01Pillar · When to go

Pick the right month.

Same place, very different trip depending on the week. We map each destination across the year — weather, prices, crowds, festivals — so you arrive at the version you actually want.

154Destinations mapped, month by month
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Machu Picchu runs on two calendars that do not match. Scott Umstattd Machu Picchu
When To Go

Machu Picchu runs on two calendars that do not match.

9 min
Freetown makes sense when the dry season gives the road back. Freetown
When To Go

Freetown makes sense when the dry season gives the road back.

8 min
Porto makes sense on São João night. Porto
When To Go

Porto makes sense on São João night.

8 min
In Victoria the season does not decide whether you come: it decides which coast you swim on. prilfish Victoria
2,265 mm · no dry month

In Victoria the season does not decide whether you come: it decides which coast you swim on.

9 min
March, April and May record not one millimetre of rain. Olha Pererva Dakar
411 mm · 41.8 days a year

March, April and May record not one millimetre of rain.

9 min
August rains less than June and is the greyest month of the year. Clément Bucco-Lechat Yamoussoukro
3.5 h of sun in August

August rains less than June and is the greyest month of the year.

9 min
It is on the equator and has four and a half hours of sun a day. Maria Cartas São Tomé
1,677 h of sun · 4.6 a day

It is on the equator and has four and a half hours of sun a day.

9 min
The temperature does not move all year. Lkabilah Kigali
1.9 °C annual range

The temperature does not move all year.

9 min
Humidity goes from 44 to 88 per cent. Uzoma Ozurumba Abuja
44.4 % → 88 % · 1,421 mm

Humidity goes from 44 to 88 per cent.

9 min
Three thousand four hundred and ninety hours of sun a year. Zairon Windhoek
3,490 h of sun · 377.8 mm

Three thousand four hundred and ninety hours of sun a year.

9 min
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