SeasonMapWhat's on around the world in July
In July, 2528 seasonal things are on across 1247 destinations: 291 natural spectacles, 1121 seasonal conditions, 369 festivals and cultural dates, 285 mass holidays and 462 hazard seasons. The seasons doing the most work this month: Sea warm enough, School holidays and Extreme heat. Every entry links to that place's full July climate breakdown.
Things to travel for
Blossom, foliage, whales, the light itself — the short windows worth booking a month around.
Dwarf minkes turn up on the Ribbon Reefs north of here for June and July, the only place in the world permitted to snorkel with them.
The ponds off West Lake open at first light and are picked out by mid-morning, and the tea scented with them is sold for the rest of the year.
The minkes turn up on the Ribbon Reefs for June and July, the only place with permits to snorkel with them.
The meadows below Cheget and up the Adyl-Su turn over to rhododendron and alpine flowers while the summit route is still deep in snow — the acclimatisation walks are the pretty part of the trip.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The meadows below the Eiger north face and up towards the Bachalpsee flower for about six weeks after the snow leaves, which is also when the hay is cut and the smell follows you.
The hillsides above Brusje and Velo Grablje, on the old road out of town, go purple for about three weeks from mid-June, and the abandoned village holds a festival at the peak.
Source: en.wikivoyage.org
The grassland turns green and flowers within weeks of the first summer rain, edelweiss and iris across the valleys around Terelj.
The meadows above the treeline and along the Fluela road flower for about six weeks after the snow goes, and are cut for hay soon after.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Balsamroot and lupine turn the sagebrush flats yellow and blue in late June, with the alpine meadows following into July as the snow leaves.
Thousands of hydrangeas line the Tozan switchbacks and flower from the bottom of the hill upward over a month.
Source: hakonenavi.jp
The slopes under Kazbek and the Truso valley flower for about six weeks after the melt, which is also when the cloud sits on the mountain most reliably.
Lupine, balsamroot and paintbrush through the Hayden and Lamar valleys from mid-June, later the higher the meadow.
Source: nps.gov
The fields an hour north of town come out in the last days of June and are cut through July.
The Valensole plateau and the Sault fields usually peak between late June and the third week of July, and are cut soon after.
Source: en.wikivoyage.org
Balsamroot and lupine cover the sagebrush flats and the Death Canyon and Cascade trails once the snow is off them, usually from the last week of June through July.
Source: nps.gov
Columbine on the Cathedral Lake and Crater Lake trails from the first week of July, later and better the higher the trail starts.
Source: aspensnowmass.com
Farm Tomita peaks for about ten days in mid-July and JR opens a temporary station for it.
The one time of year the males fight, standing up against each other on the trails.
The ski runs and the Wasatch Crest trails flower through July, later the higher you start.
Balsamroot and lupine on the Adams Gulch and Pioneer Cabin trails through July, later the higher you start.
Iberian orcas come into the strait in July and August behind the bluefin tuna migration and work alongside the hand-line boats.
Columbine and paintbrush come up on Shrine Pass and above the gondola from early July, a couple of weeks later the higher you go.
Source: bettyfordalpinegardens.org
The subalpine meadows at 2,600 metres flower for about six weeks once Tioga Road opens, and the mosquitoes peak with them.
The fields two hours inland peak in the middle of July and the day-trip buses go with them; early morning is the only quiet hour.
Columbine and paintbrush in the basins above town, best on the Bear Creek and Bridal Veil trails in the second half of July.
The herd bunches up on the Sage Creek grasslands and the bulls bellow through the afternoon.
Sunshine Meadows and the Healy Pass benches flower for about a month once the last snow patches go, usually from mid-July.
Paradise and Sunrise flower for about a month once the snowpack finally clears, usually from mid-July.
The summit meadows flower for about a month once the snowpack finally leaves, usually from the last week of July.
Bulls bellow, wallow and fight through the Hayden and Lamar valleys in high summer, and they stand in the road while they do it.
The park is a designated International Dark Sky Park and August's meteor shower is the busiest night of its year, with the pullouts along Park Boulevard taken by dusk.
Source: nps.gov
On the three nights around each full moon while the river is up, both parks open after dark and the spray throws a moonbow.
Source: zimparks.org.zw
On the two or three nights around each full moon while the spray is still high, there is enough moonlight for a moonbow over the gorge, and the park opens after dark for it.
Green turtles come up the beaches at Watamu and Diani through the middle of the year, and the local conservation groups move nests above the tide line and post the hatchings when they happen.
Leatherbacks come up the north-coast beaches through spring, and volunteer groups patrol the Pinones and Dorado sand at night.
Leatherbacks haul out overnight on Turtle Beach and Stonehaven Bay from March, peak between April and July, and the hatchlings run through August.
Whale sharks feed along the outside of the reef from March into August, spotter plane overhead and a licensed boat below.
Hawksbills come ashore on the Saadiyat and outer-island beaches through spring, and the hotels there rope off the nests and run guided walks rather than let people find them alone.
Source: ead.gov.ae
The Precipice, Jordan Cliffs and Valley Cove trails shut while peregrines nest on the cliffs above them, usually from mid-March until the chicks fledge.
Source: nps.gov
White storks nest on the Byzantine aqueduct arches in the middle of town and clatter their bills over the tea gardens all spring.
…and 251 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.
Northern Kyushu takes the heaviest of the rainy season and the inland valleys are where the warnings land.
The rain front usually reaches Kyoto in the second week of June and sits for a month.
The rain front usually arrives in the second week of June and stays a month.
The front usually sets in during the second week of June and holds for five or six weeks: warm, grey and humid, with hydrangeas as the compensation.
The front sits over the lower Yangtze for a month: warm, close, and wet in long grey stretches rather than storms.
The wettest weeks of the year.
At a thousand metres the rainy season is cloud sitting in the larches rather than downpours.
The monsoon front hits Jeju before the mainland and the island takes more rain than anywhere in Korea.
The stationary rain front parks over the delta for about three weeks from mid-June: grey, close and wet rather than stormy, and the one stretch of the year when laundry does not dry indoors.
A dip in the middle of the wet season — Cartagena gets a little less rain in July than the months either side — which is why it's the pick for the islands offshore.
Source: en.wikivoyage.org
The monsoon front sits over the south coast first and hardest, delivering the year's heaviest rain in bursts and taking the beaches out of use for days.
The monsoon front parks over the peninsula for a few weeks and delivers the year's rain in short, very heavy bursts rather than steady drizzle.
Through July and August the Baths stay open into the evening and the terrace is lit by torches.
Source: romanbaths.co.uk
Most of the year's rain falls in these two months, in heavy short storms that flood underpasses and clear the air for a day afterwards.
The etesian blows down the Aegean most afternoons in high summer.
Haeundae, Gwangalli and Songjeong are staffed with lifeguards and swimming zones for the two summer months only; outside them the water is technically off limits.
Source: visitbusan.net
The northerly blows down the Aegean into high summer and this is the coast it hits.
Only 500 people a day may start the trail, guides and porters included, and the June to August dates go five or six months ahead.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The sea at Sopot and Brzezno is swimmable for about two months and no longer.
The plateau takes most of its rain in July and August and most of it falls overnight, so the days often stay clear.
The dry north wind can blow for three or four days without a break in high summer.
Most Quebec leases end on 1 July, so the whole province moves house on one day.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The windmills on the hill are not decoration.
The north wind is why the kite and windsurf schools sit at Mikri Vigla.
The palm gardens are picked through high summer and the falaj channels run to keep them alive.
Paros sits in the strongest of it, which is why the windsurf and kite schools are on the east coast at Chrissi Akti.
The summer north wind gets up most afternoons and blows for days at a stretch.
The etesian blows hard down the Aegean through high summer.
Weaker here than in the Cyclades but strong enough to stop the boat trips to Skopelos and to bend the landing approach into the airport, which is why people stand at the end of the runway to watch it.
Most of the year's rain falls in these weeks as heavy afternoon showers, and the dirt tracks out to the ger camps turn to mud and river crossings rise.
The Wednesday general audience is suspended for most of July while the Pope takes the summer break, and the public calendar stays thin into August.
Source: vatican.va
A handful of gondolas run for walkers and bikes for about eight weeks from the start of July.
Source: les3vallees.com
Danes take their holiday in one block, and a good share of the small restaurants, bakeries and galleries simply close for three weeks.
Source: visitcopenhagen.com
Europe's earliest vintage, picked by hand from single vines sunk in ash pits behind semicircular stone walls.
Sand, deckchairs and pools go down along the Seine and the Bassin de la Villette for about eight weeks, free and busiest in the early evening.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Tokyo's hot-weather escape since the 1880s, and the population multiplies for six weeks.
The Malayalam month the resorts sell as the right time for a treatment course, on the reasoning that the damp opens the pores.
Source: keralatourism.org
A kilometre of Odori Park becomes an outdoor beer hall for about four weeks, seating thirteen thousand, and it is the whole point of a Sapporo summer.
Source: sapporo.travel
The last consecutive Wednesday and Thursday of July, when recreational divers get two days on the spiny lobster before the commercial season opens.
Source: myfwc.com
The last Wednesday and Thursday of July, when sport divers get the spiny lobster two days before the commercial season opens.
Source: myfwc.com
…and 1081 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.
Red flares light the castle ruin and fireworks go off over the old bridge for about twenty minutes, on the first Saturday of June and again in July.
Source: heidelberg-marketing.de
A week of projections and light installations along marked routes inside the Old City walls, free and running late.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
A month-long trade fair and funfair at Kemayoran for the city's anniversary, with nightly concerts and several thousand stalls.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
A month at the Del Mar fairgrounds from early June to the Fourth of July, closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Source: sdfair.com
A month of gamelan, dance, parades and craft at the Taman Werdhi Budaya in Denpasar, opened by a procession through the city.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Three weeks of dance and live art spread across a dozen venues from the Friche to the beaches, in June and early July.
Source: festivaldemarseille.com
The Maori new year, marked by the rising of the Pleiades and a public holiday since 2022.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Two nights in June when a car park in the ditch is given over to stalls cooking the local mixture of Genoese, Andalusian and Moroccan food that the territory is actually made of.
Source: visitgibraltar.gi
Nine days spread over three long weekends on the lakefront grounds, running to Independence Day.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
A month of tented concerts, theatre and market stalls in the Olympiapark, much of it free.
Source: muenchen.de
The Alentejo's biggest fair takes over the Rossio for about ten days around 24 June, part livestock market and part cante alentejano and grilled meat until late.
Source: cm-evora.pt
Two weeks of free concerts and museum days from Juneteenth to the Fourth, ending with a parade and fireworks on the Parkway.
Source: july4thphilly.com
Golf played through the small hours around the solstice at Jadarsvollur, tee times running past midnight.
Source: arcticopen.is
Concerts staged inside the Alhambra itself, in the Palacio de Carlos V and the Generalife gardens, for about four weeks from late June.
Source: granadafestival.org
More than a thousand boats set off from Cowes at dawn on one day in early summer and sail the fifty miles round.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Five days at the end of June built around screenwriting rather than red carpets, with staged readings and panels in the old whaling-town halls.
Source: nantucketfilmfestival.org
Three days at the point a couple of weeks after the season opens, with the whole village cooking lobster on the beach and a stage that runs to the small hours.
Source: placencia.com
The Māori new year is a public holiday on a date that moves with the star cluster's rise, and Te Arawa mark it here with dawn ceremonies, lights and hāngī.
Source: govt.nz
The Māori new year is a public holiday whose date moves with the star cluster's rise.
Source: govt.nz
The city walks up to the reservoir for the opening of the dam gates on the first Monday of July, after a fortnight of neighbourhood dances and the flower parade.
Source: guanajuatocapital.gob.mx
Ten days at the Quartier des Spectacles at the turn of June into July, with most of the outdoor stages free.
Source: montrealjazzfest.com
Two weeks of music, craft and cooking from a couple of featured cultures, staged free on the Mall either side of the Fourth.
Source: festival.si.edu
Ten days of concerts at Anfa Park in early July, with free stages in the Arab League park.
Source: jazzablanca.com
Saint Lucia moved its carnival off Lent and into July.
Source: carnivalsaintlucia.com
Three days at Palapa Garden a few weeks after the season opens: grilled tails on every stand, a beach party and local bands.
Source: mybeautifulbelize.com
One of the largest Pride parades in Europe, a street festival across the old town for a week with the parade on the Sunday.
Source: colognepride.de
Massed pipes and drums, military bands and gun-run races indoors at the Scotiabank Centre over the Canada Day week.
Source: nstattoo.ca
Nine days of concerts, workshops and walks in Kazimierz, ending with an open-air night on Szeroka Street.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
A fortnight from the last Monday in June.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Three weeks of newly commissioned work staged across the city, held every second year in odd-numbered ones (MIF25 was the last, next in 2027) and run out of the Aviva Studios building on the old Granada site.
Source: factoryinternational.org
Five weeks of concerts in the Theatre Jean-Deschamps inside the walls and in the castle courtyard, with about a hundred free shows alongside the ticketed ones running into late August.
Source: festivaldecarcassonne.fr
Ten days at the start of July built on the lagoon's oysters and a full calendar of road and trail races.
Source: knysnaoysterfestival.co.za
One of the largest Pride weeks in Europe: Chueca is closed to traffic for days and the Saturday march fills Gran Via and the Paseo del Prado.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
A fortnight of events building to the parade and the Downs festival on the second Saturday of July.
Source: bristolpride.co.uk
Well over a hundred thousand people half an hour west of the city for eight days, and Copenhagen's hotel and train capacity goes with them.
Source: roskilde-festival.dk
Five days of downhill and enduro racing at the start of July, and the one time in summer the village is as full as it is in March.
Source: arebikefestival.com
A costumed pageant of some fourteen hundred people, giants and horses staged on the Grand-Place over two evenings at the start of July.
Source: brussels.be
The country's biggest race day at Greyville on the first Saturday of July, and as much a fashion event as a horse race.
Source: hollywoodbetsdurbanjuly.co.za
…and 329 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.
The mid-year school break is when inland families come up for the cold, and the resorts sell it as a snow chance.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The winter break sends the biggest single inbound market here in one block, and it lands on the dry season.
Source: education.nsw.gov.au
The July break lands inside the best walking weather and the resort is the only accommodation for hundreds of kilometres.
Source: uluru.gov.au
The two-week winter break lands exactly as the first whales arrive, which is the busiest fortnight the marina sees.
Source: education.qld.gov.au
The 30th is the national day: a parade, the Boulevard du 30 Juin closed to traffic, and hotels full from a couple of days beforehand.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
July and August carry most of the year's visitors.
The town runs on the northern European school calendar rather than the Portuguese one, so the fortnight either side of the end of July is the hardest to book and the dearest to fly into.
Source: gov.uk
Canada Day starts it and the school year ends it.
Source: parks.canada.ca
A town of five thousand hosting several million park visitors a year does most of it now.
Tbilisi, Yerevan, Baku and half of eastern Turkey come here for the summer, and the boulevard and the casinos run at capacity.
The Cascais line runs standing-room only at weekends once the schools break, and the town is as much a Lisbon suburb on holiday as a resort.
Source: cascais.pt
Slea Head Drive is single track with coaches going one way round it, and in July and August the peninsula runs at capacity.
Source: dingle-peninsula.ie
Lisbon is forty minutes away and comes here at weekends all summer, on top of the surf camps.
Source: cm-mafra.pt
Anyone who can leave the inland heat does, and Essaouira is where they go.
The airport handles the whole region's charter traffic and July and August are what it was built for.
Source: visitalgarve.pt
Brazil takes July off school and the park runs at its hourly ceiling every day of the month; the queue is at the visitor centre, not on the trail.
Source: cataratasdoiguacu.com.br
July and August carry most of the year's visitors, and the park shares them with Yellowstone up the road.
Charter season at full stretch and Tunisian families on top of it.
Yachts double-park in the harbour, the town square is a queue and prices are Croatia's highest.
Weekend traffic from the city fills the road and the riverside cafes in the valley.
The Fairy Pools and Storr car parks fill by mid-morning and the single-track roads run on passing-place etiquette that half the traffic does not know.
Source: isleofskye.com
Jackson is the south gate to two national parks and takes the full American summer: parking full by nine at the popular trailheads, and lodging priced accordingly.
Source: nps.gov
Beaches, the Kenting Street night market and every room on the strip run at capacity most weekends.
Source: eng.taiwan.net.tw
Coaches run the Ring of Kerry anticlockwise, so the day trip has to be timed around them, and Muckross and the Gap of Dunloe take the overflow.
Source: killarneynationalpark.ie
Excursion boats from Dubrovnik and Hvar unload into a walled town the size of a few streets, and the Marco Polo house queue forms by eleven.
Northern European school holidays and the Portuguese August land together, and the cove beaches here are small.
Source: visitalgarve.pt
Fifteen thousand day visitors can land on a good July day on an island of five hundred residents.
Source: mackinacisland.org
Population multiplies by five, the car ferry is booked out months ahead and dinner needs a reservation two weeks early.
Source: steamshipauthority.com
The capital's day: Parliament Hill and the surrounding streets close to traffic and fill from morning, with fireworks over the river at night.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Summer schools take the empty colleges and the coach tours take the centre, so Broad Street and the Bodleian queue are at their worst exactly when the colleges are most open.
Source: experienceoxfordshire.org
The mid-year break brings the second wave of the year, in the middle of the wettest stretch.
The second peak and a different crowd: Dominican, Latin American and Spanish families on school holidays rather than the winter sun crowd.
Schools across the country break for July and Rio takes a domestic crowd rather than a foreign one.
The 4th of July here also marks the 1946 reopening of Camp Susupe, and the parade, carnival and fireworks at the Civic Center are the biggest civic event of the year.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The Rimini beach resorts send coaches up all summer, and between eleven and four the duty-free shops on the main street are what most people see of the country.
Spanish holidays and the busiest Camino months land together.
In this province 1 July is Memorial Day before it is Canada Day.
Source: veterans.gc.ca
Eight kilometres of hotels running at capacity on northern European school holidays, with the bar strip loud until four in the morning.
The E10 runs nose to tail with campervans in July, the Reine and Hamnoy viewpoints have queues, and beds in Svolvaer are booked months out.
Source: lofoten.info
…and 245 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.
The dry weeks before the monsoon are when the mesa burns; fires have closed the whole park more than once.
Source: nps.gov
Most summers bring stretches where the town moves indoors until six and the fountains are the only shade worth having.
Source: vigilance.meteofrance.fr
Avignon sits in one of the hottest corners of France and the festival plays straight through it: the stone courtyards hold the day until well past midnight.
Source: vigilance.meteofrance.fr
The city sits in a closed basin with mountains on three sides and regularly runs hotter than anywhere in Italy for a week at a time.
Source: provincia.bz.it
The plain around the city bakes and the concrete holds it overnight; the met service issues red warnings most summers and the terraces do not fill until nine.
Source: meteoromania.ro
The national weather service issues heat alerts most summers and the city holds it: stone, no sea and little shade on the Pest grid.
Source: met.hu
The Aude valley takes the worst of the southern summer, and the walled city has almost no shade in it.
Source: vigilance.meteofrance.fr
One of the country's furnace cities: the mountains around the basin hold the heat in and it barely lets go after dark.
Source: chinahighlights.com
Fes sits in a bowl with no sea breeze, and the medina alleys hold the heat well into the night.
The city sits in a bowl in the Arno valley with no breeze and stone that holds the day's heat overnight.
Source: protezionecivile.gov.it
Small jellyfish drift through on some moon cycles and July and August take the worst of it.
Source: en.wikivoyage.org
The valleys are treeless and the tuff throws the heat back at you, so walking Rose or Pigeon valley is a dawn job.
The city sits in a basin under the mountains and bakes through July and August, though nights cool more than in Seville or Cordoba.
Source: aemet.es
This inland plain is one of the hottest places in Greece and the rock radiates it back.
Source: emy.gr
The city sits in a river corridor that traps the heat, and most summers bring a run of days when the Presqu'ile is unwalkable in the afternoon.
Source: vigilance.meteofrance.fr
The Sassi are cut into a south-facing tufa gorge with almost no shade and stone that holds the day's heat into the night.
Source: protezionecivile.gov.it
When the sirocco comes off North Africa the city sits under dust-hazed African air for days at a time and the markets close by noon.
Source: protezionecivile.gov.it
The city shuts itself behind shutters from lunchtime and comes out after nine.
Source: aemet.es
South-east Sicily records some of Europe's highest temperatures when the sirocco pushes up from Africa, and the archaeological park has no shade at all.
Source: protezionecivile.gov.it
A closed gulf and a city of concrete make July and August heavy rather than merely hot, and the still nights are the hard part.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Flat, humid and airless in high summer, which is exactly why the Arena performances start at night.
Source: protezionecivile.gov.it
Siena is a hill town with brick that holds heat and a shadeless main square.
Source: protezionecivile.gov.it
Humid heat off the Caspian sits on the old city, and anyone who can leaves for the peninsula or the mountains at Quba.
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
Bavaro and Macao face east into the drift and take the brunt of it; hotels rake at dawn and the sheltered coves clear faster.
Source: caricoos.org
The east and south-east coasts collect the weed through the summer, and the smell as it rots keeps people off Bathsheba and Crane for days.
Rafts of brown seaweed pile up on the east-facing beaches, worst between May and August.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The windward coast around Vieux Fort and Micoud takes the weed and the smell that comes with it.
The east shore and the Split collect weed through the summer and crews rake it at dawn.
The south and east shores catch the drift and the bays that hold it smell for a week at a time.
The east-facing side takes the seaweed and the smell that comes with it once it rots.
Source: optics.marine.usf.edu
The drift piles up on the Atlantic-facing east and north shores; Great Bay in front of town faces south and usually escapes it.
Source: caricoos.org
The long east-facing beach collects weed through the summer and the hotels rake their own stretch.
Source: optics.marine.usf.edu
Brown seaweed piles up on the east-facing sand, worst from May to August.
Source: optics.marine.usf.edu
The north-facing beaches around Las Terrenas and the peninsula's eastern end take the weed.
Some years the Atlantic drift piles brown weed on the east-facing beaches for weeks and the hotels rake it off each morning.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The city beaches at Condado and Isla Verde usually get off lightly; the east coast towards Fajardo and the offshore cays take far more.
Source: caricoos.org
…and 422 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.