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Rauðasandur Beach

Vesturbyggð, Iceland · sea 10.6 °C at its warmest, in August

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Rauðasandur Beach
Photo: Evgeniy Metyolkin · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Sea temperature month by month

4.3Jan
3.7Feb
3.4Mar
4.2Apr
5.9May
8.3Jun
10.1Jul
10.6Aug
9.6Sep
8.1Oct
6.6Nov
5.4Dec

Monthly means in °C, NOAA OISST v2.1 climatology 1991–2020.

About

beach in Iceland

Wikipedia has no article about this beach yet. It is on the atlas from its Wikidata record and its photograph.

Questions

How warm is the sea at Rauðasandur Beach?

The sea off Rauðasandur Beach averages 10.6 °C at its warmest, in August, and 3.4 °C at its coolest. These are monthly means from NOAA's OISST v2.1 satellite and buoy record for 1991 to 2020, sampled at the beach's own coordinates.

When can you swim at Rauðasandur Beach?

The sea here never averages 20 °C in any month, so swimming means cold water all year. Some people do it anyway.

Where is Rauðasandur Beach?

Rauðasandur Beach is on the coast of Vesturbyggð, Iceland, at 65.4474, -23.9737. The map on this site flies straight to it.

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