What's on around the world in June

In June, 2176 seasonal things are on across 1182 destinations: 255 natural spectacles, 1085 seasonal conditions, 289 festivals and cultural dates, 172 mass holidays and 375 hazard seasons. The seasons doing the most work this month: Sea warm enough, Summer season opens and Monsoon. Every entry links to that place's full June climate breakdown.

Things to travel for

Blossom, foliage, whales, the light itself — the short windows worth booking a month around.

  • 🇺🇸 Badlands National Park

    Prairie wildflowers and calves

    1 May – 30 Jun (usually)Nature

    The mixed-grass prairie is green for about six weeks and the bison calves are out on Sage Creek.

  • 🇺🇸 Maui

    Upcountry jacaranda

    1 May – 15 Jun (usually)Nature

    The road up through Kula towards Haleakala goes purple for about six weeks in late spring, a good enough reason on its own to drive upcountry rather than stay on the coast.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇲🇵 Saipan

    Flame trees in bloom

    1 May – 30 Jun (usually)Nature

    The island's flame trees turn the roadsides orange for about six weeks in late spring.

  • 🇮🇸 Vík

    Dyrholaey closed for nesting

    1 May – 25 Jun (usually)Closure

    The reserve is restricted through the nesting season — the upper road and the lighthouse area shut overnight, and walkers are kept to marked paths by day.

    Source: south.is

  • 🇵🇹 Lisbon

    Jacaranda bloom

    15 May – 20 Jun (usually)Nature

    The avenues around Praca do Principe Real and Avenida Dom Carlos I go purple for a few weeks, usually from the second half of May.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇨🇭 Montreux

    Narcissus on the slopes

    15 May – 10 Jun (usually)Nature

    Wild narcissi cover the meadows above the lake at Les Pleiades for two or three weeks in late spring, which the locals call the May snow.

    Source: narcisses.com

  • 🇯🇵 Yakushima

    Yakushima rhododendron

    15 May – 20 Jun (usually)Nature

    The island's own dwarf rhododendron flowers along the high ridges as the low ground goes into the rainy season.

  • 🇺🇸 Great Smoky Mountains National Park

    Synchronous fireflies

    18 May – 12 Jun (usually)Nature

    For about a fortnight in late May and early June the fireflies at Elkmont flash in unison.

    Source: nps.gov

  • 🇺🇸 Portland

    Rose Test Garden peak bloom

    25 May – 30 Jun (usually)Nature

    Ten thousand plants in Washington Park hit their first and biggest flush from late May through June, then keep going in a thinner way until the first frost.

    Source: portland.gov

  • 🇦🇺 Cairns

    Dwarf minke whales

    1 Jun – 31 Jul (usually)Nature

    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.

  • 🇻🇳 Hanoi

    Lotus on West Lake

    1 Jun – 15 Jul (usually)Nature

    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.

  • 🇺🇸 Mackinac Island

    Lilac Festival

    1–16 Jun (usually)Festival

    Ten days in early June around lilacs that are well over a century old, ending in a horse-drawn grand parade.

    Source: mackinacisland.org

  • 🇦🇺 Port Douglas

    Dwarf minke whales

    1 Jun – 31 Jul (usually)Nature

    The minkes turn up on the Ribbon Reefs for June and July, the only place with permits to snorkel with them.

  • 🇷🇺 Elbrus

    Baksan valley in flower

    10 Jun – 25 Jul (usually)Nature

    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

  • 🇨🇭 Grindelwald

    Alpine meadows in flower

    10 Jun – 20 Jul (usually)Nature

    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.

  • 🇭🇷 Hvar

    Lavender in flower

    10 Jun – 10 Jul (usually)Nature

    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

  • 🇲🇳 Ulaanbaatar

    Steppe in flower

    10 Jun – 20 Jul (usually)Nature

    The grassland turns green and flowers within weeks of the first summer rain, edelweiss and iris across the valleys around Terelj.

  • 🇨🇭 Davos

    Alpine meadows in flower

    15 Jun – 25 Jul (usually)Nature

    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

  • 🇺🇸 Grand Teton National Park

    Valley wildflowers

    15 Jun – 31 Jul (usually)Nature

    Balsamroot and lupine turn the sagebrush flats yellow and blue in late June, with the alpine meadows following into July as the snow leaves.

  • 🇯🇵 Hakone

    Hydrangea train

    15 Jun – 20 Jul (usually)Festival

    Thousands of hydrangeas line the Tozan switchbacks and flower from the bottom of the hill upward over a month.

    Source: hakonenavi.jp

  • 🇬🇪 Kazbegi

    Meadows in flower

    15 Jun – 31 Jul (usually)Nature

    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.

  • 🇺🇸 Yellowstone National Park

    Meadow wildflowers

    15 Jun – 31 Jul (usually)Nature

    Lupine, balsamroot and paintbrush through the Hayden and Lamar valleys from mid-June, later the higher the meadow.

    Source: nps.gov

  • 🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence

    Lavender on the Valensole plateau

    20 Jun – 25 Jul (usually)Nature

    The fields an hour north of town come out in the last days of June and are cut through July.

  • 🇫🇷 Nice

    Lavender in Provence

    20 Jun – 25 Jul (usually)Nature

    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

  • 🇺🇸 Jackson

    Valley wildflowers

    25 Jun – 31 Jul (usually)Nature

    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

  • 🇵🇦 Boquete

    Quetzal nesting season

    1 Feb – 30 Jun (usually)Nature

    Resplendent quetzals nest along the Sendero Los Quetzales and the flanks of Baru through these months, when the males hold territory near the cavities and a guide can usually put you on one before breakfast.

  • 🇿🇲 Livingstone

    Victoria Falls at full flow

    15 Feb – 30 Jun (usually)Nature

    The Zambezi fills from late February and peaks in April, when the spray soaks you on the footbridge and the falls vanish inside their own cloud.

  • 🇿🇼 Victoria Falls

    Lunar rainbow nights

    15 Feb – 15 Jul (usually)Nature

    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

  • 🇵🇭 Bohol

    Whales and dolphins off Pamilacan

    1 Mar – 30 Jun (usually)Nature

    Boats leave Baclayon before six for the deep channel between Bohol and Camiguin.

  • 🇿🇲 Livingstone

    Rafting shuts at peak flow

    1 Mar – 30 Jun (usually)Closure

    The operators pull off the rapids under the falls at high water, roughly March to June, and run a shorter trip from further downstream instead.

    Source: livingstonetourism.com

  • 🇿🇲 Livingstone

    Lunar rainbow nights

    1 Mar – 31 Jul (usually)Nature

    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.

  • 🇰🇪 Mombasa

    Green turtle nesting

    1 Mar – 31 Jul (usually)Nature

    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.

  • 🇵🇷 San Juan

    Leatherback nesting

    1 Mar – 15 Jul (usually)Nature

    Leatherbacks come up the north-coast beaches through spring, and volunteer groups patrol the Pinones and Dorado sand at night.

  • 🇹🇹 Tobago

    Leatherback nesting

    1 Mar – 31 Aug (usually)Nature

    Leatherbacks haul out overnight on Turtle Beach and Stonehaven Bay from March, peak between April and July, and the hatchlings run through August.

  • 🇦🇺 Exmouth

    Whale shark season

    10 Mar – 10 Aug (usually)Nature

    Whale sharks feed along the outside of the reef from March into August, spotter plane overhead and a licensed boat below.

  • 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi

    Hawksbill turtle nesting

    15 Mar – 15 Jul (usually)Nature

    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

  • 🇺🇸 Acadia National Park

    Peregrine cliff trail closures

    15 Mar – 15 Aug (usually)Closure

    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

  • 🇧🇿 Placencia

    Whale sharks at Gladden Spit

    15 Mar – 15 Jun (usually)Nature

    Cubera snapper spawn at Gladden Spit, 22 miles offshore, in the days after each full moon and whale sharks come up under them to feed.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇹🇷 Selçuk

    Storks on the aqueduct

    15 Mar – 31 Aug (usually)Nature

    White storks nest on the Byzantine aqueduct arches in the middle of town and clatter their bills over the tea gardens all spring.

  • 🇬🇧 Aviemore

    Ospreys at Loch Garten

    1 Apr – 31 Aug (usually)Nature

    The Abernethy birds are back on the nest from early April to late August, watched from the RSPB centre down the road.

…and 215 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.

  • 🇮🇳 Darjeeling

    Second flush tea

    1 May – 20 Jun (usually)Nature

    The muscatel picking, and the one the auction houses actually pay for.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇺🇸 Los Angeles

    May gray and June gloom

    1 May – 30 JunSeason

    The marine layer sits over the coast until early afternoon most days while the valleys are already hot.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇺🇸 Milwaukee

    Lake cool and fog

    1 May – 30 Jun (usually)Season

    Late spring is when the cold lake sits against a warm land breeze and pushes fog and a hard temperature drop over the first mile inland.

  • 🇺🇸 San Diego

    May gray and June gloom

    1 May – 30 JunSeason

    The marine layer sits over the coast most mornings in late spring and often does not burn off at all.

  • 🇮🇹 Tropea

    Season opens on the cliff

    1 May – 15 Jun (usually)Opening

    Tropea has a short, hard season.

    Source: comune.tropea.vv.it

  • 🇫🇷 Val d'Isère

    Between the seasons

    4 May – 25 Jun (usually)Closure

    The village shuts almost completely once the lifts stop in early May and stays shut until the summer season opens at the end of June.

    Source: valdisere.com

  • 🇦🇹 Ischgl

    Between-seasons shutdown

    5 May – 20 Jun (usually)Closure

    From the closing concert to midsummer almost everything shuts: lifts, most hotels and the restaurants.

    Source: ischgl.com

  • 🇯🇵 Okinawa

    Rainy season

    5 May – 25 Jun (usually)Season

    The islands enter the rain front about a month before the mainland and leave it about a month earlier.

  • 🇪🇸 Sierra Nevada

    Resort closed between seasons

    5 May – 15 JunClosure

    Between the lifts shutting and the summer opening, Pradollano is a shuttered village of empty apartment blocks.

    Source: cetursa.es

  • 🇦🇹 Sölden

    Between-seasons shutdown

    5 May – 20 Jun (usually)Closure

    Lifts stop, hotels close and the Oetztal is a valley with a main road through it for six weeks.

    Source: soelden.com

  • 🇹🇼 Taipei

    Plum rain season

    5 May – 20 Jun (usually)Season

    The front reaches northern Taiwan first, usually in the first half of May.

  • 🇨🇭 Zermatt

    Between-seasons shutdown

    5 May – 15 Jun (usually)Closure

    May is the one dead month: the ski area drops to the glacier, hotels take their break and the high trails are still under snow.

    Source: zermatt.swiss

  • 🇯🇵 Hakuba

    Between the seasons

    10 May – 25 Jun (usually)Season

    Lifts stopped, snow gone from the valley but still on the passes, and a good share of the hotels and restaurants closed until the walking season starts.

  • 🇯🇵 Miyakojima

    Okinawa's rainy season

    10 May – 25 Jun (usually)Season

    The front sits over the Ryukyus for six weeks before the mainland gets it.

  • 🇯🇵 Niseko

    Between the seasons

    10 May – 20 Jun (usually)Season

    Lifts stopped, snow going, and most of the restaurants and rental shops closed until the summer staff arrive.

  • 🇯🇵 Nozawa Onsen

    Between the seasons

    10 May – 30 Jun (usually)Season

    Lifts stopped and a good share of the inns and restaurants closed until the summer.

  • 🇹🇼 Sun Moon Lake

    Plum rain season

    10 May – 20 Jun (usually)Season

    The front parks over central Taiwan for a few weeks of heavy afternoon rain.

  • 🇧🇬 Sunny Beach

    The resort opens

    10 May – 10 Jun (usually)Opening

    The strip comes back to life through May: hotels reopen in sequence, the beach concessions put the loungers out and the charter flights restart.

    Source: bulgariatravel.org

  • 🇯🇵 Fukuoka

    Tsuyu, the rain front

    5 Jun – 20 Jul (usually)Season

    Northern Kyushu takes the heaviest of the rainy season and the inland valleys are where the warnings land.

  • 🇯🇵 Kyoto

    Tsuyu rain season

    5 Jun – 20 Jul (usually)Season

    The rain front usually reaches Kyoto in the second week of June and sits for a month.

  • 🇮🇳 Mumbai

    Monsoon onset

    5–20 Jun (usually)Season

    The normal arrival date over Mumbai is 11 June, and the whole city reorganises around it within a day.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇯🇵 Osaka

    Tsuyu rain season

    5 Jun – 20 Jul (usually)Season

    The rain front usually arrives in the second week of June and stays a month.

  • 🇳🇿 Queenstown

    Ski fields open

    13 JunOpening

    Coronet Peak and the Remarkables open in the second week of June, with a snow-factory head start on Coronet from late May.

    Source: nzski.com

  • 🇦🇺 Melbourne

    Alpine ski season opens

    6–8 Jun (usually)Opening

    Buller, Hotham and Falls Creek open on the King's Birthday long weekend, two to five hours from the city, on whatever combination of snowfall and snowmaking they have.

    Source: mtbuller.com.au

  • 🇯🇵 Tokyo

    Tsuyu, the rain season

    8 Jun – 20 Jul (usually)Season

    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.

  • 🇨🇳 Hangzhou

    Meiyu, the plum rains

    10 Jun – 15 Jul (usually)Season

    The front sits over the lower Yangtze for a month: warm, close, and wet in long grey stretches rather than storms.

  • 🇨🇳 Huangshan

    Meiyu on the mountain

    10 Jun – 10 Jul (usually)Season

    The wettest weeks of the year.

  • 🇯🇵 Karuizawa

    Tsuyu and the fog

    10 Jun – 15 Jul (usually)Season

    At a thousand metres the rainy season is cloud sitting in the larches rather than downpours.

  • 🇨🇱 Santiago

    Andes resorts open

    14 JunOpening

    Valle Nevado, El Colorado and Farellones aim to open in the middle of June, an hour above the city, and usually run to early October.

    Source: chile.travel

  • 🇨🇱 Valle Nevado

    Valle Nevado opens

    19 JunOpening

    The resort usually turns the lifts on in the third week of June, sometimes on partial terrain while it waits for a storm.

    Source: lugaresdenieve.com

  • 🇰🇷 Jeju

    Jangma, the rain front

    15 Jun – 25 Jul (usually)Season

    The monsoon front hits Jeju before the mainland and the island takes more rain than anywhere in Korea.

  • 🇨🇳 Shanghai

    Meiyu, the plum rains

    15 Jun – 12 Jul (usually)Season

    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.

  • 🇨🇴 Cartagena

    Veranillo dry spell

    20 Jun – 31 Jul (usually)Season

    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

  • 🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche

    Cerro Catedral opens

    29 JunOpening

    The biggest ski area in South America aims to open in the last days of June, snow permitting, and runs to early October.

    Source: catedralaltapatagonia.com

  • 🇰🇷 Busan

    Jangma, the rain front

    25 Jun – 31 Jul (usually)Season

    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.

  • 🇰🇷 Seoul

    Jangma, the rain front

    25 Jun – 31 Jul (usually)Season

    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.

  • 🇺🇸 Joshua Tree National Park

    Spring wind season

    1 Mar – 15 Jun (usually)Season

    Afternoon wind funnels in through the pass at the west end all spring, pulling tents out of the ground at Jumbo Rocks and sandblasting anything belayed in the open.

    Source: nps.gov

  • 🇭🇳 Roatán

    Dry season on the reef

    1 Mar – 31 AugSeason

    March through August is the settled half: the wind drops, the north-shore walls hold their visibility, and boats run every morning.

  • 🇪🇸 Bilbao

    Cantabrian anchovy season

    15 Mar – 15 Jun (usually)Nature

    The spring coastal fishery is short and quota-limited, and while it runs every bar in the Casco Viejo is serving the fresh ones rather than the tinned.

  • 🇪🇸 Menorca

    Cami de Cavalls walking window

    15 Mar – 1 Jun (usually)Season

    The 185 km coast path round the island walks best before the heat and after it, roughly March to May and again from mid-September.

…and 1045 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.

  • 🇮🇹 Naples

    Maggio dei Monumenti

    1 May – 2 Jun (usually)Opening

    For a month the city opens cloisters, crypts and palazzi that are locked the rest of the year, with guided visits run by volunteers.

    Source: comune.napoli.it

  • 🇪🇸 Santiago de Compostela

    Festas da Ascension

    1 May – 5 Jun (usually)Festival

    The city's other fair, forty days after Easter and so usually in May: a livestock fair on the Santa Susana hill, pulpo stalls in the Alameda and a week of concerts.

    Source: santiagoturismo.com

  • 🇱🇦 Vientiane

    Boun Bang Fai, the rocket festival

    1 May – 15 Jun (usually)Festival

    Villages around the capital fire homemade bamboo rockets into the sky to ask for rain, with a good deal of drinking and mud on the ground beneath them.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇪🇸 Madrid

    Feria de San Isidro, Las Ventas

    5 May – 10 Jun (usually)Festival

    Las Ventas runs a card almost every evening for a month, the longest bullfighting feria in Spain.

    Source: las-ventas.com

  • 🇨🇳 Lhasa

    Saga Dawa

    10 May – 20 Jun (usually)Festival

    The fourth Tibetan month is the year's merit month and the Barkhor kora runs day and night.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇨🇿 Prague

    Prague Spring music festival

    12 May – 4 JunFestival

    Opens every year on 12 May, the anniversary of Smetana's death, with Ma vlast at the Municipal House, and runs three weeks.

    Source: festival.cz

  • 🇦🇹 Vienna

    Wiener Festwochen

    14 May – 20 Jun (usually)Festival

    Five weeks of theatre and performance from the middle of May, using the Museumsquartier and a shifting set of borrowed halls.

    Source: festwochen.at

  • 🇹🇭 Chiang Mai

    Inthakin city pillar festival

    15 May – 12 Jun (usually)Festival

    Eight days of flower offerings at Wat Chedi Luang to ask the city pillar for rain, timed to the end of the hot season.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇵🇪 Cusco

    Qoyllur Rit'i

    30 May – 4 JunFestival

    Tens of thousands walk up to a glacier sanctuary above 4,600 metres for three days and nights of dancing in the cold, in the week before Corpus Christi.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇲🇦 Fes

    Fes Festival of World Sacred Music

    15 May – 20 Jun (usually)Festival

    A week of concerts in the Bab Makina courtyard and the old palaces, usually falling between late May and mid-June.

    Source: fesfestival.com

  • 🇬🇧 Manchester

    Whit Friday band contests

    15 May – 20 Jun (usually)Festival

    Brass bands play their way round the Saddleworth and Tameside villages in one evening, contest to contest, until well past midnight.

    Source: saddleworthwhitfriday.co.uk

  • 🇫🇷 Paris

    Roland-Garros

    18 May – 7 JunFestival

    Three weeks of tennis in the 16th, with qualifying from mid-May and the finals in the first week of June.

    Source: rolandgarros.com

  • 🇳🇴 Bergen

    Bergen International Festival

    27 May – 10 JunFestival

    A fortnight of music, theatre and dance from late May, spread from Grieghallen to Hakonshallen and Troldhaugen.

    Source: fib.no

  • 🇬🇧 Birmingham

    Birmingham Pride

    20 May – 1 Jun (usually)Festival

    The late May bank holiday weekend, with a parade from the centre and a ticketed festival site in the Gay Village.

    Source: birminghampride.com

  • 🇬🇧 Bournemouth

    Bournemouth 7s

    20 May – 1 Jun (usually)Festival

    A rugby and netball tournament with a music festival attached over the late May bank holiday.

    Source: bournemouth7s.com

  • 🇺🇿 Bukhara

    Silk and Spices Festival

    20 May – 5 Jun (usually)Festival

    Craft stalls, folk music and a costumed procession fill the trading domes and the Lyabi-Hauz for a long weekend at the end of May.

    Source: advantour.com

  • 🇺🇸 Charleston

    Spoleto Festival USA

    22 May – 7 JunFestival

    Seventeen days of opera, theatre and chamber music in the historic churches and halls, with the free Piccolo Spoleto fringe running alongside it.

    Source: spoletousa.org

  • 🇦🇹 Hallstatt

    Corpus Christi boat procession

    4 JunFestival

    The Thursday procession leaves the church and continues onto the lake in decorated boats, stopping at four blessing stations.

    Source: hallstatt.net

  • 🇧🇴 La Paz

    Fiesta del Gran Poder

    20 May – 20 Jun (usually)Festival

    Tens of thousands of dancers in heavy costume take the streets for a full day, at nearly 3,700 metres, in the biggest folkloric entrada of the year.

    Source: ich.unesco.org

  • 🇨🇾 Limassol

    Kataklysmos

    29 May – 1 JunFestival

    The flood festival takes over the seafront for several days around Pentecost, with stalls the length of the promenade, boat races and improvised verse duels.

    Source: limassol.org.cy

  • 🇲🇨 Monaco

    Monaco Grand Prix

    5–7 JunFestival

    In 2026 the race moves out of its usual late-May slot to the first weekend of June.

    Source: formula1.com

  • 🇨🇦 Montreal

    Canadian Grand Prix

    20 May – 15 Jun (usually)Festival

    Formula One on the island circuit over a weekend in late May or early June, and the loudest weekend of the Montreal year.

    Source: gpcanada.ca

  • 🇲🇬 Nosy Be

    Festival Donia

    20 May – 15 Jun (usually)Festival

    The Indian Ocean's biggest music festival, held around Pentecost: four nights of concerts plus a carnival and pirogue races, with tens of thousands coming over from the mainland.

    Source: festivaldonia.com

  • 🇨🇾 Paphos

    Kataklysmos

    29 May – 1 JunFestival

    The flood festival, kept only in Cyprus, lands on Pentecost and runs for days on the harbour front: stalls, folk singing contests and people throwing water at each other.

    Source: visitcyprus.com

  • 🇺🇸 Portland

    Portland Rose Festival

    22 May – 14 Jun (usually)Festival

    Three weeks from late May: the fleet ties up at the seawall, the CityFair carnival takes the waterfront, and the Grand Floral Parade closes downtown on a Saturday in early June.

    Source: rosefestival.org

  • 🇦🇺 Sydney

    Vivid Sydney

    22 May – 13 JunFestival

    Three weeks of projections and light walks around the harbour from the end of May, on the coldest evenings of the year, with the ferries and Circular Quay solid after six.

    Source: vividsydney.com

  • 🇩🇪 Baden-Baden

    Iffezheim spring meeting

    4–7 JunFestival

    The first of the three race meetings at Iffezheim, twenty minutes out of town, with the thoroughbred sales alongside it.

    Source: badengalopp.de

  • 🇵🇪 Cusco

    Corpus Christi

    3–11 JunFestival

    Fifteen saints and virgins are carried in from the parish churches to the cathedral square and stay for a week, and the city eats chiriuchu on the steps.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇪🇸 Granada

    Feria del Corpus

    30 May – 6 JunFestival

    Granada's own feria, tied to Corpus Christi sixty days after Easter: a tarasca parade in the morning and casetas on the Almanjayar fairground until dawn.

    Source: granada.org

  • 🇨🇳 Guangzhou

    Dragon boat month

    25 May – 25 Jun (usually)Festival

    The delta villages dig their long boats out of the creek mud in early summer and spend weeks visiting each other before the race day itself.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇭🇰 Hong Kong

    Tuen Ng dragon boat races

    19 JunFestival

    A public holiday, with races in the typhoon shelters at Stanley, Aberdeen, Sai Kung and Tai O.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇵🇱 Kraków

    Lajkonik parade

    25 May – 30 Jun (usually)Festival

    A man in a Tatar costume on a hobby horse works his way from Zwierzyniec to the market square, touching people with a mace for luck.

    Source: visitkrakow.com

  • 🇧🇷 São Paulo

    Parada do Orgulho LGBT+

    7 JunFestival

    The largest pride parade anywhere fills Avenida Paulista on a Sunday in June, usually the first.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇪🇸 Seville

    Corpus Christi

    4 JunFestival

    A local public holiday: the silver monstrance and the dancing seises leave the cathedral early in the morning, on streets covered in rosemary.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇪🇸 Tenerife

    Corpus Christi carpets

    11 JunFestival

    La Orotava lays a carpet of coloured volcanic sand from Teide across its town hall square for one day, built over a week and swept away the same evening.

    Source: hellocanaryislands.com

  • 🇩🇰 Copenhagen

    Distortion

    27 May – 7 Jun (usually)Festival

    Street parties move neighbourhood by neighbourhood over five days at the turn of June — Norrebro one afternoon, Vesterbro the next.

    Source: cphdistortion.dk

  • 🇹🇭 Bangkok

    Bangkok Pride

    28 May – 10 Jun (usually)Festival

    Since equal marriage passed, the parade down Rama I has become one of the largest in Asia and the hotels round Siam fill for the weekend it lands on.

    Source: bangkokpride.org

  • 🇺🇸 Detroit

    Detroit Grand Prix

    28 May – 5 Jun (usually)Festival

    IndyCar on a street circuit through downtown at the turn of May into June, back off Belle Isle since 2023.

    Source: detroitgp.com

  • 🇫🇷 Ajaccio

    Saint-Erasme, the fishermen's feast

    30 May – 2 Jun (usually)Festival

    The fishermen carry their patron down to the port at the end of May, and on 2 June the statue goes out into the gulf with a following of boats before the blessing.

    Source: ajaccio.corsica

  • 🇹🇷 Istanbul

    Istanbul Music Festival

    30 May – 30 Jun (usually)Festival

    Classical concerts through June in Hagia Eirene inside the Topkapi walls and in churches and cisterns around the old city, run by the foundation behind the jazz and film festivals.

    Source: muzik.iksv.org

…and 249 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.

  • 🇲🇻 Malé

    Eid al-Adha

    1 May – 15 Jun (usually)Holiday

    Several days of public holiday when Maldivians travel home between islands, so ferry seats and seaplane slots go to residents first.

    Source: officeholidays.com

  • 🇮🇱 Jerusalem

    Shavuot

    15 May – 15 Jun (usually)Holiday

    An all-night study vigil that ends with tens of thousands walking down to the Western Wall for dawn prayers.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇰🇪 Nairobi

    Madaraka Day

    1 JunHoliday

    The 1st of June, marking self-rule, with the national ceremony rotating between county stadiums.

    Source: en.wikivoyage.org

  • 🇮🇷 Tehran

    Muharram and Ashura

    16–25 JunHoliday

    Ten days of black banners, street kitchens handing out food and processions after dark, ending on Ashura when the city closes entirely.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇮🇷 Yazd

    Muharram and the nakhl

    16–25 JunHoliday

    Yazd marks Ashura with the nakhl, a huge wooden bier carried around the square at Amir Chakhmaq.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇺🇸 Honolulu

    King Kamehameha Day

    8–14 Jun (usually)Holiday

    A state holiday on 11 June.

    Source: ags.hawaii.gov

  • 🇮🇶 Baghdad

    Ashura

    25–26 JunHoliday

    Black banners across the city and processions at Kadhimiya.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇷🇺 Moscow

    Russia Day

    12 JunHoliday

    A public holiday on 12 June with concerts in the centre and a fireworks finish, and the start of the summer pattern where the city empties towards the dachas for any long weekend.

    Source: en.wikivoyage.org

  • 🇮🇷 Yazd

    Chak Chak pilgrimage

    14–18 JunFestival

    Zoroastrians from Iran and abroad gather at the cliff shrine north of the city in the middle of June.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇫🇮 Helsinki

    Midsummer

    19–20 JunHoliday

    The city empties for the countryside on Midsummer Eve and almost nothing in town stays open.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇸🇪 Stockholm

    Midsummer

    19–20 JunHoliday

    The city empties for the archipelago and the countryside on Midsummer Eve and shops shut.

    Source: visitsweden.com

  • 🇺🇸 Milwaukee

    Juneteenth Day

    19 JunHoliday

    The country's oldest continuous Juneteenth celebration, going back to 1971.

    Source: visitmilwaukee.org

  • 🇿🇦 Drakensberg

    July school holidays

    20 Jun – 20 Jul (usually)Holiday

    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

  • 🇬🇱 Ilulissat

    Greenland's National Day

    21 JunHoliday

    The 21st of June, the longest day, is the national holiday: flags, national dress, coffee tables laid out in the community hall.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇱🇻 Riga

    Jani and Ligo

    21–25 Jun (usually)Holiday

    The city empties for the countryside on 23 June: bonfires until dawn, oak wreaths, caraway cheese and beer.

    Source: loveriga.com

  • 🇱🇺 Luxembourg

    National Day

    22–23 JunHoliday

    The eve of 23 June is the event: a torchlit parade through the upper town and fireworks off the Pont Adolphe over the gorge.

    Source: visitluxembourg.com

  • 🇪🇪 Tallinn

    Jaanipaev

    22–25 JunHoliday

    Estonia leaves for the countryside for midsummer bonfires and the city shuts on the 23rd and 24th.

    Source: visitestonia.com

  • 🇱🇹 Vilnius

    Jonines

    23–24 JunHoliday

    Bonfires and wreaths on the Neris banks on the shortest night, and a public holiday the next day.

    Source: visitvilnius.lt

  • 🇲🇬 Antananarivo

    Independence Day

    24–27 Jun (usually)Holiday

    The 26th is the national day and the city stops for it: children's lantern processions the night before, a parade in the morning, and everything official shut either side.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇮🇩 Denpasar

    Australian school holidays

    25 Jun – 20 JulHoliday

    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

  • 🇦🇺 Uluru

    Australian winter school holidays

    25 Jun – 20 Jul (usually)Holiday

    The July break lands inside the best walking weather and the resort is the only accommodation for hundreds of kilometres.

    Source: uluru.gov.au

  • 🇦🇺 Hervey Bay

    Queensland winter holidays

    26 Jun – 13 Jul (usually)Holiday

    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

  • 🇨🇩 Kinshasa

    Independence Day

    28 Jun – 2 Jul (usually)Holiday

    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

  • 🇮🇳 Darjeeling

    Hill-station summer season

    15 Apr – 15 Jun (usually)Season

    Kolkata and the plains come up to escape the heat and the Mall, the toy train and the Tiger Hill jeeps are all booked out.

  • 🇸🇦 Jeddah

    Hajj season

    20 Apr – 20 Jun (usually)Holiday

    Millions arrive through the dedicated Hajj terminal in the weeks before Eid al-Adha and leave through it after.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇸🇦 Mecca

    Hajj

    20 Apr – 20 Jun (usually)Holiday

    Five days that move the whole city: Mina, Arafat, Muzdalifah, then the return.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇮🇹 Sirmione

    Bank-holiday crush

    20 Apr – 5 Jun (usually)Season

    On the Italian long weekends at the end of April and start of June a town of eight thousand takes tens of thousands of day visitors, and the queue for the castle drawbridge has run to forty minutes.

  • 🇺🇿 Bukhara

    Kurban Hayit

    25 Apr – 15 Jun (usually)Holiday

    Eid al-Adha is a public holiday of family visits and closed offices, and it moves about eleven days earlier each year.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇪🇬 Cairo

    Eid al-Adha

    25 Apr – 15 Jun (usually)Holiday

    Four days of public holiday when the city half empties towards the coast and the North Coast road is solid.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇯🇴 Dead Sea

    Eid al-Adha

    25 Apr – 15 Jun (usually)Holiday

    Four days of public holiday when Amman comes down to the shore for the day and the resort day passes sell out.

    Source: cbj.gov.jo

  • 🇺🇸 Juneau

    Cruise season

    25 Apr – 30 Sep (usually)Season

    Ships dock nearly every day from late April to the end of September under a daily passenger cap agreed with the town.

    Source: traveljuneau.com

  • 🇳🇴 Ålesund

    Cruise ships in port

    1 May – 20 Sep (usually)Season

    Alesund is the tender port for Geiranger and the ships tie up right below the town.

  • 🇺🇸 Bar Harbor

    Cruise ship season

    1 May – 31 OctSeason

    Ships tender into the harbour from May, and the heaviest calls land in September and October with the leaf cruises.

    Source: mainepublic.org

  • 🇳🇴 Bergen

    Cruise ships in port

    1 May – 20 Sep (usually)Season

    Norway's busiest cruise port takes several ships a day through the summer.

  • 🇬🇷 Corfu

    Cruise days in the old town

    1 May – 15 Oct (usually)Season

    Ships tie up a ten-minute walk from the Liston and the Spianada, so the old town runs on ship hours: heaving from ten to four, and the town's own again by early evening.

    Source: en.wikivoyage.org

  • 🇳🇴 Geiranger

    Cruise ships in the fjord

    1 May – 20 Sep (usually)Season

    Eighty-odd ships a summer anchor off a village of a few hundred people, and the coaches to Dalsnibba leave as soon as the tenders land.

  • 🇲🇪 Kotor

    Cruise season

    1 May – 15 OctSeason

    Ships anchor a hundred metres from the town gate and unload into a walled town you can cross in six minutes.

  • 🇷🇺 Moscow

    Dacha season

    1 May – 31 AugSeason

    From May anyone with a plot outside town is on it at weekends.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇮🇹 Naples

    Ships in at the Marittima

    1 May – 30 Sep (usually)Season

    Cruise calls empty straight onto the Capri and Pompeii runs, so the bottleneck is the Beverello hydrofoil queue rather than the city itself.

  • 🇭🇷 Split

    Cruise season

    1 May – 15 OctSeason

    Ships berth a few hundred metres from Diocletian's palace, so the cellars and the Peristyle absorb the whole of a ship's day trip.

…and 132 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.

  • 🇺🇸 New Orleans

    Formosan termite swarms

    1 May – 15 Jun (usually)Hazard

    On warm still evenings in May the Formosan termites fly in clouds thick enough to clear a restaurant patio and coat every lit window in the Quarter.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇮🇳 Ranthambore

    Pre-monsoon heat

    1 May – 25 Jun (usually)Hazard

    Afternoon drives in May and June are genuinely punishing in an open canter, and the park runs them anyway because that is when the animals show.

    Source: internal.imd.gov.in

  • 🇺🇸 San Antonio

    Flash flood season

    1 May – 15 Jun (usually)Hazard

    The Hill Country upstream turns rain into wall-of-water floods faster than almost anywhere in the country, and late spring is the worst of it.

    Source: weather.gov

  • 🇷🇺 Moscow

    Poplar fluff

    25 May – 25 Jun (usually)Hazard

    For two or three weeks the city fills with white seed fluff off the poplars planted after the war: drifts of it in the gutters, in your eyes, and a fortnight of misery for anyone with hay fever.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇺🇸 Mesa Verde National Park

    Wildfire season

    1 Jun – 15 Jul (usually)Hazard

    The dry weeks before the monsoon are when the mesa burns; fires have closed the whole park more than once.

    Source: nps.gov

  • 🇷🇺 Saint Petersburg

    Poplar fluff

    1–28 Jun (usually)Nature

    Poplar seed drifts down the streets like snow for two or three weeks in June and piles up in the gutters and the metro entrances.

  • 🇪🇸 Sierra Nevada

    Calima on the snow

    15 Feb – 15 Jun (usually)Hazard

    Saharan dust blows north over Andalusia most often in spring, turning the sky orange and leaving the pistes pink.

    Source: aemet.es

  • 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi

    Shamal dust season

    1 Mar – 15 Jun (usually)Hazard

    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

  • 🇸🇦 Jeddah

    Dust and sandstorm season

    1 Mar – 31 Jul (usually)Hazard

    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

  • 🇪🇸 Málaga

    Calima dust

    1 Mar – 31 Aug (usually)Hazard

    Saharan dust rides in on a southerly and turns the sky orange and the parked cars brown for a day or two at a time, most often in spring and again at the height of summer.

    Source: aemet.es

  • 🇮🇶 Baghdad

    Shamal dust storms

    15 Mar – 30 Jun (usually)Hazard

    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

  • 🇩🇴 Punta Cana

    Sargassum on the east beaches

    15 Mar – 31 Aug (usually)Hazard

    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

  • 🇺🇸 St. Louis

    Severe storm season

    15 Mar – 15 Jun (usually)Hazard

    Spring is when the warm Gulf air meets the cold front over the Mississippi valley, and the region sits at the eastern edge of tornado country.

    Source: weather.gov

  • 🇮🇳 Hyderabad

    Deccan summer heat

    20 Mar – 5 Jun (usually)Hazard

    Heat advisories start in late March and the middle of the day goes indoors until the rains break.

    Source: mausam.imd.gov.in

  • 🇧🇧 Bridgetown

    Sargassum on the Atlantic coast

    1 Apr – 30 Sep (usually)Season

    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.

  • 🇲🇽 Cancún

    Sargassum season

    1 Apr – 30 Sep (usually)Season

    Rafts of brown seaweed pile up on the east-facing beaches, worst between May and August.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇱🇨 Castries

    Sargassum on the Atlantic side

    1 Apr – 30 Sep (usually)Season

    The windward coast around Vieux Fort and Micoud takes the weed and the smell that comes with it.

  • 🇧🇿 Caye Caulker

    Sargassum on the windward side

    1 Apr – 30 Sep (usually)Season

    The east shore and the Split collect weed through the summer and crews rake it at dawn.

  • Charlotte Amalie

    Sargassum on the east end

    1 Apr – 31 Aug (usually)Season

    The south and east shores catch the drift and the bays that hold it smell for a week at a time.

  • 🇺🇸 Dallas

    Severe storm season

    1 Apr – 15 JunHazard

    North Texas sits at the southern end of tornado alley and April to early June is when the supercells come through, usually late afternoon.

    Source: weather.gov

  • 🇲🇽 Isla Mujeres

    Sargassum season

    1 Apr – 30 Sep (usually)Hazard

    The east-facing side takes the seaweed and the smell that comes with it once it rots.

    Source: optics.marine.usf.edu

  • 🇸🇽 Philipsburg

    Sargassum on the windward coasts

    1 Apr – 31 Aug (usually)Hazard

    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

  • 🇧🇿 Placencia

    Sargassum on the peninsula

    1 Apr – 30 Sep (usually)Season

    The long east-facing beach collects weed through the summer and the hotels rake their own stretch.

    Source: optics.marine.usf.edu

  • 🇲🇽 Playa del Carmen

    Sargassum season

    1 Apr – 30 Sep (usually)Season

    Brown seaweed piles up on the east-facing sand, worst from May to August.

    Source: optics.marine.usf.edu

  • 🇮🇳 Pondicherry

    Coastal summer

    1 Apr – 15 Jun (usually)Season

    The hottest and stickiest stretch on this coast, with the sea breeze the only relief and afternoons written off.

  • 🇩🇴 Samaná

    Sargassum on the Atlantic side

    1 Apr – 31 Aug (usually)Season

    The north-facing beaches around Las Terrenas and the peninsula's eastern end take the weed.

  • 🇨🇴 San Andrés

    Sargassum on the windward beaches

    1 Apr – 31 Aug (usually)Hazard

    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

  • 🇵🇷 San Juan

    Sargassum drift

    1 Apr – 31 Aug (usually)Hazard

    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

  • 🇺🇸 St. Louis

    Spring river flooding

    1 Apr – 30 Jun (usually)Hazard

    Snowmelt and spring rain up two river systems meet here, and the Arch grounds, Laclede's Landing and the riverboat docks go under in the bad years.

    Source: weather.gov

  • 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv

    Sharav heat spikes

    1 Apr – 5 Jun (usually)Hazard

    A desert wind pushes in for two or three days at a time in spring, taking the humidity down and the temperature up, sometimes with dust off Sinai.

    Source: ims.gov.il

  • 🇲🇽 Tulum

    Sargassum season

    1 Apr – 30 Sep (usually)Season

    Brown weed comes ashore on this east-facing coast from April, worst between May and August.

  • 🇨🇺 Varadero

    Sargassum on the peninsula

    1 Apr – 31 Aug (usually)Season

    Weed lands along the north-facing beach through the summer and each hotel rakes its own stretch at dawn.

  • 🇺🇸 Austin

    Flash Flood Alley

    15 Apr – 15 Jun (usually)Hazard

    Hill Country limestone sheds rain instead of soaking it up, and a spring storm can put the low water crossings under in minutes.

    Source: weather.gov

  • 🇮🇳 Delhi

    The loo and dust storms

    15 Apr – 20 Jun (usually)Hazard

    A hot dry wind off the western desert that carries dust across the plain and can push visibility down for a day.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

  • 🇺🇸 Fort Lauderdale

    Sargassum season

    15 Apr – 30 Sep (usually)Hazard

    The Atlantic seaweed belt pushes ashore from late spring, worst between May and August, and it smells as it rots.

    Source: oceanservice.noaa.gov

  • 🇮🇳 Varanasi

    Plains summer

    15 Apr – 20 Jun (usually)Season

    The Gangetic plain at its worst: the ghats are empty between ten and five and the stone is too hot to sit on.

  • 🇮🇳 Agra

    Pre-monsoon heat

    20 Apr – 20 Jun (usually)Hazard

    The plains bake through May and the marble is too hot to walk on barefoot by mid-morning.

    Source: internal.imd.gov.in

  • 🇮🇳 Jodhpur

    Pre-monsoon heat

    20 Apr – 25 Jun (usually)Hazard

    The edge of the Thar in May: no shade anywhere on the fort ramparts and a dry wind that makes the afternoon worse, not better.

    Source: internal.imd.gov.in

  • 🇮🇳 Jaipur

    Pre-monsoon heat

    25 Apr – 20 Jun (usually)Hazard

    Amber and Nahargarh are open sandstone with no shade on them, and the desert wind off the west makes the afternoons worse rather than better.

    Source: internal.imd.gov.in

  • 🇮🇳 Udaipur

    Pre-monsoon heat

    25 Apr – 20 Jun (usually)Hazard

    The Aravallis hold the heat in the bowl the city sits in, and in a dry year the lakes are low enough to walk out on.

    Source: internal.imd.gov.in

…and 335 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.