Places to avoid in June

Monsoon on122 places

The wet season proper — heavy, daily, and the reason prices fall.

• 🇮🇳 Delhi · India — Monsoon, 25 Jun – 25 Sep (usually) — The rains usually reach Delhi in the last week of June and break the heat in a single afternoon. · instead February
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• 🇮🇳 Agra · India — Monsoon, 28 Jun – 20 Sep (usually) — The rains usually reach Agra at the end of June and the river behind the Taj actually fills. · instead February
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• 🇺🇸 Phoenix · United States — Monsoon, 15 Jun – 30 Sep · instead March
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• 🇮🇳 Mumbai · India — Monsoon, 5–20 Jun (usually) — The normal arrival date over Mumbai is 11 June, and the whole city reorganises around it within a day. · instead January
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• 🇲🇲 Yangon · Myanmar — Monsoon, 20 May – 15 Oct (usually) — Yangon takes one of the heaviest monsoons in the region and it rains for days at a time rather than in bursts. · instead January
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• 🇮🇳 Kochi · India — Monsoon, 1 Jun – 15 Sep (usually) · instead January
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…and 116 more, 84 of them well-known. Every destination page carries its own June verdict.

Extreme heat on110 places

The weeks the city lives indoors.

• 🇴🇲 Nizwa · Oman — Extreme heat, 1 Jun – 10 Sep (usually) — Interior Oman is hotter than the coast and drier with it; forts open early and empty by ten. · instead January
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• 🇶🇦 Doha · Qatar — Extreme heat, 1 Jun – 20 Sep (usually) · instead January
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• 🇦🇪 Dubai · United Arab Emirates — Extreme heat, 15 May – 30 Sep (usually) · instead January
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• 🇮🇳 Ranthambore · India — Extreme heat, 1 May – 25 Jun (usually) · instead January
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• 🇮🇳 Varanasi · India — Extreme heat, 15 Apr – 20 Jun (usually) — The Gangetic plain at its worst: the ghats are empty between ten and five and the stone is too hot to sit on. · instead December
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• 🇺🇸 Grand Canyon National Park · United States — Extreme heat, 15 May – 15 Sep · instead March
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…and 104 more, 58 of them well-known. Every destination page carries its own June verdict.

Hurricane season on96 places

Statistically quiet most weeks, occasionally catastrophic.

• 🇲🇽 Valladolid · Mexico — Hurricane season, 1 Jun – 30 Nov — The Atlantic season runs June to November. · instead January
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• 🇺🇸 Everglades National Park · United States — Hurricane season, 1 Jun – 30 Nov · instead January
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• 🇺🇸 Jacksonville · United States — Hurricane season, 1 Jun – 30 Nov · instead November
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• 🇺🇸 New Orleans · United States — Hurricane season, 1 Jun – 30 Nov — The Gulf coast's exposure peaks from mid-August into September. · instead March
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• 🇺🇸 Orlando · United States — Hurricane season, 1 Jun – 30 Nov · instead February
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• 🇺🇸 Houston · United States — Hurricane season, 1 Jun – 30 Nov — The risk concentrates from mid-August into September. · instead March
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…and 90 more, 55 of them well-known. Every destination page carries its own June verdict.

Smoke season on27 places

Burning fields or forests; the air, not the weather, is the problem.

• 🇸🇬 Singapore · Singapore — Smoke season, 1 Jun – 15 Oct (usually) · instead February
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• 🇨🇱 Santiago · Chile — Smoke season, 1 May – 31 Aug (usually) · instead November
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• 🇿🇦 Knysna · South Africa — Smoke season, 1 May – 30 Nov (usually) · instead January
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• 🇲🇾 Langkawi · Malaysia — Smoke season, 1 Jun – 15 Oct (usually) · instead February
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• 🇹🇷 Izmir · Turkey — Smoke season, 15 Jun – 30 Sep (usually) — Izmir province burns nearly every summer, usually in the pine hills between the city and the peninsula. · instead October
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• 🇺🇸 Mesa Verde National Park · United States — Smoke season, 1 Jun – 15 Jul (usually) — The dry weeks before the monsoon are when the mesa burns; fires have closed the whole park more than once. · instead May
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…and 21 more, 18 of them well-known. Every destination page carries its own June verdict.

Sargassum season on23 places

The months the seaweed comes ashore on Caribbean and Gulf beaches.

• 🇨🇴 San Andrés · Colombia — Sargassum season, 1 Apr – 31 Aug (usually) · instead March
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• 🇧🇿 Placencia · Belize — Sargassum season, 1 Apr – 30 Sep (usually) — The long east-facing beach collects weed through the summer and the hotels rake their own stretch. · instead March
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• 🇵🇷 San Juan · Puerto Rico — Sargassum season, 1 Apr – 31 Aug (usually) · instead January
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• 🇧🇿 Caye Caulker · Belize — Sargassum season, 1 Apr – 30 Sep (usually) — The east shore and the Split collect weed through the summer and crews rake it at dawn. · instead March
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• 🇲🇽 Tulum · Mexico — Sargassum season, 1 Apr – 30 Sep (usually) — Brown weed comes ashore on this east-facing coast from April, worst between May and August. · instead February
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• 🇺🇸 Fort Lauderdale · United States — Sargassum season, 15 Apr – 30 Sep (usually) · instead March
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…and 17 more, 14 of them well-known. Every destination page carries its own June verdict.

Typhoon season on15 places

A system a summer stops the trains for a day; it rarely ruins a week.

• 🇻🇳 Hanoi · Vietnam — Typhoon season, 1 Jun – 15 Oct (usually) · instead December
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• 🇭🇰 Hong Kong · Hong Kong — Typhoon season, 1 May – 30 Nov — Tropical cyclones can reach the city from May, with July to September the likeliest. · instead December
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• 🇵🇭 Cebu City · Philippines — Typhoon season, 1 Jun – 20 Dec (usually) — The central Visayas are in the track and the December storms have done the most damage here in recent memory. · instead February
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• 🇵🇭 Manila · Philippines — Typhoon season, 1 Jun – 30 Nov (usually) · instead February
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• 🇵🇭 El Nido · Philippines — Typhoon season, 1 Jun – 30 Nov (usually) · instead April
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• 🇵🇭 Coron · Philippines — Typhoon season, 1 Jun – 30 Nov (usually) · instead March
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…and 9 more, 4 of them well-known. Every destination page carries its own June verdict.

Flood season on14 places

The river comes into the streets most years.

• 🇮🇳 Mumbai · India — Flood season, 15 Jun – 15 Sep (usually) · instead January
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• 🇵🇭 Manila · Philippines — Flood season, 1 Jun – 15 Oct (usually) · instead February
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• 🇨🇳 Chongqing · China — Flood season, 15 Jun – 5 Sep (usually) · instead March
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• 🇺🇸 San Antonio · United States — Flood season, 1 May – 15 Jun (usually) · instead March
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• 🇳🇿 Franz Josef · New Zealand — Flood season, 1 Jan – 31 Dec · instead February
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• 🇺🇸 St. Louis · United States — Flood season, 1 Apr – 30 Jun (usually) · instead May
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…and 8 more, all lesser-known. Every destination page carries its own June verdict.

Dust season on14 places

Spring dust and sandstorms; sensitive lungs stay in.

• 🇪🇸 Sierra Nevada · Spain — Dust season, 15 Feb – 15 Jun (usually) · instead January
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• 🇶🇦 Doha · Qatar — Dust season, 15 May – 15 Aug (usually) · instead January
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• 🇮🇳 Delhi · India — Dust season, 15 Apr – 20 Jun (usually) · instead February
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• 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates — Dust season, 1 Mar – 15 Jun (usually) · instead January
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• 🇯🇵 Kagoshima · Japan — Dust season, 15 May – 30 Sep (usually) · instead November
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• 🇲🇦 Marrakesh · Morocco — Dust season, 15 Jun – 15 Sep (usually) · instead March
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…and 8 more, 5 of them well-known. Every destination page carries its own June verdict.

Extreme cold on6 places

The weeks the city stops going outside — dzud, ice storms, minus thirty.

• 🇦🇺 Cradle Mountain · Australia — Extreme cold, 1 Jan – 31 Dec — Snow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January. · instead January
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• 🇳🇿 Tongariro · New Zealand — Extreme cold, 1 May – 31 Oct (usually) — From May to October the Crossing is an alpine route: ice axe, crampons and the skills to use them, or a guide. · instead February
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• 🇦🇺 Uluru · Australia — Extreme cold, 1 Jun – 15 Aug (usually) · instead July
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• 🇧🇴 Uyuni · Bolivia — Extreme cold, 1 Jun – 31 Aug — Midwinter nights on the salt and at the lagoon refuges go far below freezing with no heating worth the name. · instead November
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• 🇧🇴 Potosí · Bolivia — Extreme cold, 1 Jun – 15 Aug (usually) · instead October
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• 🇵🇪 Puno · Peru — Extreme cold, 1 Jun – 15 Aug (usually) · instead August
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Storm season on4 places

Tornadoes, derechos, hail — the afternoons to watch the sky.

• 🇺🇸 Austin · United States — Storm season, 15 Apr – 15 Jun (usually) · instead March
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• 🇺🇸 Dallas · United States — Storm season, 1 Apr – 15 Jun · instead April
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• 🇺🇸 St. Louis · United States — Storm season, 15 Mar – 15 Jun (usually) · instead May
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• 🇺🇸 Indiana Dunes National Park · United States — Storm season, 1 Jun – 31 Oct (usually) · instead May
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Winter smog on3 places

Coal smoke and a valley inversion; the air, not the cold, is the problem.

• 🇮🇩 Jakarta · Indonesia — Winter smog, 15 Jun – 15 Oct (usually) · instead August
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• 🇿🇦 Johannesburg · South Africa — Winter smog, 1 Jun – 31 Aug (usually) · instead August
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• 🇿🇦 Pretoria · South Africa — Winter smog, 1 Jun – 31 Aug (usually) · instead August
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Algae & red tide on3 places

Blooms that close beaches and clear the water of fish for a few weeks; not the Caribbean weed.

• 🇺🇸 Austin · United States — Algae & red tide, 15 May – 31 Oct (usually) — The city posts warnings for toxic cyanobacteria on Lady Bird Lake through the warm months. · instead March
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• 🇨🇳 Qingdao · China — Algae & red tide, 20 May – 15 Aug (usually) · instead September
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• 🇮🇹 Rimini · Italy — Algae & red tide, 15 Jun – 31 Aug (usually) · instead June
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Avalanche season on3 places

Backcountry and passes on forecast; the weeks the road closes after a dump.

• 🇳🇿 Aoraki Mount Cook · New Zealand — Avalanche season, 1 Jun – 31 Oct (usually) — The regional advisory runs through winter and into spring. · instead February
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• 🇳🇿 Te Anau · New Zealand — Avalanche season, 1 May – 30 Nov (usually) · instead January
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• 🇳🇿 Taupo · New Zealand — Avalanche season, 1 May – 31 Oct · instead January
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Cyclone season on2 places

The southern-hemisphere storm season.

• 🇴🇲 Muscat · Oman — Cyclone season, 15 May – 15 Nov (usually) — Two risk windows, before and after the Indian monsoon, and most years pass without one. · instead January
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• 🇧🇩 Chittagong · Bangladesh — Cyclone season, 1 Apr – 15 Jun (usually) — The first of the year's two storm windows, and the one that has done the most damage here. · instead January
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Too wet by the numbers402 places

Eighteen or more rainy days, or a soaked month by volume — the real rainy season, not afternoon showers.

• 🇮🇳 Darjeeling · India — 30 rainy days, 821 mm · instead November
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• 🇨🇷 Jacó · Costa Rica — 30 rainy days, 664 mm · instead February
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• 🇮🇳 Alleppey · India — 30 rainy days, 493 mm · instead February
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• 🇵🇦 Boquete · Panama — 30 rainy days, 390 mm · instead February
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• 🇮🇳 Kochi · India — 30 rainy days, 457 mm · instead January
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• 🇳🇵 Manang · Nepal — 30 rainy days, 403 mm · instead November
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• 🇵🇦 Panama City · Panama — 30 rainy days, 278 mm · instead February
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• 🇱🇰 Galle · Sri Lanka — 30 rainy days, 240 mm · instead February
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…and 394 more, 193 of them well-known. Every destination page carries its own June verdict.

Too hot by the numbers181 places

Afternoons that feel like 35 °C or more, or heat the humidity turns sticky. A dry, sunny month cannot average this away.

• 🇦🇪 Ras Al Khaimah · United Arab Emirates — 47°C afternoons · instead November
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• 🇶🇦 Doha · Qatar — 45°C afternoons · instead January
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• 🇦🇪 Dubai · United Arab Emirates — 45°C afternoons · instead January
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• 🇻🇳 Da Nang · Vietnam — 44°C afternoons · instead March
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• 🇮🇳 Delhi · India — 44°C afternoons · instead February
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• 🇴🇲 Muscat · Oman — 44°C afternoons · instead January
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• 🇴🇲 Nizwa · Oman — 44°C afternoons · instead January
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• 🇮🇳 Varanasi · India — 44°C afternoons · instead December
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…and 173 more, 79 of them well-known. Every destination page carries its own June verdict.

Bad air by the numbers12 places

A monthly mean air-quality index in the poor or unhealthy bands.

• 🇨🇳 Chengdu · China — AQI 139, poor air · instead April
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• 🇨🇱 Santiago · Chile — AQI 135, poor air · instead November
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• 🇨🇳 Xi'an · China — AQI 123, poor air · instead April
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• 🇨🇳 Beijing · China — AQI 122, poor air · instead April
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• 🇿🇦 Johannesburg · South Africa — AQI 109, poor air · instead August
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• 🇨🇳 Qingdao · China — AQI 102, poor air · instead September
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• 🇨🇳 Hotan · China — AQI 164, unhealthy air · instead April
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• Laayoune · Western Sahara — AQI 154, unhealthy air · instead March
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…and 4 more, all lesser-known. Every destination page carries its own June verdict.