SeasonMapWhat's on around the world in March
In March, 2241 seasonal things are on across 1182 destinations: 323 natural spectacles, 984 seasonal conditions, 223 festivals and cultural dates, 447 mass holidays and 264 hazard seasons. The seasons doing the most work this month: Ramadan & Eid, Off-season shutdown and Ski season. Every entry links to that place's full March climate breakdown.
Things to travel for
Blossom, foliage, whales, the light itself — the short windows worth booking a month around.
The gardens behind Rashtrapati Bhavan open to the public for a season each spring, free but ticketed online in advance.
Source: presidentofindia.nic.in
The valleys south towards the Atlas flower first, around Tahanaout and on the road to Ourika, and it is the first sign the mountain passes will open again.
The hillside above the lake flowers weeks before Japan does, and the culture village at the top of the ropeway makes an event of it.
Kitano Tenmangu's grove opens before the crowds arrive for cherry season, and the shrine holds an outdoor tea ceremony on 25 February.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The grove below Osaka Castle flowers from the middle of February, weeks before the cherry crowds arrive and with a fraction of the people.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The orchards north and south of the city go white for about three weeks in late February, which is the one time of year the valley's farmland is worth a drive for its own sake.
Ume comes out a month before the cherries, at Yushima Tenjin and the Imperial Palace gardens, on the coldest and clearest days of the year.
The plain west of the city goes yellow for a few weeks before the tea hills do anything, and the villages around Chongzhou and Xinjin run buses out to it at weekends.
For a week at the end of February the city counts its blossoms in the billions and publishes the number, largely to annoy the rest of the country.
Source: tourismvictoria.com
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 reef releases on the nights after the March full moon.
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.
The old almond orchard under Hari Parbat comes out first, a fortnight before anything else in the valley, and the city walks through it on Sunday afternoons with a flask.
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
Telescopes fill the enormous cobbled plaza for a long weekend in March, with talks, a guest country and a town that turns its lights down for it.
Source: semana.com
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.
Twice a year the sun comes up directly over the central tower as seen from the western causeway, and the pond in front of it is three deep from five in the morning.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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.
…and 283 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 trail opens again on 1 March, into the greenest and least crowded weeks of the year.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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.
Resorts and dive shops come back one at a time through March as the sea settles and the Kuala Besut boats resume.
Source: malaysia.news.yahoo.com
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 rain comes as heavy late afternoons rather than all day, and it puts cloud into the Colca in the mornings.
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.
The beach huts are boarded and the seafront kiosks and cafés cut their hours or close for the winter.
Source: bcpcouncil.gov.uk
Charred spring onions eaten by hand with romesco, in farm restaurants out towards the Emporda.
The avanto — a hole cut in the ice beside a sauna — is what a Helsinki winter is actually for, and the public places are busiest now.
The overcast lifts and Lima decamps to the beach towns south of the city at weekends.
The park office shuts all six routes up the volcano for the wettest quarter every year, on landslide and lightning grounds, and reopens them in April.
Source: en.tempo.co
The water is only really swimmable in January and February, and it stays that way into early March once the crowds have gone.
Cold nights and dry days on the western slopes give the year's most prized picking, and the factories run it separately.
The romanesco comes into the markets after Christmas and stays until spring; it is the one thing every trattoria in the ghetto and Testaccio is judged on.
The trade-wind months, when the rain comes in short bursts rather than by the day and the lagoon on the west side is at its clearest for snorkelling and diving the Grotto.
Storms build over the altiplano through the southern summer, heaviest in February, and the roads up to El Tatio and the high lagoons are shut for a day or two when they do.
Rain here is a handful of storms rather than a season, but a big one cuts the Sesriem road, runs the canyon and puts grass on the dune streets within a week.
This is among the snowiest and windiest cities in the country, and a single storm shut it entirely for a week in 2020.
Source: weather.gc.ca
January to May is the dry half: the tracks into the rainforest reserve stay passable, the water over Buccoo Reef clears, and the Atlantic side calms down enough to swim.
More than 1,500 clubs from twenty-odd countries take over the Belek resort belt for mid-season camps.
Source: turkiyetoday.com
Long-stay visitors from the northern states and Canada fill the condos and the early-evening restaurant tables from January.
The high road east over the Fluela is gazetted shut from early January, later than most Graubunden passes since it was the main winter link before the Vereina tunnel opened, and the Engadine is reached by the car train through Vereina instead until the road clears in April or May.
Source: de.wikipedia.org
This is the largest sledding district in Greenland and the teams work once the bay ice takes, roughly January to April.
Most restaurants, shops and hotels close for the winter and the ferry timetable thins to a handful of crossings.
Source: steamshipauthority.com
Almost eight kilometres of frozen canal is ploughed into something people commute to work on.
Source: ncc-ccn.gc.ca
The Assiniboine and the Red are ploughed into a skating trail from The Forks, several kilometres long in a good freeze, with warming huts commissioned from architects each year.
Source: theforks.com
Once the Christmas market comes down the coaches stop, half the souvenir shops shutter and the towers and museums drop to winter hours.
Source: visitsanmarino.com
The clearest stretch for the mossy forest trails and the Gunung Brinchang road, when the cloud lifts off the ridge for whole mornings rather than an hour.
The best run of the year for actually seeing the cone: it is usually out at breakfast and gone under cloud by mid-morning.
The Atlantic off Ipanema and Copacabana holds its heat well past the summer crowds; the water is at its best in March, when the beaches have emptied.
The trade winds are steady and the rain is at its lightest, which is when the water around the cays is at its clearest.
From mid-January the sagardotegis in Astigarraga open the barrels: you eat cod omelette and chop standing up and catch cider off the barrel yourself.
The Arctic cod come down to spawn and the whole of Lofoten works around it from January to April.
…and 944 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.
Sicily's flower-and-papier-mache carnival runs for about ten days up to Shrove Tuesday in the baroque town fifteen kilometres north, reachable on the local train.
Source: it.wikipedia.org
Two or three Saturdays between early February and mid-March when the Aviva is full and the whole city prices as if it were New Year.
Source: sixnationsrugby.com
Two or three Saturdays between February and mid-March.
Source: sixnationsrugby.com
Puerto del Rosario and Corralejo each run their own week of parades and a burial of the sardine, smaller than Tenerife's but on beaches instead of boulevards.
Source: visitfuerteventura.com
Arrecife and Puerto del Carmen each run a week of parades and a burial of the sardine, with the diabletes masks that belong to Teguise rather than to the other islands.
Source: turismolanzarote.com
Ten days that end on Green Monday with a costumed parade the length of Makarios avenue.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Sasak villages camp overnight on the south-coast beaches to catch the sea worms that spawn on one night set by the traditional calendar.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The diablos cojuelos parade every Sunday in February, loudest at La Vega, and the national parade closes it on Santo Domingo's Malecon at the end of the month.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Dominican carnival runs every Sunday through February and closes on Independence Day at the end of the month.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The island's carnival happens in Ponce, ninety minutes south, in the week before Ash Wednesday: papier-mache vejigante masks, a Sunday parade and the burial of the sardine on the last night.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Five days of floats and grotesque masks in the streets below the city gate, a tradition the Knights already found in place.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Venetian in origin and still masked: weeks of satirical street theatre in the old town, ending with the burning of the carnival king on the last Sunday before Lent.
Source: visit.corfu.gr
A week of satirical singing groups in the centre before Lent, ending with the burial of the anchovy on the beach at Malagueta.
Source: malagaturismo.com
Masks, devils, pancakes and the burning of a straw figure to see winter off, on the Tuesday before Lent.
Source: visitvilnius.lt
Mainland Ecuadorians take the four-day Carnival weekend and the flights from Guayaquil and Quito fill with them.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Eighteen days of rodeo, livestock judging and a country concert every night out at the Frost Bank Center in February.
Source: sarodeo.com
Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims walk in white to the crater lake at Grand Bassin carrying bamboo kanwars.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The old-year festival below the palace: cham dances, then a thread-cross effigy carried out of town to take the year's bad luck with it.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Milan keeps the Ambrosian rite, so its carnival ends on the Saturday after everyone else's Ash Wednesday.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
A fortnight of float parades and flower battles on the Promenade and Place Massena, running at the same time as Menton's lemon festival half an hour along the coast.
Source: nicecarnaval.com
A three-week festival ending in the parade up Oxford Street on a Saturday night, which shuts the eastern approaches to the centre and fills every bed in Darlinghurst.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The night of the city's own god.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Shiva's night draws walking pilgrims up to Neelkanth Mahadev through the hills behind the town, and the ghats and the bridges are shoulder to shoulder from the afternoon before.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
A month of open-access shows in tents and temporary venues around the East End.
Source: adelaidefringe.com.au
The national winter games take the alpine and nordic courses for about a week, with dates fixed late and moved when the snow is thin.
Source: winter.kheloindia.gov.in
Grapefruit League baseball at Ed Smith Stadium through late February and March, on a scale where the players walk past the seats.
Source: mlb.com
Nine days of independent film in late February, in the quiet stretch before the spring crowds.
Source: sedonafilmfestival.com
The city runs its own lantern displays for a fortnight after Lunar New Year, and Pingxi up the branch line releases sky lanterns on two announced nights.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Run on a Friday in late winter along the promenade and through the parks, because by April it is already too warm for it.
Source: tlvmarathon.co.il
The cigar trade's week: factory visits, plantation trips out to Pinar del Rio and a humidor auction at the closing dinner.
Source: habanos.com
Six days of shows split between the Montenapoleone streets and the Tortona sheds.
Source: cameramoda.it
A fortnight of guest chefs, concerts and installations downtown at the end of February, closing with an all-night Nuit Blanche when the metro runs until dawn.
Source: montrealenlumiere.com
One of Europe's older fantasy and horror film festivals, ten days at the Rivoli in the wettest, cheapest part of the year.
Source: fantasporto.com
Fifteen major league clubs play a month of exhibition baseball at ten small parks around the valley, all within an hour of each other.
Source: cactusleague.com
Ten days of winter carnival downtown at the end of February: sled dog sprints on Fourth Avenue, outhouse races, snow sculpture and the running of the reindeer.
Source: furrondy.net
Several days of public teaching at Tsuglagkhang, announced only weeks ahead and free once you register in person.
Source: dalailama.com
A road marathon out of the town stadium with the mountain in front of you for most of it, plus a half and a fun run.
Source: kilimanjaromarathon.com
Deities from temples across the district are carried down to the sea for a ritual bath on the Magam star of the Tamil month of Masi, and the beach road fills from before dawn.
Source: tourmyindia.com
The one night the city dresses up and drinks in the street; Florentin and the Rothschild end of town are the centre of it, and the parties run to daylight.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Eleven days at the end of February built around the Glasgow Film Theatre, with a habit of screening things in swimming pools and car parks rather than cinemas.
Source: glasgowfilmfest.org
…and 183 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.
Uzbekistan is relaxed about the fast and restaurants stay open, but the old town's day reorganises itself around iftar and the tea houses only fill after sunset.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Italy takes its settimana bianca in February and Cortina is where Milan and Venice take theirs.
The one month a year the old city cooks haleem, sold from clay ovens outside every bakery around Charminar from late afternoon.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
German, Dutch and Danish half-terms stack through February and the Silvrettabahn queue is the result.
Source: ischgl.com
German and Dutch half-terms stack through February, which is also when the snow is usually best.
Source: stantonamarlberg.com
Government offices and most shops close for several days, families go home, and the archery grounds fill from the morning onwards.
Source: bhutan.travel
The Tibetan and Sherpa new year is marked at the Ghoom and Bhutia Busty monasteries with masked dances and a week of family visiting.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Three days that matter more in this settlement than in most: monastery dances at the main temple, families in new clothes, and half the Bhagsu cafes shut because their staff are off.
Source: tibet.net
Sultanahmet fills at sunset for iftar and the mosque courtyards are laid with tables.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The Tibetan new year is a family holiday rather than a spectacle: pilgrims walk the Barkhor before dawn, monasteries hold masked cham dances, and a good share of restaurants and shops close for several days.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
On Male and the other inhabited islands cafes close during daylight and alcohol rules tighten further.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Much of the medina closes during the day and the square only comes alive after the sunset call.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Three rotating zones of French school holidays run back to back through February, which is the fullest month of the season: full pistes, full ski school, and Saturday transfers up the valley in convoy.
Source: courchevel.com
Rolling French and Spanish half-terms through February, which is also when the snow is usually deepest.
Source: grandvalira.com
The three zones of French school holidays run back to back through February and it is the fullest month up here.
Source: valdisere.com
Swedish schools take their winter break in staggered weeks through late February, and Are fills with families for all of them.
Source: skistar.com
The final third of Ramadan, when pilgrims come looking for Laylat al-Qadr and the mataf fills to capacity.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
American school breaks stack through late February and March and they land on the deepest base of the season.
Source: aspensnowmass.com
American school breaks stack through late February and March and land on the deepest base of the winter.
Source: discovervail.com
Each Sunday of Lent one of the churches walks its own procession, with a velacion in the days before it.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Weeks of student holidays hitting South Beach in waves, with the city responding in recent years with curfews, closed causeways and towed cars.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Quebec and Ontario school weeks land back to back at the end of winter, and Tremblant is where Montreal takes its children.
Source: tremblant.ca
A long public holiday that fills the Corniche hotels with regional visitors and the beaches with everyone else.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Cairo empties onto the Alexandrian seafront for three days: every beach umbrella taken, the tram crawling, rates up.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Half of Amman drives down for the holiday.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Three or four days when government offices and most shops close and families take the river parks.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Three or four days off that empty the offices and fill the north-coast road, the trains and the parks.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Two days when the city closes almost completely: no cafes, few taxis, and a corniche that belongs to families walking off a long lunch.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
March into early April is the busiest beach stretch of the year, with staggered university and school breaks running back to back.
Egyptian families take the whole strip for the holiday and rooms sell out.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Three days of family visits and new clothes.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Jordanian and Gulf families take the Eid break down here and the shore hotels sell out.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
March into early April brings staggered school and university breaks from across the South, and Highway 98 through town becomes a single slow lane.
A four-day weekend that fills the hotels with regional visitors and the malls with everyone else.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Cairo drives down for the holiday and the lagoons, the marina and every rental are taken.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Two days when the medina shuts and Marrakesh empties onto the beach.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Two days when the souks close and the medina belongs to families in new clothes.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The first real rush of the year, when the rim is comfortable and the inner canyon is not yet dangerous.
…and 407 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
The Urubamba runs high through the wet months and a huaico takes out a stretch of track most years, usually towards Hidroelectrica.
Source: infobae.com
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
Phase 2 and the bowls above it shut for days after heavy snow, and a local advisory goes up most mornings through the winter.
Source: gulmargac.in
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
Middle Tennessee gets its severe weather in spring: squall lines, tornado warnings and the flooding that put downtown under water in 2010.
Source: weather.gov
…and 224 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.