Wat er in augustus wereldwijd speelt
In augustus spelen er 2888 seizoensgebeurtenissen in 1351 bestemmingen: 312 natuurspektakels, 1178 seizoenscondities, 449 festivals en culturele data, 385 massavakanties en 564 risicoseizoenen. De seizoenen die deze maand het meeste werk doen: Schoolvakanties, Zee op temperatuur en Extreme hitte. Elke vermelding linkt naar de volledige klimaatuitsplitsing van die plek in augustus.
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Bloesem, herfstkleur, walvissen, het licht zelf — de korte periodes waar je een maand omheen boekt.
Whale sharks feed along the outside of the reef from March into August, spotter plane overhead and a licensed boat below.
The cold months are when trackers find them: fewer visitors, snow that holds a print, and long low light at both ends of the day.
Ook in Puerto Natales in Chili
Southern rights come into Walker Bay to calve and stay close enough to the cliff path to watch without a boat.
Tens of thousands of belugas come into the Churchill River estuary to calve and moult through July and early August.
The herds arrive from July and the crossings run through to October, thickest in August and September.
The largest green turtle rookery in this half of the world, tens of thousands of females on a strip of black sand.
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As the tank shrinks, hundreds of elephants come out onto the grass on the exposed bed — the largest gathering of wild Asian elephants anywhere.
Sitting on the Arctic Circle, the lights are a regular event rather than a rare one from late August to April.
Ook in Levi, Rukatunturi in Finland
The one time of year the males fight, standing up against each other on the trails.
Iberian orcas come into the strait in July and August behind the bluefin tuna migration and work alongside the hand-line boats.
Paradise and Sunrise flower for about a month once the snowpack finally clears, usually from mid-July.
Bulls bellow, wallow and fight through the Hayden and Lamar valleys in high summer, and they stand in the road while they do it.
Ook in Badlands National Park, Nationaal park Wind Cave, Theodore Roosevelt National Park in Verenigde Staten
Namaqualand and the West Coast reserves flower after the winter rain, peaking between mid-August and mid-September.
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Leatherbacks haul out overnight on Turtle Beach and Stonehaven Bay from March, peak between April and July, and the hatchlings run through August.
Ook in Port of Spain in Trinidad en Tobago
Winter brings the wandering and royal albatross north with the colder water, and the pelagic boats put more species behind the stern in a morning than the rest of the year manages.
The reserves either side of the park are among the darkest measured places on earth, and the dry months put the core of the Milky Way overhead on cloudless nights.
The park sits inside the Aoraki Mackenzie dark sky reserve and the galactic core rides highest on the long cold nights from autumn to early spring.
Ook in Lake Tekapo in Nieuw-Zeeland
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The colonies come ashore in late April and are gone by late August; the ones reachable from town are on the islands in the bay rather than the south coast.
Ook in Vík í Mýrdal in IJsland
Condors ride the first thermals out of the Colca between eight and ten in the morning, and the dry months are the ones without cloud in the canyon.
Licensed hides in the forests around the town take bookings from spring to early autumn, through guides rather than on the day.
Some of the darkest skies left in the country, and the galactic core is up after dark from late spring.
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Green turtles come up the beaches through the dry months and the island's hatcheries move the clutches out of the way of foot traffic.
A couple of hundred loggerhead nests a season, laid from May and hatching through October.
Ook in Jacksonville, Myrtle Beach in Verenigde Staten
Humpbacks feed in Stephens Passage and Auke Bay from May until September, and the bubble-net groups work the same water year after year.
Loggerheads nest on the south-coast beaches around Katelios through the summer, and adults hang around the fishing boats in Argostoli harbour waiting for scraps.
Reef mantas feed in the channel at Drawaqa through the dry half of the year and are snorkelled from a boat when the tide runs.
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Loggerheads and greens nest on the strip between Playa and Xcacel from May, with hatchling releases into October.
The ferry to Mykines runs from May to the end of August and then the island closes for the year.
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The shelf drops away close to shore here, so the boats reach the whales in under an hour rather than two.
Resident and transient orcas work the Salish Sea through the summer and humpbacks have come back in numbers, all of it a boat ride from the inner harbour.
The bay holds one of the Mediterranean's most important loggerhead rookeries.
The season is fixed by permit, mid-May to mid-September, and boats leave before dawn for the feeding aggregation well offshore.
Ook in Isla Mujeres in Mexico
Southern rights move along the north coast and into the bays through winter, with mothers and calves close in.
Ook in Adelaide in Australië
Blues and humpbacks feed in the channel off the Channel Islands through the summer, the largest animal that has ever lived on a day trip from a small harbour.
Hundreds of thousands of puffins and murres nest on the islands half an hour south of town, reachable on a two-hour boat that usually finds whales on the same trip.
Sixty-odd bears live on the two mountains and are visible from the lifts and the golf courses from the melt onward, most obviously in spring on the new grass and in autumn on the berries.
Humpbacks pass Moreton Bay from June to early November, and the day boats out of Redcliffe and Manly work inside the bay rather than in open sea, which keeps the crossing short.
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De staat van de plek
Moesson, droog seizoen, liften open, zee warm genoeg — wat het weer werkelijk doet.
The world tour event runs on a waiting period at the reef pass an hour and a half down the coast, so it is called day by day.
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The Yoshida trail from this side opens on 1 July, the Shizuoka trails on the 10th, and all four close on 10 September.
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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.
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Sand, deckchairs and pools go down along the Seine and the Bassin de la Villette for about eight weeks, free and busiest in the early evening.
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A kilometre of Odori Park becomes an outdoor beer hall for about four weeks, seating thirteen thousand, and it is the whole point of a Sapporo summer.
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Kraftskiva runs through August: paper hats, schnapps, songs between courses, and more ceremony than dinner.
The oldest running surf contest in the country takes the oceanfront for a week in late August, with skate and volleyball events strung along the boardwalk beside it.
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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.
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Around the start of June the big indoor venues shut and reopen as splavovi, barges moored along the Sava and Danube, and move back inland at the end of September.
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Cliff Palace, Balcony House and Long House can only be entered on a ranger tour, and those run roughly May to October.
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Bark comes off the montado by hand through the hot months and the stripped trunks go raw orange, with the year painted on each one.
The highest continuous paved road in the country is ploughed open around Memorial Day and closed by the first serious October storm.
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The steam service to Mallaig over the Glenfinnan viaduct runs a summer timetable only, roughly June to late October.
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The riverside bars, open-air cinemas and concert seasons set up along the Tiber and in the archaeological sites for four months, which is how Romans use the summer.
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Opera, orchestras and touring acts play the Greco-Roman theatre through the summer, with the coast and the volcano behind the stage.
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The only road into Tusheti opens around mid-June once the snow is cleared and closes with the first heavy fall in October.
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Crews plough the alpine section for months and the full road usually opens between late June and early July, closing again with the first real snow in October.
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The southernmost resort in the world and the longest season in Argentina, running from late June into early October, with cheaper promotional weeks at each end.
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A green line painted on the pavement links a couple of dozen commissioned works across the city for the summer, most of them free and outdoors.
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Bilberries, cloudberries and chanterelles fill the market square stalls, and the crayfish parties that follow are more ceremony — schnapps, songs, bibs — than dinner.
August to December is the full run through the gorge, starting at the first rapid below the falls.
Latvians take foraging seriously, and from late summer the pine forests around Riga fill with pickers.
The rock lip on the Zambian side is only swimmable when the river is low, roughly mid-August until the water comes back up after New Year.
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Tivoli opens for the summer at the end of March and shuts in the third week of September.
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The amphitheatre runs from about April to early November, with sunrise yoga and film nights filling the gaps between shows.
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Navigation opens on 10 April, and from then until the end of November a dozen bridges over the Neva raise every night for shipping.
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The interior roads out of West Yellowstone are ploughed open in stages from mid-April and close again to cars in early November, after which it is snowcoach or nothing.
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The cave entrance is barely a metre high at low tide, so a boatman can only lie you flat and row you through when the sea is calm enough; rough winter seas suspend the trips for days or weeks at a stretch even though the site itself has no fixed closing date.
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The valley opens with a ceremony in the middle of April and closes on 15 November, when the hotels shut and the road is gated.
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The snow-free window on the standard route, when the walk up is a long slog rather than a mountaineering day.
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The Grand Cascade is started with a ceremony in the last days of April and shut down in the second week of October.
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The monsoon pushes plankton into the western atolls and the reef mantas follow it, with Hanifaru Bay in Baa at its most reliable from late July to October.
The two high roads are ploughed open between early May and early July depending on the snowpack, and shut again with the first serious storm in autumn.
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Most of the Maine catch comes ashore between the summer shed and the end of autumn, and prices at the pounds follow the boats.
The spiny lobster season legally runs from 15 June to 14 February.
Ook in Belize City, San Pedro Town in Belize
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A few weeks in the middle of the rainy season when the afternoon storms ease off and skies clear, usually from early July into August.
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Through July and August the Baths stay open into the evening and the terrace is lit by torches.
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Most of the year's rain falls in these two months, in heavy short storms that flood underpasses and clear the air for a day afterwards.
The etesian blows down the Aegean most afternoons in high summer.
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Festivals & cultuur
De festivals waar een plek om bekendstaat, en de weken waarin de straten van hen zijn.
Six weeks of opera and theatre that double the price of every bed in the city, with Jedermann played outdoors on the cathedral square as the fixed point of it.
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Ten days in early August when several hundred thousand riders fill western South Dakota, and the Badlands Loop Road is one of the standard day rides.
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The Fringe, the International Festival and the book festival run at once for most of August.
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The week around the anniversary of his death on 16 August, ending in a candlelight vigil that files past the grave at Graceland all night.
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The second and larger Palio, run in the hottest fortnight of the year.
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The largest Native arts market in the world takes over the plaza on the third weekend of August, with a thousand artists booked into a few blocks.
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A week of trail races ending in a 174km lap of the Mont Blanc massif.
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Haad Rin fills once a lunar month, every month, and the island's boats and rooms price around it.
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Eight weeks of concerts under the tent at the Benedict Music Tent, hundreds of them free or cheap, with students practising in the open all over the west end.
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Two months of concerts and opera, much of it in the open-air Krizanke, which is the summer programme the city plans around rather than a fringe event.
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Five weeks of theatre, dance and Arab music at the open-air amphitheatre in the cypress gardens, running from early July into August.
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Forty-seven days of theatre, opera and concerts staged in courtyards, on Fort Lovrjenac and on the island of Lokrum, using the town itself as the set.
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Five weeks of concerts in the Roman amphitheatre above the sea, running from mid-July into August.
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A month of opera, drama and ballet staged in the palace itself, with the Peristyle as the main auditorium.
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Not one parade but a fortnight in which each village stages its own night: ole time wedding at Moriah, folk theatre, the salaka feast.
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Berlin's Pride parade takes a long route through the west of the city on a Saturday in late July and finishes at the Siegessaule.
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The world tour has come to the Jandia lagoon every summer for nearly four decades, timed for the strongest trades of the year.
NASCAR's Cup Series race on the oval, back on the oval since 2024 after three years on the road course, and usually run in late July.
One morning in high summer the strait is closed to all shipping and a few thousand swimmers cross from Kanlica down to Kurucesme.
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Pine torches outside every door on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth lunar month, usually late July or early August.
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Three weeks of events ending with the Grande Parade along Lakeshore on the Saturday of the August civic long weekend.
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Two and a half weeks of classical music at 1,500 metres in midsummer, with masterclasses and free morning rehearsals that are often better than the ticketed evenings.
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A month of beer tents on the West Coast site and in the old brewery district.
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Africa's longest-running film festival takes over the city's cinemas for the back end of July into early August, in the dry, mild middle of winter, which is the best time to be in Durban anyway.
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The Hungaroring is twenty kilometres out of town and the race takes the city's hotel stock with it; rooms go at two or three times the usual and the M3 crawls for three days.
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Ten nights of tusker elephants, whip-crackers, fire dancers and drummers processing through Kandy, three hours inland.
Ook in Kandy in Sri Lanka
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Three weeks of stalls through the old town, running since the thirteenth century and now one of the biggest street fairs in Europe.
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Ten days of constitution celebrations that fill the National Auditorium with island-by-island dance and song.
Ook in Rarotonga, Aitutaki in Cookeilanden
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Five weeks of baroque opera and concerts in the Hofburg's Giant Hall and the courtyard at Ambras, running since the 1970s.
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The Steelers practise in the open at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, about an hour east, from late July to mid-August.
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Ten days of mountain bike racing and slopestyle at the end of July.
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Cherry Hinton Hall, a weekend at the turn of July and August, and a bill that stretches well past folk.
A two-century-old procession of the goddess out of Tripolia Gate through the bazaars, in the middle of the monsoon and deliberately so.
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Nine days of theatre, installation and street work through the heritage zone, most of it free.
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Sixty-odd producers pouring in one hall over two winter days, which is the efficient way to taste the district without driving between farms.
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Scandinavia's largest Pride, a week of events in Pride Park ending with a parade through the centre.
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Three weeks of orchestral concerts in a pavilion at the resort in high summer, free to attend, with most of the audience on the lawn outside.
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A fortnight of company and guest-artist programmes at the amphitheater at the turn of July into August, with the outdoor evenings selling out well ahead.
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Feestdagen die een plek overspoelen
Massavakanties: volle treinen, gesloten winkels, de duurste twee weken van het jaar.
1 August is a public holiday nationwide.
Ook in Engelberg, Genève, Grindelwald en nog 13 in Zwitserland
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9 August: a rehearsed parade over Marina Bay with a flypast, watched from every balcony in the centre, and fireworks that need no ticket to see.
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15 August, Velika Gospa, is a public holiday at the height of summer.
Ook in Hvar, Korčula, Rovinj en nog 4 in Kroatië
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Catholic pilgrims gather at the House of the Virgin Mary above Ephesus for a vigil on the evening of 14 August and a Mass the next morning marking the Assumption, the site's biggest day of the year.
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Thousands walk overnight to the basilica at Candelaria for 15 August, the patron of the Canaries, arriving on foot from all over the island.
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On 15 August the whole country is invited up to the castle gardens for a drink with the prince, then a folk festival and fireworks in the town below.
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National Day on 2 September comes with at least two days off, usually joined to a weekend, and is a domestic travel peak.
Ook in Hạ Long, Hội An, Huế en nog 11 in Vietnam
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July and August carry most of the year's visitors.
Ook in Bar Harbor, Grand Teton National Park, Nationaal Park Grand Canyon en nog 2 in Verenigde Staten
The town runs on the northern European school calendar rather than the Portuguese one, so the fortnight either side of the end of July is the hardest to book and the dearest to fly into.
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Canada Day starts it and the school year ends it.
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Tbilisi, Yerevan, Baku and half of eastern Turkey come here for the summer, and the boulevard and the casinos run at capacity.
The Cascais line runs standing-room only at weekends once the schools break, and the town is as much a Lisbon suburb on holiday as a resort.
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Slea Head Drive is single track with coaches going one way round it, and in July and August the peninsula runs at capacity.
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Lisbon is forty minutes away and comes here at weekends all summer, on top of the surf camps.
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Anyone who can leave the inland heat does, and Essaouira is where they go.
The airport handles the whole region's charter traffic and July and August are what it was built for.
Ook in Lagos in Portugal
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Charter season at full stretch and Tunisian families on top of it.
Yachts double-park in the harbour, the town square is a queue and prices are Croatia's highest.
Weekend traffic from the city fills the road and the riverside cafes in the valley.
The Fairy Pools and Storr car parks fill by mid-morning and the single-track roads run on passing-place etiquette that half the traffic does not know.
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Jackson is the south gate to two national parks and takes the full American summer: parking full by nine at the popular trailheads, and lodging priced accordingly.
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Beaches, the Kenting Street night market and every room on the strip run at capacity most weekends.
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Coaches run the Ring of Kerry anticlockwise, so the day trip has to be timed around them, and Muckross and the Gap of Dunloe take the overflow.
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Excursion boats from Dubrovnik and Hvar unload into a walled town the size of a few streets, and the Marco Polo house queue forms by eleven.
Fifteen thousand day visitors can land on a good July day on an island of five hundred residents.
Ook in Nantucket in Verenigde Staten
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Summer schools take the empty colleges and the coach tours take the centre, so Broad Street and the Bodleian queue are at their worst exactly when the colleges are most open.
The second peak and a different crowd: Dominican, Latin American and Spanish families on school holidays rather than the winter sun crowd.
The Rimini beach resorts send coaches up all summer, and between eleven and four the duty-free shops on the main street are what most people see of the country.
Spanish holidays and the busiest Camino months land together.
Eight kilometres of hotels running at capacity on northern European school holidays, with the bar strip loud until four in the morning.
The E10 runs nose to tail with campervans in July, the Reine and Hamnoy viewpoints have queues, and beds in Svolvaer are booked months out.
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July and August carry more than half the park's annual visits.
Ook in Bryce Canyon National Park, Mammoth Cave National Park, Rocky Mountain National Park en nog 3 in Verenigde Staten
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Peak domestic season, in heat and humidity that make the stair sections unpleasant.
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Millions of pilgrims walk the Haridwar-Rishikesh road through Shravan to carry Ganga water home, and the highway is closed to other traffic for stretches of it.
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The school break puts the whole country on the mountain for three weeks and this is the busiest, dearest stretch of the year in town.
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School is out across the country and the bay fills again with families driving down from the interior.
Ook in Cancún in Mexico
This is the Balkans' beach: coaches and cars come down from Belgrade and Sarajevo and the town's population multiplies.
School holidays bring the mountain's other big rush.
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Half of Paris takes the island for the school holidays and everything crosses the same toll bridge.
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Risicoseizoenen om te kennen
Geen voorspellingen — de seizoenen waarin het risico bestaat. De meeste weken verlopen rustig.
Most summers bring stretches where the town moves indoors until six and the fountains are the only shade worth having.
Ook in Avignon, Carcassonne, Lyon in Frankrijk
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The city sits in a closed basin with mountains on three sides and regularly runs hotter than anywhere in Italy for a week at a time.
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The plain around the city bakes and the concrete holds it overnight; the met service issues red warnings most summers and the terraces do not fill until nine.
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The national weather service issues heat alerts most summers and the city holds it: stone, no sea and little shade on the Pest grid.
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One of the country's furnace cities: the mountains around the basin hold the heat in and it barely lets go after dark.
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Fes sits in a bowl with no sea breeze, and the medina alleys hold the heat well into the night.
The city sits in a bowl in the Arno valley with no breeze and stone that holds the day's heat overnight.
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Small jellyfish drift through on some moon cycles and July and August take the worst of it.
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The valleys are treeless and the tuff throws the heat back at you, so walking Rose or Pigeon valley is a dawn job.
The city sits in a basin under the mountains and bakes through July and August, though nights cool more than in Seville or Cordoba.
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This inland plain is one of the hottest places in Greece and the rock radiates it back.
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High summer can stay oppressive for weeks with muggy nights.
Ook in Arches National Park, Sedona, Moab en nog 4 in Verenigde Staten
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The Sassi are cut into a south-facing tufa gorge with almost no shade and stone that holds the day's heat into the night.
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When the sirocco comes off North Africa the city sits under dust-hazed African air for days at a time and the markets close by noon.
Ook in Syracuse in Italië
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The city shuts itself behind shutters from lunchtime and comes out after nine.
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A closed gulf and a city of concrete make July and August heavy rather than merely hot, and the still nights are the hard part.
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Flat, humid and airless in high summer, which is exactly why the Arena performances start at night.
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Siena is a hill town with brick that holds heat and a shadeless main square.
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Humid heat off the Caspian sits on the old city, and anyone who can leaves for the peninsula or the mountains at Quba.
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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.
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Busan takes the brunt of the systems that reach Korea.
Ook in Jeju, Incheon in Zuid-Korea
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Kyushu sits in the path more often than anywhere else on the main islands.
Ook in Hiroshima, Kyoto, Osaka en nog 16 in Japan
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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.
Ook in Bend, Big Sky, Grand Teton National Park en nog 9 in Verenigde Staten
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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.
Ook in Seattle, Bozeman, Jackson en nog 5 in Verenigde Staten
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Ook in Isla Mujeres, Playa del Carmen, Tulum in Mexico
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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 south and east shores catch the drift and the bays that hold it smell for a week at a time.
The wild windward side, around Punta Morena and Chen Rio, takes the weed through the summer.
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The drift piles up on the Atlantic-facing east and north shores; Great Bay in front of town faces south and usually escapes it.
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The long east-facing beach collects weed through the summer and the hotels rake their own stretch.
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The north-facing beaches around Las Terrenas and the peninsula's eastern end take the weed.
Some years the Atlantic drift piles brown weed on the east-facing beaches for weeks and the hotels rake it off each morning.
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