SeasonMap

Foraging season, month by month around the world

Mushrooms, berries, calçots, hamsi — what the market sells for a few weeks only.

46 destinations on SeasonMap, ranked within each month by the comfort score — because the point is not only where the season is on, but whether the weather is worth the trip while it is.

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Number of destinations with foraging season on in that month. Windows move a little each year.

Foraging season in January

  1. 🇺🇸 Naples, Florida, United StatesStone crab season · 15 Oct – 1 MayFlorida's stone crab season opens on 15 October and shuts on 1 May, and this stretch of coast is the centre of the fishery.91climate
  2. 🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche, ArgentinaTrout fishing season · 1 Nov – 1 May (usually)The Nahuel Huapi season opens in November and closes at the start of May, with a licence sold by the day at the park office.80climate
  3. 🇪🇸 Barcelona, SpainCalçot season · 1 Dec – 5 Apr (usually)Grilled spring onions eaten with the fingers over romesco, at farm restaurants in the countryside inland.79climate
  4. 🇧🇿 San Pedro, BelizeLobster season opens · 15 Jun – 14 FebThe spiny lobster fishery opens on 15 June and closes on 15 February.76climate
  5. 🇧🇿 Caye Caulker, BelizeLobster season opens · 15 Jun – 14 FebThe spiny lobster season legally runs from 15 June to 14 February.76climate
  6. 🇺🇸 Biscayne National Park, United StatesSpiny lobster season · 6 Aug – 31 MarThe regular season runs from August into spring, and the two-day sport season on the last Wednesday and Thursday of July fills the bay with boats.75climate
  7. 🇧🇿 Belize City, BelizeLobster season opens · 15 Jun – 14 FebThe spiny lobster fishery opens on 15 June and shuts again on 15 February.75climate
  8. 🇺🇸 Charleston, United StatesLowcountry oyster season · 1 Oct – 30 AprCluster oysters come out of the creeks through the cool months, and the winter roast — a shovel of steamed oysters tipped onto a plywood table — is the local social event.74climate
  9. 🇪🇸 Girona, SpainCalcot season · 1 Jan – 31 Mar (usually)Charred spring onions eaten by hand with romesco, in farm restaurants out towards the Emporda.72climate
  10. 🇯🇵 Hiroshima, JapanOyster season · 15 Oct – 15 Mar (usually)The bay grows most of Japan's oysters and the rafts are worked all winter.67climate
  11. 🇫🇷 Bordeaux, FranceOyster season on the Bassin · 1 Sep – 30 Apr (usually)The huts at Cap Ferret and Gujan-Mestras, an hour west, sell by the dozen with a glass of white from September through the winter.61climate
  12. 🇹🇷 Trabzon, TurkeyHamsi season · 1 Nov – 28 Feb (usually)The anchovy boats come in and every restaurant on the coast cooks nothing else — fried, in rice, in cornmeal.61climate
  13. 🇹🇷 Istanbul, TurkeyHamsi season · 1 Nov – 28 Feb (usually)The Black Sea anchovy run reaches the city and the small fish turn up grilled and fried at every quayside counter.59climate
  14. 🇫🇷 La Rochelle, FranceOyster and mussel season · 1 Sep – 30 Apr (usually)Marennes-Oleron oysters and the bouchot mussels of the bay run through the cold half of the year, and the market on the Place du Marche is where to eat them standing up.58climate
  15. 🇰🇷 Sokcho, South KoreaWinter fish market season · 1 Nov – 28 Feb (usually)The port market is at its point in winter: squid, pollock roe, and the cold-water fish the town was built on.51climate
  16. 🇯🇵 Kanazawa, JapanSnow crab season · 6 Nov – 20 MarThe boats go out on 6 November and land males until 20 March.48climate
  17. 🇳🇴 Svolvær, NorwaySkrei season · 15 Jan – 20 Apr (usually)The Arctic cod come down to spawn and the whole of Lofoten works around it from January to April.20climate

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Foraging season in February

  1. 🇺🇸 Naples, Florida, United StatesStone crab season · 15 Oct – 1 MayFlorida's stone crab season opens on 15 October and shuts on 1 May, and this stretch of coast is the centre of the fishery.88climate
  2. 🇪🇸 Barcelona, SpainCalçot season · 1 Dec – 5 Apr (usually)Grilled spring onions eaten with the fingers over romesco, at farm restaurants in the countryside inland.82climate
  3. 🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche, ArgentinaTrout fishing season · 1 Nov – 1 May (usually)The Nahuel Huapi season opens in November and closes at the start of May, with a licence sold by the day at the park office.81climate
  4. 🇧🇿 San Pedro, BelizeLobster season opens · 15 Jun – 14 FebThe spiny lobster fishery opens on 15 June and closes on 15 February.79climate
  5. 🇺🇸 Charleston, United StatesLowcountry oyster season · 1 Oct – 30 AprCluster oysters come out of the creeks through the cool months, and the winter roast — a shovel of steamed oysters tipped onto a plywood table — is the local social event.79climate
  6. 🇧🇿 Caye Caulker, BelizeLobster season opens · 15 Jun – 14 FebThe spiny lobster season legally runs from 15 June to 14 February.78climate
  7. 🇧🇿 Belize City, BelizeLobster season opens · 15 Jun – 14 FebThe spiny lobster fishery opens on 15 June and shuts again on 15 February.77climate
  8. 🇪🇸 Girona, SpainCalcot season · 1 Jan – 31 Mar (usually)Charred spring onions eaten by hand with romesco, in farm restaurants out towards the Emporda.77climate
  9. 🇺🇸 Biscayne National Park, United StatesSpiny lobster season · 6 Aug – 31 MarThe regular season runs from August into spring, and the two-day sport season on the last Wednesday and Thursday of July fills the bay with boats.73climate
  10. 🇯🇵 Hiroshima, JapanOyster season · 15 Oct – 15 Mar (usually)The bay grows most of Japan's oysters and the rafts are worked all winter.70climate
  11. 🇫🇷 Bordeaux, FranceOyster season on the Bassin · 1 Sep – 30 Apr (usually)The huts at Cap Ferret and Gujan-Mestras, an hour west, sell by the dozen with a glass of white from September through the winter.69climate
  12. 🇹🇷 Trabzon, TurkeyHamsi season · 1 Nov – 28 Feb (usually)The anchovy boats come in and every restaurant on the coast cooks nothing else — fried, in rice, in cornmeal.67climate
  13. 🇹🇷 Istanbul, TurkeyHamsi season · 1 Nov – 28 Feb (usually)The Black Sea anchovy run reaches the city and the small fish turn up grilled and fried at every quayside counter.66climate
  14. 🇫🇷 La Rochelle, FranceOyster and mussel season · 1 Sep – 30 Apr (usually)Marennes-Oleron oysters and the bouchot mussels of the bay run through the cold half of the year, and the market on the Place du Marche is where to eat them standing up.66climate
  15. 🇯🇵 Kanazawa, JapanSnow crab season · 6 Nov – 20 MarThe boats go out on 6 November and land males until 20 March.58climate
  16. 🇰🇷 Sokcho, South KoreaWinter fish market season · 1 Nov – 28 Feb (usually)The port market is at its point in winter: squid, pollock roe, and the cold-water fish the town was built on.57climate
  17. 🇳🇴 Svolvær, NorwaySkrei season · 15 Jan – 20 Apr (usually)The Arctic cod come down to spawn and the whole of Lofoten works around it from January to April.32climate

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Foraging season in March

  1. 🇺🇸 Charleston, United StatesLowcountry oyster season · 1 Oct – 30 AprCluster oysters come out of the creeks through the cool months, and the winter roast — a shovel of steamed oysters tipped onto a plywood table — is the local social event.86climate
  2. 🇺🇸 Naples, Florida, United StatesStone crab season · 15 Oct – 1 MayFlorida's stone crab season opens on 15 October and shuts on 1 May, and this stretch of coast is the centre of the fishery.86climate
  3. 🇪🇸 Barcelona, SpainCalçot season · 1 Dec – 5 Apr (usually)Grilled spring onions eaten with the fingers over romesco, at farm restaurants in the countryside inland.84climate
  4. 🇪🇸 Girona, SpainCalcot season · 1 Jan – 31 Mar (usually)Charred spring onions eaten by hand with romesco, in farm restaurants out towards the Emporda.80climate
  5. 🇫🇷 Bordeaux, FranceOyster season on the Bassin · 1 Sep – 30 Apr (usually)The huts at Cap Ferret and Gujan-Mestras, an hour west, sell by the dozen with a glass of white from September through the winter.76climate
  6. 🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche, ArgentinaTrout fishing season · 1 Nov – 1 May (usually)The Nahuel Huapi season opens in November and closes at the start of May, with a licence sold by the day at the park office.74climate
  7. 🇯🇵 Hiroshima, JapanOyster season · 15 Oct – 15 Mar (usually)The bay grows most of Japan's oysters and the rafts are worked all winter.74climate
  8. 🇪🇸 Bilbao, SpainCantabrian anchovy season · 15 Mar – 15 Jun (usually)The spring coastal fishery is short and quota-limited, and while it runs every bar in the Casco Viejo is serving the fresh ones rather than the tinned.74climate
  9. 🇫🇷 La Rochelle, FranceOyster and mussel season · 1 Sep – 30 Apr (usually)Marennes-Oleron oysters and the bouchot mussels of the bay run through the cold half of the year, and the market on the Place du Marche is where to eat them standing up.73climate
  10. 🇺🇸 Biscayne National Park, United StatesSpiny lobster season · 6 Aug – 31 MarThe regular season runs from August into spring, and the two-day sport season on the last Wednesday and Thursday of July fills the bay with boats.72climate
  11. 🇯🇵 Kanazawa, JapanSnow crab season · 6 Nov – 20 MarThe boats go out on 6 November and land males until 20 March.67climate
  12. 🇳🇴 Svolvær, NorwaySkrei season · 15 Jan – 20 Apr (usually)The Arctic cod come down to spawn and the whole of Lofoten works around it from January to April.42climate

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Foraging season in April

  1. 🇪🇸 Cádiz, SpainAlmadraba tuna season · 20 Apr – 15 Jun (usually)Bluefin are trapped in fixed nets off Barbate and Zahara for a few weeks in late spring, and every restaurant down the coast builds its menu on it until the quota runs out.92climate
  2. 🇺🇸 Charleston, United StatesLowcountry oyster season · 1 Oct – 30 AprCluster oysters come out of the creeks through the cool months, and the winter roast — a shovel of steamed oysters tipped onto a plywood table — is the local social event.90climate
  3. 🇪🇸 Barcelona, SpainCalçot season · 1 Dec – 5 Apr (usually)Grilled spring onions eaten with the fingers over romesco, at farm restaurants in the countryside inland.89climate
  4. 🇫🇷 Bordeaux, FranceOyster season on the Bassin · 1 Sep – 30 Apr (usually)The huts at Cap Ferret and Gujan-Mestras, an hour west, sell by the dozen with a glass of white from September through the winter.84climate
  5. 🇺🇸 Baltimore, United StatesChesapeake blue crab season · 1 Apr – 30 NovSteamed crabs and Old Bay on brown paper from April to the end of November.84climate
  6. 🇪🇸 Bilbao, SpainCantabrian anchovy season · 15 Mar – 15 Jun (usually)The spring coastal fishery is short and quota-limited, and while it runs every bar in the Casco Viejo is serving the fresh ones rather than the tinned.82climate
  7. 🇫🇷 La Rochelle, FranceOyster and mussel season · 1 Sep – 30 Apr (usually)Marennes-Oleron oysters and the bouchot mussels of the bay run through the cold half of the year, and the market on the Place du Marche is where to eat them standing up.82climate
  8. 🇺🇸 Naples, Florida, United StatesStone crab season · 15 Oct – 1 MayFlorida's stone crab season opens on 15 October and shuts on 1 May, and this stretch of coast is the centre of the fishery.79climate
  9. 🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche, ArgentinaTrout fishing season · 1 Nov – 1 May (usually)The Nahuel Huapi season opens in November and closes at the start of May, with a licence sold by the day at the park office.62climate
  10. 🇳🇴 Svolvær, NorwaySkrei season · 15 Jan – 20 Apr (usually)The Arctic cod come down to spawn and the whole of Lofoten works around it from January to April.58climate

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Foraging season in May

  1. 🇪🇸 Cádiz, SpainAlmadraba tuna season · 20 Apr – 15 Jun (usually)Bluefin are trapped in fixed nets off Barbate and Zahara for a few weeks in late spring, and every restaurant down the coast builds its menu on it until the quota runs out.94climate
  2. 🇪🇸 Bilbao, SpainCantabrian anchovy season · 15 Mar – 15 Jun (usually)The spring coastal fishery is short and quota-limited, and while it runs every bar in the Casco Viejo is serving the fresh ones rather than the tinned.90climate
  3. 🇺🇸 Baltimore, United StatesChesapeake blue crab season · 1 Apr – 30 NovSteamed crabs and Old Bay on brown paper from April to the end of November.90climate
  4. 🇺🇸 Naples, Florida, United StatesStone crab season · 15 Oct – 1 MayFlorida's stone crab season opens on 15 October and shuts on 1 May, and this stretch of coast is the centre of the fishery.69climate
  5. 🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche, ArgentinaTrout fishing season · 1 Nov – 1 May (usually)The Nahuel Huapi season opens in November and closes at the start of May, with a licence sold by the day at the park office.53climate

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Foraging season in June

  1. 🇪🇸 Bilbao, SpainCantabrian anchovy season · 15 Mar – 15 Jun (usually)The spring coastal fishery is short and quota-limited, and while it runs every bar in the Casco Viejo is serving the fresh ones rather than the tinned.91climate
  2. 🇪🇸 Cádiz, SpainAlmadraba tuna season · 20 Apr – 15 Jun (usually)Bluefin are trapped in fixed nets off Barbate and Zahara for a few weeks in late spring, and every restaurant down the coast builds its menu on it until the quota runs out.91climate
  3. 🇺🇸 Bar Harbor, United StatesLobster season · 15 Jun – 15 Dec (usually)Most of the Maine catch comes ashore between the summer shed and the end of autumn, and prices at the pounds follow the boats.84climate
  4. 🇺🇸 Baltimore, United StatesChesapeake blue crab season · 1 Apr – 30 NovSteamed crabs and Old Bay on brown paper from April to the end of November.79climate
  5. 🇧🇿 Caye Caulker, BelizeLobster season opens · 15 Jun – 14 FebThe spiny lobster season legally runs from 15 June to 14 February.53climate
  6. 🇧🇿 San Pedro, BelizeLobster season opens · 15 Jun – 14 FebThe spiny lobster fishery opens on 15 June and closes on 15 February.52climate
  7. 🇧🇿 Belize City, BelizeLobster season opens · 15 Jun – 14 FebThe spiny lobster fishery opens on 15 June and shuts again on 15 February.52climate

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Foraging season in July

  1. 🇫🇮 Helsinki, FinlandBerry and crayfish season · 20 Jul – 10 Sep (usually)Bilberries, cloudberries and chanterelles fill the market square stalls, and the crayfish parties that follow are more ceremony — schnapps, songs, bibs — than dinner.93climate
  2. 🇺🇸 Bar Harbor, United StatesLobster season · 15 Jun – 15 Dec (usually)Most of the Maine catch comes ashore between the summer shed and the end of autumn, and prices at the pounds follow the boats.91climate
  3. 🇺🇸 Glacier National Park, United StatesHuckleberry season · 15 Jul – 5 Sep (usually)The berries ripen on the slopes from mid-July and every roadside stand in the Flathead sells them by the pint.79climate
  4. 🇺🇸 Whitefish, United StatesHuckleberry season · 10 Jul – 31 Aug (usually)Six weeks when every café, brewery and roadside stand in the Flathead sells huckleberry something, and the pickers head up the forest roads.74climate
  5. 🇨🇳 Shangri-La, ChinaMatsutake season · 1 Jul – 15 Sep (usually)These forests supply most of China's matsutake and a lot of Japan's.65climate
  6. 🇺🇸 Baltimore, United StatesChesapeake blue crab season · 1 Apr – 30 NovSteamed crabs and Old Bay on brown paper from April to the end of November.64climate
  7. 🇧🇿 San Pedro, BelizeLobster season opens · 15 Jun – 14 FebThe spiny lobster fishery opens on 15 June and closes on 15 February.61climate
  8. 🇧🇿 Caye Caulker, BelizeLobster season opens · 15 Jun – 14 FebThe spiny lobster season legally runs from 15 June to 14 February.61climate
  9. 🇺🇸 Key West, United StatesLobster mini-season · 24–31 Jul (usually)The last consecutive Wednesday and Thursday of July, when recreational divers get two days on the spiny lobster before the commercial season opens.59climate
  10. 🇧🇿 Belize City, BelizeLobster season opens · 15 Jun – 14 FebThe spiny lobster fishery opens on 15 June and shuts again on 15 February.59climate
  11. 🇺🇸 Fort Lauderdale, United StatesLobster mini-season · 25–31 Jul (usually)The last Wednesday and Thursday of July, when sport divers get the spiny lobster two days before the commercial season opens.58climate

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Foraging season in August

  1. 🇷🇺 Yekaterinburg, RussiaMushroom and berry season · 1 Aug – 25 Sep (usually)The pine forest starts where the tram lines stop, and after the August rains half the city is out in it with buckets for boletes, chanterelles and lingonberries.93climate
  2. 🇸🇪 Stockholm, SwedenCrayfish season · 1 Aug – 5 Sep (usually)Kraftskiva runs through August: paper hats, schnapps, songs between courses, and more ceremony than dinner.90climate
  3. 🇺🇸 Bar Harbor, United StatesLobster season · 15 Jun – 15 Dec (usually)Most of the Maine catch comes ashore between the summer shed and the end of autumn, and prices at the pounds follow the boats.88climate
  4. 🇨🇿 Prague, CzechiaMushroom season · 1 Aug – 31 Oct (usually)Picking is close to a national sport here.87climate
  5. 🇫🇮 Helsinki, FinlandBerry and crayfish season · 20 Jul – 10 Sep (usually)Bilberries, cloudberries and chanterelles fill the market square stalls, and the crayfish parties that follow are more ceremony — schnapps, songs, bibs — than dinner.87climate
  6. 🇳🇴 Oslo, NorwayMushroom season in the Marka · 20 Aug – 10 Oct (usually)Chanterelles and ceps come up in the forest above the city and half of Oslo goes looking; the municipal mushroom checkers set up stalls to sort the edible from the rest.86climate
  7. 🇲🇺 Rodrigues, MauritiusOctopus fishery closed season · 1 Aug – 15 Oct (usually)The island shuts its octopus fishery for a couple of months each year to let the stock recover, with the dates announced locally.85climate
  8. 🇲🇿 Pemba, MozambiqueSailfish season · 25 Aug – 15 Dec (usually)Sailfish season at the offshore Lazarus Banks runs from late August to mid-December and is the main draw for the sport-fishing charters working out of Pemba's harbour; other game fish bite year-round.84climate
  9. 🇨🇦 Revelstoke, CanadaHuckleberries and bears · 1 Aug – 20 Sep (usually)The berry crop on the avalanche slopes brings black and grizzly bears down to trail level for six weeks.81climate
  10. 🇺🇸 Whitefish, United StatesHuckleberry season · 10 Jul – 31 Aug (usually)Six weeks when every café, brewery and roadside stand in the Flathead sells huckleberry something, and the pickers head up the forest roads.77climate
  11. 🇺🇸 Glacier National Park, United StatesHuckleberry season · 15 Jul – 5 Sep (usually)The berries ripen on the slopes from mid-July and every roadside stand in the Flathead sells them by the pint.75climate
  12. 🇷🇺 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, RussiaBerry and mushroom season · 1 Aug – 20 Sep (usually)Crowberry, blueberry and cloudberry come on across the tundra in August and the mushrooms follow.75climate
  13. 🇺🇸 Baltimore, United StatesChesapeake blue crab season · 1 Apr – 30 NovSteamed crabs and Old Bay on brown paper from April to the end of November.70climate
  14. 🇨🇳 Shangri-La, ChinaMatsutake season · 1 Jul – 15 Sep (usually)These forests supply most of China's matsutake and a lot of Japan's.67climate
  15. 🇮🇹 Cortina d'Ampezzo, ItalyMushroom season and permits · 25 Aug – 10 Oct (usually)Porcini come up after the first cool rains and the woods fill with locals at dawn.66climate
  16. 🇧🇿 Caye Caulker, BelizeLobster season opens · 15 Jun – 14 FebThe spiny lobster season legally runs from 15 June to 14 February.58climate
  17. 🇧🇿 San Pedro, BelizeLobster season opens · 15 Jun – 14 FebThe spiny lobster fishery opens on 15 June and closes on 15 February.57climate
  18. 🇧🇿 Belize City, BelizeLobster season opens · 15 Jun – 14 FebThe spiny lobster fishery opens on 15 June and shuts again on 15 February.56climate
  19. 🇺🇸 Biscayne National Park, United StatesSpiny lobster season · 6 Aug – 31 MarThe regular season runs from August into spring, and the two-day sport season on the last Wednesday and Thursday of July fills the bay with boats.46climate

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Foraging season in September

  1. 🇫🇷 Bordeaux, FranceOyster season on the Bassin · 1 Sep – 30 Apr (usually)The huts at Cap Ferret and Gujan-Mestras, an hour west, sell by the dozen with a glass of white from September through the winter.92climate
  2. 🇫🇷 La Rochelle, FranceOyster and mussel season · 1 Sep – 30 Apr (usually)Marennes-Oleron oysters and the bouchot mussels of the bay run through the cold half of the year, and the market on the Place du Marche is where to eat them standing up.90climate
  3. 🇨🇿 Prague, CzechiaMushroom season · 1 Aug – 31 Oct (usually)Picking is close to a national sport here.86climate
  4. 🇨🇭 Lugano, SwitzerlandChestnut season · 25 Sep – 5 Nov (usually)Ticino roasts chestnuts on the square through October and the villages up the valleys each hold their own castagnata.86climate
  5. 🇪🇸 Barcelona, SpainWild mushroom season · 20 Sep – 30 Nov (usually)Rovellons and other bolets come down from the Catalan hills after the first autumn rain and take over the market stalls and the menus for a couple of months.84climate
  6. 🇲🇺 Rodrigues, MauritiusOctopus fishery closed season · 1 Aug – 15 Oct (usually)The island shuts its octopus fishery for a couple of months each year to let the stock recover, with the dates announced locally.84climate
  7. 🇸🇪 Stockholm, SwedenCrayfish season · 1 Aug – 5 Sep (usually)Kraftskiva runs through August: paper hats, schnapps, songs between courses, and more ceremony than dinner.81climate
  8. 🇺🇸 Bar Harbor, United StatesLobster season · 15 Jun – 15 Dec (usually)Most of the Maine catch comes ashore between the summer shed and the end of autumn, and prices at the pounds follow the boats.81climate
  9. 🇲🇿 Pemba, MozambiqueSailfish season · 25 Aug – 15 Dec (usually)Sailfish season at the offshore Lazarus Banks runs from late August to mid-December and is the main draw for the sport-fishing charters working out of Pemba's harbour; other game fish bite year-round.80climate
  10. 🇺🇸 Baltimore, United StatesChesapeake blue crab season · 1 Apr – 30 NovSteamed crabs and Old Bay on brown paper from April to the end of November.79climate
  11. 🇫🇮 Helsinki, FinlandBerry and crayfish season · 20 Jul – 10 Sep (usually)Bilberries, cloudberries and chanterelles fill the market square stalls, and the crayfish parties that follow are more ceremony — schnapps, songs, bibs — than dinner.77climate
  12. 🇷🇺 Yekaterinburg, RussiaMushroom and berry season · 1 Aug – 25 Sep (usually)The pine forest starts where the tram lines stop, and after the August rains half the city is out in it with buckets for boletes, chanterelles and lingonberries.76climate
  13. 🇮🇪 Galway, IrelandGalway Oyster Festival · 24–30 Sep (usually)The last weekend of September, the first weekend of the native oyster season, and a shucking championship on the Claddagh.76climate
  14. 🇳🇴 Oslo, NorwayMushroom season in the Marka · 20 Aug – 10 Oct (usually)Chanterelles and ceps come up in the forest above the city and half of Oslo goes looking; the municipal mushroom checkers set up stalls to sort the edible from the rest.74climate
  15. 🇨🇳 Shangri-La, ChinaMatsutake season · 1 Jul – 15 Sep (usually)These forests supply most of China's matsutake and a lot of Japan's.72climate
  16. 🇷🇺 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, RussiaBerry and mushroom season · 1 Aug – 20 Sep (usually)Crowberry, blueberry and cloudberry come on across the tundra in August and the mushrooms follow.70climate
  17. 🇨🇦 Revelstoke, CanadaHuckleberries and bears · 1 Aug – 20 Sep (usually)The berry crop on the avalanche slopes brings black and grizzly bears down to trail level for six weeks.69climate
  18. 🇺🇸 Glacier National Park, United StatesHuckleberry season · 15 Jul – 5 Sep (usually)The berries ripen on the slopes from mid-July and every roadside stand in the Flathead sells them by the pint.68climate
  19. 🇮🇹 Cortina d'Ampezzo, ItalyMushroom season and permits · 25 Aug – 10 Oct (usually)Porcini come up after the first cool rains and the woods fill with locals at dawn.65climate
  20. 🇨🇳 Suzhou, ChinaHairy crab season · 25 Sep – 15 Dec (usually)Yangcheng Lake is the name every restaurant in China claims in autumn, and this is the lake.63climate
  21. 🇧🇿 San Pedro, BelizeLobster season opens · 15 Jun – 14 FebThe spiny lobster fishery opens on 15 June and closes on 15 February.56climate
  22. 🇧🇿 Caye Caulker, BelizeLobster season opens · 15 Jun – 14 FebThe spiny lobster season legally runs from 15 June to 14 February.56climate
  23. 🇧🇿 Belize City, BelizeLobster season opens · 15 Jun – 14 FebThe spiny lobster fishery opens on 15 June and shuts again on 15 February.55climate
  24. 🇳🇿 Franz Josef, New ZealandWhitebait season · 1 Sep – 30 OctWhitebaiting runs 1 September to 30 October, and every river mouth on the coast grows a line of stands and huts for two months.51climate
  25. 🇺🇸 Biscayne National Park, United StatesSpiny lobster season · 6 Aug – 31 MarThe regular season runs from August into spring, and the two-day sport season on the last Wednesday and Thursday of July fills the bay with boats.47climate

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Foraging season in October

  1. 🇯🇵 Hiroshima, JapanOyster season · 15 Oct – 15 Mar (usually)The bay grows most of Japan's oysters and the rafts are worked all winter.87climate
  2. 🇺🇸 Baltimore, United StatesChesapeake blue crab season · 1 Apr – 30 NovSteamed crabs and Old Bay on brown paper from April to the end of November.87climate
  3. 🇮🇹 Rome, ItalyPorcini and chestnuts · 1 Oct – 20 Nov (usually)Autumn puts porcini, chestnuts and puntarelle on every menu in the city for about six weeks, which is why Romans push October as the month.86climate
  4. 🇪🇸 Barcelona, SpainWild mushroom season · 20 Sep – 30 Nov (usually)Rovellons and other bolets come down from the Catalan hills after the first autumn rain and take over the market stalls and the menus for a couple of months.86climate
  5. 🇺🇸 Charleston, United StatesLowcountry oyster season · 1 Oct – 30 AprCluster oysters come out of the creeks through the cool months, and the winter roast — a shovel of steamed oysters tipped onto a plywood table — is the local social event.85climate
  6. 🇨🇳 Suzhou, ChinaHairy crab season · 25 Sep – 15 Dec (usually)Yangcheng Lake is the name every restaurant in China claims in autumn, and this is the lake.84climate
  7. 🇮🇹 Bologna, ItalyPorcini, truffle and new oil · 1 Oct – 30 Nov (usually)Autumn puts porcini from the Apennines and white truffle from the hills onto every menu in the Quadrilatero, and it is the strongest argument for coming here in the fog months.83climate
  8. 🇫🇷 Bordeaux, FranceOyster season on the Bassin · 1 Sep – 30 Apr (usually)The huts at Cap Ferret and Gujan-Mestras, an hour west, sell by the dozen with a glass of white from September through the winter.81climate
  9. 🇲🇺 Rodrigues, MauritiusOctopus fishery closed season · 1 Aug – 15 Oct (usually)The island shuts its octopus fishery for a couple of months each year to let the stock recover, with the dates announced locally.81climate
  10. 🇮🇹 Siena, ItalyWhite truffle and new oil · 20 Oct – 15 Dec (usually)White truffle around San Giovanni d'Asso from late October, then the olive pressing in November and oil so green it stains the bread.80climate
  11. 🇫🇷 La Rochelle, FranceOyster and mussel season · 1 Sep – 30 Apr (usually)Marennes-Oleron oysters and the bouchot mussels of the bay run through the cold half of the year, and the market on the Place du Marche is where to eat them standing up.79climate
  12. 🇮🇹 Turin, ItalyWhite truffle and new wine · 5 Oct – 5 Dec (usually)Alba's white truffle season runs an hour south of the city through autumn, alongside the Barolo and Barbaresco vintage and a month of hazelnut and bagna cauda on every menu in Piedmont.78climate
  13. 🇲🇿 Pemba, MozambiqueSailfish season · 25 Aug – 15 Dec (usually)Sailfish season at the offshore Lazarus Banks runs from late August to mid-December and is the main draw for the sport-fishing charters working out of Pemba's harbour; other game fish bite year-round.77climate
  14. 🇨🇭 Lugano, SwitzerlandChestnut season · 25 Sep – 5 Nov (usually)Ticino roasts chestnuts on the square through October and the villages up the valleys each hold their own castagnata.74climate
  15. 🇨🇿 Prague, CzechiaMushroom season · 1 Aug – 31 Oct (usually)Picking is close to a national sport here.73climate
  16. 🇪🇸 Santiago de Compostela, SpainMagosto, chestnuts and new wine · 20 Oct – 15 Nov (usually)Braziers of chestnuts and the year's young wine around 1 November, in a month when the pilgrims have gone and Galicia is doing what it does for itself.71climate
  17. 🇺🇸 Bar Harbor, United StatesLobster season · 15 Jun – 15 Dec (usually)Most of the Maine catch comes ashore between the summer shed and the end of autumn, and prices at the pounds follow the boats.68climate
  18. 🇺🇸 Naples, Florida, United StatesStone crab season · 15 Oct – 1 MayFlorida's stone crab season opens on 15 October and shuts on 1 May, and this stretch of coast is the centre of the fishery.66climate
  19. 🇳🇴 Oslo, NorwayMushroom season in the Marka · 20 Aug – 10 Oct (usually)Chanterelles and ceps come up in the forest above the city and half of Oslo goes looking; the municipal mushroom checkers set up stalls to sort the edible from the rest.59climate
  20. 🇮🇹 Cortina d'Ampezzo, ItalyMushroom season and permits · 25 Aug – 10 Oct (usually)Porcini come up after the first cool rains and the woods fill with locals at dawn.59climate
  21. 🇼🇸 Apia, SamoaPalolo rising · 15 Oct – 20 Nov (usually)For a night or two in the week after the October and November full moons the reef releases palolo, and half the coast is out in the dark with lamps and fine nets.56climate
  22. 🇧🇿 Caye Caulker, BelizeLobster season opens · 15 Jun – 14 FebThe spiny lobster season legally runs from 15 June to 14 February.56climate
  23. 🇧🇿 San Pedro, BelizeLobster season opens · 15 Jun – 14 FebThe spiny lobster fishery opens on 15 June and closes on 15 February.55climate
  24. 🇳🇿 Franz Josef, New ZealandWhitebait season · 1 Sep – 30 OctWhitebaiting runs 1 September to 30 October, and every river mouth on the coast grows a line of stands and huts for two months.55climate
  25. 🇺🇸 Biscayne National Park, United StatesSpiny lobster season · 6 Aug – 31 MarThe regular season runs from August into spring, and the two-day sport season on the last Wednesday and Thursday of July fills the bay with boats.54climate

…and 1 more in October.

What's on around the world in October →

Foraging season in November

  1. 🇺🇸 Charleston, United StatesLowcountry oyster season · 1 Oct – 30 AprCluster oysters come out of the creeks through the cool months, and the winter roast — a shovel of steamed oysters tipped onto a plywood table — is the local social event.86climate
  2. 🇪🇸 Barcelona, SpainWild mushroom season · 20 Sep – 30 Nov (usually)Rovellons and other bolets come down from the Catalan hills after the first autumn rain and take over the market stalls and the menus for a couple of months.83climate
  3. 🇯🇵 Hiroshima, JapanOyster season · 15 Oct – 15 Mar (usually)The bay grows most of Japan's oysters and the rafts are worked all winter.83climate
  4. 🇺🇸 Naples, Florida, United StatesStone crab season · 15 Oct – 1 MayFlorida's stone crab season opens on 15 October and shuts on 1 May, and this stretch of coast is the centre of the fishery.78climate
  5. 🇨🇳 Suzhou, ChinaHairy crab season · 25 Sep – 15 Dec (usually)Yangcheng Lake is the name every restaurant in China claims in autumn, and this is the lake.77climate
  6. 🇹🇷 Istanbul, TurkeyHamsi season · 1 Nov – 28 Feb (usually)The Black Sea anchovy run reaches the city and the small fish turn up grilled and fried at every quayside counter.74climate
  7. 🇰🇷 Sokcho, South KoreaWinter fish market season · 1 Nov – 28 Feb (usually)The port market is at its point in winter: squid, pollock roe, and the cold-water fish the town was built on.73climate
  8. 🇮🇹 Rome, ItalyPorcini and chestnuts · 1 Oct – 20 Nov (usually)Autumn puts porcini, chestnuts and puntarelle on every menu in the city for about six weeks, which is why Romans push October as the month.72climate
  9. 🇹🇷 Trabzon, TurkeyHamsi season · 1 Nov – 28 Feb (usually)The anchovy boats come in and every restaurant on the coast cooks nothing else — fried, in rice, in cornmeal.72climate
  10. 🇺🇸 Baltimore, United StatesChesapeake blue crab season · 1 Apr – 30 NovSteamed crabs and Old Bay on brown paper from April to the end of November.71climate
  11. 🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche, ArgentinaTrout fishing season · 1 Nov – 1 May (usually)The Nahuel Huapi season opens in November and closes at the start of May, with a licence sold by the day at the park office.70climate
  12. 🇯🇵 Kanazawa, JapanSnow crab season · 6 Nov – 20 MarThe boats go out on 6 November and land males until 20 March.70climate
  13. 🇫🇷 Bordeaux, FranceOyster season on the Bassin · 1 Sep – 30 Apr (usually)The huts at Cap Ferret and Gujan-Mestras, an hour west, sell by the dozen with a glass of white from September through the winter.70climate
  14. 🇲🇿 Pemba, MozambiqueSailfish season · 25 Aug – 15 Dec (usually)Sailfish season at the offshore Lazarus Banks runs from late August to mid-December and is the main draw for the sport-fishing charters working out of Pemba's harbour; other game fish bite year-round.69climate
  15. 🇫🇷 La Rochelle, FranceOyster and mussel season · 1 Sep – 30 Apr (usually)Marennes-Oleron oysters and the bouchot mussels of the bay run through the cold half of the year, and the market on the Place du Marche is where to eat them standing up.67climate
  16. 🇮🇹 Bologna, ItalyPorcini, truffle and new oil · 1 Oct – 30 Nov (usually)Autumn puts porcini from the Apennines and white truffle from the hills onto every menu in the Quadrilatero, and it is the strongest argument for coming here in the fog months.66climate
  17. 🇨🇭 Lugano, SwitzerlandChestnut season · 25 Sep – 5 Nov (usually)Ticino roasts chestnuts on the square through October and the villages up the valleys each hold their own castagnata.66climate
  18. 🇮🇹 Turin, ItalyWhite truffle and new wine · 5 Oct – 5 Dec (usually)Alba's white truffle season runs an hour south of the city through autumn, alongside the Barolo and Barbaresco vintage and a month of hazelnut and bagna cauda on every menu in Piedmont.65climate
  19. 🇮🇹 Siena, ItalyWhite truffle and new oil · 20 Oct – 15 Dec (usually)White truffle around San Giovanni d'Asso from late October, then the olive pressing in November and oil so green it stains the bread.65climate
  20. 🇧🇿 San Pedro, BelizeLobster season opens · 15 Jun – 14 FebThe spiny lobster fishery opens on 15 June and closes on 15 February.63climate
  21. 🇺🇸 Biscayne National Park, United StatesSpiny lobster season · 6 Aug – 31 MarThe regular season runs from August into spring, and the two-day sport season on the last Wednesday and Thursday of July fills the bay with boats.62climate
  22. 🇧🇿 Caye Caulker, BelizeLobster season opens · 15 Jun – 14 FebThe spiny lobster season legally runs from 15 June to 14 February.62climate
  23. 🇪🇸 Santiago de Compostela, SpainMagosto, chestnuts and new wine · 20 Oct – 15 Nov (usually)Braziers of chestnuts and the year's young wine around 1 November, in a month when the pilgrims have gone and Galicia is doing what it does for itself.60climate
  24. 🇧🇿 Belize City, BelizeLobster season opens · 15 Jun – 14 FebThe spiny lobster fishery opens on 15 June and shuts again on 15 February.60climate
  25. 🇺🇸 Bar Harbor, United StatesLobster season · 15 Jun – 15 Dec (usually)Most of the Maine catch comes ashore between the summer shed and the end of autumn, and prices at the pounds follow the boats.55climate

…and 1 more in November.

What's on around the world in November →

Foraging season in December

  1. 🇺🇸 Naples, Florida, United StatesStone crab season · 15 Oct – 1 MayFlorida's stone crab season opens on 15 October and shuts on 1 May, and this stretch of coast is the centre of the fishery.84climate
  2. 🇪🇸 Barcelona, SpainCalçot season · 1 Dec – 5 Apr (usually)Grilled spring onions eaten with the fingers over romesco, at farm restaurants in the countryside inland.80climate
  3. 🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche, ArgentinaTrout fishing season · 1 Nov – 1 May (usually)The Nahuel Huapi season opens in November and closes at the start of May, with a licence sold by the day at the park office.76climate
  4. 🇧🇿 San Pedro, BelizeLobster season opens · 15 Jun – 14 FebThe spiny lobster fishery opens on 15 June and closes on 15 February.73climate
  5. 🇧🇿 Caye Caulker, BelizeLobster season opens · 15 Jun – 14 FebThe spiny lobster season legally runs from 15 June to 14 February.73climate
  6. 🇺🇸 Charleston, United StatesLowcountry oyster season · 1 Oct – 30 AprCluster oysters come out of the creeks through the cool months, and the winter roast — a shovel of steamed oysters tipped onto a plywood table — is the local social event.72climate
  7. 🇯🇵 Hiroshima, JapanOyster season · 15 Oct – 15 Mar (usually)The bay grows most of Japan's oysters and the rafts are worked all winter.71climate
  8. 🇧🇿 Belize City, BelizeLobster season opens · 15 Jun – 14 FebThe spiny lobster fishery opens on 15 June and shuts again on 15 February.71climate
  9. 🇺🇸 Biscayne National Park, United StatesSpiny lobster season · 6 Aug – 31 MarThe regular season runs from August into spring, and the two-day sport season on the last Wednesday and Thursday of July fills the bay with boats.69climate
  10. 🇨🇳 Suzhou, ChinaHairy crab season · 25 Sep – 15 Dec (usually)Yangcheng Lake is the name every restaurant in China claims in autumn, and this is the lake.67climate
  11. 🇹🇷 Trabzon, TurkeyHamsi season · 1 Nov – 28 Feb (usually)The anchovy boats come in and every restaurant on the coast cooks nothing else — fried, in rice, in cornmeal.64climate
  12. 🇹🇷 Istanbul, TurkeyHamsi season · 1 Nov – 28 Feb (usually)The Black Sea anchovy run reaches the city and the small fish turn up grilled and fried at every quayside counter.63climate
  13. 🇫🇷 Bordeaux, FranceOyster season on the Bassin · 1 Sep – 30 Apr (usually)The huts at Cap Ferret and Gujan-Mestras, an hour west, sell by the dozen with a glass of white from September through the winter.63climate
  14. 🇮🇹 Siena, ItalyWhite truffle and new oil · 20 Oct – 15 Dec (usually)White truffle around San Giovanni d'Asso from late October, then the olive pressing in November and oil so green it stains the bread.61climate
  15. 🇮🇹 Turin, ItalyWhite truffle and new wine · 5 Oct – 5 Dec (usually)Alba's white truffle season runs an hour south of the city through autumn, alongside the Barolo and Barbaresco vintage and a month of hazelnut and bagna cauda on every menu in Piedmont.60climate
  16. 🇫🇷 La Rochelle, FranceOyster and mussel season · 1 Sep – 30 Apr (usually)Marennes-Oleron oysters and the bouchot mussels of the bay run through the cold half of the year, and the market on the Place du Marche is where to eat them standing up.60climate
  17. 🇲🇿 Pemba, MozambiqueSailfish season · 25 Aug – 15 Dec (usually)Sailfish season at the offshore Lazarus Banks runs from late August to mid-December and is the main draw for the sport-fishing charters working out of Pemba's harbour; other game fish bite year-round.59climate
  18. 🇰🇷 Sokcho, South KoreaWinter fish market season · 1 Nov – 28 Feb (usually)The port market is at its point in winter: squid, pollock roe, and the cold-water fish the town was built on.56climate
  19. 🇯🇵 Kanazawa, JapanSnow crab season · 6 Nov – 20 MarThe boats go out on 6 November and land males until 20 March.50climate
  20. 🇺🇸 Bar Harbor, United StatesLobster season · 15 Jun – 15 Dec (usually)Most of the Maine catch comes ashore between the summer shed and the end of autumn, and prices at the pounds follow the boats.37climate

What's on around the world in December →