Direct, unrestricted access to the complete European beach directory (737 coordinates) paired with 30-year NOAA OISST v2.1 monthly sea surface temperatures, physical sand classifications, and environmental conservation registries.
Complete JSON envelope including dataset provenance metadata, ISO timestamp, nested 12-month sea surface temperatures, coordinate pairs, ratings, and canonical URLs.
Flat CSV with UTF-8 encoding. Ready for instant import into Python Pandas, R, GIS map layers, Google Sheets, or Excel with 12 monthly columns (sst_c_jan to sst_c_dec).
This dataset is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). You are free to share, copy, adapt, and integrate the data into academic papers, journalistic investigations, applications, and public repositories with appropriate credit.
Every record contains deterministic fields derived from physical observation and published standards:
| Field | Type | Description & Origin |
|---|---|---|
| id | string | Unique URL slug identifier (e.g. cala-d-hort-ibiza-es). |
| name | string | Standardized international name. |
| country / country_code | string | Sovereign state and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code. |
| region / sea | string | Sub-national coastal basin and hydrographic sea definition. |
| latitude / longitude | float | WGS 84 coordinate pair pinned to the beach shoreline. |
| sand_type | string | Standardized physical substrate (Golden Sand, Fine White Sand, Pebble & Shingle, Volcanic Black Sand, Rock Slabs). |
| blue_flag | boolean | Official FEE Blue Flag International certification status. |
| sst_c_jan ... sst_c_dec | float | 30-year monthly sea surface temperature (°C) from NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 climatology grid. |
| canonical_url | string | Permanent canonical URL on shores.cc for live browser verification. |