Best Time to Visit

When can you get away?

Pick a month and see the trips that are at their best in it — not a weather table, but 400 itineraries that each say when they are worth taking, and why.

Which month?

The small number is how many of our trips are in prime season then.

See the whole year, country by country

Every country we have costed, every month. A cell is the best verdict any of that country's trips holds for the month — green means something there is in season, not that everything is.

Prime season
Workable
Poor timing

Country trips	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Afghanistan 1	○	○	○	●	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	○	○
Albania 1	○	○	○	○	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	○	○
Algeria 1	◐	◐	●	●	●	○	○	○	●	●	●	◐
Andorra 1	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	●	○	○	●
Angola 1	○	○	◐	◐	●	●	●	●	●	○	○	○
Antigua and Barbuda 1	●	●	●	●	●	●	◐	○	○	○	◐	●
Argentina 1	●	●	●	◐	○	○	○	○	◐	◐	●	●
Armenia 3	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	◐	◐
Australia 2	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	◐
Austria 2	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	◐	◐
Azerbaijan 4	●	●	◐	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	◐	◐
Bahamas 1	●	●	●	●	●	●	◐	○	○	○	●	●
Bahrain 1	●	●	●	◐	○	○	○	○	○	◐	●	●
Bangladesh 1	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●
Barbados 1	●	●	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	○	○	●	●
Belarus 1	○	○	○	◐	●	●	●	●	●	◐	○	○
Belgium 1	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	◐	◐
Belize 1	◐	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	○	○	○	◐	◐
Benin 1	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	◐	○	○	●	●
Bhutan 1	◐	◐	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	●	●	◐
Bolivia 1	●	●	●	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	●
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●	○	○	●	●	◐	◐
Botswana 1	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐
Brazil 2	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	●	◐
Brunei 1	●	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	○	○
Bulgaria 1	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	◐	◐
Burkina Faso 1	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●
Burundi 1	◐	◐	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐
Cambodia 1	●	●	○	○	○	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●
Cameroon 1	●	●	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	●
Canada 2	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Cape Verde 1	◐	◐	●	●	●	●	◐	○	○	◐	◐	◐
Central African Republic 1	●	●	○	○	○	◐	◐	◐	○	○	○	●
Chad 1	●	●	●	◐	◐	○	○	○	○	○	●	●
Chile 1	◐	◐	●	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	◐
China 2	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	◐
Colombia 1	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	●	●	◐	◐	◐	●
Comoros 1	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Cook Islands 1	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○
Costa Rica 1	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	●
Croatia 2	○	○	○	◐	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	●	○
Cuba 1	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	◐	○	○	◐	●
Cyprus 1	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	◐
Czech Republic 2	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	◐	◐
Democratic Republic of the Congo 1	◐	◐	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	○	○	○
Denmark 1	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐
Djibouti 1	●	●	◐	◐	○	○	○	○	○	◐	●	●
Dominica 1	◐	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	○	○	○	◐	◐
Dominican Republic 1	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	◐	○	○	◐	●
Ecuador 1	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐
Egypt 4	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●
El Salvador 1	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●
Equatorial Guinea 1	●	●	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	○	○	○	●
Eritrea 1	●	●	●	◐	◐	○	○	○	○	●	●	●
Estonia 1	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	◐
Eswatini 1	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐
Ethiopia 1	●	●	●	◐	◐	○	○	○	○	●	●	●
Fiji 1	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Finland 1	●	●	●	○	○	◐	◐	◐	◐	○	○	●
France 3	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	◐	◐
French Polynesia 1	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Gabon 1	●	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	○	○	●
Gambia 1	●	●	◐	◐	◐	○	○	○	○	○	●	●
Georgia 10	●	●	●	◐	●	●	●	●	●	●	◐	◐
Germany 3	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	●	●
Ghana 1	●	●	●	○	○	○	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●
Greece 6	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	◐	◐
Grenada 1	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	◐	○	○	○	◐
Guatemala 1	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	◐	○	○	●	●
Guinea 1	●	●	◐	◐	○	○	○	○	○	◐	●	●
Guinea-Bissau 1	●	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	●	●
Guyana 1	◐	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	◐
Haiti 1	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	○	○	○	○	●	●
Honduras 1	◐	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	◐	○	○	◐	◐
Hong Kong 2	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	○	○	○	○	●	●	●
Hungary 2	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	◐	◐
Iceland 2	●	●	●	○	●	●	●	●	●	◐	●	●
India 54	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Indonesia 7	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	◐	◐
Iran 1	◐	◐	◐	●	●	○	○	○	◐	●	●	◐
Iraq 1	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●
Ireland 1	○	○	○	◐	●	●	◐	◐	●	◐	○	○
Israel 1	◐	◐	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	●	●	◐
Italy 7	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	◐
Ivory Coast 1	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	◐	◐	●	●
Jamaica 1	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	◐	○	○	◐	●
Japan 16	●	●	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	●	●
Jordan 2	◐	◐	●	●	●	○	○	○	●	●	●	◐
Kazakhstan 2	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	○	◐
Kenya 1	●	●	○	○	○	◐	●	●	●	●	◐	◐
Kiribati 1	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	◐	◐
Kosovo 1	○	○	○	◐	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	◐	○
Kuwait 1	●	●	●	◐	◐	○	○	○	○	◐	●	●
Kyrgyzstan 1	○	○	○	○	○	◐	●	●	◐	○	○	○
Laos 1	●	●	○	○	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●
Latvia 1	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐
Lebanon 1	○	○	○	●	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	●	○
Lesotho 1	◐	◐	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	◐
Liberia 1	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●
Libya 1	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●
Liechtenstein 1	◐	◐	◐	○	○	●	●	●	●	○	○	◐
Lithuania 1	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐
Luxembourg 1	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	◐	◐
Madagascar 1	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○
Malawi 1	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	●	●	●	◐	◐
Malaysia 6	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	●
Maldives 4	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●
Mali 1	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●
Malta 1	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	◐
Marshall Islands 1	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	●
Mauritania 1	●	●	◐	◐	◐	○	○	○	○	○	●	●
Mauritius 2	○	○	○	●	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	●	◐
Mexico 2	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	◐	○	◐	●	●
Micronesia 1	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	○	○	○	○	◐	●
Moldova 1	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	◐	◐
Monaco 1	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	◐	◐
Mongolia 1	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	○	○	○
Montenegro 1	○	○	○	○	●	●	◐	◐	●	◐	○	○
Morocco 2	◐	◐	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	◐
Mozambique 1	○	○	○	◐	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	◐
Myanmar 1	●	●	○	○	○	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●
Namibia 1	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	●	●	●	◐	◐
Nauru 1	◐	◐	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	◐	◐
Nepal 2	◐	◐	●	●	◐	○	○	○	○	●	●	◐
Netherlands 3	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	◐	◐
New Zealand 2	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●
Nicaragua 1	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	◐	○	○	○	●
Niger 1	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	◐	●	●
Nigeria 1	●	●	◐	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●
North Korea 1	○	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	○	○
North Macedonia 1	○	○	○	◐	●	●	◐	◐	●	◐	○	○
Norway 2	○	○	○	◐	●	●	●	●	●	◐	○	○
Oman 2	●	●	●	●	◐	○	○	○	○	●	●	●
Pakistan 1	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Palau 1	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●
Palestine 1	◐	◐	●	●	●	○	○	○	●	●	●	◐
Panama 1	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	●
Papua New Guinea 1	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Paraguay 1	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Peru 2	○	○	○	◐	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Philippines 2	●	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	◐	●
Poland 1	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	◐	◐
Portugal 2	◐	◐	●	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	◐	◐
Puerto Rico 1	●	●	●	●	●	●	◐	○	○	○	●	●
Qatar 2	●	●	●	◐	○	○	○	○	○	◐	●	●
Republic of the Congo 1	●	●	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	○	○	●
Romania 1	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Russia 3	◐	●	●	○	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	◐	◐
Rwanda 1	●	●	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	●
Saint Kitts and Nevis 1	●	●	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	○	○	●	●
Saint Lucia 1	●	●	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	○	○	●	●
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1	●	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	○	○	○	○	●
Samoa 1	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
San Marino 1	○	○	◐	●	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	○	○
São Tomé and Príncipe 1	◐	◐	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	○	○	◐
Saudi Arabia 2	●	●	●	◐	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●
Senegal 1	●	●	◐	◐	◐	○	○	○	○	○	●	●
Serbia 1	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	◐	◐
Seychelles 2	◐	◐	◐	●	●	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●	◐
Sierra Leone 1	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●
Singapore 3	◐	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐
Slovakia 1	◐	◐	◐	○	○	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐
Slovenia 1	○	○	○	○	●	●	◐	◐	●	◐	○	○
Solomon Islands 1	○	○	○	◐	●	●	●	●	●	●	◐	◐
Somalia 1	●	●	◐	◐	◐	○	○	○	○	◐	●	●
South Africa 2	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	◐
South Korea 2	◐	◐	●	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	◐
South Sudan 1	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	◐	●
Spain 4	◐	◐	●	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	◐
Sri Lanka 7	●	●	●	◐	●	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	●
Sudan 1	●	●	◐	◐	◐	○	○	○	○	◐	●	●
Suriname 1	○	●	●	●	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	○
Sweden 1	●	●	●	◐	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	●
Switzerland 6	●	●	●	○	●	●	●	●	●	◐	○	●
Syria 1	◐	◐	●	●	●	○	○	○	●	●	●	◐
Taiwan 1	●	●	●	◐	◐	○	○	○	○	●	●	●
Tajikistan 1	○	○	○	○	◐	●	●	●	●	◐	○	○
Tanzania 1	●	●	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	◐	◐
Thailand 11	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●
Timor-Leste 1	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○
Togo 1	●	●	◐	○	○	○	○	◐	○	○	●	●
Tonga 1	○	○	○	○	◐	◐	●	●	●	●	◐	○
Trinidad and Tobago 1	●	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐
Tunisia 1	◐	◐	●	●	●	○	○	○	●	●	●	◐
Turkey 9	●	●	◐	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	◐	●
Turkmenistan 1	◐	◐	◐	●	●	○	○	○	●	●	◐	◐
Tuvalu 1	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
UAE 6	●	●	●	◐	○	○	○	○	○	◐	●	●
Uganda 1	●	●	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	●
Ukraine 1	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐
United Kingdom 3	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●	◐	◐	●	◐	◐	◐
Uruguay 1	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	◐	◐	◐	●
USA 5	◐	◐	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	●	◐
Uzbekistan 1	◐	◐	◐	●	●	○	○	○	●	●	◐	◐
Vanuatu 1	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Vatican City 1	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	○	○	◐	◐	●	●
Venezuela 1	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	◐
Vietnam 10	●	●	●	●	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	●	●	●
Yemen 1	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●
Zambia 1	○	○	○	○	◐	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Zimbabwe 1	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○

What this is saying

Each verdict belongs to a trip, not to a country. A country is not one trip and its trips disagree: across the countries with more than one rated itinerary, 125 of 624 country-months have one calling the month prime and another calling it a month to avoid. Kashmir in January is a ski week and a closed mountain road at the same time, so the answer here is always a list of trips rather than a verdict on a place.
Nothing here is a weather table. Each verdict comes from the itinerary it belongs to, where it was written next to the reason — a pass under snow, a monsoon, a festival, one region shut while the rest is fine. That is why a hot month is sometimes still prime and a mild one sometimes is not.
Unrated trips are left out, not shown as neutral. Four layover guides have no season — a twelve-hour stop between flights does not have one — and they are absent rather than occupying twelve cells nobody wrote. The 62 routes that cross more than one country are out of the grid too, for a duller reason: it has a row per country, and "UAE and Egypt" is not one.