SeasonMapWhat's on around the world in May
In May, 1688 seasonal things are on across 1000 destinations: 258 natural spectacles, 834 seasonal conditions, 215 festivals and cultural dates, 184 mass holidays and 197 hazard seasons. The seasons doing the most work this month: Summer season opens, Dry season and Off-season shutdown. Every entry links to that place's full May climate breakdown.
Things to travel for
Blossom, foliage, whales, the light itself — the short windows worth booking a month around.
The beech slopes under Fitz Roy go red and copper for about five weeks, with the first snow on the tops behind them.
The pillars are green to the base and the footpaths between the monasteries are at their best before the plain heats up.
Trillium, larkspur and Virginia bluebells through the hardwood above the cave in April, before the canopy closes.
Source: nps.gov
The southern beech on the mountainsides goes red and orange through April, on empty trails, with the first snow already on the peaks above.
The beech on the Siete Lagos road goes yellow and red for about six weeks, with the lakes still flat and the town emptied out.
The Missouri Botanical Garden's Japanese garden, one of the largest in the west, runs cherry and then azalea and iris through April.
The trails around Toushe and the lake's quieter southern shore fill with them for about six weeks in spring.
The garden tulip came from these mountains, and the wild Greigii and Kaufmanniana still come up red on the slopes above the city alongside the poppies.
The Sentiero dei Fortini and the walk up Monte Solaro are at their best when the broom and rock rose are out, before the day boats arrive in numbers and while the light is still soft.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The terraced gardens at Tremezzo are planted for exactly these six weeks, and the show peaks around the end of April before the summer coach traffic arrives.
The cherry avenue across the Meadows comes out for a fortnight in April and the students treat it as the first day of summer, whatever the temperature says.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The orchards along the Indus at Nubra, Sham and Turtuk flower before the passes open, which is the argument for coming early and flying in rather than driving.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The poplars and larches in the old gold town turn through late April, which is the one thing every New Zealander drives here for out of ski season.
Alishan holds about a third of Taiwan's fireflies and the peak is a few weeks from mid-April.
Source: ali-nsa.net
The English trees in Hagley Park and along the Avon turn through late April, which is what the garden city was planted for.
The planted larches and poplars around the church and along the canal road go gold through late April, against water that stays the same improbable colour all year.
The vines go yellow and red after the picking, with the Andes white behind them, and the wineries are quiet enough to walk into.
Moss phlox planted in bands under the mountain, with the peak usually in the first half of May.
Source: shibazakura.jp
The city was planted with northern-hemisphere trees, so the older suburbs and the arboretum turn through late April.
Australia's only native deciduous tree turns rust and gold around Crater Lake for about a fortnight from late April.
The exotics in the Fitzroy and Botanic Gardens and up in the Dandenongs turn through late April, which is the one thing this city's European planting gets right.
The Pacific dogwoods flower white through the valley floor forest for a few weeks from mid-April, at the same time as the waterfalls are loudest and the high country is still shut.
Source: nps.gov
The lakefront funnels migrants into a few acres of scrub at Montrose, and on a good May morning the Magic Hedge holds more warbler species than most states see in a year.
Source: chicagoparkdistrict.com
Three million bulbs along the island roads and a parade of antique cars out to Siasconset for a tailgate picnic, on the last weekend of April.
Source: daffodilfestival.com
The Somei-Yoshino grove in High Park peaks for four to ten days, usually at the turn of April into May.
Hokkaido gets both at once, usually in the first half of May, a month behind Tokyo, and Maruyama Park does hanami with lamb on a grill.
The mixed-grass prairie is green for about six weeks and the bison calves are out on Sage Creek.
The horse chestnuts on the city's own arms come out in the first half of May, along Khreshchatyk and down the Dnipro slopes, with the lilac at Hryshko a week behind them.
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
The island's flame trees turn the roadsides orange for about six weeks in late spring.
A million bulbs along Dow's Lake, descended from the wartime gift the Dutch royal family sent back.
Source: tulipfestival.ca
The Sunday after Mother's Day turns the whole market over to bedding plants and draws a crowd that has nothing to do with tourism.
Source: easternmarket.org
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
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
The island's own dwarf rhododendron flowers along the high ridges as the low ground goes into the rainy season.
For about a fortnight in late May and early June the fireflies at Elkmont flash in unison.
Source: nps.gov
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
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 218 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 Uganda Wildlife Authority discounts the gorilla permit in April, May and November, which are the wettest months here.
Source: ugandawildlife.org
April and May are the mornings balloons actually get off the ground; operators fly most days and the valleys are green rather than dust-coloured.
The heavier of the two wet spells: clear mornings on the reservoir, cloud on the Piedra by two and a downpour after it.
Trails above about 2,500 feet are asked to stay empty through the spring thaw, when the tread is saturated and walking it destroys it.
Source: adk.org
The dry valley greens up for a few weeks and the afternoon storms come over the ridge; it is the quietest stretch of the year and the guest houses discount for it.
A world tour surf event held over a waiting period at Main Break and The Box, so the day it runs is called each morning.
Source: margaretriver.com
The offseason between closing day and the Maroon Bells opening: restaurants take their holiday, hotels close floors, and the trails are still under snow above 3,000 metres.
Source: aspensnowmass.com
The ski areas shut through the second half of April and the valley goes quiet again until the summer lifts start in June.
Source: chamonix.net
Between the last lift and the dry trails, the dirt roads turn to soup and a fair share of the village shuts for a few weeks.
Source: gostowe.com
Between the last lift and the dry trails the town half closes, and the gondola shuts for several weeks of maintenance in both spring and autumn.
Source: telluride.com
Resorts, charter flights and the Paleokastritsa boats restart around Easter, and the island is at its greenest for the six weeks before the heat arrives.
Source: visitgreece.gr
When the valley runs close, the Zugspitze glacier keeps a handful of lifts turning into May.
The snow comes off the meadow weeks before the summer trade arrives.
Naoussa's harbour tavernas, the Antiparos crossing and the fast boats from Piraeus all restart around Easter.
Source: imagine.paros.gr
The road system is ploughed open in phases from the third week of April, with the high passes last in late May.
Source: nps.gov
After the lifts stop the village empties: hotels take their annual break, the high trails are still under snow and the Jungfraujoch railway is the main thing still running.
Source: grindelwald.swiss
The clubs, the beach clubs and most of the island's restaurants all open across three or four weekends from late April.
Source: ibiza.travel
Between the last ski day and the first walking one the lifts stop, the huts are shut and a good share of the hotels close for maintenance.
Source: nordkette.com
Several hundred working horses are barged over from the mainland farms in spring and go back in late autumn, so the drays, taxis and everything that comes with them arrive inside a fortnight.
Source: mackinacisland.org
The Damask roses south of the Atlas are picked at dawn through late April and May, and Kelaat M'Gouna holds its rose festival at the height of it.
The weeks between closing day and dry trails: lifts stopped, half the restaurants shut for their own holiday, and snow still lying above the treeline.
Source: visitparkcity.com
Hotels, the Koukounaries beach bars and the caiques round to Lalaria all restart through May, as do the charter flights that make up most of the island's arrivals.
Source: skiathos.gr
Between the lifts closing and the trails drying, half the village shuts and the rest cuts its hours.
Source: discovervail.com
Ferries go back to a full schedule and the hotels reopen through late April and May, a few at a time.
Source: sheplersferry.com
The Dades valley picks its damask roses through late April and May and marks the end of it with three or four days of parades and market stalls an hour up the road.
Source: journeybeyondtravel.com
The muscatel picking, and the one the auction houses actually pay for.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The marine layer sits over the coast until early afternoon most days while the valleys are already hot.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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.
The marine layer sits over the coast most mornings in late spring and often does not burn off at all.
Tropea has a short, hard season.
Source: comune.tropea.vv.it
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
From the closing concert to midsummer almost everything shuts: lifts, most hotels and the restaurants.
Source: ischgl.com
The islands enter the rain front about a month before the mainland and leave it about a month earlier.
Between the lifts shutting and the summer opening, Pradollano is a shuttered village of empty apartment blocks.
Source: cetursa.es
Lifts stop, hotels close and the Oetztal is a valley with a main road through it for six weeks.
Source: soelden.com
The front reaches northern Taiwan first, usually in the first half of May.
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
…and 794 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.
On the first Sunday after Orthodox Easter the horsemen of Schei ride out in embroidered costume, through the old town and up to Solomon's Rocks, where the party runs to the evening.
Source: ro.wikipedia.org
The big week ends with J'ouvert before dawn and the Adults' Parade through town, with free nightly shows in the Carnival Village either side of it.
Source: prnewswire.com
A month of it, not a weekend: the village by the Great Salt Pond opens in April and runs nightly until King Momo is burned in early May.
Source: thedailyherald.sx
Three five-day phases of the world's largest trade fair, and the reason a hotel room in Guangzhou can cost four times its usual rate in late April.
Source: cantonfair.org.cn
The 23rd day of the third lunar month at the A-Ma Temple below the Barra: incense by the armful, Cantonese opera on a bamboo stage built for the week, and the fishing families back in town for it.
Source: macaotourism.gov.mo
The spring fair on the Theresienwiese: two tents, a flea market and fireworks, in the same place as Oktoberfest at a fifth of the scale and without the reservations.
Source: muenchen.de
A fortnight of publishers, readings and queues at Corferias, with a guest country and half a million visitors.
Source: bogota.gov.co
The island's oldest festival, held in the inland village of El Cedral around the Fiestas de Santa Cruz in late April or early May: bullfights, rodeo, dancing and the only time the interior gets busy.
Source: thisiscozumel.com
Two long weekends at the Fair Grounds at the turn of April into May, gospel tent and brass bands as much as headliners.
Source: nojazzfest.com
The largest book fair in the Spanish-speaking world takes over La Rural for three weeks, and the city fills with readings and queues that have nothing to do with tourism.
Source: turismo.buenosaires.gob.ar
Pharrell's festival on the oceanfront in late April, back in the city after a spell away.
Source: vabeach.com
The closing weekend is a festival: music in the village, slush on the lower slopes and people skiing in fancy dress.
Source: skistar.com
The main stage sits on the causeway at Pigeon Island, with free fringe shows around Castries and Soufriere for a week and a half.
A weekend of military and civilian display flying straight off the beach, free from the sand between Las Olas and Sunrise.
Source: air.show
A month of flower carpets, kiosks and two allegorical parades down the seafront, timed to when the island's gardens are at their fullest.
Source: visitmadeira.com
Held around Buddha's Birthday on a car-free island an hour out by ferry: floating-children parades in the afternoon, bun-tower scrambling overnight.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The season ends with a stadium-sized act playing at 2,300 metres on the Idalp, free with a lift pass, in ski boots.
Source: ischgl.com
The fish traders carry carved dragon heads through the streets of the old town on the eighth day of the fourth moon, spraying rice wine as they go, and hand out longevity rice afterwards.
Source: macaotourism.gov.mo
Lanterns hang through the temple courtyards for weeks and a parade fills Jongno on the weekend before Buddha's Birthday, which is usually in May.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Sarnath, where the first sermon was given, takes a procession and pilgrims from across Asia on the May full moon.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Usually the first Sunday in May, running from Stormont into the centre and taking a long east-west line of the city out of use for most of the morning.
Source: belfastcitymarathon.com
Race weekend on the first Sunday of May, crossing into Kentucky and back and climbing out of the basin through Eden Park.
Source: flyingpigmarathon.com
Flower-covered crosses go up in the squares at the start of May, each with a bar beside it, and the city drinks outdoors for four nights.
Source: cordoba.es
Closed-road stages through the mountains on the May bank holiday weekend, running since 1979.
Source: rallyofthelakes.com
Three days in Tom Lee Park on the river, the first weekend of May, and the opening act of Memphis in May.
Source: memphisinmay.org
Student caps go on, the Havis Amanda statue is washed and capped on the evening of the 30th, and the whole city picnics in Kaivopuisto on the 1st whatever the weather.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
England's largest arts festival outside Edinburgh takes the whole of May, with a guest director each year and an open-houses trail of artists' front rooms alongside it.
Source: brightonfestival.org
On 1 May the saint is carried out of the city towards Nora behind thousands of Sardinians in the costume of their own village, and the whole island turns up to watch it pass.
Source: festadisantefisio.it
For a fortnight the private courtyards of San Basilio and Santa Marina open free to anyone who queues, planted and watered for the competition.
Source: turismodecordoba.org
Flower crosses in the squares of the Realejo and the Albaicin on 3 May, each with a bar and a sound system beside it.
Source: granada.org
The first of May is Lei Day, with a lei contest, hula and music at Kapiolani Park.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Three days out of Santa Cruz harbour at the start of May, run on catch-and-release for the billfish, and the one weekend of the year the marina is genuinely full.
Source: huatulco.gob.mx
The first Saturday of May, one of the largest half marathons in the country, and the only day of the year 30,000 amateurs get to run a lap of the Speedway oval.
Source: 500festival.com
Three days of music at Beluga Lagoon near Portree in early May.
Source: skyelive.co.uk
A marathon run in the evening on a Saturday in May, through the upper town and out onto the Kirchberg plateau, finishing long after dark.
Source: ing-night-marathon.lu
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
Magdalen choir sings from the top of the tower at six in the morning on 1 May and several thousand people stand on the High to hear it.
Source: oxford.gov.uk
Forty thousand people run ten miles straight down Broad Street on the first Sunday in May, which shuts the city's main north-south road and the subway above ground until early afternoon.
Source: broadstreetrun.com
Usually the first Sunday in May.
Source: thepittsburghmarathon.com
The students' week: a serenade on the cathedral steps at midnight to open it, then a costumed cart parade through the middle of town and a week of concerts by the Queimodromo.
Source: queimadasfitas.org
…and 175 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.
Baskets of paska and painted eggs are blessed outside the Lavra and St Sophia at first light on Easter morning, the one service the curfew is stood down for.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The city empties to the villages for the long weekend.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
A fortnight of pilgrimage to the cathedral in spring, with a food and trinket market taking over Place Guillaume for the duration and a closing procession through the streets.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Japan's run of public holidays at the turn of April into May fills Waikiki, the outlet buses and the Diamond Head trail the way nothing but Christmas does.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Japan's run of public holidays at the turn of April fills the direct flights and the Garapan hotels, and Korean breaks do the same in shorter bursts.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Reunification Day and May Day run together into the year's biggest domestic travel block, and the central coast beaches are where the country goes.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Hanoi drives to the coast for the long weekend and Bai Chay is solid.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The long weekend sends the whole country on the road, and Hue is a stop on the way to the central beaches.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The long weekend puts the whole country on the road and this coast is where much of it goes.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The country's biggest domestic travel block, and the island is now one of its main destinations.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Tens of thousands walk the desert road to the sanctuary at Chapi through the night of 30 April, many of them the whole 45 km from the city.
Source: es.wikipedia.org
Two long weekends back to back put the whole Baksan valley on the spring snow at once; the Azau cable car queues and the huts on the mountain fill with domestic groups.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The lakeside road becomes a single line of stationary cars.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Tokyo's nearest hot-spring valley in the country's busiest travel week.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The shinkansen from Tokyo made Kanazawa a Golden Week destination.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Russia runs two public holidays into one long break at the start of May, and the valley fills for the last of the snow at the top and the first of the trails below it.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Four national holidays in a row and the whole country travelling.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Five days when the mainland travels and Macau is one of the places it goes.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The first week Kamikochi is properly open, so the Sawando bus terminal queues from six in the morning and the castle keep runs a two-hour wait.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Two hours from Tokyo, which is the problem.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Four national holidays in a row and the entire country on the move.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Two public holidays run into one break at the start of May and the coast takes its first full weekend of the year.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Four national holidays in a row put the whole country on the move.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Walpurgis night runs into a public holiday of street parties and demonstrations around Oranienstrasse and Görlitzer Park.
Source: visitberlin.de
Two public holidays run together, so the whole country moves at once.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The longer of the two Eids, several days of it, and residents leave in bulk through the airport.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The year's second mass-travel week after Spring Festival: domestic tourists fill the Wall, the Forbidden City sells out its cap for days, and train tickets go the hour they release.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Hongya Dong and the Liziba monorail station draw domestic crowds all year and unmanageable ones over the May break; the queue for the cable car runs to hours.
Source: china-briefing.com
The march across the Plaza de la Revolucion starts around dawn and the city is closed to traffic for the morning.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Several days of public holiday when Maldivians travel home between islands, so ferry seats and seaplane slots go to residents first.
Source: officeholidays.com
The pilgrimage ends at Eid and the kingdom takes several days off with it.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
A national holiday, so shops are shut and transport runs a Sunday timetable.
Source: muenchen.de
Three or four public days land in the month and Parisians bridge them into long weekends.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The other national travel week, and in a good-weather month it is worse than October in the centre.
Source: china-briefing.com
Two minutes of national silence at eight on the evening of the 4th, trams and all, then free festivals across the city on the 5th.
Source: bevrijdingsfestivals.nl
Utrecht runs one of the fourteen national liberation festivals on 5 May, free and all day across the parks and the centre.
Source: bevrijdingsfestivals.nl
Dozens of colleges graduate within a fortnight in May and every family in America books a room.
Source: patriotledger.com
The largest public day of the year here, with a parade, closed streets in the centre and fireworks over the Pregolya.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
A parade on Palace Square, the centre closed to traffic from early morning, and fireworks over the Neva at night.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
…and 144 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 on a flat, north-flowing river backs water up across the valley most springs, and the floodway around the city was dug for exactly this.
Source: gov.mb.ca
The birch count runs high for about six weeks in spring, right as the outdoor tables come back out.
Source: astma-allergi.dk
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
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
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
The fortnight the Tamil almanac names as the hottest of the year, and the city agrees with it.
Source: internal.imd.gov.in
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
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.
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
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.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Heat advisories start in late March and the middle of the day goes indoors until the rains break.
Source: mausam.imd.gov.in
Late-afternoon squall lines come out of the northwest through the hot months, drop the temperature in minutes and take trees and hoardings down with them.
Source: mausam.imd.gov.in
…and 157 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.