Where is the sea warm in summer?

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Where can we go on holiday in August where the sea is warm and the weather will be nice and sunny? No hurricane season or monsoon season.
In the summer holidays we would usually go to Europe, like Portugal or Spain, but the sea is always too cold to go in and enjoy. The same was true when we went to Greece two summers ago.
I’m not talking like a bath hot, just not bloody freezing!
We’ve enjoyed warm sea in the Caribbean but haven’t visited in the summer months due to hurricane season.
Is there anywhere?
Also to add I’m not keen on the Middle East for travel such as Dubai.
Sorry not really AIBU, more just for traffic. Unless it’s AIBU to expect to be able to find somewhere where the sea is warm and the weather is nice in August? TIA

Yes! And sometimes the sea was full of minute baby jellyfish - transparent so you couldn’t see them but would soon feel lots of teeny little stings. The sand would be far too hot to walk on with bare feet, too.

Occasionally I see holidays to Gulf states in August advertised - they can seem cheap for what they are, but I feel sorry for anyone who hasn’t a clue what it’s like in that part of the world in high summer, who might be tempted.
It’s really not like high summer in the Med!

South China Sea is pretty warm.

we swam at one of the beaches at the back of Hong kong island.

Went to Sardinia last year year in august! Omg the heat and humidity. They were having a heatwave which made ours look mild and sea is very warm. Thank God for air con everywhere lol no probs with hot villa we hired. The houses are cool and air con all over

I am similar in mindset to you, OP, and like to swim in 25 degrees and above in the sea and 30C in a pool! We were in croatia last month and at 22C I could not get in.

Google the water temps both current and average, for where you want to go. The med is definitely warms up over the summer for short haul.

Cyprus, Turkey, Greece. Also the Black Sea is warm at that time of year, so Bulgaria and Romania. The Adriatic is a bit cooler but perfectly pleasant - Croatia, Montenegro.

Kos! 😄 Maybe we were just there at an off time. It was nice weather, but windy and the sea was cold, but then so were the (unheated) swimming pools.

We’re in Salento all summer. The lido we go to is Padula Bianca. Not my favourite, as it’s packed, but it ticks the boxes as far as sea warmth because it’s very shallow. If I get some alone time, I take myself off to Porto Selvaggio, which has the purest water but is freezing cold initially.

My DH hates the cold sea, so he loves it at Padula Bianca.

We go to Corfu a lot. Most of the beaches, the sea is lovely in August, but In Paleokastritsa it’s soooo cold so if that’s where you went I completely understand 😆

We went to Mexico last summer - Playa del Carmen, south of Cancun - and the sea was very warm.

In Mauritius, at least where I was staying, there was a sort of lagoon, it wasn't very deep and was warm. Walking in to the sea it felt warm, on the way out it felt hot on my feet.

There were not really waves, they were out beyond the rocks.

So rather than a country look for somewhere that has, as a PP said a shallow sea look for a resort with something like that.

Cyprus. I go every year in the summer and the sea is lovely as are the swimming pools.

This map might help
https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/products/ocean/sst/contour/

Ahhh! So we went to Kos in 2020 and stayed in Kardamena. The sea on that side was warm and calm and there was a gentle breeze on beaches. Last year we stayed in Tingaki, on that side of the island the sea was rougher and the beaches were very windy.

We had a car so spent our time going to the beaches where the sea was calm and warm.

I wouldn't go to Skegness now if you paid me - I was simply pointing out that children are usually happy to go in the sea in the UK, where it's quite cold!

OP - when the boat sank off Sicily a year ago, the sea was 31 degrees. The temp of the water around France and Spain (med side, natch) are 27/28 degrees. These are temps not seen before

Cyprus is lovely and warm

The water in our municipal pool is about 27 (and feels cold when it gets below 26) so please don’t try and convince me that 19 is “balmy”!

If you found it too cold in Greece, maybe your expectations of sea temperature are a bit unrealistic! If the air temperature is hot, it's always going to feel cold getting in the sea - maybe you should try the Lake District

https://www.visitislesofscilly.com/

We used to go to Majorca each October and the water was lovely and warm.

If you enjoyed Caribbean temps but would like to avoid natural disasters, check out Brazil. The warmest sea I ever had was in João Pessoa (Brazilian northeast) in March. It was actually hot. It is technically winter in August but I just checked today's temps and at 9am, it was 27 degrees, so definitely warm. Other parts of the Brazilian northeast are also gorgeous, but if you actually want a warm sea, João Pessoa is the spot.

The sea around Mallorca was plenty warm enough for us to swim in a month ago so I’m sure it will be in August

The sea is definitely warm off the south coast of Italy and around Sicily. Worryingly warm from an environmental point of view.

“hit and dry”? Oh dear, and that’s only one of three mistakes that jump out during a quick scan of your post.

Can I suggest that you pay more attention to your own accuracy, and rather less focus on others’ mistakes?

Anywhere with geothermal waters. Ischia is gorgeous.