Six of the whitest sand beaches in the world are in Spain, and here…

Six of the beaches with the whitest sand in the world can be found in Spain. This is the result of a study by the travel agency CV Villas, which analyzed and compared over 200 beaches around the world, trying to be as objective as possible using recognized color palettes.

The company took raw screenshots from Google Maps and compared the color of the sand to the purest white (defined as 255, 255, 255 on the RGB palette). Finally, it used the Delta-E calculator from colourmine.org, which compares color palettes other than RGB.

The beach with the whitest sand in the world is Tulum in Mexicoin the Caribbean, a famous beach with Mayan ruins nearby. The other podium places were taken by Anse Source D'Argent in the Seychelles and Marmari Beach on the Greek island of Kos. In addition, six Spanish beaches are represented in the top 30 ranking.

In fourth place was Playa del Muro is located in Palma de Mallorca with a difference of 6.9 to the purest white value. Very close in sixth place is Cala Pluma on Ibiza with 7.7 points.

Then came Los Lances, in Tarifawith a difference of 11.2 points from the pure white (Tulum has only 1.4 points). This best-rated beach in Andalusia is one of the coastal paradises of the province of Cadiz. Perhaps less famous than its neighbors – Bolonia and Valdevaqueros – but it also stands out for its blue waters and fine sand. It is located in the heart of the city of Tarifa.

Other Spanish beaches with white sand

Andalusia also boasts Playa de las Salinas (11.9 points) in the province of Almeria. The Balearic Islands do well with Puerto de Sóller beach (11.9 points), also in Mallorca, and at the bottom of the list, in 30th place, is Playa de Son Xoriguer (12.9 points) in Menorca.

The Paraje Natural Playa de Los Lances, one of the many fine, white sandy beaches in the town of Tarifa, is a wide, extensive beach with an area of ​​226 hectares. From here you can see the Strait of Gibraltar, the North African coast and the coastal mountain range above Tarifa. The rivers La Jara and La Vega, together with the El Salado stream, form an exceptional natural area where the abundance of fish and mollusks attracts an unusual mammal, the otter, which hides in the reeds and rushes on the banks.