Spain / Andalusia
Vera Playa
Vera Playa is a coastal resort area in Andalusia, Spain. Its longest mapped beach (Playa de Puerto Rey) stretches about 2.4 km and has a sand surface. The sea averages 25.4 °C in August, its warmest month, and 14.6 °C in February; it is 21 °C or warmer in June–October.
Average sea surface temperature by month. Current month outlined.
The beach is tagged as supervised.
Services in the resort
- 36Restaurants, cafés & bars
- 1Public toilets
- –Showers
- 157Car parks
- –Lifeguard stations
- 15Hotels & guesthouses
- 2Grocery shops
- 5Bus stops (1.5 km)
Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 22 restaurants, 3 cafés and 11 bars. Accommodation: 15 hotels and guesthouses.
Counted within 1 km of the beach (bus stops 1.5 km) from OpenStreetMap features and Overture Maps places, release of 2026-10. Unmapped does not mean absent.
Bathing water quality
The official EU bathing-water site “Playa Palomares Pm1”, 690 m from the beach centre, was rated Excellent for the 2025 season. It was Excellent in 11 of its 11 classified seasons since 2015.
- 2015Excellent
- 2016Excellent
- 2017Excellent
- 2018Excellent
- 2019Excellent
- 2020Excellent
- 2021Excellent
- 2022Excellent
- 2023Excellent
- 2024Excellent
- 2025Excellent
Source: European Environment Agency, EU Bathing Water Directive assessments · national site profile. Classes are based on four seasons of bacteriological sampling.
Month by month
October at Vera Playa
Beach-day index 8.1/10 · Spain median 6.7
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sea °C | 15.0 °C | 14.6 °C | 14.9 °C | 16.1 °C | 18.1 °C | 21.0 °C | 23.8 °C | 25.4 °C | 24.0 °C | 21.4 °C | 18.5 °C | 16.3 °C |
| High °C | 15° | 16° | 18° | 20° | 23° | 27° | 29° | 30° | 27° | 24° | 19° | 16° |
| Low °C | 8° | 9° | 10° | 13° | 16° | 20° | 22° | 23° | 21° | 17° | 13° | 10° |
| Rain mm | 31 | 18 | 35 | 31 | 16 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 32 | 29 | 37 | 37 |
| Cloud % | 60 | 56 | 54 | 54 | 46 | 29 | 21 | 27 | 43 | 52 | 58 | 61 |
| Wind m/s | 4.4 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 4.4 |
| Daylight h | 9.9 | 10.8 | 11.9 | 13.1 | 14.1 | 14.7 | 14.5 | 13.6 | 12.5 | 11.3 | 10.2 | 9.6 |
| Record high/low | 22°/1° | 23°/2° | 27°/3° | 28°/7° | 30°/10° | 34°/14° | 36°/19° | 36°/19° | 36°/14° | 31°/9° | 27°/6° | 22°/2° |
| Beach index | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 4.7 | 6.9 | 9.0 | 9.8 | 9.6 | 9.3 | 8.1 | 4.9 | 3.4 |
Long-term monthly averages: air from NASA POWER (2001–2020), sea from NOAA OISST (1991–2020); records are the extremes of 2001–2020. How the index works.
When to go
The beach-day index peaks in July–September; July scores 9.8/10 with highs of 29 °C, sea at 23.8 °C and 2 mm of rain.
In July that is 1.3 points above the median of the 2,246 beaches in Spain covered by this atlas.
At its warmest the water here is 2.2 °C warmer than the Spain median for August (23.2 °C).
Across the year the sea averages 19.1 °C, warmer than 54% of the coastal beaches in the atlas.
November is the wettest month (37 mm) and July the driest (2 mm); the yearly total is about 290 mm.
Daylight runs from 9.6 hours in December to 14.7 hours in June; in mid-July the sun rises at 06:57 and sets at 21:27 local time.
Orientation, sun and shore
The shore faces east-south-east (120°). Open water fills about 31% of the horizon close by, which makes it an open stretch of shore.
At no time of year does the sun set over the sea here: sunset bearings run from 241° to 301°, behind the land.
Sunrise is over the sea in August–May.
Straight out to the east-south-east the next coast is roughly 200 km away, so waves are mostly wind-driven sea rather than ocean swell.
About 1 km offshore the sea is roughly 8 m deep and 35 m at 3 km, a shallow, gently shelving sea floor. Behind the beach the ground is about 22 m above sea level 500 m inland and 36 m at 1.5 km.
Within 1 km, the land is 34% grassland, 32% built-up land and 23% bare ground, sand or rock (satellite land-cover map, 2021): a partly built-up setting. Water makes up 30% of that circle.
- Grass 34%
- Built 32%
- Bare 23%
- Crop 6%
- Tree 3%
Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m). Orientation from OpenStreetMap land polygons sampled in 36 directions; depths and heights from the GEBCO 2020 grid (about 450 m cells), indicative only.
Getting there
| Airport | Code | Distance | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Almería Airport Almería | LEI | 66.1 km | south-west |
| Region of Murcia International Airport Corvera | RMU | 87.5 km | north-east |
| Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport Alicante | ALC | 160 km | north-east |
Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.
Local transport: 5 bus stops within 1.5 km and 157 mapped car parks within 1 km.
2 towns and villages of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 20.9K residents); within 30 km there are 16 (about 123.1K).
Around the beach
Nature
- Parque natural de Sierra María-Los Vélez nature reserve 920 m W
Map and nearby beaches
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Open in OpenStreetMap · Directions in Google Maps
- Mojácar Playa12.7 km SCompare
Data on this page
- Air temperature, rain, cloud, wind, humidity: NASA POWER climatology 2001–2020, 0.5° grid.
- Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 monthly normals 1991–2020, nearest ocean cell 13.1 km away.
- Beach outline, surface, rules and public facilities: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), feature r17581941; restaurants, cafés, bars and lodging: Overture Maps places (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).
- Towns and time zone: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Airports: OurAirports (public domain). Sunrise and sunset: NOAA solar equations.
- Satellite view: Copernicus Sentinel-2 (ESA), scene S2B_30SXG_20250529_0_L2A.
- Orientation: OpenStreetMap land polygons (ODbL). Depth and terrain: GEBCO 2020 grid.
- Bathing-water quality: European Environment Agency (site ES611M0351305).
- Settlements: GeoNames places with 1,000+ inhabitants.
- Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021, 10 m (CC BY 4.0).
- Search popularity: about 9.9K Google searches a month for the name (KeywordTool, October 2026).
Data compiled 2026-10-13. Something wrong? Report a data error.