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Is it colder on the beach in winter?

Water takes a lot more energy to heat up and cool down than land does. Because of this, our summers are always cooler right at the beaches, and our winters are typically warmer.



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The winter months are low pressure. All the crowds that you fight during the summer, the expensive parking and lack of spaces, the burden of trying to have that perfect beach body… they just aren't issues during the winter.

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The smell of the ocean breeze also contributes to your soothed state, which may have something to do with the negative ions in the air that you're breathing in.

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Through the spring and summer months, inland or land-locked areas are notoriously warmer than coastal areas, whilst during the autumn and winter, the opposite is true. This is because of something called specific heat capacity, which is the amount of heat a material is capable of holding.

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But cold-water causes the blood vessels close to the skin to constrict and results in a redistribution of the blood from the skin to the core. The body senses this 'excess' fluid in the core and stimulates urine production.

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