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
What we measure
Four things sit behind almost every recommendation on this site, and each is computed rather than repeated.
- Water entry gradient — how far you walk before it is over your head, sampled from bathymetry at 10, 25 and 50 metres from the shoreline.
- Shade at noon — whether terrain and buildings actually shade the beach when the July sun is highest.
- Crowd density — square metres of beach per person if everyone staying nearby shows up.
- Real travel time — routed on the road and footpath network, not measured in a straight line.
Every figure carries its method and its sources. If you want to check how a number was produced, the methodology page explains each one.
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.
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.