21 °C 21 °C 59 mm
22 Badalona Spain 21 °C 21 °C 92 mm
23 Barcelona Spain 21 °C 20 °C 92 mm
24 Sabadell Spain 21 °C 20 °C 96 mm
25 Almería Spain 21 °C 24 °C 23 mm
26 Jerez de la Frontera Spain 20 °C 24 °C 76 mm
27 Livorno Italy 20 °C 20 °C 126 mm
28 Bari Italy 20 °C 21 °C 64 mm
29 Sochi Russia 20 °C 19 °C 138 mm
30 Genoa Italy 20 °C 19 °C 183 mm
31 Nice France 20 °C 20 °C 111 mm
32 Monaco Monaco 20 °C 19 °C 110 mm
33 Málaga Spain 20 °C 22 °C 57 mm
34 Toulon France 20 °C 20 °C 100 mm
35 Novorossiysk Russia 20 °C 18 °C 52 mm
36 San Marino San Marino 19 °C 16 °C 88 mm
37 Marbella Spain 19 °C 22 °C 81 mm
38 Trieste Italy 19 °C 17 °C 183 mm
39 Gibraltar Gibraltar 19 °C 22 °C 87 mm
40 Marseille France 19 °C 20 °C 83 mm
41 Montpellier France 18 °C 19 °C 138 mm
42 Lisbon Portugal 18 °C 21 °C 78 mm
43 Donostia / San Sebastián Spain 18 °C 19 °C 134 mm
44 Varna Bulgaria 18 °C 17 °C 52 mm
45 Santander Spain 18 °C 19 °C 113 mm
46 Bilbao Spain 18 °C 19 °C 98 mm
47 Sevastopol Ukraine 18 °C 17 °C 41 mm
48 Makhachkala Russia 18 °C 17 °C 49 mm
49 Constanţa Romania 18 °C 17 °C 44 mm
50 Gijón Spain 18 °C 19 °C 120 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.