Vol. 1 · Summer 2026
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214 curated guides · the rest scored from climate normals
Best this month
95
Finland
Curated
Warm, with berries, mushrooms and no mosquitoes — the best summer month.
95
Iceland
Curated
Still warm and fully open, with enough darkness returning for late aurora.
95
Kyrgyzstan
Curated
The most reliable month of the year for the high routes.
95
Norway
Curated
Warm, berries ripe, and slightly quieter than July.
95
South Africa
Curated
Peak safari and whale season; Namaqualand flowers in the west.
95
Tajikistan
Curated
The best month for the Pamirs and the Fann Mountains alike.
95
Tanzania
Curated
Peak season — the migration reaches the northern Serengeti.
95
Zambia
Curated
94
Gabon
Curated
94
Niue
Curated
94
Tonga
Curated
94
Zimbabwe
Curated
93
Cook Islands
Curated
93
Fiji
Curated
93
French Polynesia
Curated
93
Mayotte
Curated
93
Mozambique
Curated
93
Rwanda
Curated
92
Åland Islands
Curated
92
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Curated
92
Comoros
Curated
92
Namibia
Curated
Excellent throughout, with strong wind on the coast.
92
Papua New Guinea
Curated
92
Republic of the Congo
Curated
92
Samoa
Curated
92
Solomon Islands
Curated
92
Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Curated
92
Uganda
Curated
92
Vanuatu
Curated
92
Western Sahara
Curated
91
American Samoa
Curated
91
Eswatini
Curated
91
Isle of Man
Curated
90
Austria
Curated
Warmest month with everything running; the Salzburg Festival fills the city.
90
Canada
Curated
High summer; book Banff/Jasper far ahead; whales on both coasts.
90
Christmas Island
Curated
90
Denmark
Curated
Warm, with the sea at its warmest and slightly fewer crowds.
90
Estonia
Curated
Warm, berry and mushroom season, and slightly quieter.
90
Faroe Islands
Curated
90
Greenland
Curated
Whales, berries and the best walking weather.
90
Guernsey
Curated
90
Indonesia
Curated
Driest month of the year and the busiest on Bali.
90
Jersey
Curated
90
Latvia
Curated
Warm, berry season, and slightly quieter than July.
90
Lithuania
Curated
Warm and slightly quieter; berry and mushroom season.
90
Malaysia
Curated
Excellent throughout; Borneo at its most reliable.
90
Mongolia
Curated
Warm with occasional rain; the grass at its best and logistics at their easiest.
90
Pitcairn Islands
Curated
90
Réunion
Curated
90
Russia
Curated
Warm, with Kamchatka and the Altai at their most accessible.
90
São Tomé and Príncipe
Curated
90
Slovakia
Curated
Warm and busy, with the most reliable mountain weather.
90
Sweden
Curated
Warm, quieter after mid-month, and berry season.
90
Switzerland
Curated
Warmest month; busy, but the whole network is running.
90
Timor-Leste
Curated
Driest, clearest month of the year.
90
Tuvalu
Curated
90
Wallis and Futuna
Curated
88
Belarus
Curated
Warm, and berry and mushroom season.
88
Nauru
Curated
88
New Caledonia
Curated
88
Tokelau
Curated
86
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Curated
85
Bermuda
Curated
Warmest sea; hurricane watch begins.
85
Bolivia
Curated
Dry, clear, busy; best month to combine Altiplano and Amazon.
85
Colombia
Curated
Feria de las Flores in Medellín; whale season in full swing; trails dry in the highlands.
85
French Guiana
Curated
Dry season — the best month for the interior.
85
Germany
Curated
Warm and busy, with school holidays filling coasts and mountains.
85
Peru
Curated
Dry and busy; cold nights above 3,000 m.
85
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Curated
The clearest weather of a foggy year.
82
Slovenia
Curated
Warm and busy, with the most stable Alpine weather.
80
Belgium
Curated
Warm and busy, with the Brussels flower carpet in even years.
80
Brazil
Curated
The best all-round month — Pantanal wildlife peak, full lagoons, dry trails everywhere.
80
Ecuador
Curated
Driest sierra month — Quilotoa and Cotopaxi at their best; peak visitor season.
80
Georgia
Curated
Peak mountain season and peak Black Sea crowds.
80
Netherlands
Curated
Warm and busy; Pride fills the canals.
80
Poland
Curated
Warm and busy, with Kraków and the coast at their fullest.
78
Czech Republic
Curated
Warm and busy, with the Moravian harvest starting late in the month.
76
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Curated
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Aruba
Curated
Hot and empty.
75
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Curated
Peak Herzegovinian heat, and the Sarajevo Film Festival.
75
Curaçao
Curated
Hottest month; sea like a bath.
75
Ireland
Curated
Busy and the wettest of the summer months.
75
Kazakhstan
Curated
Hot below, ideal at altitude.
75
Pakistan
Curated
Trekking peak continues, with landslide closures on the KKH.
75
Paraguay
Curated
Dry and mild; occasional southern cold fronts drop nights near 5 °C.
75
Romania
Curated
Peak heat, with the Transfăgărășan fully open and the coast busy.
75
Serbia
Curated
Peak heat, and Guča is the reason to be here.
75
Sri Lanka
Curated
Dry in the east and the Cultural Triangle; the Minneriya elephant gathering.
75
Ukraine
Curated
Peak heat, with Independence Day on the 24th.
75
United Kingdom
Curated
Edinburgh's festival takes over the city; peak crowds nationwide.
75
United States
Curated
High summer crowds persist; Southwest monsoon continues.
74
Seychelles
Curated
72
Bulgaria
Curated
Peak heat and peak coast; the mountains are the escape.
72
Equatorial Guinea
Curated
72
Hungary
Curated
Peak heat and peak Balaton, with Sziget in Budapest.
72
Moldova
Curated
Peak heat, with the vineyards approaching harvest.
72
North Macedonia
Curated
Peak heat and peak Ohrid; the mountains are the escape.
70
Armenia
Curated
Peak capital heat and Sevan at its busiest.
70
Brunei
Curated
Warm and humid; forest trails muddy but open.
70
Maldives
Curated
Peak manta aggregation at Hanifaru Bay — the reason to come in the wet half.
70
Norfolk Island
Curated
70
Singapore
Curated
National Day fills the city; weather unchanged.
68
Honduras
Curated
Second whale-shark window; warm, occasionally stormy.
66
Côte d'Ivoire
Curated
66
Ghana
Curated
66
Togo
Curated
65
Anguilla
Curated
Carnival and the boat races — the liveliest week of the year.
65
Azerbaijan
Curated
Peak Caspian heat, and Grand Prix crowds in some years.
65
Cambodia
Curated
Tonlé Sap at its fullest — the floating villages make sense only now.
65
Guyana
Curated
Drying out; interior lodges reopen full programmes.
64
Nigeria
Curated
62
Costa Rica
Curated
Whale peak; Tortuguero green-turtle nesting in full swing.
62
New Zealand
Curated
62
Palau
Curated
62
Suriname
Curated
Long dry season opens mid-month.
62
Venezuela
Curated
Peak water at Angel Falls.
60
Albania
Curated
Peak heat and peak crowds — the Riviera is at capacity.
60
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
Curated
Bonaire fine; real risk for Saba and Statia.
60
El Salvador
Curated
Swell holds; inland trails muddy.
60
France
Curated
The national holiday month — full, expensive and half of Paris shut.
60
Laos
Curated
Wettest month; northern trekking routes become hard going.
60
Panama
Curated
Whales peak at the Pearl Islands; interior rains steady.
60
Portugal
Curated
Peak crowds and prices, plus interior wildfire season.
60
Thailand
Curated
Wettest inland month; rain is usually afternoon-concentrated rather than all-day.
58
Belize
Curated
The "mauger" dry spell often gives a fine fortnight.
58
Grenada
Curated
Spicemas carnival mid-month — the cultural peak of the year.
58
Guatemala
Curated
Rain returns; Atitlán afternoon winds (Xocomil) pick up.
58
Mexico
Curated
Hurricane season building; hot and humid on both coasts.
58
Nicaragua
Curated
Wet afternoons; mornings workable everywhere.
56
Trinidad and Tobago
Curated
South of the main hurricane belt — direct hits are rare even now.
55
Argentina
Curated
Still winter; clear high-altitude light in the Quebrada, whales arriving at Valdés.
55
Barbados
Curated
Grand Kadooment opens the month; humid with passing squalls after.
55
Chile
Curated
Late winter; northern altiplano crisp and empty.
55
Croatia
Curated
Peak heat and crowds — the hardest month on the coast.
55
Dominican Republic
Curated
Peak heat and Dominican holiday crowds; storm risk climbing.
55
Greece
Curated
Peak heat and crowds, and the meltemi wind cancels Cycladic ferries.
55
India
Curated
Monsoon at full strength below, clear high-altitude weather above.
55
Italy
Curated
Peak heat and the national holiday month.
55
Montenegro
Curated
Peak heat and crowds — Kotor is genuinely difficult by day.
55
Turkey
Curated
Peak heat and peak season.
55
Vietnam
Curated
Wettest northern month; typhoon season opens on the coast.
54
Gibraltar
Curated
52
Bahamas
Curated
Storm risk building; Emancipation junkanoo early in the month.
52
Cyprus
Curated
Hottest month; only the coast and mountains are comfortable.
52
San Marino
Curated
Peak crowds and heat.
52
Tunisia
Curated
50
Antigua and Barbuda
Curated
Carnival’s first days, then deep low season; storm risk climbing.
50
China
Curated
Peak heat and the busiest domestic travel month of the summer.
50
Haiti
Curated
Second rains build; storm risk rising.
50
Jamaica
Curated
Storm risk building; sea at its warmest.
50
Spain
Curated
Peak heat and peak domestic holidays.
48
Israel
Curated
Peak heat.
48
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Curated
48
Saint Lucia
Curated
48
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Curated
48
Vatican City
Curated
Peak heat; Rome empties of Romans and fills with everyone else.
46
Guam
Curated
46
Northern Mariana Islands
Curated
45
Bhutan
Curated
Still wet, though the valleys are at their greenest.
45
Cayman Islands
Curated
Storm risk climbing.
45
Cuba
Curated
Oppressive heat and rising storm risk; Havana quietens.
45
Dominica
Curated
Humid with real storm risk building.
45
Morocco
Curated
Peak heat; only the coast and high mountains are bearable.
45
South Korea
Curated
Hot, humid and typhoon-prone; peak domestic holidays.
45
Uruguay
Curated
Right whales start arriving off the Atlantic coast.
45
Uzbekistan
Curated
Peak heat, and the cheapest and emptiest weeks of the year.
42
Oman
Curated
Peak khareef in the south and peak heat in the north.
40
Afghanistan
Curated
Peak heat across the country.
40
British Virgin Islands
Curated
Storm risk rising.
40
Guadeloupe
Curated
Peak storm risk.
40
Hong Kong
Curated
Hot, wet and typhoon-prone; signal 8 shuts the city down.
40
Iran
Curated
Peak heat; only the Alborz and Caspian are bearable.
40
Japan
Curated
Peak heat, typhoon risk and the Obon travel surge. Mountain and northern travel only.
40
Macau
Curated
Hot, wet and typhoon-prone.
40
Martinique
Curated
Peak storm risk and peak humidity.
40
Montserrat
Curated
Risk climbing.
40
North Korea
Curated
Wettest month, and flood damage regularly disrupts itineraries.
40
Philippines
Curated
Wettest month; cancellations are routine rather than exceptional.
40
Puerto Rico
Curated
Storm risk rising sharply.
40
Saint Martin
Curated
Risk climbing sharply.
40
Senegal
Curated
40
Sint Maarten
Curated
Risk climbing.
40
Taiwan
Curated
Hottest month, with typhoons regularly closing transport.
40
Turks and Caicos Islands
Curated
Storm risk climbing.
40
United States Virgin Islands
Curated
Risk climbing.
38
Ethiopia
Curated
38
Niger
Curated
38
Syria
Curated
Peak heat continues.
36
Gambia
Curated
35
Egypt
Curated
Peak heat, though Red Sea diving continues.
35
Nepal
Curated
Wettest month, with road and flight disruption routine.
35
Saint Barthélemy
Curated
Storm risk and widespread closure.
32
Saudi Arabia
Curated
Peak heat, though the Asir monsoon brings mist and rain.
30
Bangladesh
Curated
Flooding at its most extensive.
30
Eritrea
Curated
30
Guinea-Bissau
Curated
30
Myanmar
Curated
Wettest month, with flooding common along the Irrawaddy.
30
Qatar
Curated
Peak heat, and the cheapest hotel rates of the year.
30
Turkmenistan
Curated
Peak heat; midday sightseeing is genuinely unsafe.
30
United Arab Emirates
Curated
Peak heat and humidity, and the cheapest rates of the year.
28
Chad
Curated
28
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Curated
26
Central African Republic
Curated
26
Sierra Leone
Curated
25
Falkland Islands
Curated
Still winter; almost nothing operating.
25
Iraq
Curated
Peak heat continues.
25
Yemen
Curated
Monsoon continues, with the highlands getting their rains.
24
Guinea
Curated
20
Somalia
Curated
20
South Sudan
Curated
18
Djibouti
Curated
0
Antarctica
Curated
No access — season closed.
0
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Curated
No access — season closed.
0
Sudan
Curated
Scores suspended — active conflict.
95
Algeria
Climate estimate
95
Andorra
Climate estimate
95
Angola
Climate estimate
95
Australia
Climate estimate
95
Botswana
Climate estimate
95
Burundi
Climate estimate
95
Cabo Verde
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95
Jordan
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95
Kenya
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95
Lebanon
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95
Luxembourg
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95
Madagascar
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