Where to go in 15 days?
Sunshine isn't shared out fairly: here's where the sky should be kindest around Monday 5 October. Open-Meteo forecasts for France and for Europe's capitals and major cities.
☀️ Sunshine in 15 days
The sunniest destinations around Monday 5 October, with the forecast to prove it.
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Paphos 78
Cyprus
☀️ 11.1 h/day · 🌧️ 0 mm · 🌡️ 23°C
The floor mosaics in the archaeological park come first: Dionysus, Theseus and Orpheus laid out in coloured stone where Roman villas once stood. West along the shore, the Tombs of the Kings are cut deep into the rock beside the sea. The harbour keeps a small castle, fish tavernas and the road towards Aphrodite's Rock.
- Archaeological park (Roman mosaics, UNESCO)
- Tombs of the Kings
- Aphrodite's Rock
- Old town and harbour
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Seville 75
Spain
☀️ 11.4 h/day · 🌧️ 0 mm · 🌡️ 26°C
The Giralda began as a minaret and now carries the bells of the largest Gothic cathedral anywhere; a ramp, not a staircase, climbs to the top. Seville keeps its Alcázar behind a plain wall, all Mudéjar plasterwork and gardens of orange and myrtle. Across the Guadalquivir, Triana works in painted tile and flamenco, and the Plaza de España curves round its canal in azulejos.
- Seville Cathedral and Giralda
- Alcázar of Seville
- Triana district
- Plaza de España
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Madrid 75
Spain
☀️ 11.4 h/day · 🌧️ 0 mm · 🌡️ 23°C
The Prado hangs Velázquez and Goya in rooms you could lose a day to, and the Reina Sofía answers with Picasso and Dalí at the other end of the boulevard. The Retiro's ponds and shaded avenues fill up every Sunday. Between them, the Puerta del Sol and the arcaded Plaza Mayor keep the old centre busy until improbably late.
- Prado Museum
- Retiro Park
- Puerta del Sol and Plaza Mayor
- Reina Sofía Museum
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Valletta 74
Malta
☀️ 11.4 h/day · 🌧️ 4 mm · 🌡️ 23°C
Valletta fills a narrow peninsula between two harbours, laid out on a grid of golden limestone and very steep steps. St John's Co-Cathedral hides a riot of gilt and marble behind a plain front, along with Caravaggio's Beheading of St John the Baptist. From the Upper Barrakka Gardens you look down on the Grand Harbour and across to the Three Cities, a short ferry ride over the water.
- St John's Co-Cathedral (Caravaggio)
- Upper Barrakka Gardens (panorama)
- Grandmaster's Palace
- Three Cities (boat trip)
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Lisbon 73
Portugal
☀️ 11.0 h/day · 🌧️ 0 mm · 🌡️ 21°C
Lisbon climbs its hills in tiled facades and steep lanes, with fado drifting out of Alfama doorways and pastéis de nata coming warm from the oven. The Belém Tower stands out on the Tagus in carved limestone, watching the river mouth. Tram 28 rattles through the lot of it, viewpoint to viewpoint, if you can get aboard.
- Belém Tower
- Jerónimos Monastery
- Alfama district
- Tram 28
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Hossegor 70
France · Landes
☀️ 11.3 h/day · 🌧️ 0 mm · 🌡️ 18°C
Surfers come from everywhere for the Hossegor beach breaks, which is what the place is known for first. The lake behind the dunes is the calm counterweight, easy to walk round or cross by canoe. Art Deco villas stand among the pines from the resort's early seaside years, and the Landes forest closes in just behind the last row of houses.
- World-class surf spot
- Lake Hossegor
- Art Deco architecture
- Landes forest
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Biscarrosse 70
France · Landes
☀️ 11.2 h/day · 🌧️ 0 mm · 🌡️ 17°C
Biscarrosse has two waters: Atlantic rollers to the west, two warmer lakes to the east, pine forest and cycle paths in between. It was France's seaplane capital — Latécoère put its aircraft down on these lakes for the South Atlantic mail — and a museum keeps that memory between surf sessions.
- Ocean beach and surf spots
- Biscarrosse and Cazaux lakes
- Seaplane museum
- Landes forest and cycle paths
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Bayonne 70
France · Pyrénées-Atlantiques
☀️ 11.3 h/day · 🌧️ 0 mm · 🌡️ 19°C
Tall shuttered houses in red and green crowd the quays where the Nive meets the Adour, and the lanes of Petit Bayonne stay pedestrian and lively. The twin spires of St Mary's cathedral rise above them, with a cloister off to one side. Chocolate, cured ham and Espelette pepper are the local currency, and the Basque Museum lays out the fishing and farming traditions behind them.
- Sainte-Marie Cathedral
- Petit Bayonne (pedestrian streets)
- Basque Museum
- Fêtes de Bayonne (August, tradition)
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Sintra 69
Portugal
☀️ 11.0 h/day · 🌧️ 0 mm · 🌡️ 18°C
Green hills above Lisbon hold Sintra's improbable collection of palaces. Pena is the loudest of them, painted red and yellow beneath tiled domes; the National Palace, down in the village, is known by its two conical kitchen chimneys; Monserrate hides inside its own subtropical garden. Higher again, the walls of the Moorish castle run along a rocky ridge with the Atlantic in the distance.
- Sintra National Palace
- Pena Palace
- Castle of the Moors
- Monserrate Palace
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Cap-Ferret 69
France · Gironde
☀️ 11.2 h/day · 🌧️ 0 mm · 🌡️ 17°C
Ocean surf on one shore, calm bay water on the other, and a spit of pines holding the two apart. At L'Herbe and Le Canon, low wooden oyster huts line the water in faded colours, selling plates at the door. Climb the lighthouse and the whole basin opens out: oyster beds, sandbanks, dunes and a tide quietly rearranging all of it.
- Cap-Ferret lighthouse (Bassin panorama)
- Oyster villages (L'Herbe, Le Canon)
- Pointe du Cap-Ferret
- Ocean beaches (wild)
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