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Beach of the day: Cleopatra Beach (Türkiye). Typical sea temperature 29°C. A soft golden crescent below Alanya's medieval castle, a lively Blue Flag beach lapped by warm turquoise water.
https://europebeachmap.com/beaches/cleopatra-beach-tr/
Cleopatra Beach, Alanya. Warm, clear turquoise
August 29, 2026 at 7:46 AM
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Mamaia Beach, Romania — sea around 25°C in season. A sandbar of pale sand and beach clubs squeezed between a lagoon and the Black Sea, Romania's summer capital.
https://europebeachmap.com/beaches/mamaia-beach-ro/
Mamaia Beach, Constanța. Gently shelving Black Sea blue
August 27, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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Juodkrantė Beach, Lithuania — 19°C water in season. Cross the Curonian Spit's pines from Lithuania's old amber village to a white, near-empty strand.
https://europebeachmap.com/beaches/juodkrante-beach-lt/
Juodkrantė Beach, Curonian Spit, Neringa. Cold, glass-clear open Baltic
August 25, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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Beach of the day: Playa de las Teresitas (Spain). Typical sea temperature 23°C. Tenerife's golden showpiece, a palm-lined bay of Saharan sand sheltered by an offshore breakwater.
https://europebeachmap.com/beaches/playa-de-las-teresitas-es/
Playa de las Teresitas, San Andres, Tenerife. Calm and clear, protected by a breakwater
August 22, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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Punta Prosciutto, Italy — sea around 26°C in season. Powder-white sand and shallow turquoise water so vivid this dune-backed Salento strand is nicknamed the Maldives of Italy.
https://europebeachmap.com/beaches/punta-prosciutto-it/
Punta Prosciutto, Porto Cesareo, Puglia. Caribbean-clear turquoise
August 20, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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Spiaggia di Grotticelle, Italy — 27°C water in season. White-sand coves at Capo Vaticano glow turquoise on Calabria's Coast of the Gods.
https://europebeachmap.com/beaches/grotticelle-capo-vaticano-it/
Spiaggia di Grotticelle, Capo Vaticano, Calabria. Brilliant turquoise
August 18, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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Beach of the day: Playa de Benijo (Spain). Typical sea temperature 23°C. A wild black-sand beach beneath the primeval Anaga mountains, famed for its silhouetted rock stacks at sunset.
https://europebeachmap.com/beaches/playa-de-benijo-es/
Playa de Benijo, Taganana, Tenerife. Deep blue and powerful Atlantic
August 15, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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Tossa de Mar, Spain — sea around 25°C in season. A golden crescent beneath the honey-coloured medieval walls and clifftop tower that make Tossa the Costa Brava's icon.
https://europebeachmap.com/beaches/tossa-de-mar-es/
Tossa de Mar, Costa Brava. Clear blue
August 13, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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Isola Bella, Italy — 26°C water in season. A pebble spit links the mainland to a miniature island reserve beneath clifftop Taormina.
https://europebeachmap.com/beaches/isola-bella-it/
Isola Bella, Taormina, Sicily. Clear blue-green
August 11, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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Beach of the day: Playa de Valdevaqueros (Spain). Typical sea temperature 22°C. A windswept Atlantic strand and towering dune at Europe's tip, where kitesurfers fly with Morocco across the strait.
https://europebeachmap.com/beaches/playa-de-valdevaqueros-es/
Playa de Valdevaqueros, Tarifa, Cádiz. Clear, cool Atlantic blue
August 8, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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Paloma Beach, France — sea around 25°C in season. A chic Riviera cove on billionaires' Cap Ferrat, where a celebrated beach club meets clear Mediterranean blue.
https://europebeachmap.com/beaches/paloma-beach-fr/
Paloma Beach, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. Clear deep-blue Mediterranean
August 6, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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Spiaggia di Cavoli, Italy — 26°C water in season. Golden granite sand, vivid clear water and a famously long swimming season on Elba's south-facing suntrap.
https://europebeachmap.com/beaches/spiaggia-di-cavoli-it/
Spiaggia di Cavoli, Elba, Tuscany. Transparent turquoise over a pale seabed
August 4, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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trainrouter.com The world railway map - 1211 train routes - 120 countries ≈ 311,700 km of line
August 1, 2026 at 8:05 AM
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Beach of the day: Cala del Moraig (Spain). Typical sea temperature 26°C. A pebble cove trapped beneath sheer cliffs near Benitatxell, with a flooded sea cave at one end.
https://europebeachmap.com/beaches/cala-del-moraig-es/
Cala del Moraig, Benitatxell, Costa Blanca. Deep, brilliantly clear turquoise
August 1, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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Is Arutas, Italy — sea around 25°C in season. A shore made not of sand but of tiny white and pink quartz grains, unique in the Mediterranean.
https://europebeachmap.com/beaches/is-arutas-it/
Is Arutas, Cabras, Sinis Peninsula. Clear green-blue
July 30, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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High-speed rail in China and the US, drawn at the same scale. China: 35 routes, 25,291 km. The US: 2 routes, 1,111 km.

And China's slowest high-speed line averages 143 km/h end to end. America's fastest, the Acela, averages 110.

https://trainrouter.com/fastest-trains
Two dark maps side by side at identical scale. Left, China: a dense gold web of high-speed lines fanning out from Beijing across the east and south of the country, labelled 35 high-speed routes, 25,291 km. Right, the United States: almost nothing, two short gold segments on the eastern seaboard, labelled 2 high-speed routes, 1,111 km. Faint grey lines on both show the rest of the rail network. A caption reads that China's slowest high-speed line averages 143 km/h end to end while America's fastest averages 110.
July 29, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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FilmMap is on Product Hunt today. Where films and TV were actually shot: 2,466 real locations, 3,276 titles, every pin a Wikidata statement. Skellig Michael is on it for one film. Pinewood Studios for 155. Free, no signup.

https://www.producthunt.com/products/filmmap
A screenshot of FilmMap, a dark interactive map of Europe with several hundred filming locations drawn as small coloured dots. The densest clusters are the United Kingdom, especially London and Scotland, then the Alps, northern Italy and central Europe, thinning out across Iberia, the Balkans and eastern Europe. A panel on the left reads 2,466 filming locations, 3,276 films and series, 91 countries, above a search box and six layers with counts: studios and sets 79, castles and palaces 143, landmarks and buildings 666, streets and squares 178, landscapes and nature 282, towns and cities 1,118. Below those a fame filter runs from Iconic through Renowned and Notable down to Deep cuts.
July 29, 2026 at 8:15 AM
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Where films and TV were actually shot: 2,466 real filming locations from 3,276 films and series, every dot a Wikidata "filming location" statement. The clusters are the industry itself. Free, no signup: https://thefilmmap.com
A dark world map with 2,466 film and television filming locations drawn as small coloured dots over a faint coastline. The densest clusters are Los Angeles, New York, the United Kingdom and western Europe, with smaller ones around Vancouver, Toronto, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Africa, South America and central Asia are nearly empty. A legend along the bottom names six kinds of place: studios and sets, castles and palaces, landmarks and buildings, streets and squares, landscapes and nature, and towns and cities.
July 28, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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Praia de Santa Barbara, Portugal — 23°C water in season. A long black-sand beach on Sao Miguel's north coast and the Azores' leading surf destination.
https://europebeachmap.com/beaches/praia-de-santa-barbara-pt/
Praia de Santa Barbara, Ribeira Grande, Sao Miguel. Clear, deep blue Atlantic
July 28, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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Beach of the day: Nida Beach (Lithuania). Typical sea temperature 19°C. Broad Baltic sand beneath the towering drifting dunes of the UNESCO-listed Curonian Spit.
https://europebeachmap.com/beaches/nida-beach-lt/
Nida Beach, Curonian Spit. Clear, cool open Baltic water
July 25, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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Plage du Sillon, France — sea around 18°C in season. Three kilometres of tide-swept sand beneath the ramparts of Saint-Malo, the corsair city's grand strand.
https://europebeachmap.com/beaches/plage-du-sillon-fr/
Plage du Sillon, Saint-Malo, Brittany. Jade-green Channel water with huge tides
July 23, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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Calanque de Sormiou, France — 23°C water in season. A fjord-like limestone inlet of jade water and pale cliffs in the Calanques park, reached on foot or by boat from Marseille.
https://europebeachmap.com/beaches/calanque-de-sormiou-fr/
Calanque de Sormiou, Marseille. Deep, clear jade-blue
July 21, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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Hi Keir @mapsmania.bsky.social,

I have been working with Sunshine Atlas, an interactive globe where the user can easily compare sunshine, warmth or rain (Snow will be added soon) across 3,800 flyable destinations through cards.

I would love to see this website on Mapsmania!

sunshineatlas.com
Sunshine Atlas — interactive map of the world's sunshine, warmth & rain
Spin the globe and paint the world by sunshine, warmth or rainfall for any month — 3,800+ destinations.
sunshineatlas.com
July 20, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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Beach of the day: Plage de la Cote des Basques (France). Typical sea temperature 22°C. The cradle of European surfing, a cliff-framed Atlantic beach where longboarders have carved swell since the 1950s.
https://europebeachmap.com/beaches/plage-de-la-cote-des-basques-fr/
Plage de la Cote des Basques, Biarritz. Green-blue Atlantic, often lively
July 19, 2026 at 10:05 AM
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2,400 castles, fortresses and palaces on one night map, drawn from Wikidata — every point has its photo and story. Free hobby project, no ads: thecastlemap.com

New today: a daily guess-the-castle game → thecastlemap.com/guess/

#maps #cartography #dataviz #histodons
A dark world map titled "Great castles, fortresses & palaces of the world". 2,400 landmarks glow as points of light on a near-black ocean: Europe is densely lit from Britain to the Balkans, with clear clusters in Japan and India and scattered points across the Americas and Africa. A legend counts 1,226 castles, 712 palaces & châteaux, 365 fortresses and 97 ruins.
July 18, 2026 at 6:44 PM