Netherlands

The Netherlands' 230-mile coastline faces the North Sea; summer waves are small or nonexistent, but fall and winter swells produce chilly midsize surf at more than two dozen breaks up and down the coast. Average midday temperatures along Dutch beaches range from the low 40s in winter to the upper 60s in summer; water temperatures range from the upper 30s to the low 60s. Scheveningen, a soft-breaki...