SeasonMapWhat's on around the world in September
In September, 2376 seasonal things are on across 1200 destinations: 345 natural spectacles, 1169 seasonal conditions, 276 festivals and cultural dates, 158 mass holidays and 428 hazard seasons. The seasons doing the most work this month: Sea warm enough, Trail season and Summer season opens. Every entry links to that place's full September climate breakdown.
Things to travel for
Blossom, foliage, whales, the light itself — the short windows worth booking a month around.
The heaths north of the town go purple for about five weeks in late summer, at the same time as the ponies are at their most visible on the open ground.
Source: hiwwt.org.uk
Namaqualand and the West Coast reserves flower after the winter rain, peaking between mid-August and mid-September.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The dune heath in the Braderuper Heide and along the eastern side goes purple from the middle of August for about a month, which is the island at its best on foot.
The yellow ipes come out across the city and the Tijuca forest in late winter, weeks before anything else looks like spring.
The reef spawns on the nights after the late-summer full moons and the shops run boats out at nine or ten.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Bulls bugle on the golf course and the Bow River flats through the autumn and the town fences off the school field.
The Jordan Valley is the funnel for the eastern flyway, and on an autumn morning the thermals carry streams of honey buzzards and storks down the length of it.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Bulls bugle from the golf course and the verges around the townsite through September, and they are genuinely dangerous at close range.
The botanic garden above the city puts on its wildflower month through September, which is also when the roadsides an hour out are worth the drive.
Source: bgpa.wa.gov.au
The park is certified for its night skies and the autumn air after the monsoon is the clearest of the year.
The autumn colour works its way down from Lapland through September.
The dwarf birch and blueberry on the fell tops turn red and gold through September, a fortnight before the first snow.
Bulls bugle through the Hoh and Queets valleys from early September, and the sound carries a long way under that canopy.
The birch forest along the Kemijoki turns through September and the walking trails at Ounasvaara are at their best.
September turns the river valleys of Oulanka gold and it is the busiest the trail gets all year.
Bulls bugle on the lawns at Mammoth through September and rangers cone off the ones that will not move.
The world's largest tidal bore peaks around the eighteenth day of the eighth lunar month, usually late September or early October.
Source: wgly.hangzhou.gov.cn
The aspen along the Athabasca go gold in the second half of September and the larch above the treeline a week or two later.
Bulls bugle in the Moraine Park and Horseshoe Park meadows at dawn and dusk through the autumn, and the traffic jams that follow are managed by rangers.
Source: nps.gov
The Siberian larch on the hills east of the city goes gold for a fortnight before it drops, and the first hard frost usually ends it.
A million bulbs planted in Commonwealth Park for a month from mid-September.
Source: floriadeaustralia.com
Larch Valley above Moraine goes gold for about a fortnight in late September, and it is the busiest trail in the Rockies for exactly those days.
The alpine larches go gold for roughly two weeks around the end of September.
The Bridger ridge carries the largest known golden eagle migration in the lower forty-eight, counted from the ski area every autumn.
Source: bridgerraptorfest.org
The aspens above 2,700 metres turn in the last fortnight of September and the colour works its way down to the foothills by early October.
Daisetsuzan an hour north turns first, from the top of the ropeway down, usually from the third week of September.
The aspens and cottonwoods turn in late September, which is also when the bull elk start bugling at dawn along the Gros Ventre.
The cottonwoods along the Snake and the aspen stands on the benches go gold in the second half of September, which is also when the bulls are bugling at dawn on the park flats.
The stands above the village and along Shrine Pass and Piney Lake road go gold in the second half of September.
The stands on Independence Pass and above Maroon Creek turn in the last week of September, and the Bells reservations for those days go the moment they open.
The sugar maples turn from the last week of September, earliest at the summit and a fortnight later in the valley.
The stands along Guardsman Pass and the Mid-Mountain trail turn in the last week of September.
The stands along Bear Lake Road and up in Kawuneeche Valley turn gold in the last ten days of September, usually a week before the elk rut peaks.
The stags roar and fight through October on the heaths north of town, best at first light.
Source: newforestnpa.gov.uk
The aspen stands along the rim road and up at Rainbow Point turn while the hoodoos are still snow-free — the short window when the park is both empty and colourful.
Source: brycecanyoncountry.com
The birch on the fjord sides goes yellow through late September while the waterfalls are still running.
Cottonwoods along the lakes go first and the western larch turn gold in the first half of October, the one conifer here that drops its needles.
The city is named after the tree and for a couple of weeks in autumn the whole centre smells of it.
Hangzhou's other autumn smell.
Nine evenings when Telangana women build and float tiered flower stacks on the tanks and lakes, singing round them in a circle.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
…and 305 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.
Drum roasters appear outside every supermarket and roadside stand from August, and the whole city smells of it for two months.
The park authority shuts the bay for two months every year so the reef and the beach can recover.
Source: thethaiger.com
Late summer is the only stretch when the Pacific here is worth getting into without a wetsuit, and it lasts into the first half of October.
The water lags the air by about two months, so late August into September is the best of it.
Crowberry, blueberry and cloudberry come on across the tundra in August and the mushrooms follow.
The berry crop on the avalanche slopes brings black and grizzly bears down to trail level for six weeks.
The Pacific here takes all summer to warm up and only gets comfortable without a wetsuit in August and September, which is also when the marine layer has finally gone.
The assyrtiko vines are trained into baskets on the ground against the wind, and they come in early here, usually starting in the first half of August.
The Kucuk Menderes valley behind the town is fig country, and from August the fruit is laid out to dry on trays beside the road.
Kraftskiva runs through August: paper hats, schnapps, songs between courses, and more ceremony than dinner.
Congress goes home, the lobbying and lawyer city empties with it, and downtown restaurants that live on expense accounts run their quiet weeks.
Drum roasters appear in supermarket car parks and the whole town smells of burnt chile skin for six weeks.
The vines grow on limestone rubble on the slopes below Ainos and are picked from late August.
The harvest is marked in the city and, better, up at Estreito de Camara de Lobos, where the grapes are still trodden in public and the year's wine is sold in the street.
Source: visitmadeira.com
The Athiri vineyards on the slopes of Attavyros are picked from late August, and the mountain villages hold their wine feasts once the presses are running.
The city is named for its apples and the local Aport comes off the orchards below the mountains through September, sold by the crate at the Green Bazaar before the imports take over again.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Melons, figs, grapes, pomegranates, walnuts and persimmons pile up in the bazaar from early September, and the courtyard restaurants move their tables back outside once the worst of the heat has gone out of the evenings.
Source: advantour.com
Picking runs through September and into October in the villages either side of town, and the late-harvest grapes hang on longest.
Whitebaiting runs 1 September to 30 October, and every river mouth on the coast grows a line of stands and huts for two months.
Source: doc.govt.nz
Emir and okuzgozu come in off the volcanic soil around Urgup and Uchisar, and the small cellars open their doors.
Plavac mali comes off the south-facing terraces above Sveta Nedjelja in September, some of it from slopes too steep to work with anything but hands.
September and October are the ones to avoid for a beach week: the heaviest rain, the roughest sea, and the highest chance of a cancelled boat trip or a closed Sky Bridge in the cloud.
The vintage runs in the estates up the Tagus and out towards Setubal, close enough to Lisbon to be a day out rather than a trip.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The vineyards start where the tram ends, and picking runs through September in the villages around Clisson and Vallet.
The mountain terraces come good in early autumn: pomegranates, walnuts and the last apricots, sold at the roadside on the way up.
September and October are when the storms stack up and the low streets behind Beach Road flood for an hour or two at a time.
The picking happens up the valley rather than in the city, but this is when the quintas take visitors into the lagares and the train up the Douro is worth the whole trip.
Burcak, the half-fermented young wine, appears on street stalls for a few weeks from early September, and the harvest feasts on the Greboka and castle slopes follow it.
The hill towns south of the city bring in the harvest through September and the frascati towns hold their wine feasts around it.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The wine villages start half an hour south-west and pick through September into October, late harvest last.
The Caribbean lowlands get a break from the rain in September and October, which lands on the tail of the nesting season.
The short stretch after the summer rains and before the heating plants fire up: dry, clear, the steppe gone gold, and the air still clean.
The paddies south of the city are cut through September, and the lagoon is drained and reflooded around it.
Vienna grows wine inside the city limits.
Growers from every Hungarian region fill the Buda Castle courtyards for a long weekend in early September, with the best view in the city included in the ticket.
Source: aborfesztival.hu
The fog lifts after Labor Day, the summer traffic goes, and the coast gets six or seven weeks of the clearest air of the year before the winter rain starts.
The vines above Bakio and Getaria are picked through September and the txakoli cellars along the coast open for it, half an hour out of the city.
Picking runs through September and into October across the Medoc and the right bank.
The harvest holiday empties the city for three days; markets and family restaurants close and the roads and trains out are solid in both directions.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The terraces above the villages are picked with monorails in September and the sciacchetra grapes are laid out to dry.
Source: cinqueterre.it
…and 1129 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.
The seventh lunar month: pagodas in Cho Lon burn paper offerings, vegetarian stalls take over the food streets, and many Vietnamese put off buying a car, a house or a big trip until it is over.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Offerings burn on the pavements of the housing estates for a month and getai stages appear in car parks.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Through the seventh lunar month the Chiu Chow associations raise bamboo theatres in parks and playgrounds for opera, burn paper offerings on street corners and hand out rice at the end.
Source: icho.hk
The seventh lunar month brings street-side altars, joss paper burnt on the kerb and loud getai stages in the housing estates most nights.
Source: visitpenang.com
The seventh lunar month, when offerings are burnt on the pavements and people put off weddings, house moves and swimming.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The morning after Krishna's birthday, govinda troupes go junction to junction building human pyramids to reach a clay pot of curd strung above the street.
Source: maharashtratourism.gov.in
Three weeks of orchestral concerts and an opera, founded by Ozawa and still the reason the town's hotels fill in late summer.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Ten days that belong to the neighbourhoods, ending with idols carried down to Girgaon Chowpatty and into the sea.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The Trinetra Ganesh temple inside the hill fort draws a fair of several hundred thousand over a few days at Ganesh Chaturthi.
Source: ranthambhorenationalpark.in
The old exhibition grounds run a two-and-a-half week fair to Labour Day, which is the end of the Vancouver summer in the same way school is.
Source: pne.ca
An hour north in Palmer, running from late August to Labour Day, and famous for vegetables the size of furniture that the midnight sun grows.
Source: alaskastatefair.org
The largest arts festival in the country runs for a fortnight from mid-August, and the Night of the Arts near the start opens venues across the city free for one evening.
Source: helsinkifestival.fi
The oldest trade fair in the region takes over the airport road for ten days at the end of August, and the central hotels go with it.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The household festival Goans come home for: shops and offices shut, families keep the idol for one, five or eleven days, and the immersion processions fill the river ghats.
Source: goatourism.gov.in
Ten days of pandals ending with the Khairatabad idol, one of the tallest in India, hauled to Hussain Sagar in a procession that takes over the Tank Bund and most of a day and night.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
A one-day festival on the lake at Jabiru at the end of the dry: music, weaving, bush foods, spear throwing and a magpie-goose plucking competition, run by and for the local communities.
Source: mahbililfestival.com
A funfair on the Glacis that has run since the fourteenth century and takes three weeks.
Source: vdl.lu
The August bank holiday weekend, with the Gay Village fenced and ticketed and a free parade through the centre.
Source: manchesterpride.com
The old Pretoria Show at the Tshwane Events Centre in late August: livestock judging and championships at the core of it, with a fairground and exhibition halls built around the edges.
Source: showme.co.za
Eighteen days of midway, food building and air show at Exhibition Place, ending on Labour Day.
Source: theex.com
Tribute bands from forty-odd countries take over Mathew Street and the Cavern for a week around the August bank holiday.
Source: internationalbeatleweek.com
Twelve days ending on Labor Day, on its own permanent grounds between the two cities, and one of the best-attended fairs in the country.
Source: mnstatefair.org
Three weeks out at Flushing Meadows, ending the second weekend of September.
Source: usopen.org
Germany's biggest race meeting, five days at Iffezheim ending with the Grosser Preis von Baden.
Source: badengalopp.de
Pandals go up on every other street corner for ten days and the immersion processions close roads on the last night.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Four days of flying displays straight off the beach at the end of August, free to watch and drawing a crowd in the hundreds of thousands.
Source: bournemouthairfestival.co.uk
Masked dances and the living goddess pulled through Durbar Square on a chariot, over about a week.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
For a week at the end of summer, while one particular star is up, families take to the Lhasa river to wash clothes, hair and themselves and picnic on the bank all day.
Source: tibettravel.org
The autumn fair on the Volksfestplatz for two and a half weeks, with a spring edition around Easter.
Source: tourismus.nuernberg.de
Drum-and-dance troupes from across the prefecture fill the Koza stadium in Okinawa City for three days on the first weekend after the lunar Bon, and the street parade beforehand shuts the Gate Two road.
Source: zentoeisa.com
One opera, two nights, staged in the square of the medieval castle at the end of the harbour.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The race of the Mauritian year fills the Champ de Mars — grandstands, the hill, the pits and the whole island's betting economy on one afternoon in September.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Five thousand riders leave the village before dawn for 238 kilometres and four passes.
Source: soelden.com
Ten days of early music in the churches and the Vredenburg at the turn of August into September, the largest festival of its kind anywhere.
Source: oudemuziek.nl
Eleven days of tents and brass bands on Strada Turnului at the end of the summer, now run under a licence from the city of Munich.
Source: oktoberfestromania.ro
A month of orchestras at the Sala Palatului and the Athenaeum, held in odd years only; the next runs from 27 August to 26 September 2027.
Source: romaniatourism.com
Labor Day weekend puts tens of thousands of people through five connected downtown hotels, and the parade closes Peachtree on the Saturday morning.
Source: dragoncon.org
Three days over Burke Lakefront on the Labour Day weekend, and half the city watches it free from the Edgewater cliffs and the lakefront parks rather than buying a ticket.
Source: clevelandairshow.com
Three nights of Portuguese music on stages threaded through the walled old town, which is the one weekend of the year Faro is the reason people fly here rather than the way in.
Source: festivalf.pt
…and 236 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.
Neighbourhood restaurants, bakeries and small shops shut for the holidays from the start of August into the first week of September.
Source: en.wikivoyage.org
Most student leases turn over on 1 September, known locally as "Allston Christmas": every U-Haul in New England is double-parked in Allston and Brighton, and curbs fill with discarded furniture.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
1 September is a national holiday with evening concerts on the squares.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Ships call from spring, but the leaf-season sailings down from the St Lawrence stack up in September and October and several thousand passengers can land on one morning.
Offices and government buildings close for two days and the city centre fills for the evening fireworks over the river.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The two or three weeks after the American school year restarts are the emptiest of the year: headline rides in half an hour, hotel rates at their floor.
The 2 September holiday fills Ba Đình square and the old quarter, closes roads around the mausoleum and gives the whole country a long weekend of domestic travel.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Tens of thousands walk to the shrine at Sainte-Croix on the northern edge of the city through the night of the 8th and into the 9th.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Mooncakes from every bakery and a short national break that some years runs straight into the October holiday, making one very long one.
Source: china-briefing.com
On 10 September the whole territory dresses in red and white, thirty thousand balloons go up over Casemates and almost nothing is open.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The independence war effectively started here at the Alhóndiga, so the middle of September carries more weight in Guanajuato than almost anywhere: the grito on the night of the 15th, then a full military and student parade.
Source: guanajuatocapital.gob.mx
Torch relays run down the highway from the capital on the night of the 14th and school bands parade the next morning.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Torch relays come round the lake road through the night of the 14th and every school in Solola parades the next morning.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Schools parade on the 15th and the islands take the day with them: banks and offices shut, the ferry runs a holiday timetable, and the mainland comes over for the long weekend.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The city stops completely for twenty-five hours: no traffic, no shops, no flights in or out of the country, and almost nothing open in West Jerusalem.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The shout from the governor's balcony on the night of the fifteenth and a parade the next morning, in the wettest fortnight of the year.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Twenty-five hours with no cars anywhere, no shops open and no flights in or out of the country.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Chile's national days are a four-day holiday and the desert is one of the places Santiago flies to for them.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
18 and 19 September, and in practice most of the week: fondas, cueca and barbecue, with shops shut, roads out of the city jammed and flights domestically full.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Booths on every balcony, the priestly blessing at the Western Wall drawing tens of thousands, and a week of school holiday that fills every site in the country.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The autumn school holiday, and the beach is still warm enough to use, so the city fills again for a week.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The 23 September holiday: green everywhere, air displays, concerts and a long weekend that fills the domestic flights.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Green everywhere, air displays over the Corniche and fireworks on the 23rd, with the city out in force on the waterfront.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Bengal's biggest holiday and the Nepali Dashain fall together, and the whole of Kolkata seems to come up the hill.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Ships dock nearly every day from late April to the end of September under a daily passenger cap agreed with the town.
Source: traveljuneau.com
Alesund is the tender port for Geiranger and the ships tie up right below the town.
Ships tender into the harbour from May, and the heaviest calls land in September and October with the leaf cruises.
Source: mainepublic.org
Norway's busiest cruise port takes several ships a day through the summer.
Ships tie up a ten-minute walk from the Liston and the Spianada, so the old town runs on ship hours: heaving from ten to four, and the town's own again by early evening.
Source: en.wikivoyage.org
Eighty-odd ships a summer anchor off a village of a few hundred people, and the coaches to Dalsnibba leave as soon as the tenders land.
Ships anchor a hundred metres from the town gate and unload into a walled town you can cross in six minutes.
Cruise calls empty straight onto the Capri and Pompeii runs, so the bottleneck is the Beverello hydrofoil queue rather than the city itself.
Ships berth a few hundred metres from Diocletian's palace, so the cellars and the Peristyle absorb the whole of a ship's day trip.
Tenders land at Giardini Naxos and Messina and the coaches come up the hairpins together, so the Corso and the cable car are worst between eleven and four and quiet by six.
Cruise passengers, the railroad and every rental car in the state move through Anchorage between mid-May and mid-September.
Boats from Naples and Sorrento land thousands of people between ten and four, and the funicular queue in the port is the proof.
Highway 1 is one lane each way with almost nowhere to pull over, and between Memorial Day and Labor Day the weekend queue for Bixby Bridge and McWay backs onto the road.
Source: parks.ca.gov
The mid-year and term breaks send families from the peninsula out on the Kuala Besut boats, and the handful of beach chalets sell out well in advance.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Coast Highway through the village backs up from Memorial Day, the beach lots fill before nine, and the free summer trolley is the only sane way in.
…and 118 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.
Hungary has the heaviest ragweed load in Europe and the count peaks over late summer; if you react to it at home, you will know about it here within a day.
Source: nnk.gov.hu
Busan takes the brunt of the systems that reach Korea.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Kyushu sits in the path more often than anywhere else on the main islands.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
August is the month the peaks disappear behind smoke from local or regional fires, and a fire inside the park can close a valley or the road itself.
Source: nps.gov
The Inland Sea is sheltered compared with the Pacific coast, but a system tracking through stops the Miyajima ferry and the shinkansen for a day.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The island sits on the track rather than beside it.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Late summer is when a system tracking up the archipelago stops the trains for a day.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Kansai Airport sits on a man-made island in the bay and shuts when a serious system comes up the coast.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Smoke from Cascade and Gorge fires settles in the Willamette valley for days at a time in late summer, usually on the hottest and otherwise clearest weeks of the year.
Source: oraqi.deq.state.or.us
Late summer smoke from fires in eastern Washington, Oregon or British Columbia settles into the basin and can hold for days.
Source: ecology.wa.gov
Late summer systems track up from the south; most weaken before Seoul, but one a year is enough to stop the trains and flood the Han riverside parks.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The east and south-east coasts collect the weed through the summer, and the smell as it rots keeps people off Bathsheba and Crane for days.
Rafts of brown seaweed pile up on the east-facing beaches, worst between May and August.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The windward coast around Vieux Fort and Micoud takes the weed and the smell that comes with it.
The east shore and the Split collect weed through the summer and crews rake it at dawn.
The east-facing side takes the seaweed and the smell that comes with it once it rots.
Source: optics.marine.usf.edu
The long east-facing beach collects weed through the summer and the hotels rake their own stretch.
Source: optics.marine.usf.edu
Brown seaweed piles up on the east-facing sand, worst from May to August.
Source: optics.marine.usf.edu
Brown weed comes ashore on this east-facing coast from April, worst between May and August.
The Atlantic seaweed belt pushes ashore from late spring, worst between May and August, and it smells as it rots.
Source: oceanservice.noaa.gov
Bright still days, hard frost at night at 3,400 metres, and dust on the trails by August.
Harris County runs one of the largest mosquito control operations in the country and still sprays by air after a wet week.
Source: publichealth.harriscountytx.gov
The north coast gets far less than the eastern islands, but the bays east of town collect a fringe of weed in summer and the hotels rake it off before breakfast.
The bays east towards Oracabessa collect a fringe of weed through the summer.
Five months over forty degrees with nights that no longer drop below thirty in July.
Source: weather.gov
From May to October the Crossing is an alpine route: ice axe, crampons and the skills to use them, or a guide.
Source: doc.govt.nz
Corniche life, the desert camps and the open-air festival grounds all stop; what is left is Louvre Abu Dhabi, the malls and the indoor parks on Yas.
The city posts warnings for toxic cyanobacteria on Lady Bird Lake through the warm months.
Source: austintexas.gov
The hottest reliably measured place on Earth, and the park closes its lower trails and warns people off walking after ten in the morning.
Source: nps.gov
Global Village and most open-air venues shut, beach clubs cut hours, and the city runs between air-conditioned buildings.
It is routinely fifteen degrees hotter at the river than on the rim, and the park tells people not to hike below the rim between ten and four in summer.
Source: nps.gov
The volcano across the bay erupts most weeks of the year, but it is in summer that the wind carries the ash over the city.
Source: kagoshima-kankou.com
The city sits in a bare rock valley with nothing to soften the afternoon.
Everything happens before nine and after six, and the shaded pools and the cold springs are the whole day in between.
Four months where the dew point does not drop and the heat index sits above forty most afternoons.
Source: weather.gov
The eastern Cairngorms are drier and breezier than the west, which makes them bearable rather than immune.
Source: smidgeup.com
Lochaber is the worst of it in Scotland — still, damp evenings in Glen Nevis in July and August are genuinely unusable without a head net.
Source: smidgeup.com
Still evenings by the water from June to early September are the problem, not the days.
Source: smidgeup.com
Afternoons over forty degrees, no shade to speak of and no water anywhere in the park.
Source: nps.gov
The regional fire campaign runs all summer and the worst days are the ones when the maestrale is up.
Source: sardegnaambiente.it
…and 388 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.