What's on around the world in March
In March, 2621 seasonal things are on across 1307 destinations: 358 natural spectacles, 1034 seasonal conditions, 325 festivals and cultural dates, 593 mass holidays and 311 hazard seasons. The seasons doing the most work this month: Easter & Holy Week, Ramadan & Eid and Off-season shutdown. 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 Tidal Basin's Yoshinos hold peak bloom for four or five days, usually in the last week of March.
Source: nps.gov
The front usually reaches Tokyo in the last week of March and peaks in the first days of April.
Also in Kyoto, Fukuoka, Kagoshima and 5 more in Japan
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The herds drop most of their calves on the short-grass plains at Ndutu, in the conservation area's western corner, and the predators concentrate on them.
Close to half a million calves drop in a three-week burst on the short-grass plains around Ndutu, and every predator in the ecosystem is there for it.
Whale sharks feed along the outside of the reef from March into August, spotter plane overhead and a licensed boat below.
The commercial fields between here and Haarlem run daffodils, then hyacinths, then tulips, and Keukenhof opens on the same clock.
Source: keukenhof.nl
Boats leave the harbour before dawn for the shelf edge an hour or two out, and sightings are close to routine between December and March.
Plankton in the straits brings reef mantas onto the cleaning stations around Dampier and Arborek, densest in the first months of the year.
Also in Labuan Bajo in Indonesia
The overwintering colonies at El Rosario and Sierra Chincua sit two to three hours east of the city.
Sitting on the Arctic Circle, the lights are a regular event rather than a rare one from late August to April.
Dark enough to see them from roughly September to mid-April, cloud permitting, which is the part nobody can book.
Thousands of plum trees flower around Dazaifu Tenmangu, half an hour from central Fukuoka, from mid-February, with the sacred Tobiume tree first.
Source: dazaifutenmangu.or.jp
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.
Plum first, then cherry along the residential streets of Fairfield and Oak Bay, usually peaking in the second half of March.
Also in Vancouver in Canada
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.
Also in Córdoba, Spain, Valencia in Spain
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 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.
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
Qinglong Temple, where the Japanese monk Kukai studied, has hundreds of cherry trees that flower from late March.
Source: xa.bendibao.com
Four weeks of programming fixed to a calendar, around a bloom that is not.
Usually peaking mid-April, best in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Japanese collection and along the reservoir in Central Park.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Three weeks of walks, picnics and a Japan fair at VanDusen built around the trees, and the reason the city treats blossom as a season rather than a week.
Source: vcbf.ca
The world's largest single flower opens in the forest above the park headquarters for three to five days at a time in the dry months.
Humpbacks calve in the shallow water round the Kerama islands from the new year, and the boats out of Naha and Zamami run daily through the season.
Source: visitokinawajapan.com
Olive ridleys come ashore on the beaches north and south of town through the first months of the year.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The Tanneron hills behind Cannes go yellow with mimosa in winter, and neighbouring Mandelieu-la-Napoule holds its Fete du Mimosa with flower parades in mid-February.
Source: routedumimosa.com
Thousands of North Atlantic humpbacks calve in Samana Bay, and the environment ministry opens and closes the watching season by decree each year.
Thousands of North Atlantic humpbacks calve and court in the bay and the season is fixed by law from 15 January to 30 March.
Source: visitdominicanrepublic.com
The short grass plains around Ndutu and the southern Serengeti, reached on safari from Arusha, fill with newborn wildebeest calves and the predators that follow them; camps here book out well before the February peak.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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.
The tail of the dive season at Richelieu Rock and Koh Bon, when the plankton is up and the big animals follow it.
…and 258 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 Siq and the Treasury are lit by candle bags five evenings a week, Sunday to Thursday, ticketed separately from the day pass and not included in it.
Source: visitpetra.jo
Operators fly at sunrise only, from around the Thadingyut full moon to the first week of April, and stand down for the rains.
Source: balloonsoverbagan.com
The trail opens again on 1 March, into the greenest and least crowded weeks of the year.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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.
Pickers work the steep tea gardens above the cloud line for the spring flush, prized as some of Taiwan's most fragrant oolong; roads through the plantations get busy with buyers before it tapers off by late April.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The watch industry's biggest fair takes over Palexpo for a week each April, with public days at the end.
Source: watchesandwonders.com
The valleys inland pick through February and March into early April, and the estates run harvest festivals and grape stomping alongside it.
Picking runs from mid-February into April, earliest in the warm east and latest up in the Uco Valley.
The best window on the sandstone: cool rock, long days and the wadis still green in a good year.
Source: jordantrail.org
The big-wave contest is called on 24 to 48 hours' notice when the forecast clears about twelve metres, so the town can go from empty to sold out inside a day between October and March.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The heritage and culture festival out at Al Wathba runs from the start of November to late March, with country pavilions and fireworks most nights.
Source: mediaoffice.abudhabi
The outdoor skating rink around a giant Christmas tree in the glass-towered PPG Place plaza opens in mid-November and stays open, weather permitting, until about the start of March.
Source: therinkatppgplace.com
Tarocco and moro oranges come off the volcanic plain north of the city through winter, which is the argument for eating here between January and March.
The high lakes set solid from about the turn of the year, and the road out to Pangong runs on cleared snow when it runs at all.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Nordic tour skating on frozen lakes, Lake Malaren and, in cold winters, the archipelago.
Source: visitstockholm.com
Tivoli opens for the summer at the end of March and shuts in the third week of September.
Source: tivoli.dk
The open-air pavilion park reopens in mid-October and runs to late May, which is as good a marker as any for when Dubai becomes an outdoor city again.
Source: globalvillage.ae
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.
Sugar bushes east of the city and across the river in the Outaouais open for pancake breakfasts and maple taffy on snow.
Source: ottawatourism.ca
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.
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 leading international amber and jewellery fair fills AmberExpo for three days each spring.
Source: amberif.pl
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.
Also in Cusco in Peru
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
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.
…and 831 more in this group. Open any destination's page for its own month-by-month calendar.
Festivals & culture
The festivals a place is known for, and the weeks the streets belong to them.
A 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
A month of open-access shows in tents and temporary venues around the East End.
Source: adelaidefringe.com.au
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
A daytime gunpowder concert in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento every day from 1 March, then on the night of the 19th several hundred enormous sculptures are burned in the streets that built them.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Four days building to the parade down O'Connell Street at noon on the 17th.
Also in Killarney in Ireland
Source: stpatricksfestival.ie
Forty minutes west, the late-afternoon sun throws a stepped shadow down the stairway of El Castillo that finishes at the serpent's head.
Also in Cancún in Mexico
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The season opens on Twelfth Night and builds for weeks; the parades that matter run the eleven days before Fat Tuesday, and the date moves with Easter.
Source: mardigrasneworleans.com
Haad Rin fills once a lunar month, every month, and the island's boats and rooms price around it.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
A day trip to Binche, an hour south-west, for the UNESCO-listed carnival: on Shrove Tuesday the Gilles in wax masks and ostrich plumes dance through town and throw oranges at the crowd.
Source: binche.be
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 February and mid-March.
Source: sixnationsrugby.com
Frankfurt's own carnival is modest; the one to see is in Mainz, about half an hour by train, where the Rose Monday parade fills the old town and trains back are packed.
Source: mainz.de
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
A day trip 27 km south: on Shrove Tuesday the alebrije-carving village of San Martin Tilcajete fills with oil-blackened devils in carved masks and cowbells, plus a mock wedding parade.
Source: oaxaca.gob.mx
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
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
Masks, devils, pancakes and the burning of a straw figure to see winter off, on the Tuesday before Lent.
Also in Kaunas in Lithuania
Source: visitvilnius.lt
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 night of the city's own god.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Temple festival near Mavelikkara, about an hour south by road, where villages haul towering decorated chariots and horse effigies to the goddess.
Source: keralatourism.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
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
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
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.
Also in Scottsdale in United States
Source: cactusleague.com
The red-and-white string tokens of spring are given on 1 March.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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
Holi, the spring festival of colours, is a public holiday across north India.
Also in Delhi, Jodhpur, Kolkata and 5 more in India
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Twenty days at NRG Park with a rodeo and a stadium concert every night, plus a barbecue contest the week before and a trail ride into downtown.
Source: rodeohouston.com
Basantapur and Thamel take the brunt of it and nobody walks through dry.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Hollywood Boulevard closes for the best part of a week around the ceremony, and the hotel and restaurant scene in the middle of the city behaves accordingly.
Source: oscars.org
…and 255 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.
Carpets of dyed sawdust are laid through the night and destroyed within minutes by the men carrying the andas over them.
Also in Tikal, Flores, Guatemala City and 1 more in Guatemala
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Malaga's processions are the heaviest in Spain — thrones carried by two hundred men, moving through the centre from afternoon into the small hours all week.
Also in Seville, Barcelona, Benidorm and 25 more in Spain
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Palm Sunday, the Friday Via Crucis at the Colosseum and the Urbi et Orbi blessing from the balcony on Easter morning.
Source: vatican.va
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
Government offices and most shops close for several days, families go home, and the archery grounds fill from the morning onwards.
Also in Paro, Punakha in Bhutan
Source: bhutan.travel
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
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
Each Sunday of Lent one of the churches walks its own procession, with a velacion in the days before it.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Three days of public holiday after the fast, with a half day before, and often bridged into a longer break.
Also in Izmir, Selçuk, Uludağ and 9 more in Turkey
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The three-day holiday at the end of Ramadan, often stretched into a week off, sends Turkish families on the road and Pamukkale is an easy stop.
Also in Istanbul, Safranbolu, Mardin in Turkey
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Idul Fitri and the cuti bersama days around it make Indonesia's biggest travel week.
Also in Nusa Penida, Manado, Uluwatu in Indonesia
Source: setneg.go.id
Marks the end of the fasting month with a public holiday and the Geylang Serai bazaar and light-up, which draws large crowds for weeks beforehand and stays lit for about a week after.
Source: mom.gov.sg
The end of Ramadan is one of Kashmir's biggest holidays: markets and government offices close for a day or two, mosques fill for morning prayers, and hill resorts like Gulmarg see a surge of domestic visitors.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Two weeks of processions rather than one, starting with the Senor de la Columna walked in from Atotonilco before dawn on the Sunday before Palm Sunday.
Also in Morelia, Acapulco, Mexico City and 10 more in Mexico
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Good Friday is a national holiday and Easter Sunday a day for family lunches.
Also in Cascais, Ericeira, Évora and 14 more in Portugal
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Holy Week here is done in Catalan, not Italian, and the Mysteries processions through the old walls are the reason Sardinians and Catalans both travel for it.
Source: sardegnacultura.it
Holy Week and the Easter week after it are Mexico's main spring break: schools close, domestic travellers fill hotels and long-distance buses, rates rise, and many offices and shops shut on Holy Thursday and Good Friday.
Also in Cozumel, Isla Mujeres, Los Cabos and 7 more in Mexico
Source: gob.mx
On the Friday before Palm Sunday the old mine works, plazas and shop doorways fill with flower altars and people hand out ice water and paletas in the street.
Source: guanajuatocapital.gob.mx
Old Town Square and Wenceslas Square take stalls of painted eggs and plaited willow whips for about three weeks around Easter, and the long weekend brings the first proper crowds of the year.
Source: trhypraha.cz
Holy Thursday and Good Friday are national holidays and many Colombians travel for the whole week.
Also in Bogotá, Cartagena, Guatapé and 8 more in Colombia
Source: en.wikipedia.org
On Holy Monday, the day that opens Holy Week, the blackened Christ is carried around the Plaza de Armas under showers of red ñucchu petals, the one procession in Cusco that is entirely for the city itself.
Source: es.wikipedia.org
17 March is a public holiday with a parade in almost every town, followed by music sessions in packed pubs from midday.
Also in Dublin, Killarney, Clifden and 1 more in Ireland
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Five public holidays for the spring new year, with bonfires jumped in the courtyards of the old city on the four Tuesdays before.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Thousands of pilgrims set out from La Paz and El Alto on Holy Wednesday to walk about 140 km to the shrine on Lake Titicaca by Good Friday.
Source: la-razon.com
Corsica keeps its Good Friday rites.
Also in Bonifacio in France
Source: france3-regions.franceinfo.fr
Arequipa's Holy Week processions are among Peru's most elaborate, centred on Yanahuara's centuries-old Procession of the Holy Sepulchre and the Easter Sunday burning of Judas effigies in the plaza; hotels fill early for it.
Also in Aguas Calientes, Lima, Chicama and 1 more in Peru
Source: es.wikipedia.org
Santiago Atitlan brings Maximon out of the cofradia house and carries him through the town in Holy Week, alongside the Catholic processions.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
On Good Friday tens of thousands of purple-hooded cucuruchos walk from San Francisco through the old town, some of them barefoot and carrying crosses.
Source: turismo.quito.gob.ec
Holy Week peaks on Good Friday, a public holiday when shops shut and costumed processions carry life-size statues of the Passion through town.
Source: maltauncovered.com
The spring new year is a three-day public holiday: yurts go up on the squares, cauldrons of nauryz-kozhe are handed out free, and offices and many museums shut for the length of it.
Also in Astana in Kazakhstan
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The equinox new year is the biggest holiday of the year: sumalak stirred overnight in copper pots, music around the Lyabi-Hauz pool, and two days when government offices and banks are shut.
Also in Andijan, Khiva, Samarkand and 1 more in Uzbekistan
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Nine days of chamber music in the churches and the theatre in the run-up to Easter, and the one time in spring the town has a reason to be busy at night.
Source: festivaldepaques-colmar.com
Melbourne's Chinatown marks Lunar New Year with lion and dragon parades, market stalls, and firecracker displays along Little Bourke and Russell Streets, extending to the Lantern Festival; one of Australia's largest Lunar New Year celebrations, with timing that shifts each year.
Source: melbournechineselunarnewyear.com
Two weeks of clan-house open houses and temple queues, ending at Chap Goh Meh when unmarried women throw oranges into the sea at the Esplanade.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The lunar new year is three days of visiting elders, buuz by the hundred and dairy-white food.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Daytime cafés and many restaurants close, offices work short hours, and the city comes alive after the sunset cannon with iftar tables set up in the street.
Also in Alexandria, Dahab, El Gouna and 7 more in Egypt
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Every Friday in Lent, church halls, fire stations and bars across the city serve fish sandwiches with pierogies and haluski.
Source: visitpittsburgh.com
Street bazaars set up across the city every afternoon of the fast and are the best eating of the year.
Also in Penang, Johor Bahru in Malaysia
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The morning Eid al-Fitr prayer in Small Heath Park draws tens of thousands, the largest gathering of its kind in Europe, and the roads around the park shut for a few hours.
Source: greenlanemasjid.org
Eid empties the city onto the beaches at Nyali and Diani for three or four days.
Also in Malindi in Kenya
Source: en.wikipedia.org
…and 242 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.
Also in Vientiane, Luang Namtha, Nong Khiaw and 2 more in Laos
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
This is among the snowiest and windiest cities in the country, and a single storm shut it entirely for a week in 2020.
Also in Halifax in Canada
Source: weather.gc.ca
Saharan dust blows across from Africa a few times each winter and spring, dropping visibility to a few hundred metres and occasionally grounding flights.
Also in Lanzarote, Las Palmas in Spain
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.
Also in Chiang Rai, Pai in Thailand
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
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.
Also in Cairo, Luxor, Aswan in Egypt
Source: en.wikipedia.org
For six weeks in spring the whole city turns yellow: cars, porches, water.
Also in Raleigh in United States
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
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
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.
Also in Incheon in South Korea
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.
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Bukhara sits in one of the dustiest corners of Uzbekistan, and from spring into summer a strong westerly off the Kyzylkum can turn the sky over the old town brown for a day or so.
Source: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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.
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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.
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The wettest and stormiest stretch of the year, with hail, tornado warnings and flash flooding on the creeks.
Also in Memphis, Nashville in United States
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.
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Hot southerly winds pull desert dust over the escarpment for a few days at a stretch in spring, turning the rock flat brown and the light useless for photographs.
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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
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
Gobi dust rides the spring wind up over the city several times a season, turning the sky orange and grounding domestic flights.
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…and 200 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.