What's on in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh through the year

Busy — Domestic high season, school holidays in 6 of the markets that fill it

Nothing new starts in January.

Still on: Domestic high season (15 Nov – 28 Feb)

Busy — Domestic high season, school holidays in 2 of the markets that fill it

Nothing new starts in February.

Still on: Domestic high season (15 Nov – 28 Feb)

Busy — Eid al-Fitr beach crush, school holidays in 2 of the markets that fill it

• Holiday

  Eid al-Fitr beach crush

  20–23 MarRamadan & EidCrowdedBook early

  Dhaka comes down for the holiday and the longest beach in the world stops feeling like it: Laboni and Kolatoli end to end with people, rooms at several times the usual rate, and the highway from Chattogram solid. Source ↗

Shoulder season — school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it, an ordinary month

• Hazard

  Pre-monsoon cyclone season

  1 Apr – 31 May

  The Bay of Bengal makes its severe storms in the weeks before the rains settle in, and this stretch of coast is where they come ashore. Warnings run on a numbered signal system and the beachfront hotels evacuate when it goes high. Source ↗

Still on: Eid al-Fitr beach crush (20–23 Mar)

Busy — Eid al-Adha holiday, school holidays in 2 of the markets that fill it

• Holiday

  Eid al-Adha holiday

  27–30 MayRamadan & EidCrowded

  The second and longer Eid fills the hotels again, this time in the storm season, so the crowd and the red flags often arrive in the same week. Bus and flight seats from Dhaka go a fortnight ahead. Source ↗

Still on: Pre-monsoon cyclone season (1 Apr – 31 May)

Quiet — school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it, one of its worst months for weather

Nothing new starts in June.

Still on: Eid al-Adha holiday (27–30 May)

Quiet — school holidays in 5 of the markets that fill it, one of its worst months for weather

Nothing new starts in July.

Quiet — school holidays in 4 of the markets that fill it, one of its worst months for weather

Nothing new starts in August.

Shoulder season — school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it, an ordinary month

Nothing new starts in September.

Shoulder season — school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it, an ordinary month

• Hazard

  Post-monsoon cyclone season

  1 Oct – 30 Nov

  The second and historically deadlier of the two storm peaks, arriving as the rains withdraw. Most years pass without one landing here, and the years one does are the ones the coast remembers. Source ↗

Busy — Domestic high season

• Season

  Domestic high season

  15 Nov – 28 FebDry seasonCrowdedBook early

  The dry months are when the whole country takes its beach holiday. Weekends are the pinch point: rates jump from Thursday, and the boats out to Saint Martin's run full while the season allows them to run at all.

Still on: Post-monsoon cyclone season (1 Oct – 30 Nov)

Busy — Domestic high season, school holidays in 5 of the markets that fill it

Nothing new starts in December.

Still on: Domestic high season (15 Nov – 28 Feb)