By the sun – to Spain / day

The beginning of May this year does not bother with spring warm weather, after which we are longing, albeit not in the cold, but long winter, so the most impatiently looking in the direction of sunny places. There is not much to break the head of the destination, as a new study has set up a list of sunny European cities, where you will be able to warm up and absorb more vitamin D than elsewhere.

Analyzing the meteorological service World Weather Online Data, Holiday Housing Rental Platforms Holid Representatives have identified the cities above which the sun is most visible. Overall, the list is not surprising, as it is dominated by traditional « warm lands » at the top, but some cities included in the list are not at all counted as usual tourist destinations.

At the top of the small town

According to the list creators, the most sunny is the southeastern city of Spain, Cartahen. Although the small Mediterranean port city is just over 200 thousand people in Roman architectural monuments, including the theater built in the first century BC, it cannot compete with near Barcelona or Valencia in its popularity. But the sun shines on average 238 hours a month and the average air temperature is 19.1 degrees Celsius.

The next four places and the top 11 in the top twenty are also ranked by the Spanish cities. Tourist -favorite Costa Blanca’s Mediterranean coast has 279.6 sunny hours a month, Costa del Sol coastal pearl in Malaga – 279.3, Mursey – 277 and Granada for 274.4 hours.

Sunny south

The sunniest place in Europe outside Spain is the Italian city of Catania. The sun’s rays at the Sicily Island near the Ionian Sea bless 273.7 hours a month. The following places are the Spaniards Seville and Cordoba, the southern city of Marseille and the Spanish capital Madrid.

The Greek capital ranked 12th, Nice is 14th and Rome, the Italian capital, is 17th.

Two Portuguese cities have also entered the Top 30 list. Lisbon ranks 23rd and Port 28, with significantly behind the leaders. The sun heats up only 219.3 hours a month in the Atlantic Ocean. In total, only five European countries were represented in the first thirty.

When you look at the map, you cannot overlook that all the sunny cities are near the Mediterranean or its adjacent seas. Even if not everyone is directly at the water.

15 -year measurements

The study included European cities with at least 200,000 inhabitants. The researchers collected data on how many sunny hours each city was from 2009 to 2025. Using these World Weather Online The data, they calculated the average number of sun hours per month and it also created a rating.