SeasonMapWhat's on around the world in April
In April, 1960 seasonal things are on across 1090 destinations: 328 natural spectacles, 840 seasonal conditions, 149 festivals and cultural dates, 415 mass holidays and 228 hazard seasons. The seasons doing the most work this month: Easter & Holy Week, Dry season and Ski season. Every entry links to that place's full April climate breakdown.
Things to travel for
Blossom, foliage, whales, the light itself — the short windows worth booking a month around.
The plain is green for eight weeks a year and this is them: poppies between the cork oaks, storks on every chimney and the walking round the megaliths at its easiest.
River Oaks and the Bayou Bend gardens flower in March, and the Hill Country bluebonnets are a three-hour drive west at the same time.
Source: houston.culturemap.com
A wet winter puts flowers across Red Rock and Valley of Fire for a few weeks in early spring; a dry one produces almost nothing.
Source: parks.nv.gov
After a wet winter the desert parks and the inland hills flower for a few weeks, and the roadsides at Antelope Valley and Walker Canyon jam solid.
Source: parks.ca.gov
Japan's largest reef comes out of the water at the year's lowest spring tides, usually in March.
Poppies and lupine on Figueroa Mountain and the Santa Ynez hills for a few weeks in spring, and a dramatic show only in years the winter rain arrived on time.
The terraces and the caldera rim green up and flower before the season starts, in the cleanest light of the year and with the paths to yourself.
Source: en.wikivoyage.org
The low chaparral along the road up from Three Rivers flowers weeks before anything at the sequoias' elevation, so early spring means walking the bottom of the park and looking up at snow.
Plum first, then cherry along the residential streets of Fairfield and Oak Bay, usually peaking in the second half of March.
The azahar comes out on the bitter orange trees that line the whole city for two or three weeks, and the smell is what people remember about spring here.
Thirty-odd varieties open in sequence around the station, the Yoshinos in the middle of March.
Source: focustaiwan.tw
Azaleas, wisteria and dogwood go over in late March and early April, and Middleton and Magnolia plantations are the reason the shoulder season is not cheap here.
The island is the greenest in the Ionian and the olive terraces come up thick with orchids and asphodel before the summer burns it all off.
Source: en.wikivoyage.org
The lake is far enough south that the camellias in Parco Ciani and the magnolias along the shore go over before the Alps have thawed.
Azaleas, dogwood and wisteria come out across the squares in the second half of March, which is the fortnight the place looks the way the postcards claim it does all year.
Gucun Park in the north holds the city's largest cherry planting and runs a month-long festival with late gate hours at peak.
Source: english.shanghai.gov.cn
The roadsides west of the city go blue for about a month from mid-March, best after a wet winter.
The ridge above Ghoom and the Singalila road towards Sandakphu flower through spring, magnolia first and rhododendron behind it.
Yellow along the coast roads and around Seongsan, a few weeks before the mainland.
The mid-hill forests above the valley go red and pink from around 1,500 metres up, which is why April is the month people trek the Annapurna foothills.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The forest between Ulleri and Ghorepani turns red and pink for about six weeks, which is the whole reason the Poon Hill walk is a spring trip rather than an autumn one.
Forty thousand trees, planted street by street, and one of the longest blossom runs of any city: earliest in Kitsilano, latest in the east.
Fukuoka is usually among the first big cities the front reaches.
Thirty Yoshino trees on the University of Washington quadrangle peak in the last ten days of March most years, and the campus fills for the week it lasts.
The terraced garden below the Zabarwan opens for about a month once the beds are ready, usually from the third week of March, and peaks in the first week of April.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The azahar comes out in the Patio de los Naranjos and every courtyard in the Juderia at the end of March, and for a few weeks the old town smells of it after dark.
One of the first cities in Japan the front reaches, usually in the third week of March.
The row of Akebono cherries along the Willamette at the Japanese American Historical Plaza peaks for about a week, usually at the very end of March.
The city greens weeks before the mountains do: balconies reopen, the courtyards fill and the Caucasus is still white behind the ridge.
The Tidal Basin's Yoshinos hold peak bloom for four or five days, usually in the last week of March.
Source: nps.gov
Four weeks of programming fixed to a calendar, around a bloom that is not.
The castle moat and the Peace Park riverbanks, both walkable in an afternoon.
The front usually reaches Tokyo in the last week of March and peaks in the first days of April.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Cherry at Yuyuantan and crab apple in the temple courtyards for about three weeks, in the short window between the sandstorms and the heat.
The south coast blooms a week before Seoul; Dalmaji Hill above Haeundae and the naval town of Jinhae an hour west are what people come for.
Almond and cherry come out on the south-facing slope across the Neckar, usually in the first half of April.
Usually peaks in the first week of April.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Cherry and magnolia in the garden squares and along the park avenues, usually through April.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Usually peaking mid-April, best in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Japanese collection and along the reservoir in Central Park.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Usually peaks in the first week of April.
…and 288 more in this group. Open any destination's page for its own month-by-month calendar.
The state of the place
Monsoon, dry season, lifts open, sea warm enough — what the weather is actually doing.
The sap runs when nights freeze and days thaw, so the cabanes a sucre outside the city open for roughly six weeks in March and April.
The valleys either side of the city bring in the harvest through March and hold their own festivals for it; hot days and cold nights all month.
Freezing nights and thawing days run the sap, and the sugarhouses open their doors on the state's open-house weekend in late March.
Source: vermontmaple.org
Freezing nights and thawing days start the sap, and the cabanes a sucre on Ile d'Orleans and south of the river open for six weeks of ham, syrup and taffy rolled on snow.
The first plucking after the winter dormancy, from about the third week of March, is the year's most valuable tea and the estates run tours and tastings around it.
Six weeks of grey slush, when the snow goes dirty, the pavements are ankle-deep by midday and frozen again by evening.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The resort's own selling point: sun, slush by noon and the Mediterranean visible from the top station.
Long sunny days, soft afternoons and the cheapest lift and bed prices of the winter, with the caveat that the lower runs back to the village go patchy first.
The leaf picked before Qingming is the one that costs a fortune, and the hills at Meijiawu are full of pickers for a fortnight.
The Uganda Wildlife Authority discounts the gorilla permit in April, May and November, which are the wettest months here.
Source: ugandawildlife.org
April and May are the mornings balloons actually get off the ground; operators fly most days and the valleys are green rather than dust-coloured.
The heavier of the two wet spells: clear mornings on the reservoir, cloud on the Piedra by two and a downpour after it.
Once the ploughs are through and before the cars are let back on, the Teton Park Road belongs to cyclists and walkers for about a month.
Source: nps.gov
Trails above about 2,500 feet are asked to stay empty through the spring thaw, when the tread is saturated and walking it destroys it.
Source: adk.org
The dry valley greens up for a few weeks and the afternoon storms come over the ridge; it is the quietest stretch of the year and the guest houses discount for it.
A world tour surf event held over a waiting period at Main Break and The Box, so the day it runs is called each morning.
Source: margaretriver.com
The offseason between closing day and the Maroon Bells opening: restaurants take their holiday, hotels close floors, and the trails are still under snow above 3,000 metres.
Source: aspensnowmass.com
The ski areas shut through the second half of April and the valley goes quiet again until the summer lifts start in June.
Source: chamonix.net
Between the last lift and the dry trails, the dirt roads turn to soup and a fair share of the village shuts for a few weeks.
Source: gostowe.com
Between the last lift and the dry trails the town half closes, and the gondola shuts for several weeks of maintenance in both spring and autumn.
Source: telluride.com
Resorts, charter flights and the Paleokastritsa boats restart around Easter, and the island is at its greenest for the six weeks before the heat arrives.
Source: visitgreece.gr
When the valley runs close, the Zugspitze glacier keeps a handful of lifts turning into May.
The snow comes off the meadow weeks before the summer trade arrives.
Naoussa's harbour tavernas, the Antiparos crossing and the fast boats from Piraeus all restart around Easter.
Source: imagine.paros.gr
Whistler Mountain and the Peak 2 Peak gondola shut in the third week of April; Blackcomb carries the last month of the season on its own.
Source: whistlerblackcomb.com
The road system is ploughed open in phases from the third week of April, with the high passes last in late May.
Source: nps.gov
After the lifts stop the village empties: hotels take their annual break, the high trails are still under snow and the Jungfraujoch railway is the main thing still running.
Source: grindelwald.swiss
The clubs, the beach clubs and most of the island's restaurants all open across three or four weekends from late April.
Source: ibiza.travel
Between the last ski day and the first walking one the lifts stop, the huts are shut and a good share of the hotels close for maintenance.
Source: nordkette.com
Several hundred working horses are barged over from the mainland farms in spring and go back in late autumn, so the drays, taxis and everything that comes with them arrive inside a fortnight.
Source: mackinacisland.org
The Damask roses south of the Atlas are picked at dawn through late April and May, and Kelaat M'Gouna holds its rose festival at the height of it.
The weeks between closing day and dry trails: lifts stopped, half the restaurants shut for their own holiday, and snow still lying above the treeline.
Source: visitparkcity.com
Hotels, the Koukounaries beach bars and the caiques round to Lalaria all restart through May, as do the charter flights that make up most of the island's arrivals.
Source: skiathos.gr
Between the lifts closing and the trails drying, half the village shuts and the rest cuts its hours.
Source: discovervail.com
Ferries go back to a full schedule and the hotels reopen through late April and May, a few at a time.
Source: sheplersferry.com
The gulf beaches and the harbour are properly swimmable from January into April, and the water is at its warmest well after the school holidays have emptied them.
…and 800 more in this group. Open any destination's page for its own month-by-month calendar.
Festivals & culture
The festivals a place is known for, and the weeks the streets belong to them.
A night race on the Corniche circuit north of the centre, with the coast road shut for most of the week and rooms at their yearly high in years it runs.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The Naxi honour their protector god on the eighth day of the second lunar month, usually late March, with horse racing and family picnics out at the foot of the snow mountain.
Source: yunnanexploration.com
Five days of concerts staged in the town's halls and then out in craters, chapels and tea plantations across the island.
Source: tremor-pdl.com
Cuba Street and the lanes around it close for a free two-day street festival at the end of March, with stages on the intersections and a brass band on most corners.
Source: cubadupa.co.nz
Freeski and snowboard competitions on Hlidarfjall in the second half of March, when the days are long enough to ride all day and the town fills with the circuit.
Source: visitakureyri.is
The Kannada new year in spring: mango leaves over doorways, bevu-bella eaten bitter and sweet together, and a quiet city for a day as offices and most restaurants close.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Telugu new year, kept at home rather than in the street: mango leaves over the doorways, the bitter-sweet pachadi, and offices and most shops closed for the day.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Two afternoons of processions out of the City Palace at Tripolia Gate, with elephants, camels and the palanquins of the goddess.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
A spring race through the Old City walls and the valleys, which means most of the centre closes to traffic for a Friday morning.
Source: jerusalem-marathon.com
The opening days of the college basketball tournament are the busiest hours the sportsbooks get, with seats claimed at opening and a queue outside from breakfast.
Source: visitlasvegas.com
Udaipur's version of Gangaur: two days of processions down to Gangaur Ghat, boats out on Pichola and fireworks over the water.
Source: utsav.gov.in
An all-night procession on the Chaitra full moon from the Dharmaraya Swamy temple through the old pete, led by a priest carrying a flowered pot on his head.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Five days at the convention centre that pull the regional art trade in at once, with satellite fairs and late gallery nights in Central and Wong Chuk Hang.
Source: artbasel.com
Nine days of trail runs out of Moab ending on Easter Sunday, and the town has nowhere left to sleep for any of it.
Source: rr4w.com
The town's second flower fair, ten days at the turn of March and April: several hundred orchid varieties under cover on the fairground, with folk music on the stage beside them.
Source: atp.gob.pa
A couple of weeks of public art, installations and food events across Uptown in early April, most of it free and outdoors.
Source: charlottesgotalot.com
The Reds have opened the season at home since 1876 and the city treats the first game as a public holiday, with a parade from Findlay Market into downtown.
Source: findlaymarketparade.com
The week after Easter, the world's most serious hula competition fills Hilo along with a craft fair and a parade down Kilauea Avenue.
Source: merriemonarch.com
A rugby weekend that behaves like a public holiday, now at Kai Tak.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Four weeks from late March, spread across the Town Hall and every pub back room in the centre.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Goats and their sprinting handlers race at Buccoo on the Tuesday after Easter, a fixture here for a century, with crab races alongside.
Source: visittobago.gov.tt
A fortnight of concerts in churches and small theatres around the historic district at the turn of April, weighted to jazz, blues and chamber music rather than headliners.
Source: savannahmusicfestival.org
South Africa's longest-running music festival, on a farm outside Underberg over the Easter weekend.
Source: splashyfen.co.za
A flat course through the centre and the western districts on a Sunday in early April, with a relay that puts thousands of teams on the road.
Source: milanomarathon.it
The Monday after Coptic Easter, when the whole city picnics outdoors on salted fish and spring onions.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
On the second Thursday after Easter a couple of hundred thousand people walk the eight kilometres out to the monastery from dawn, carrying rosemary.
Source: es.wikipedia.org
A spring festival older than either religion here, kept by the whole country on the Monday after Coptic Easter: parks and riverbanks full of families eating salted fish and spring onions.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Ten days and several hundred films in April, one of the older festivals in the country and unusually well attended for its size.
Source: clevelandfilm.org
Colombo moves up the hill for the month: horse racing at the country's only surviving course, a motor hill climb, golf and a flower show, all wrapped around the New Year.
Source: nuwaraeliyainfo.com
Twice a year the republic swears in two new heads of state for six months.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Three days of country music on the sand at Fort Lauderdale Beach Park in early April, with a conservation angle built into it.
Source: tortugamusicfestival.com
The first weekend of April brings tens of thousands to Temple Square for the church's semiannual conference.
Source: churchofjesuschrist.org
A free week of music at Centennial Hall, volunteer-run since the 1970s, with a set limit of fifteen minutes a band.
Source: akfolkfest.org
A week of clay-court tennis in April on courts cut into the cliff at Roquebrune, which is technically over the French border.
Source: rolexmontecarlomasters.mc
Five days of acoustic sets in April on stages from a tent at 2,600 metres to hotel bars, with skiing in the morning and the concerts after.
Source: zermatt-unplugged.ch
A free arts festival in Piedmont Park in the second week of April, timed to the dogwoods and running since 1936.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
On the first Sunday after Orthodox Easter the horsemen of Schei ride out in embroidered costume, through the old town and up to Solomon's Rocks, where the party runs to the evening.
Source: ro.wikipedia.org
The seafront and much of the east of the city close for a Sunday in April, and the hotels go at festival rates for the weekend around it.
Source: brightonmarathonweekend.co.uk
Three weeks of concerts and theatre across the city's halls in April, the point at which Budapest's cultural year restarts after the winter.
Source: btf.hu
The big week ends with J'ouvert before dawn and the Adults' Parade through town, with free nightly shows in the Carnival Village either side of it.
Source: prnewswire.com
…and 109 more in this group. Open any destination's page for its own month-by-month calendar.
Holidays that swamp a place
Mass holidays: full trains, closed shops, the year's dearest fortnight.
March into early April is the busiest beach stretch of the year, with staggered university and school breaks running back to back.
March into early April brings staggered school and university breaks from across the South, and Highway 98 through town becomes a single slow lane.
The first real rush of the year, when the rim is comfortable and the inner canyon is not yet dangerous.
March and April are the park's busiest weeks, and the two Coachella weekends in Indio empty every rental in the high desert.
Source: nps.gov
On a Malay island the fast changes what is open: warungs shut in daylight and the Ramadan bazaars run at dusk.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
March is when the southern universities arrive on Pensacola Beach and the sound-side condos fill.
Source: visitpensacola.com
Phoenix is two hours south and it all comes up in March and April.
Source: visitsedona.com
March fills the beaches at St Augustine Beach and Vilano with families and Florida students, though the old town itself stays a walking-tour crowd rather than a party one.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
March and April are the park's busiest weeks alongside high summer, with the shuttle queue at the visitor centre running an hour before nine.
Source: nps.gov
Java takes its long holiday and much of it flies to Bali.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The national holiday sends Indonesian travellers to Flores in numbers and the day boats run full for about ten days.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
American college weeks run through March into April and land squarely on Cabo San Lucas — the marina strip, the beach clubs and Medano.
Source: visitloscabos.travel
Six weeks of staggered American school breaks, peaking around Easter, and the parks run at capacity through most of it.
Source: themeparks-guide.com
Flights into Sorong and the ferry to Waisai fill with Indonesian holidaymakers for about ten days, and the homestays that stay open are booked out well before it.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
American spring break puts the whole southern Utah circuit under pressure while the rim is still icy underfoot; the park is busy and the trails are not yet all open.
Source: mountainbased.com
Two weeks of processions rather than one, starting with the Senor de la Columna walked in from Atotonilco before dawn on the Sunday before Palm Sunday.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Holy Week here is done in Catalan, not Italian, and the Mysteries processions through the old walls are the reason Sardinians and Catalans both travel for it.
Source: sardegnacultura.it
On the Friday before Palm Sunday the old mine works, plazas and shop doorways fill with flower altars and people hand out ice water and paletas in the street.
Source: guanajuatocapital.gob.mx
Old Town Square and Wenceslas Square take stalls of painted eggs and plaited willow whips for about three weeks around Easter, and the long weekend brings the first proper crowds of the year.
Source: trhypraha.cz
The Berlin Philharmonic returns for the week before Easter with opera and concerts at the Grosses Festspielhaus.
Source: osterfestspiele.at
On Holy Monday, the day that opens Holy Week, the blackened Christ is carried around the Plaza de Armas under showers of red ñucchu petals, the one procession in Cusco that is entirely for the city itself.
Source: es.wikipedia.org
The Persian new year empties Tehran for a fortnight: offices, museums and half the restaurants shut, roads out of the city jam, and the air is the cleanest it gets all year.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The new year fortnight brings Iranian families to the old town in numbers and fills every restored caravanserai hotel.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
On the night of Maundy Thursday six villages in the island's interior set off at ten and walk twenty-five kilometres between each other's churches, barefoot cross-bearers in front.
Source: ich.unesco.org
The biggest domestic week of the year: Mexico City empties onto the bay and the Zona Dorada beaches run shoulder to shoulder.
Source: acapulco.gob.mx
Peruvians travel in Holy Week and Cusco is where a lot of them go, so the trains and the entry slots tighten a fortnight before.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Madrid and the interior come to the coast for the week and the Costa Blanca season effectively starts here, several weeks before the sea is worth getting into.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Carpets of dyed sawdust are laid through the night and destroyed within minutes by the men carrying the andas over them.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Four days off send the city north to the coastal towns and the Coromandel.
Source: govt.nz
Holy Week is the last busy week of the season and whether it is a good one depends entirely on where Easter falls that year.
Source: baqueira.es
Bogota empties from the Wednesday: offices shut, half the city drives down to warmer ground, and the traffic is briefly bearable.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Manila and Cebu empty into the provinces for the long weekend, ferries sell out days ahead and Panglao rates double.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The five brotherhoods walk the upper town and the marina in hoods, carrying lantern-lit canopies.
Source: bonifacio.co.uk
The island's biggest domestic week: ferries from Caticlan queue, the beach path is shoulder to shoulder and rooms go at holiday rates.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Brotherhoods take the narrow streets of the casco antiguo every night of the week and traffic stops with them.
Source: andalucia.org
Colombia's biggest domestic travel week lands on the coast: flights from Bogotá double, the beaches at Bocagrande are shoulder to shoulder and Thursday and Friday shut most businesses.
Source: colombia.travel
Cebu empties into the provinces and the ports are the busiest they get all year.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The season starts at Easter rather than in June.
Source: parks.it
The brotherhoods cross the Roman bridge and thread the narrow lanes of the Juderia every night of the week, which closes them to everyone else.
Source: andalucia.org
Domestic travel peaks and Busuanga's small airport runs out of seats.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
…and 375 more in this group. Open any destination's page for its own month-by-month calendar.
Hazard seasons to know about
Not forecasts — the seasons in which the risk exists. Most weeks pass quietly.
Snowmelt upstream pushes the river over the lower quays most springs.
Source: thetraveler.org
Agricultural burning across northern Laos and the region fills the valley with smoke for weeks; the hills disappear and flights are occasionally diverted.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Snowmelt on a flat, north-flowing river backs water up across the valley most springs, and the floodway around the city was dug for exactly this.
Source: gov.mb.ca
The birch count runs high for about six weeks in spring, right as the outdoor tables come back out.
Source: astma-allergi.dk
One or two decaying tropical systems reach the upper North Island most summers.
Source: metservice.com
The Bavarian avalanche service rates these mountains daily through the winter, and the danger on steep ground climbs again as the temperature comes up from February into April.
Source: lawinenwarndienst-bayern.de
Saharan dust blows across from Africa a few times each winter and spring, dropping visibility to a few hundred metres and occasionally grounding flights.
Source: aemet.es
Saharan dust crosses on an easterly a few times each winter and spring, hazing the volcanoes out and occasionally closing the airport.
Source: aemet.es
Saharan dust rides in on an easterly several times a year, most often in late winter, dropping visibility and pushing the temperature up sharply for a day or two.
Source: aemet.es
Agricultural fires north and west of the city put a lid of smoke over Bangkok through the late dry season.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Field and forest fires fill the valley with smoke that the surrounding hills hold in place, and the city regularly tops the world's live pollution rankings in March.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Late winter rain on frozen ground puts the river over its banks most years, and the low riverfront roads and Sawyer Point paths go under first.
Source: weather.gov
The grass hillsides above Kagman and out towards Marpi burn most dry seasons, largely from deliberate fires, and the smoke hangs under the trade wind on still mornings.
Source: weather.gov
A fringe of green weed, locally lumot, grows along the shallows in the hot months and is raked off each morning.
Saharan dust blows north over Andalusia most often in spring, turning the sky orange and leaving the pistes pink.
Source: aemet.es
Field and forest fires across northern Laos fill the valley with smoke and the far bank of the Mekong disappears for weeks.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The northwesterly shamal blows for a day or three at a time in spring and takes the skyline with it; flights hold, the sea turns brown and anyone with a chest keeps indoors.
Source: ncm.gov.ae
The windiest stretch of the year across the Rio Grande valley, with afternoon gusts that lift dust off the mesa and shut down balloon flights and small aircraft.
Source: weather.gov
Hot southerlies off the desert push dust over the city for a day or two at a time in spring, and the sea haze holds it in.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
For six weeks in spring the whole city turns yellow: cars, porches, water.
Source: pollen.com
North Georgia's tornado and hail season runs through spring, and the warnings here come overnight as often as in the afternoon.
Source: weather.gov
Dust off the Mongolian plateau reaches the city several times each spring, turning the sky yellow and pushing the air readings off the usual scale for a day or two.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The weeks before the rains are the hottest of the Bengaluru year, and the borewells drop with them; tanker deliveries and apartment rationing make the news most Aprils.
Source: mausam.imd.gov.in
Hot southerly winds carry Saharan dust over the city for a day or two at a time, closing the horizon and grounding the view from the Giza plateau.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Dust off the Asian mainland reaches Kyushu first and the worst days leave a film on parked cars.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Spring winds carry interior dust out over the Red Sea coast, whiting out the sky for a day or two at a time and holding flights on the worst of them.
Source: ncm.gov.sa
Hot desert winds push dust over the hills for a few days at a stretch in spring and again in autumn, turning the light brown and the view from the Mount of Olives into nothing.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Spring southerlies fill the valley with sand for a day or two at a time and ground the dawn balloon flights.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Still, sunny, rainless weeks in the basin cook the traffic exhaust into ozone, and the city declares contingencies that pull cars off the road.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The wind off the interior turns the sky ochre for a day or two at a stretch, cancelling flights and putting sand through every window frame.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Spring brings the worst air of the year, part local, part dust and pollution blown in from the west.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The build-up before the rains is the hardest part of the Yangon year, and the city moves indoors between about eleven and four.
North-westerlies lift the dried marsh and desert soil; a bad day turns the sky orange and grounds flights at Baghdad International.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The spring southerly arrives with a jump in temperature and a sky the colour of weak tea, usually two or three days at a time before it clears.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Hot southerlies off the desert push dust up the rift for a few days at a time in spring, dropping the visibility across the water to nothing and coating everything left outside.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Late winter and spring bring the line squalls that flood the streets and take the power out for days, and the Mississippi runs its highest in the same weeks.
Source: weather.gov
The wind gets up in spring and the dunes move with it: gritty air for days at a time, camps struck early and the road east regularly half-buried.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
…and 188 more in this group. Open any destination's page for its own month-by-month calendar.
Windows are the usual ones and move a little each year — lunar feasts and blossom most of all. Hazard seasons are the months in which the risk exists, not a forecast. Check a live source before booking.