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I think you wrong about beaches in the Baltic Sea. They're PACKED in summer everywhere from Denmark all the way to Finland ! And the water is actually pretty warm in July/August.
Brittany and Normandy are also very big summer destination with packed beaches on hot days.
Don't know about the North Sea.
The beaches even in the UK are packed during the summer as long as the sun is out, the sea temperature doesn't get very warm (up to around 18C/19C on the south coast) but loads do still go in for a swim. Summer temperatures in the UK may seem cool to many, but if you are in the UK you are used to it & it is warm enough.
I think you wrong about beaches in the Baltic Sea. They're PACKED in summer everywhere from Denmark all the way to Finland ! And the water is actually pretty warm in July/August.
Brittany and Normandy are also very big summer destination with packed beaches on hot days.
Don't know about the North Sea.
I've been to Normandy in the summer (early July). It was cold and cloudy one day (15C), hardly any people were on the beach. Then around a few days later it was warm and 25C, tons of people on the beach, then it was 30C on the beach, it was crowded. The water was still cold even on the 30C day but it was nice to go swimming that day. On the 15C day you would've needed a wet suit to go swimming. The sea temp was the same each day (19C). The sea doesn't vary as much as the air temp.
Had it been 35C like it was there the past week, the beach would've been crowded but the ocean would've still been 19C, maybe it may have warmed up to 20C, I don't know, but still refreshing water to cool off in.
The Baltic gets quite warm toward late July. Its an interior sea much like the Mediterranean. I recall water temps in the mid 70s in coastal areas. Not tropical but certainly comfortable swimming temps.
I've been to Normandy in the summer (early July). It was cold and cloudy one day (15C), hardly any people were on the beach. Then around a few days later it was warm and 25C, tons of people on the beach, then it was 30C on the beach, it was crowded. The water was still cold even on the 30C day but it was nice to go swimming that day. On the 15C day you would've needed a wet suit to go swimming. The sea temp was the same each day (19C). The sea doesn't vary as much as the air temp.
Had it been 35C like it was there the past week, the beach would've been crowded but the ocean would've still been 19C, maybe it may have warmed up to 20C, I don't know, but still refreshing water to cool off in.
That's why in old days without AC people flocked to seaside resorts for natural air conditioning from the cooler ocean.
It's like a paddling pool, and not sure that it would be much deeper at high tide. Nice skies though
I used to go there quite a lot in summer. At high tide, the water is up to near those sand dunes.
If you were standing where that 'street view' was taken at high tide, the water would be about 1m deep, maybe less.
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