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Abstract. Sea level rise (SLR) will increasingly impact European countries in the coming decades, posing challenges for coastal decision-making and the design and implementation of adaptation measures to address coastal risks. The impact of SLR extends to its physical damages, encompassing socio-economic and environmental repercussions. European countries are engaged in the development and implementation of adaptation measures to bolster coastal resilience. While significant strides in SLR adaptation have been made in recent years, this paper aims to provide a catalogue of adaptation measures in European basins to guide their design and implementation and to present approaches suitable for supporting coastal adaptation decision-making and addressing uncertainty. The assessment of SLR adaptation measures in Europe is based on the cataloging of 17 measures following International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) classification of accommodate, protect, advance and retreat responses to SLR, supplemented with sub-key types of measures, including socio-economic, physical and technological as well as nature- and ecosystem-based. Surveying the relevant literature on European sea basins, the paper shows that adaptation strategies on Europe's coasts constitute a mix of hard and soft measures, planning measures, policy developments and stakeholder and community engagements. Across all the basins, a common theme is the shift towards a combination of traditional engineering solutions with soft measures, including nature-based solutions, integrating local communities into decision-making processes and emphasising the importance of continuous monitoring and flexible management strategies. In addition, the context, decisions and experiences with coastal adaptation vary considerably across places and regions in terms of the time horizons considered, the scale of investments involved and the risk acceptance preferences of decision-makers and their constituencies. In this sense, the paper provides an overview of the common features of coastal adaptation decisions and the key aspects that need to be considered in coastal adaptation decision-making, i.e. considering multiple criteria and interests, implementing low-regret and flexible options, keeping future options open and factoring SLR into decisions that need to be made today.