Where to go next week?
Sunshine isn't shared out fairly: here's where the sky should be kindest from Monday 28 September to Sunday 4 October. Open-Meteo forecasts for France and for Europe's capitals and major cities.
☀️ Sunshine next week
The sunniest destinations from Monday 28 September to Sunday 4 October, with the forecast to prove it.
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Paphos 77
Cyprus
☀️ 11.3 h/day · 🌧️ 2 mm · 🌡️ 24°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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Valletta 76
Malta
☀️ 11.6 h/day · 🌧️ 2 mm · 🌡️ 25°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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Seville 75
Spain
☀️ 11.6 h/day · 🌧️ 0 mm · 🌡️ 25°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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Mykonos 74
Greece
☀️ 11.4 h/day · 🌧️ 0 mm · 🌡️ 22°C
Whitewashed cubes, blue shutters and lanes laid out to confuse: Mykonos town is a maze with the sea at the end of it. Windmills stand above the harbour, and Little Venice puts its balconies directly in the spray. Paradise beach draws the crowds, while the boat to Delos crosses to marble ruins and stone lions among the scrub.
- Windmills
- Little Venice
- Paradise beach
- Delos (archaeological island)
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Santorini 72
Greece
☀️ 10.0 h/day · 🌧️ 1 mm · 🌡️ 23°C
Santorini's white villages line the rim of a flooded volcanic crater, terraces hanging over deep blue water. Oia takes its sunset seriously, and so does everyone who walks up for it. Down at sea level the beaches turn red and black with volcanic sand, and Akrotiri lies preserved beneath the ash, its streets and staircases still standing where they were left.
- Sunset at Oia
- Caldera and white villages
- Red beach and black beach
- Akrotiri archaeological site
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Plovdiv 71
Bulgaria
☀️ 11.2 h/day · 🌧️ 1 mm · 🌡️ 19°C
Painted merchant houses climb the hills of Plovdiv's old town, timber upper storeys jutting over cobbles laid to punish thin soles. The Roman theatre still fills for concerts, and the Roman stadium runs under the main shopping street with its curved end visible through the paving. Down in Kapana, a grid of small streets holds galleries, workshops and bars.
- Old town and Roman theatre
- Roman stadium
- Kapana (creative quarter)
- Church of Sts Constantine and Helena
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Rome 71
Italy
☀️ 11.6 h/day · 🌧️ 7 mm · 🌡️ 22°C
Toss a coin into the Trevi Fountain: the Roman gods, unlike customs officers, accept currency without asking questions. The Colosseum supplies the photograph proving to your followers that you really did see Italy, and the Vatican welcomes you warmly after forty-five minutes in the queue, because even the Sistine Chapel keeps rush hours. The Pantheon keeps a hole in its roof, so rain landing on you indoors counts as architecture.
- Colosseum and Roman Forum
- Vatican and Sistine Chapel
- Pantheon
- Trevi Fountain
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Athens 71
Greece
☀️ 10.7 h/day · 🌧️ 11 mm · 🌡️ 22°C
The Parthenon holds the Athens skyline from the Acropolis, marble against a hard blue sky and visible from rooftops right across the centre. Below it, Plaka's lanes wind between tavernas, workshops and orange trees. The temple of Olympian Zeus keeps its surviving columns standing in an open field, while the National Archaeological Museum gathers what the excavations gave up.
- Acropolis and Parthenon (UNESCO)
- National Archaeological Museum
- Plaka (historic quarter)
- Temple of Olympian Zeus
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Calvi 70
France · Haute-Corse
☀️ 11.5 h/day · 🌧️ 0 mm · 🌡️ 23°C
The Genoese citadel holds the headland, and below it six kilometres of sand curve round the bay towards the pines. Fishing boats and café terraces share the old port, while the chapel of Notre-Dame-de-la-Serra, on a hill inland, takes in the whole gulf and the mountains behind at once. Boat trips run north to the red cliffs of Scandola, a UNESCO reserve.
- Genoese citadel
- Calvi beach (6 km)
- Scandola (UNESCO reserve nearby)
- Notre-Dame-de-la-Serra chapel
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Bonifacio 69
France · Corse-du-Sud
☀️ 11.4 h/day · 🌧️ 3 mm · 🌡️ 23°C
Limestone cliffs carry the citadel right to the edge, houses leaning out over a straight drop to the sea. Inside the walls the lanes are narrow enough to funnel the wind, and the King of Aragon's staircase cuts down the rock face in one long diagonal. Boats cross the Straits to coves that can be reached no other way.
- White limestone cliffs
- Citadel and old town
- Strait of Bonifacio
- King of Aragon's staircase
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