While some people are sincerely yours attend forward to pass the next several months curve up under a informal mantle withhot chocolatein handwriting , others will pass the time simply like they were on abeach .

To aid those mass make the most of their daydreams — or , well yet , plan an actual holiday — luggage storage fellowship Bounce has compiled a listing of the 10best beach vacation spotsacross the globe . The researchers began by choose 250 of the world ’s “ most popular , most beautiful and best beach ” from a diverseness oftravelsources , and then narrow the selection down to 100 . Those beaches were judge for the keep an eye on factor : water temperature , atmospheric condition , middling hotel price , numeral of restaurants and bars , and number of Instagram hashtags .

After analyzing all the stats , eachbeachwas give way a grade out of 10 . No stretch of sand could contend with Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil : It landed in first place with 6.97 points , thanks in part to the fact that it has more restaurants and stripe ( 11,153 ) than any other beach on the list .

Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The rest of the top five comprisedU.S. beaches . Florida ’s Miami Beach missed out on the top spot by less than two - ten percent of a point ; and California ’s Venice Beach was just 0.26 decimal point behind that . Miami Beach ’s popularity among spring breakers no doubt bolstered its performance — it ’s been hashtagged on Instagram around 14.4 million time . Copacabana , for reference , clocked just 3.8 million hashtags .

If you ’ve already explore all the U.S. offer , you might try the sunny beaches of Egypt’sNaama Bay , a fond , calm torso of water off the Red Sea . It come up in 6th place with 6.02 gunpoint , narrowly outperforming Antigua and Barbuda ’s pinkish Sand Beach and Spain ’s Barceloneta Beach .

See the top 10 beach below , and find out more about them fromBounce .

Naama Bay in Egypt.