Travel decisions made from measurements, not adjectives
Most travel pages describe a place. We measure it: how steeply the seabed drops away, whether there is shade at noon, how long the transfer actually takes on the road. Then we say plainly who each place suits and who should go elsewhere.
Destinations
How to use this site
Start from a destination if you know where you are going, or from a tool if you do not. The tools work without registration and without sending anything anywhere: the data is already in the page.
Where a page links to a booking site, we say so at the top of that page. That is how the project pays for itself, and it does not change what the measurements say.
Who this is not for
If you want inspiration photography and superlatives, this is the wrong site. We publish numbers, drawbacks and the sentence «go somewhere else instead» more often than most travel publications are comfortable with.
What we measure
- Climate normals and season months
- Monthly air and sea temperatures, rainfall and the months that actually count as season.
- Crowd density at peak season
- Square metres of beach per person at the height of the season.
- District character
- How noisy or family-friendly a district is, measured by what is actually in it.
- Real travel times
- How long it actually takes to get somewhere, routed on the road and footpath network rather than measured in a straight line.
- Shade at solar noon
- Whether a beach has natural or built shade when the sun is at its highest in July.
- Stroller and wheelchair access
- Whether you can reach the sand with a pushchair without carrying it.
- Water entry gradient
- How steeply the seabed drops away from the shoreline, expressed as a percentage.
Questions people actually ask
where do your numbers come from
Bathymetry from EMODnet, terrain from Copernicus, points of interest and beach outlines from OpenStreetMap, climate and sea temperature from Open-Meteo, travel times from a routing engine. Each page lists the sources it used.
is this site free
Yes. Some links to booking sites are affiliate links, disclosed at the top of the page that carries them. Nothing is behind a paywall and nothing requires an account.
how often is the data updated
Climate normals are a fixed thirty-year window and change once a year at most. Beach geometry and points of interest are refreshed quarterly. Prices and availability are never quoted as current — only as ranges with the date they were collected.