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Country Rankings by Beaches, Nature and Relaxation 2026

Comparing 229 countries by tourist beach quality, swimming and water sports, national parks and practical nature access.

#	Country	Score
1	Australia	94.7
2	Spain	94.3
3	Japan	93.7
4	Seychelles	93
5	New Zealand	92.3
6	France	91.3
7	United States	90
8	Italy	89.7
9	Greece	89.7
10	Croatia	88.3
11	Brazil	87
12	Portugal	87
13	Costa Rica	85.7
14	Bahamas	85
15	Chinese Taipei	84.7
16	Cyprus	83.7
17	Panama	83.3
18	Thailand	83
19	Tahiti	82.7
20	New Caledonia	82.7
21	Mexico	82
22	Turks and Caicos Islands	81.7
23	Martinique	81.7
24	Palau	81.3
25	Montenegro	81
26	Korea Republic	81
27	Indonesia	81
28	Malaysia	80.7
29	Réunion	80.3
30	U.S. Virgin Islands	80.3
31	Jamaica	80
32	Malta	79.7
33	Dominican Republic	79.7
34	South Africa	79.3
35	Bulgaria	79.3
36	Norway	79
37	Guadeloupe	79
38	Belize	78.7
39	Israel	78.7
40	Saint Lucia	78.7
41	Slovenia	78.3
42	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	78
43	Philippines	78
44	Aruba	78
45	Colombia	77.7
46	Trinidad and Tobago	77.7
47	Fiji	77
48	Cayman Islands	76.7
49	Mauritius	76.7
50	Brunei	76.3
51	Canada	76
52	Ecuador	76
53	Maldives	75.7
54	Puerto Rico	75.7
55	Peru	75.3
56	Cook Islands	75
57	Chile	74.7
58	Saint Kitts and Nevis	74.7
59	Sri Lanka	74.7
60	British Virgin Islands	74.7
61	Germany	74.7
62	Antigua and Barbuda	74.3
63	American Samoa	74.3
64	Dominica	74.3
65	French Guiana	74
66	Venezuela	73.7
67	Tanzania	73.7
68	Kenya	73
69	Turkey	73
70	Hong Kong	73
71	Grenada	72.3
72	United Kingdom	72
73	Niue	71.7
74	Curacao	71.3
75	Georgia	71.3
76	Iceland	71
77	Barbados	71
78	Bermuda	71
79	Sweden	70.7
80	Vietnam	70.7
81	Saint-Martin	70.7
82	Montserrat	70.7
83	Netherlands	70.7
84	United Arab Emirates	70.3
85	Anguilla	70.3
86	Monaco	70
87	Cuba	70
88	Honduras	70
89	Oman	69.7
90	Romania	69.7
91	Denmark	68.7
92	Ireland	68.7
93	Estonia	68.3
94	Guam	68.3
95	Albania	68.3
96	Poland	68
97	Namibia	67.3
98	Cape Verde	67.3
99	Egypt	67
100	Mayotte	66.7
101	São Tomé and Príncipe	66.7
102	Cambodia	66.3
103	Samoa	66.3
104	Finland	66.3
105	Belgium	66.3
106	India	66.3
107	Latvia	65.7
108	Guatemala	65
109	Northern Mariana Islands	65
110	Sint Maarten	64.7
111	Gibraltar	64.7
112	Nicaragua	64.3
113	China	64.3
114	Argentina	64
115	Singapore	64
116	Morocco	63.3
117	Austria	63.3
118	Lithuania	63.3
119	Marshall Islands	63
120	Uruguay	62.7
121	Comoros	62.7
122	Zanzibar	62.7
123	Tunisia	62
124	Senegal	62
125	Bosnia and Herzegovina	61.7
126	Mozambique	61.3
127	Liechtenstein	61
128	Qatar	60.3
129	Gabon	60.3
130	Vanuatu	60.3
131	Saudi Arabia	60.3
132	Tonga	60
133	Switzerland	59.7
134	El Salvador	59.7
135	Slovakia	59.7
136	Papua New Guinea	59.3
137	Solomon Islands	59.3
138	Micronesia	59
139	Lebanon	59
140	Madagascar	58.7
141	Guyana	58
142	Azerbaijan	58
143	Andorra	57.7
144	Timor-Leste	57.7
145	Luxembourg	57.3
146	Suriname	57.3
147	Tuvalu	57
148	Greenland	56.7
149	Bahrain	56.3
150	Kiribati	56.3
151	Wallis and Futuna	56
152	Ivory Coast	55.7
153	Czech Republic	55.3
154	Ghana	55.3
155	Equatorial Guinea	55
156	Faroe Islands	55
157	Macau	54.7
158	Congo	54.3
159	Russia	53.3
160	Pakistan	53
161	Ukraine	52.7
162	Jordan	52.7
163	Guinea-Bissau	52.3
164	Bolivia	52.3
165	Benin	52
166	North Macedonia	52
167	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	51.7
168	Togo	51.7
169	Guinea	51.3
170	Hungary	51
171	Iran	50.7
172	Bhutan	50.3
173	Gambia	50.3
174	Cameroon	50
175	Kuwait	49.3
176	Armenia	49.3
177	Sierra Leone	49
178	Liberia	48.7
179	Nigeria	47.7
180	Angola	47.3
181	Serbia	47
182	Malawi	45.7
183	Nepal	45.7
184	Algeria	45.3
185	Congo DR	44
186	Bangladesh	44
187	Zambia	43.3
188	Laos	43.3
189	Nauru	42.7
190	San Marino	42.3
191	Djibouti	42.3
192	Botswana	42
193	Myanmar	42
194	Palestine	42
195	Kosovo	41.3
196	Belarus	40.7
197	Zimbabwe	40.3
198	Kazakhstan	40
199	Paraguay	39
200	Tajikistan	39
201	Mongolia	38.7
202	Kyrgyzstan	37.7
203	Uzbekistan	37
204	Haiti	36
205	Moldova	36
206	Mauritania	36
207	Eritrea	35.3
208	Uganda	35.3
209	Rwanda	35.3
210	Lesotho	35
211	Libya	35
212	Korea DPR	34
213	Ethiopia	34
214	Swaziland	32.7
215	Sudan	32
216	Western Sahara	31.7
217	Iraq	31.3
218	Syria	30.7
219	Yemen	30.7
220	Turkmenistan	29.7
221	Somalia	29
222	Burkina Faso	28.3
223	Niger	25
224	Chad	24.3
225	Burundi	24.3
226	Mali	22
227	Central African Republic	20.7
228	Afghanistan	20
229	South Sudan	19.3

How Beaches, Nature and Relaxation Are Calculated

The topic score is an equally weighted average of three indicators. Nomadino calculates: beaches, nature and relaxation = tourist beach quality × 0.3333 + swimming and water sports × 0.3333 + national parks and nature access × 0.3334.

Tourist beach quality: 33.3%
Swimming and water sports: 33.3%
National parks and nature access: 33.3%

This topic rates how well a country works for relaxation-oriented travel with beaches, swimming, water sports, national parks and nature access. It does not rate general safety or accommodation because those factors sit in separate topics.

The source frame mainly uses Blue Flag, Natural Earth and NOAA coastline data, OpenStreetMap and Overpass, Protected Planet and the World Database on Protected Areas, World Bank protected-area and forest data, UNESCO natural heritage, Wikidata, national tourism, bathing-water and park sources, and maintained Nomadino indicators on nature, hygiene, infrastructure, information and reachability.

All three indicators are 0-100 point values. Higher values mean better practical usability for visitors. Missing individual sources are not counted as zero; they are checked through maintained replacements and related public data anchors.