SeasonMap

Harvest, month by month around the world

Grapes, olives, rice, saffron — the countryside at work and at table.

181 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 harvest on in that month. Windows move a little each year.

Harvest in January

  1. 🇧🇩 Sylhet, BangladeshTea garden touring season · 1 Oct – 31 Mar (usually)At Malnicherra, one of the world's oldest tea estates and inside the city itself, pickers work the bushes for two leaves and a bud through the cool, dry months from October to March, when clear skies make for easy walking between the rows.93climate
  2. 🇻🇳 Dalat, VietnamCoffee harvest on the plateau · 1 Nov – 15 Jan (usually)Picking season across the Lam Dong smallholdings, with beans drying on tarps in every farmyard and the cafés in town selling this year's crop by December.92climate
  3. 🇮🇳 Madikeri, IndiaCoffee harvest · 15 Nov – 31 Jan (usually)Arabica comes off first and robusta into January, and the estates run on migrant labour and drying yards for three months.91climate
  4. 🇵🇭 Baguio, PhilippinesStrawberry season in La Trinidad · 1 Nov – 15 May (usually)The pick-your-own fields in the valley below town run through the cool months and peak around February.88climate
  5. 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, IndiaSankranti · 13–16 JanThe harvest holiday empties the city as Telugu families go back to their villages for three days.87climate
  6. 🇱🇦 Pakse, LaosBolaven coffee harvest · 1 Nov – 28 Feb (usually)Picking on the plateau above town, with cherries drying on tarps outside every village and the roadside places selling this year's crop before it leaves the country.86climate
  7. 🇺🇸 Kona, United StatesKona coffee harvest · 1 Sep – 15 Jan (usually)The cherry ripens unevenly on the slopes above town, so pickers go through the same trees several times between September and January.83climate
  8. 🇿🇦 Stellenbosch, South AfricaWine harvest · 20 Jan – 10 Apr (usually)The early whites come off the vines from late January and the reds run into April.83climate
  9. 🇹🇳 Djerba, TunisiaOlive harvest · 1 Nov – 15 Jan (usually)The groves that cover most of the island's interior are picked and the small presses run through the night.82climate
  10. 🇵🇦 Boquete, PanamaCoffee harvest · 1 Oct – 28 Feb (usually)Pickers come down from the comarca and the fincas run mill and cupping tours through the harvest.82climate
  11. 🇰🇭 Battambang, CambodiaRice harvest on the plain · 15 Nov – 31 Jan (usually)Cambodia's rice province at work — cut paddy, drying mats on the shoulder of every road, and smoke from the stubble in the late afternoon.81climate
  12. 🇬🇷 Heraklion, GreeceOlive harvest · 1 Nov – 31 Jan (usually)Nets under the trees across the whole prefecture from November, and the presses running late into the night.79climate
  13. 🇹🇳 Tunis, TunisiaOlive harvest · 1 Nov – 15 Jan (usually)The country's biggest crop comes in from November and the presses in the Sahel run day and night.78climate
  14. 🇰🇭 Kampot, CambodiaSalt harvest on the flats · 15 Dec – 15 May (usually)The pans between town and Kep are worked through the dry months, with the rakes out at first light and cones of salt along the road.78climate
  15. 🇮🇹 Catania, ItalyBlood orange harvest · 15 Dec – 15 Apr (usually)Tarocco and moro oranges come off the volcanic plain north of the city through winter, which is the argument for eating here between January and March.78climate
  16. 🇮🇳 Chennai, IndiaPongal · 13–17 Jan (usually)Four days of harvest holiday.77climate
  17. 🇮🇳 Pondicherry, IndiaPongal · 14–17 JanThe Tamil harvest festival is four days of closed shops, kolam on every doorstep and sugarcane stacked outside the temples.77climate
  18. 🇱🇰 Nuwara Eliya, Sri LankaWestern quality season · 1 Jan – 15 MarCold nights and dry days on the western slopes give the year's most prized picking, and the factories run it separately.76climate
  19. 🇲🇦 Chefchaouen, MoroccoOlive harvest in the Rif · 1 Nov – 15 Jan (usually)The terraces below the town are picked by hand and the presses in the valley run day and night; the new oil turns up on breakfast tables within the week.74climate
  20. 🇪🇸 Granada, SpainOlive harvest · 15 Nov – 10 Feb (usually)The vega and the road east to Jaen are picked through the winter and the mills sell the first pressing straight off.73climate
  21. 🇬🇷 Rhodes, GreeceOlive harvest · 1 Nov – 15 Jan (usually)Nets go down under the trees across the interior once the resorts have shut, and the village presses run into January.72climate
  22. 🇬🇷 Nafplio, GreeceArgolid orange harvest · 15 Nov – 31 Mar (usually)The plain between here and Argos is one long orange grove and it is picked through the winter, with fruit stacked at the roadside and the smell of it on the road to Mycenae.72climate
  23. 🇪🇸 Córdoba, Spain, SpainOlive harvest · 15 Nov – 10 Feb (usually)The countryside from here to Jaen is nothing but olive trees and it is all picked between late November and February.72climate
  24. 🇪🇸 Ronda, SpainOlive harvest · 15 Nov – 31 Jan (usually)Nets under the trees from mid-November and the mills running through December.72climate
  25. 🇳🇵 Chitwan, NepalThatch grass cutting · 10–31 Jan (usually)For a few days each January the park opens to villagers with permits to cut elephant grass and reed for roofing, and tens of thousands come in on foot and by cart.72climate

…and 6 more in January.

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Harvest in February

  1. 🇨🇱 La Serena, ChileGrape harvest in the Elqui · 15 Feb – 30 Apr (usually)The pisco grapes come off between late February and April and the valley smells of them; the distilleries at Pisco Elqui and Vicuna run tastings through it and the light on the terraces is the year's best.96climate
  2. 🇦🇺 Launceston, AustraliaTamar Valley vintage · 20 Feb – 10 May (usually)Pinot and sparkling base come off the vineyards up the Tamar and over at Pipers River from late February into April.95climate
  3. 🇦🇺 Margaret River, AustraliaVintage · 1 Feb – 15 Apr (usually)The crush runs from February into April and the whole valley smells of it.94climate
  4. 🇵🇭 Baguio, PhilippinesStrawberry season in La Trinidad · 1 Nov – 15 May (usually)The pick-your-own fields in the valley below town run through the cool months and peak around February.91climate
  5. 🇳🇿 Nelson, New ZealandApple and hop harvest · 15 Feb – 30 Apr (usually)Nelson grows most of New Zealand's hops and a large share of its apples, and both come off between late February and April.90climate
  6. 🇳🇿 Napier, New ZealandHawke's Bay vintage · 20 Feb – 30 Apr (usually)Chardonnay first, then the Gimblett Gravels reds well into April.90climate
  7. 🇦🇷 Cafayate, ArgentinaTorrontés harvest · 1 Feb – 15 Apr (usually)The high-altitude Torrontés comes off the vines from February and the bodegas ringing the town open their cellars and run tastings while the picking is on.89climate
  8. 🇿🇦 Cape Town, South AfricaCape wine harvest · 1 Feb – 10 Apr (usually)The valleys inland pick through February and March into early April, and the estates run harvest festivals and grape stomping alongside it.88climate
  9. 🇳🇿 Auckland, New ZealandWaiheke grape harvest · 15 Feb – 10 Apr (usually)The island vineyards pick from late February, a forty-minute ferry from the downtown terminal.87climate
  10. 🇧🇩 Sylhet, BangladeshTea garden touring season · 1 Oct – 31 Mar (usually)At Malnicherra, one of the world's oldest tea estates and inside the city itself, pickers work the bushes for two leaves and a bud through the cool, dry months from October to March, when clear skies make for easy walking between the rows.87climate
  11. 🇵🇦 Boquete, PanamaCoffee harvest · 1 Oct – 28 Feb (usually)Pickers come down from the comarca and the fincas run mill and cupping tours through the harvest.85climate
  12. 🇦🇷 Mendoza, ArgentinaGrape harvest · 15 Feb – 15 Apr (usually)Picking runs from mid-February into April, earliest in the warm east and latest up in the Uco Valley.84climate
  13. 🇿🇦 Stellenbosch, South AfricaWine harvest · 20 Jan – 10 Apr (usually)The early whites come off the vines from late January and the reds run into April.84climate
  14. 🇱🇰 Nuwara Eliya, Sri LankaWestern quality season · 1 Jan – 15 MarCold nights and dry days on the western slopes give the year's most prized picking, and the factories run it separately.83climate
  15. 🇱🇦 Pakse, LaosBolaven coffee harvest · 1 Nov – 28 Feb (usually)Picking on the plateau above town, with cherries drying on tarps outside every village and the roadside places selling this year's crop before it leaves the country.81climate
  16. 🇪🇸 Córdoba, Spain, SpainOlive harvest · 15 Nov – 10 Feb (usually)The countryside from here to Jaen is nothing but olive trees and it is all picked between late November and February.81climate
  17. 🇪🇸 Granada, SpainOlive harvest · 15 Nov – 10 Feb (usually)The vega and the road east to Jaen are picked through the winter and the mills sell the first pressing straight off.80climate
  18. 🇮🇹 Catania, ItalyBlood orange harvest · 15 Dec – 15 Apr (usually)Tarocco and moro oranges come off the volcanic plain north of the city through winter, which is the argument for eating here between January and March.80climate
  19. 🇵🇪 Ica, PeruGrape harvest · 1 Feb – 15 Apr (usually)Picking runs from February into April and the bodegas around the valley open their presses and stills while it is on — the only weeks you can watch pisco actually being made.79climate
  20. 🇬🇷 Nafplio, GreeceArgolid orange harvest · 15 Nov – 31 Mar (usually)The plain between here and Argos is one long orange grove and it is picked through the winter, with fruit stacked at the roadside and the smell of it on the road to Mycenae.77climate
  21. 🇰🇭 Kampot, CambodiaKampot pepper harvest · 1 Feb – 15 May (usually)Picking season on the trellises inland from town, which is when the farms are worth visiting and when the green pepper actually turns up fresh on a plate.75climate
  22. 🇮🇹 Rome, ItalyArtichoke season · 1 Jan – 15 Apr (usually)The romanesco comes into the markets after Christmas and stays until spring; it is the one thing every trattoria in the ghetto and Testaccio is judged on.73climate
  23. 🇬🇷 Corfu, GreeceOlive harvest · 1 Nov – 28 Feb (usually)Nets go down under four million trees, most of them planted under the Venetians and never pruned, and the presses in the villages run through the winter.73climate
  24. 🇮🇹 Sorrento, ItalyLemon harvest · 15 Feb – 31 May (usually)The terraced groves under their black netting are picked hardest through the spring.73climate
  25. 🇯🇵 Kobe, JapanNada sake brewing season · 1 Oct – 31 Mar (usually)The Nada breweries press through the cold half of the year, which is when the tasting rooms east of the centre pour the unpasteurised new sake they cannot ship.70climate

…and 4 more in February.

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Harvest in March

  1. 🇨🇱 La Serena, ChileGrape harvest in the Elqui · 15 Feb – 30 Apr (usually)The pisco grapes come off between late February and April and the valley smells of them; the distilleries at Pisco Elqui and Vicuna run tastings through it and the light on the terraces is the year's best.95climate
  2. 🇦🇺 Launceston, AustraliaTamar Valley vintage · 20 Feb – 10 May (usually)Pinot and sparkling base come off the vineyards up the Tamar and over at Pipers River from late February into April.92climate
  3. 🇵🇭 Baguio, PhilippinesStrawberry season in La Trinidad · 1 Nov – 15 May (usually)The pick-your-own fields in the valley below town run through the cool months and peak around February.92climate
  4. 🇦🇺 Margaret River, AustraliaVintage · 1 Feb – 15 Apr (usually)The crush runs from February into April and the whole valley smells of it.92climate
  5. 🇦🇷 Cafayate, ArgentinaTorrontés harvest · 1 Feb – 15 Apr (usually)The high-altitude Torrontés comes off the vines from February and the bodegas ringing the town open their cellars and run tastings while the picking is on.92climate
  6. 🇳🇿 Auckland, New ZealandWaiheke grape harvest · 15 Feb – 10 Apr (usually)The island vineyards pick from late February, a forty-minute ferry from the downtown terminal.91climate
  7. 🇿🇦 Cape Town, South AfricaCape wine harvest · 1 Feb – 10 Apr (usually)The valleys inland pick through February and March into early April, and the estates run harvest festivals and grape stomping alongside it.90climate
  8. 🇸🇦 Taif, Saudi ArabiaTaif rose harvest · 25 Mar – 10 May (usually)Around six weeks from late March the farms on Al Hada and Al Shafa pick before dawn, when the oil is still in the flower, and the distilleries run the same day.90climate
  9. 🇦🇷 Mendoza, ArgentinaGrape harvest · 15 Feb – 15 Apr (usually)Picking runs from mid-February into April, earliest in the warm east and latest up in the Uco Valley.89climate
  10. 🇨🇱 Santiago, ChileVendimia, the grape harvest · 1 Mar – 15 Apr (usually)The valleys either side of the city bring in the harvest through March and hold their own festivals for it; hot days and cold nights all month.88climate
  11. 🇳🇿 Nelson, New ZealandApple and hop harvest · 15 Feb – 30 Apr (usually)Nelson grows most of New Zealand's hops and a large share of its apples, and both come off between late February and April.87climate
  12. 🇳🇿 Napier, New ZealandHawke's Bay vintage · 20 Feb – 30 Apr (usually)Chardonnay first, then the Gimblett Gravels reds well into April.87climate
  13. 🇿🇦 Stellenbosch, South AfricaWine harvest · 20 Jan – 10 Apr (usually)The early whites come off the vines from late January and the reds run into April.87climate
  14. 🇮🇹 Catania, ItalyBlood orange harvest · 15 Dec – 15 Apr (usually)Tarocco and moro oranges come off the volcanic plain north of the city through winter, which is the argument for eating here between January and March.86climate
  15. 🇬🇷 Nafplio, GreeceArgolid orange harvest · 15 Nov – 31 Mar (usually)The plain between here and Argos is one long orange grove and it is picked through the winter, with fruit stacked at the roadside and the smell of it on the road to Mycenae.85climate
  16. 🇱🇰 Nuwara Eliya, Sri LankaWestern quality season · 1 Jan – 15 MarCold nights and dry days on the western slopes give the year's most prized picking, and the factories run it separately.82climate
  17. 🇵🇪 Ica, PeruGrape harvest · 1 Feb – 15 Apr (usually)Picking runs from February into April and the bodegas around the valley open their presses and stills while it is on — the only weeks you can watch pisco actually being made.80climate
  18. 🇮🇹 Rome, ItalyArtichoke season · 1 Jan – 15 Apr (usually)The romanesco comes into the markets after Christmas and stays until spring; it is the one thing every trattoria in the ghetto and Testaccio is judged on.79climate
  19. 🇮🇹 Sorrento, ItalyLemon harvest · 15 Feb – 31 May (usually)The terraced groves under their black netting are picked hardest through the spring.79climate
  20. 🇴🇲 Nizwa, OmanRose harvest on Jebel Akhdar · 25 Mar – 5 May (usually)Damask roses are picked at dawn on the terraces above Nizwa through most of April, then distilled in village stills.79climate
  21. 🇨🇳 Hangzhou, ChinaLongjing tea picking · 20 Mar – 20 Apr (usually)The leaf picked before Qingming is the one that costs a fortune, and the hills at Meijiawu are full of pickers for a fortnight.74climate
  22. 🇯🇵 Kobe, JapanNada sake brewing season · 1 Oct – 31 Mar (usually)The Nada breweries press through the cold half of the year, which is when the tasting rooms east of the centre pour the unpasteurised new sake they cannot ship.74climate
  23. 🇪🇸 San Sebastián, SpainCider house season · 15 Jan – 30 AprFrom mid-January the sagardotegis in Astigarraga open the barrels: you eat cod omelette and chop standing up and catch cider off the barrel yourself.73climate
  24. 🇧🇩 Sylhet, BangladeshTea garden touring season · 1 Oct – 31 Mar (usually)At Malnicherra, one of the world's oldest tea estates and inside the city itself, pickers work the bushes for two leaves and a bud through the cool, dry months from October to March, when clear skies make for easy walking between the rows.72climate
  25. 🇰🇭 Kampot, CambodiaKampot pepper harvest · 1 Feb – 15 May (usually)Picking season on the trellises inland from town, which is when the farms are worth visiting and when the green pepper actually turns up fresh on a plate.71climate

…and 6 more in March.

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Harvest in April

  1. 🇦🇷 Mendoza, ArgentinaGrape harvest · 15 Feb – 15 Apr (usually)Picking runs from mid-February into April, earliest in the warm east and latest up in the Uco Valley.94climate
  2. 🇿🇦 Cape Town, South AfricaCape wine harvest · 1 Feb – 10 Apr (usually)The valleys inland pick through February and March into early April, and the estates run harvest festivals and grape stomping alongside it.93climate
  3. 🇲🇦 Marrakesh, MoroccoRose harvest in the Dades valley · 20 Apr – 31 May (usually)The Damask roses south of the Atlas are picked at dawn through late April and May, and Kelaat M'Gouna holds its rose festival at the height of it.92climate
  4. 🇮🇹 Catania, ItalyBlood orange harvest · 15 Dec – 15 Apr (usually)Tarocco and moro oranges come off the volcanic plain north of the city through winter, which is the argument for eating here between January and March.92climate
  5. 🇦🇷 Cafayate, ArgentinaTorrontés harvest · 1 Feb – 15 Apr (usually)The high-altitude Torrontés comes off the vines from February and the bodegas ringing the town open their cellars and run tastings while the picking is on.92climate
  6. 🇨🇱 La Serena, ChileGrape harvest in the Elqui · 15 Feb – 30 Apr (usually)The pisco grapes come off between late February and April and the valley smells of them; the distilleries at Pisco Elqui and Vicuna run tastings through it and the light on the terraces is the year's best.92climate
  7. 🇿🇦 Stellenbosch, South AfricaWine harvest · 20 Jan – 10 Apr (usually)The early whites come off the vines from late January and the reds run into April.90climate
  8. 🇮🇹 Sorrento, ItalyLemon harvest · 15 Feb – 31 May (usually)The terraced groves under their black netting are picked hardest through the spring.89climate
  9. 🇲🇦 Ouarzazate, MoroccoRose festival at Kelaat M'Gouna · 25 Apr – 20 May (usually)The Dades valley picks its damask roses through late April and May and marks the end of it with three or four days of parades and market stalls an hour up the road.89climate
  10. 🇮🇹 Rome, ItalyArtichoke season · 1 Jan – 15 Apr (usually)The romanesco comes into the markets after Christmas and stays until spring; it is the one thing every trattoria in the ghetto and Testaccio is judged on.88climate
  11. 🇨🇱 Santiago, ChileVendimia, the grape harvest · 1 Mar – 15 Apr (usually)The valleys either side of the city bring in the harvest through March and hold their own festivals for it; hot days and cold nights all month.86climate
  12. 🇵🇭 Baguio, PhilippinesStrawberry season in La Trinidad · 1 Nov – 15 May (usually)The pick-your-own fields in the valley below town run through the cool months and peak around February.86climate
  13. 🇵🇪 Ica, PeruGrape harvest · 1 Feb – 15 Apr (usually)Picking runs from February into April and the bodegas around the valley open their presses and stills while it is on — the only weeks you can watch pisco actually being made.85climate
  14. 🇦🇺 Margaret River, AustraliaVintage · 1 Feb – 15 Apr (usually)The crush runs from February into April and the whole valley smells of it.85climate
  15. 🇸🇮 Piran, SloveniaSecovlje salt harvest · 23 Apr – 15 Sep (usually)The salt pans south of town are still worked by hand from St George's Day through the summer, raked into white ridges on the same beds used for six hundred years.85climate
  16. 🇨🇳 Hangzhou, ChinaLongjing tea picking · 20 Mar – 20 Apr (usually)The leaf picked before Qingming is the one that costs a fortune, and the hills at Meijiawu are full of pickers for a fortnight.84climate
  17. 🇳🇿 Auckland, New ZealandWaiheke grape harvest · 15 Feb – 10 Apr (usually)The island vineyards pick from late February, a forty-minute ferry from the downtown terminal.83climate
  18. 🇳🇿 Napier, New ZealandHawke's Bay vintage · 20 Feb – 30 Apr (usually)Chardonnay first, then the Gimblett Gravels reds well into April.83climate
  19. 🇸🇦 Taif, Saudi ArabiaTaif rose harvest · 25 Mar – 10 May (usually)Around six weeks from late March the farms on Al Hada and Al Shafa pick before dawn, when the oil is still in the flower, and the distilleries run the same day.83climate
  20. 🇦🇺 Launceston, AustraliaTamar Valley vintage · 20 Feb – 10 May (usually)Pinot and sparkling base come off the vineyards up the Tamar and over at Pipers River from late February into April.82climate
  21. 🇪🇸 San Sebastián, SpainCider house season · 15 Jan – 30 AprFrom mid-January the sagardotegis in Astigarraga open the barrels: you eat cod omelette and chop standing up and catch cider off the barrel yourself.80climate
  22. 🇳🇿 Nelson, New ZealandApple and hop harvest · 15 Feb – 30 Apr (usually)Nelson grows most of New Zealand's hops and a large share of its apples, and both come off between late February and April.77climate
  23. 🇴🇲 Salalah, OmanFrankincense tapping · 1 Apr – 15 Jun (usually)The boswellia trees on the dry side of the mountains are scored and the resin left to harden before collection.71climate
  24. 🇺🇸 Burlington, United StatesMaple sugaring season · 25 Feb – 5 Apr (usually)Sap runs when nights freeze and days thaw, so the season is a few weeks that move with the year.68climate
  25. 🇨🇦 Toronto, CanadaMaple syrup season · 25 Feb – 6 Apr (usually)Freezing nights and thawing days start the sap, and the sugar bushes at Bruce's Mill and Kortright open for pancakes for about six weeks.67climate

…and 8 more in April.

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Harvest in May

  1. 🇬🇷 Naxos, GreecePotato harvest · 15 May – 10 Jul (usually)Naxos exports potatoes the way other islands export marble, and from late spring they are sold by the sack at the roadside on the Chora to Sangri road.93climate
  2. 🇵🇹 Évora, PortugalCork stripping · 15 May – 31 Aug (usually)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.93climate
  3. 🇮🇹 Tropea, ItalyRed onion harvest · 1 May – 31 Jul (usually)The sweet red onion that carries the town's name comes out of the sandy coastal fields through early summer, and gets plaited into ropes and hung outside every shop on the corso.90climate
  4. 🇮🇹 Sorrento, ItalyLemon harvest · 15 Feb – 31 May (usually)The terraced groves under their black netting are picked hardest through the spring.89climate
  5. 🇸🇮 Piran, SloveniaSecovlje salt harvest · 23 Apr – 15 Sep (usually)The salt pans south of town are still worked by hand from St George's Day through the summer, raked into white ridges on the same beds used for six hundred years.86climate
  6. 🇮🇹 Cinque Terre, ItalyMonterosso lemon festival · 15–25 May (usually)A Saturday in May given over to the local lemons — stalls, cakes and limoncello along the old town front, before the season's crowds properly arrive.84climate
  7. 🇲🇦 Marrakesh, MoroccoRose harvest in the Dades valley · 20 Apr – 31 May (usually)The Damask roses south of the Atlas are picked at dawn through late April and May, and Kelaat M'Gouna holds its rose festival at the height of it.82climate
  8. 🇹🇷 Rize, TurkeyTea harvest season · 1 May – 31 Oct (usually)The prized first flush, Mayis cayi, is picked in May from the youngest leaves after winter; a bigger, milder-flavoured summer flush follows through July, and a final autumn pass finishes by October.82climate
  9. 🇲🇦 Ouarzazate, MoroccoRose festival at Kelaat M'Gouna · 25 Apr – 20 May (usually)The Dades valley picks its damask roses through late April and May and marks the end of it with three or four days of parades and market stalls an hour up the road.81climate
  10. 🇸🇦 Taif, Saudi ArabiaTaif rose harvest · 25 Mar – 10 May (usually)Around six weeks from late March the farms on Al Hada and Al Shafa pick before dawn, when the oil is still in the flower, and the distilleries run the same day.78climate
  11. 🇦🇺 Launceston, AustraliaTamar Valley vintage · 20 Feb – 10 May (usually)Pinot and sparkling base come off the vineyards up the Tamar and over at Pipers River from late February into April.73climate
  12. 🇵🇭 Baguio, PhilippinesStrawberry season in La Trinidad · 1 Nov – 15 May (usually)The pick-your-own fields in the valley below town run through the cool months and peak around February.72climate
  13. 🇻🇳 Sapa, VietnamWater-pouring season · 15 May – 30 Jun (usually)The terraces are flooded for transplanting and the whole valley below Ta Van turns to mirrors.71climate
  14. 🇴🇲 Salalah, OmanFrankincense tapping · 1 Apr – 15 Jun (usually)The boswellia trees on the dry side of the mountains are scored and the resin left to harden before collection.63climate
  15. 🇮🇳 Darjeeling, IndiaSecond flush tea · 1 May – 20 Jun (usually)The muscatel picking, and the one the auction houses actually pay for.62climate
  16. 🇻🇳 Mui Ne, VietnamDragon fruit season · 1 May – 30 Sep (usually)Binh Thuan grows most of Vietnam's dragon fruit, and out of season the growers string lights over the fields at night to force the flowers — visible for kilometres from the highway.62climate
  17. 🇻🇳 Ninh Binh, VietnamRipe rice at Tam Cốc · 20 May – 15 Jun (usually)The fortnight the paddy between the karst turns gold, which is the picture everyone comes for and the only time the Tam Coc boats are properly queued.55climate
  18. 🇰🇭 Kampot, CambodiaKampot pepper harvest · 1 Feb – 15 May (usually)Picking season on the trellises inland from town, which is when the farms are worth visiting and when the green pepper actually turns up fresh on a plate.55climate
  19. 🇨🇳 Shenzhen, ChinaLychee season · 25 May – 10 Jul (usually)Shenzhen grew lychees before it grew towers and the old orchards in Nanshan still crop.54climate
  20. 🇨🇳 Guilin, ChinaLongji terraces under water · 20 Apr – 15 Jun (usually)The terraces above Longsheng are flooded for rice planting and hold the sky for about six weeks.53climate
  21. 🇻🇳 Can Tho, VietnamOrchard season in the delta · 1 May – 31 Aug (usually)Mangosteen, rambutan and durian come in across the garden islands, and the orchard-and-lunch trips that only half work the rest of the year are worth doing.51climate
  22. 🇨🇳 Guangzhou, ChinaLychee season · 20 May – 20 Jul (usually)The Pearl River delta is the lychee heartland and the fruit is sold by the branch on every corner from late May, cheapest at the end of June when the main varieties come in together.48climate
  23. 🇧🇩 Sundarbans, BangladeshWild honey collection · 1 Apr – 31 May (usually)The mouals go in on permits at the start of April to cut wild comb from the mangrove, the one licensed harvest the forest still allows.45climate
  24. 🇴🇲 Nizwa, OmanRose harvest on Jebel Akhdar · 25 Mar – 5 May (usually)Damask roses are picked at dawn on the terraces above Nizwa through most of April, then distilled in village stills.42climate

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Harvest in June

  1. 🇵🇹 Aveiro, PortugalSalt pans working · 15 Jun – 20 Sep (usually)The marinhas on the lagoon are only raked through the dry months, and the few families still working them sell flor de sal at the pan edge.94climate
  2. 🇵🇹 Tavira, PortugalSalt harvest in the pans · 15 Jun – 20 Sep (usually)The salinas either side of the river are raked through the summer, flor de sal skimmed off the surface in the mornings and white pyramids left along the banks until autumn.92climate
  3. 🇵🇹 Évora, PortugalCork stripping · 15 May – 31 Aug (usually)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.91climate
  4. 🇲🇦 Taghazout, MoroccoArgan harvest · 1 Jun – 31 Aug (usually)The groves behind the coast are picked through summer and the co-operatives run flat out, which is the only time of year you can watch the whole process rather than the shop end of it.90climate
  5. 🇮🇹 Tropea, ItalyRed onion harvest · 1 May – 31 Jul (usually)The sweet red onion that carries the town's name comes out of the sandy coastal fields through early summer, and gets plaited into ropes and hung outside every shop on the corso.88climate
  6. 🇲🇦 Agadir, MoroccoArgan harvest in the Souss · 15 Jun – 31 Aug (usually)The fruit drops in the groves inland and the women's cooperatives on the Taroudant road are at full tilt cracking nuts by hand.87climate
  7. 🇧🇬 Burgas, BulgariaAtanasovsko salt harvest · 15 Jun – 15 Sep (usually)The salt pans on the north edge of town work through the summer, turning the water pink, and people wade in for the lye and black mud that comes with it.86climate
  8. 🇬🇷 Naxos, GreecePotato harvest · 15 May – 10 Jul (usually)Naxos exports potatoes the way other islands export marble, and from late spring they are sold by the sack at the roadside on the Chora to Sangri road.86climate
  9. 🇬🇷 Santorini, GreeceTomato and fava harvest · 20 Jun – 5 Aug (usually)The unirrigated cherry tomatoes and the split peas that everything on the menu is made from come in through high summer, dried on the roofs of the inland villages rather than the caldera side.85climate
  10. 🇸🇮 Piran, SloveniaSecovlje salt harvest · 23 Apr – 15 Sep (usually)The salt pans south of town are still worked by hand from St George's Day through the summer, raked into white ridges on the same beds used for six hundred years.84climate
  11. 🇫🇯 Nadi, FijiCane crushing season · 1 Jun – 30 Nov (usually)The mills at Lautoka and Ba run from about June to November, and the narrow-gauge cane trains hold up the Queens Road crossings all day.80climate
  12. 🇲🇽 Querétaro, MexicoWine harvest season · 15 Jun – 15 Sep (usually)Mexico's second wine region, around Tequisquiapan and Ezequiel Montes, runs its vendimias through the summer with a different estate hosting most weekends.80climate
  13. 🇺🇸 Capitol Reef National Park, United StatesU-pick orchard harvest · 20 Jun – 15 Oct (usually)Apricots from late June, peaches and pears through August, apples until mid-October — you pick your own and pay at an honesty box.79climate
  14. 🇹🇷 Rize, TurkeyTea harvest season · 1 May – 31 Oct (usually)The prized first flush, Mayis cayi, is picked in May from the youngest leaves after winter; a bigger, milder-flavoured summer flush follows through July, and a final autumn pass finishes by October.79climate
  15. 🇺🇸 Hilo, United StatesMango and tropical fruit harvest · 1 Jun – 30 Sep (usually)Mango, lychee, rambutan and mountain apple come in through the summer and the Hilo farmers market on Wednesday and Saturday is where they land.74climate
  16. 🇴🇲 Salalah, OmanFrankincense tapping · 1 Apr – 15 Jun (usually)The boswellia trees on the dry side of the mountains are scored and the resin left to harden before collection.66climate
  17. 🇻🇳 Mui Ne, VietnamDragon fruit season · 1 May – 30 Sep (usually)Binh Thuan grows most of Vietnam's dragon fruit, and out of season the growers string lights over the fields at night to force the flowers — visible for kilometres from the highway.63climate
  18. 🇮🇳 Darjeeling, IndiaSecond flush tea · 1 May – 20 Jun (usually)The muscatel picking, and the one the auction houses actually pay for.61climate
  19. 🇻🇳 Sapa, VietnamWater-pouring season · 15 May – 30 Jun (usually)The terraces are flooded for transplanting and the whole valley below Ta Van turns to mirrors.57climate
  20. 🇻🇳 Can Tho, VietnamOrchard season in the delta · 1 May – 31 Aug (usually)Mangosteen, rambutan and durian come in across the garden islands, and the orchard-and-lunch trips that only half work the rest of the year are worth doing.54climate
  21. 🇻🇳 Ninh Binh, VietnamRipe rice at Tam Cốc · 20 May – 15 Jun (usually)The fortnight the paddy between the karst turns gold, which is the picture everyone comes for and the only time the Tam Coc boats are properly queued.50climate
  22. 🇨🇳 Guilin, ChinaLongji terraces under water · 20 Apr – 15 Jun (usually)The terraces above Longsheng are flooded for rice planting and hold the sky for about six weeks.43climate
  23. 🇨🇳 Shenzhen, ChinaLychee season · 25 May – 10 Jul (usually)Shenzhen grew lychees before it grew towers and the old orchards in Nanshan still crop.41climate
  24. 🇹🇼 Tainan, TaiwanMango season · 1 Jun – 15 Aug (usually)Yujing up the valley is the mango capital of Taiwan and the shaved-ice shops in the old city run on it for ten weeks.41climate
  25. 🇨🇳 Guangzhou, ChinaLychee season · 20 May – 20 Jul (usually)The Pearl River delta is the lychee heartland and the fruit is sold by the branch on every corner from late May, cheapest at the end of June when the main varieties come in together.38climate

What's on around the world in June →

Harvest in July

  1. 🇵🇹 Aveiro, PortugalSalt pans working · 15 Jun – 20 Sep (usually)The marinhas on the lagoon are only raked through the dry months, and the few families still working them sell flor de sal at the pan edge.88climate
  2. 🇵🇹 Tavira, PortugalSalt harvest in the pans · 15 Jun – 20 Sep (usually)The salinas either side of the river are raked through the summer, flor de sal skimmed off the surface in the mornings and white pyramids left along the banks until autumn.87climate
  3. 🇪🇸 Lanzarote, SpainLa Geria grape harvest · 5 Jul – 25 Aug (usually)Europe's earliest vintage, picked by hand from single vines sunk in ash pits behind semicircular stone walls.86climate
  4. 🇵🇰 Hunza, PakistanApricot harvest · 1 Jul – 15 Aug (usually)Every flat roof in Karimabad and Ganish is covered in halved apricots drying in the sun for a few weeks.85climate
  5. 🇫🇯 Nadi, FijiCane crushing season · 1 Jun – 30 Nov (usually)The mills at Lautoka and Ba run from about June to November, and the narrow-gauge cane trains hold up the Queens Road crossings all day.84climate
  6. 🇵🇹 Évora, PortugalCork stripping · 15 May – 31 Aug (usually)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.84climate
  7. 🇨🇦 Kelowna, CanadaCherry and stone fruit harvest · 1 Jul – 10 Sep (usually)Cherries first in July, then peaches and apricots through August at the roadside stands on the way out to Kelowna's east bench.83climate
  8. 🇺🇸 Traverse City, United StatesCherry harvest & u-pick · 1 Jul – 10 Aug (usually)Sweet cherries come off the trees in the first weeks of July and the tart cherries that built the region's name follow through late July into August, with orchards across both peninsulas opening u-pick rows and roadside stands.83climate
  9. 🇲🇽 Querétaro, MexicoWine harvest season · 15 Jun – 15 Sep (usually)Mexico's second wine region, around Tequisquiapan and Ezequiel Montes, runs its vendimias through the summer with a different estate hosting most weekends.82climate
  10. 🇧🇬 Burgas, BulgariaAtanasovsko salt harvest · 15 Jun – 15 Sep (usually)The salt pans on the north edge of town work through the summer, turning the water pink, and people wade in for the lye and black mud that comes with it.82climate
  11. 🇲🇦 Taghazout, MoroccoArgan harvest · 1 Jun – 31 Aug (usually)The groves behind the coast are picked through summer and the co-operatives run flat out, which is the only time of year you can watch the whole process rather than the shop end of it.82climate
  12. 🇮🇹 Tropea, ItalyRed onion harvest · 1 May – 31 Jul (usually)The sweet red onion that carries the town's name comes out of the sandy coastal fields through early summer, and gets plaited into ropes and hung outside every shop on the corso.80climate
  13. 🇬🇷 Naxos, GreecePotato harvest · 15 May – 10 Jul (usually)Naxos exports potatoes the way other islands export marble, and from late spring they are sold by the sack at the roadside on the Chora to Sangri road.80climate
  14. 🇸🇮 Piran, SloveniaSecovlje salt harvest · 23 Apr – 15 Sep (usually)The salt pans south of town are still worked by hand from St George's Day through the summer, raked into white ridges on the same beds used for six hundred years.80climate
  15. 🇬🇷 Santorini, GreeceTomato and fava harvest · 20 Jun – 5 Aug (usually)The unirrigated cherry tomatoes and the split peas that everything on the menu is made from come in through high summer, dried on the roofs of the inland villages rather than the caldera side.79climate
  16. 🇲🇦 Agadir, MoroccoArgan harvest in the Souss · 15 Jun – 31 Aug (usually)The fruit drops in the groves inland and the women's cooperatives on the Taroudant road are at full tilt cracking nuts by hand.79climate
  17. 🇺🇸 Capitol Reef National Park, United StatesU-pick orchard harvest · 20 Jun – 15 Oct (usually)Apricots from late June, peaches and pears through August, apples until mid-October — you pick your own and pay at an honesty box.72climate
  18. 🇹🇷 Rize, TurkeyTea harvest season · 1 May – 31 Oct (usually)The prized first flush, Mayis cayi, is picked in May from the youngest leaves after winter; a bigger, milder-flavoured summer flush follows through July, and a final autumn pass finishes by October.71climate
  19. 🇺🇸 Hilo, United StatesMango and tropical fruit harvest · 1 Jun – 30 Sep (usually)Mango, lychee, rambutan and mountain apple come in through the summer and the Hilo farmers market on Wednesday and Saturday is where they land.69climate
  20. 🇻🇳 Mui Ne, VietnamDragon fruit season · 1 May – 30 Sep (usually)Binh Thuan grows most of Vietnam's dragon fruit, and out of season the growers string lights over the fields at night to force the flowers — visible for kilometres from the highway.64climate
  21. 🇵🇭 Davao, PhilippinesDurian season · 15 Jul – 31 Oct (usually)The reason people plan a Davao trip around a month.57climate
  22. 🇺🇿 Andijan, UzbekistanFergana fruit harvest · 1 Jul – 30 Sep (usually)Melons, grapes, apricots and the valley's pomegranates come through the bazaar in waves through late summer, sold off truck beds by the kilo.55climate
  23. 🇺🇿 Tashkent, UzbekistanMelon and grape season · 15 Jul – 30 Sep (usually)Melons and grapes arrive at Chorsu by the truckload and are sold off the pavement outside the dome.53climate
  24. 🇨🇳 Guangzhou, ChinaLychee season · 20 May – 20 Jul (usually)The Pearl River delta is the lychee heartland and the fruit is sold by the branch on every corner from late May, cheapest at the end of June when the main varieties come in together.52climate
  25. 🇻🇳 Can Tho, VietnamOrchard season in the delta · 1 May – 31 Aug (usually)Mangosteen, rambutan and durian come in across the garden islands, and the orchard-and-lunch trips that only half work the rest of the year are worth doing.50climate

…and 3 more in July.

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Harvest in August

  1. 🇩🇪 Stuttgart, GermanyStuttgarter Weindorf · 24 Aug – 10 Sep (usually)Twelve days when the squares around the old palace fill with wooden booths pouring Württemberg wine — Trollinger and Lemberger, which barely leave the region — with maultaschen to go with it.92climate
  2. 🇺🇸 Napa, United StatesCrush · 1 Aug – 31 OctPicking starts in early August with sparkling and whites and finishes with cabernet into late October.90climate
  3. 🇵🇹 Funchal, PortugalMadeira Wine Festival · 25 Aug – 15 Sep (usually)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.89climate
  4. 🇵🇱 Lublin, PolandJagiellonian Fair · 10–25 Aug (usually)A traditional-crafts market in the old town in August: potters, weavers and blacksmiths from across eastern Poland, with folk bands on a stage at the end of the street.89climate
  5. 🇹🇿 Moshi, TanzaniaChagga coffee harvest · 1 Aug – 30 Nov (usually)The smallholdings on the lower slopes above Moshi pick from about August, and the co-operative walks around Machame and Marangu are worth doing then rather than the rest of the year.89climate
  6. 🇺🇸 Santa Fe, United StatesGreen chile roasting · 15 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)Drum roasters appear in supermarket car parks and the whole town smells of burnt chile skin for six weeks.88climate
  7. 🇵🇹 Aveiro, PortugalSalt pans working · 15 Jun – 20 Sep (usually)The marinhas on the lagoon are only raked through the dry months, and the few families still working them sell flor de sal at the pan edge.87climate
  8. 🇺🇸 Traverse City, United StatesCherry harvest & u-pick · 1 Jul – 10 Aug (usually)Sweet cherries come off the trees in the first weeks of July and the tart cherries that built the region's name follow through late July into August, with orchards across both peninsulas opening u-pick rows and roadside stands.86climate
  9. 🇨🇦 Kelowna, CanadaCherry and stone fruit harvest · 1 Jul – 10 Sep (usually)Cherries first in July, then peaches and apricots through August at the roadside stands on the way out to Kelowna's east bench.85climate
  10. 🇵🇹 Tavira, PortugalSalt harvest in the pans · 15 Jun – 20 Sep (usually)The salinas either side of the river are raked through the summer, flor de sal skimmed off the surface in the mornings and white pyramids left along the banks until autumn.85climate
  11. 🇺🇿 Samarkand, UzbekistanMelon and grape season · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)The Siyob bazaar next to Bibi-Khanym fills with melons, grapes and the year's new dried fruit, sold off the back of trucks parked outside.84climate
  12. 🇪🇸 Lanzarote, SpainLa Geria grape harvest · 5 Jul – 25 Aug (usually)Europe's earliest vintage, picked by hand from single vines sunk in ash pits behind semicircular stone walls.84climate
  13. 🇵🇰 Hunza, PakistanApricot harvest · 1 Jul – 15 Aug (usually)Every flat roof in Karimabad and Ganish is covered in halved apricots drying in the sun for a few weeks.83climate
  14. 🇲🇽 Querétaro, MexicoWine harvest season · 15 Jun – 15 Sep (usually)Mexico's second wine region, around Tequisquiapan and Ezequiel Montes, runs its vendimias through the summer with a different estate hosting most weekends.83climate
  15. 🇪🇸 Ronda, SpainGrape harvest in the Serrania · 25 Aug – 10 Oct (usually)The bodegas scattered round the plateau bring in their fruit through September, and most of them will let you walk in and taste at that point in the year.83climate
  16. 🇵🇹 Évora, PortugalCork stripping · 15 May – 31 Aug (usually)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.83climate
  17. 🇫🇷 Montpellier, FranceLanguedoc vendanges · 20 Aug – 5 Oct (usually)Picking starts in the hot coastal plots in late August and works uphill into the Pic Saint-Loup through September.82climate
  18. 🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence, FranceVendanges in the Coteaux d'Aix · 25 Aug – 10 Oct (usually)Picking runs from the end of August into early October across the hills either side of the town.82climate
  19. 🇫🇯 Nadi, FijiCane crushing season · 1 Jun – 30 Nov (usually)The mills at Lautoka and Ba run from about June to November, and the narrow-gauge cane trains hold up the Queens Road crossings all day.81climate
  20. 🇨🇳 Ürümqi, ChinaMelon and grape season · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)The bazaars fill with what the oases send in — Hami melons, Turpan grapes, figs and mulberries.81climate
  21. 🇧🇬 Burgas, BulgariaAtanasovsko salt harvest · 15 Jun – 15 Sep (usually)The salt pans on the north edge of town work through the summer, turning the water pink, and people wade in for the lye and black mud that comes with it.81climate
  22. 🇲🇦 Taghazout, MoroccoArgan harvest · 1 Jun – 31 Aug (usually)The groves behind the coast are picked through summer and the co-operatives run flat out, which is the only time of year you can watch the whole process rather than the shop end of it.81climate
  23. 🇨🇳 Kashgar, ChinaMelon and grape season · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)Late summer is what the irrigation is for: melons stacked on handcarts, figs, pomegranates and grapes drying in the ventilated brick sheds outside town.80climate
  24. 🇪🇸 Girona, SpainEmporda grape harvest · 25 Aug – 5 Oct (usually)The vineyards between here and the Alberes are picked from late August, early because the tramuntana dries the fruit.80climate
  25. 🇺🇸 Albuquerque, United StatesGreen chile harvest · 1 Aug – 30 SepDrum roasters appear outside every supermarket and roadside stand from August, and the whole city smells of it for two months.79climate

…and 26 more in August.

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Harvest in September

  1. 🇨🇦 Kelowna, CanadaCherry and stone fruit harvest · 1 Jul – 10 Sep (usually)Cherries first in July, then peaches and apricots through August at the roadside stands on the way out to Kelowna's east bench.94climate
  2. 🇭🇺 Budapest, HungaryBudapest Wine Festival · 3–15 Sep (usually)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.93climate
  3. 🇰🇿 Almaty, KazakhstanApple harvest in the foothills · 1 Sep – 15 Oct (usually)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.93climate
  4. 🇫🇷 Strasbourg, FranceAlsace vendanges · 1 Sep – 20 Oct (usually)The wine villages start half an hour south-west and pick through September into October, late harvest last.93climate
  5. 🇷🇸 Novi Sad, SerbiaFruška Gora vintage · 1 Sep – 15 Oct (usually)The hills across the Danube are picked through September and the cellars at Sremski Karlovci open for it, bermet and all.93climate
  6. 🇧🇬 Burgas, BulgariaAtanasovsko salt harvest · 15 Jun – 15 Sep (usually)The salt pans on the north edge of town work through the summer, turning the water pink, and people wade in for the lye and black mud that comes with it.93climate
  7. 🇺🇿 Samarkand, UzbekistanMelon and grape season · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)The Siyob bazaar next to Bibi-Khanym fills with melons, grapes and the year's new dried fruit, sold off the back of trucks parked outside.92climate
  8. 🇫🇷 Bordeaux, FranceVendanges in the vineyards · 5 Sep – 15 Oct (usually)Picking runs through September and into October across the Medoc and the right bank.92climate
  9. 🇺🇸 Santa Fe, United StatesGreen chile roasting · 15 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)Drum roasters appear in supermarket car parks and the whole town smells of burnt chile skin for six weeks.92climate
  10. 🇺🇿 Tashkent, UzbekistanMelon and grape season · 15 Jul – 30 Sep (usually)Melons and grapes arrive at Chorsu by the truckload and are sold off the pavement outside the dome.92climate
  11. 🇨🇳 Ürümqi, ChinaMelon and grape season · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)The bazaars fill with what the oases send in — Hami melons, Turpan grapes, figs and mulberries.92climate
  12. 🇵🇹 Braga, PortugalVinho Verde harvest · 1 Sep – 10 Oct (usually)The vines trained overhead on granite posts around the city are picked through September, and the quintas in the Cavado and Ave valleys open for it.92climate
  13. 🇵🇹 Porto, PortugalDouro vintage · 1 Sep – 15 Oct (usually)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.91climate
  14. 🇨🇳 Kashgar, ChinaMelon and grape season · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)Late summer is what the irrigation is for: melons stacked on handcarts, figs, pomegranates and grapes drying in the ventilated brick sheds outside town.91climate
  15. 🇭🇺 Lake Balaton, HungaryNorth shore vintage · 1 Sep – 15 Oct (usually)The volcanic hills on the north shore — Badacsony, Szent György, Somló over the way — pick through September, and the cellar doors and harvest fairs are the reason to be here after the beaches empty.91climate
  16. 🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence, FranceVendanges in the Coteaux d'Aix · 25 Aug – 10 Oct (usually)Picking runs from the end of August into early October across the hills either side of the town.91climate
  17. 🇫🇷 Colmar, FranceVendanges on the wine route · 1 Sep – 20 Oct (usually)Picking runs through September and into October in the villages either side of town, and the late-harvest grapes hang on longest.91climate
  18. 🇦🇹 Vienna, AustriaSturm and the wine harvest · 1 Sep – 31 Oct (usually)Vienna grows wine inside the city limits.90climate
  19. 🇵🇹 Funchal, PortugalMadeira Wine Festival · 25 Aug – 15 Sep (usually)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.90climate
  20. 🇫🇷 Montpellier, FranceLanguedoc vendanges · 20 Aug – 5 Oct (usually)Picking starts in the hot coastal plots in late August and works uphill into the Pic Saint-Loup through September.90climate
  21. 🇮🇹 Bolzano, ItalyApple harvest · 25 Aug – 25 Oct (usually)South Tyrol picks a large share of Europe's apples and the whole valley floor is at work for two months, crates stacked at the ends of the rows.90climate
  22. 🇮🇹 Siena, ItalyChianti and Brunello harvest · 5 Sep – 15 Oct (usually)The picking runs through September in the hills either side of the city, and it is the one time of year the estates are working rather than pouring for visitors.90climate
  23. 🇪🇸 Ronda, SpainGrape harvest in the Serrania · 25 Aug – 10 Oct (usually)The bodegas scattered round the plateau bring in their fruit through September, and most of them will let you walk in and taste at that point in the year.90climate
  24. 🇩🇪 Freiburg, GermanyKaiserstuhl wine harvest · 5 Sep – 15 Oct (usually)The vineyards on the volcanic hills west of the city are picked from early September, and the Neuer Wein appears in the taverns while it is still cloudy and half-fermented.90climate
  25. 🇵🇹 Lisbon, PortugalGrape harvest · 1 Sep – 15 Oct (usually)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.89climate

…and 74 more in September.

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Harvest in October

  1. 🇬🇷 Heraklion, GreecePeza wine harvest · 20 Aug – 10 Oct (usually)The vineyards at Peza and Archanes, twenty minutes uphill, bring in vidiano and kotsifali from late August, and the estates open their doors while they do.92climate
  2. 🇵🇸 Bethlehem, PalestineOlive harvest · 1 Oct – 20 Nov (usually)Families take a fortnight off to pick the terraces around Beit Jala and Battir and the presses run late into the night.92climate
  3. 🇵🇸 Ramallah, PalestineOlive harvest · 1 Oct – 20 Nov (usually)Families take a fortnight off to pick the terraces and the presses in the surrounding villages run day and night.92climate
  4. 🇺🇿 Bukhara, UzbekistanMelon and pomegranate season · 1 Sep – 20 Oct (usually)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.91climate
  5. 🇮🇹 Matera, ItalyGrape then olive harvest · 10 Sep – 20 Nov (usually)Grapes come in across the Murgia through September, olives from late October, and the new oil reaches the shops in November.91climate
  6. 🇮🇹 Alghero, ItalyVermentino harvest · 20 Aug – 5 Oct (usually)The vineyards on the plain behind the town bring in vermentino and cannonau from late August, and the cellars at Santa Maria La Palma open for it.90climate
  7. 🇵🇹 Évora, PortugalAlentejo grape harvest · 15 Aug – 5 Oct (usually)The vintage starts early down here, often in the second half of August, and the estates around the city open for it.90climate
  8. 🇹🇷 Bursa, TurkeyChestnut harvest · 1 Oct – 30 Nov (usually)The chestnut woods on the lower slopes of Uludağ are picked out and the confectioners in the old town start turning them into kestane şekeri.89climate
  9. 🇪🇸 Ronda, SpainGrape harvest in the Serrania · 25 Aug – 10 Oct (usually)The bodegas scattered round the plateau bring in their fruit through September, and most of them will let you walk in and taste at that point in the year.89climate
  10. 🇪🇸 Girona, SpainEmporda grape harvest · 25 Aug – 5 Oct (usually)The vineyards between here and the Alberes are picked from late August, early because the tramuntana dries the fruit.89climate
  11. 🇵🇹 Lisbon, PortugalGrape harvest · 1 Sep – 15 Oct (usually)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.88climate
  12. 🇪🇸 Valencia, SpainRice harvest in the Albufera · 1 Sep – 10 Oct (usually)The paddies south of the city are cut through September, and the lagoon is drained and reflooded around it.88climate
  13. 🇲🇦 Ouarzazate, MoroccoDate harvest in the Draa · 15 Sep – 31 Oct (usually)The oases south and east of town, around Skoura and down the Draa, bring in the crop as the heat goes out of the day.88climate
  14. 🇮🇳 Srinagar, IndiaSaffron harvest at Pampore · 20 Oct – 15 Nov (usually)The fields fifteen kilometres out flower purple for two or three weeks and whole families pick them before the sun is up.88climate
  15. 🇮🇷 Yazd, IranPomegranate harvest · 20 Sep – 10 Nov (usually)The gardens around Yazd and up towards Taft come in through the autumn, and the markets fill with fruit, syrup and the dried herbs that go with it.88climate
  16. 🇨🇾 Limassol, CyprusLimassol Wine Festival · 25 Aug – 10 Oct (usually)Nine evenings in the Municipal Gardens where the wine is free and unlimited, courtesy of the town, and the Commandaria producers pour alongside the big houses.87climate
  17. 🇮🇹 Rome, ItalyGrape harvest in the Castelli · 1 Sep – 10 Oct (usually)The hill towns south of the city bring in the harvest through September and the frascati towns hold their wine feasts around it.86climate
  18. 🇰🇷 Busan, South KoreaChuseok · 5 Sep – 10 Oct (usually)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.86climate
  19. 🇦🇲 Yerevan, ArmeniaAreni wine festival · 1–20 Oct (usually)The wine villages an hour and a half south hold their harvest festival in October and half of Yerevan drives down for it.86climate
  20. 🇺🇸 Napa, United StatesCrush · 1 Aug – 31 OctPicking starts in early August with sparkling and whites and finishes with cabernet into late October.86climate
  21. 🇭🇷 Hvar, CroatiaWine harvest · 1 Sep – 5 Oct (usually)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.86climate
  22. 🇬🇷 Halkidiki, GreeceOlive harvest · 15 Oct – 31 Dec (usually)The big green Halkidiki table olives come off first in early autumn, then the oil trees.86climate
  23. 🇬🇪 Tbilisi, GeorgiaRtveli, the grape harvest · 5 Sep – 20 Oct (usually)Kakheti brings in the harvest over about six weeks and every family with vines feeds anyone who helps.85climate
  24. 🇹🇷 Göreme, TurkeyCappadocian grape harvest · 1 Sep – 15 Oct (usually)Emir and okuzgozu come in off the volcanic soil around Urgup and Uchisar, and the small cellars open their doors.85climate
  25. 🇨🇳 Guilin, ChinaLongji terraces turn gold · 20 Sep – 15 Oct (usually)One crop a year on slopes this steep, so the gold is a fortnight and no more.85climate

…and 67 more in October.

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Harvest in November

  1. 🇪🇬 Siwa, EgyptDate harvest · 20 Sep – 15 Nov (usually)Siwa's own crop, and the oasis smells of it for six weeks: palms stripped by hand, dates spread on roofs, lorries loading for Cairo on every track out of town.96climate
  2. 🇹🇳 Tozeur, TunisiaDeglet Nour harvest · 1 Oct – 20 Dec (usually)The palm groves are picked through the autumn, climbers going up the trunks with ropes, and the sorting sheds run into the night.92climate
  3. 🇹🇳 Djerba, TunisiaOlive harvest · 1 Nov – 15 Jan (usually)The groves that cover most of the island's interior are picked and the small presses run through the night.91climate
  4. 🇲🇦 Marrakesh, MoroccoOlive harvest · 1 Nov – 31 Dec (usually)The presses in the villages below the Atlas run the new olives from November, and the first oil of the year turns up on every breakfast table in the city.90climate
  5. 🇬🇷 Heraklion, GreeceOlive harvest · 1 Nov – 31 Jan (usually)Nets under the trees across the whole prefecture from November, and the presses running late into the night.89climate
  6. 🇵🇸 Bethlehem, PalestineOlive harvest · 1 Oct – 20 Nov (usually)Families take a fortnight off to pick the terraces around Beit Jala and Battir and the presses run late into the night.89climate
  7. 🇹🇳 Tunis, TunisiaOlive harvest · 1 Nov – 15 Jan (usually)The country's biggest crop comes in from November and the presses in the Sahel run day and night.88climate
  8. 🇲🇦 Fes, MoroccoOlive harvest and new oil · 1 Nov – 31 Dec (usually)The presses in the hills around the city run from November, and the first oil of the year turns up in the medina at breakfast.88climate
  9. 🇮🇷 Yazd, IranPomegranate harvest · 20 Sep – 10 Nov (usually)The gardens around Yazd and up towards Taft come in through the autumn, and the markets fill with fruit, syrup and the dried herbs that go with it.86climate
  10. 🇵🇸 Ramallah, PalestineOlive harvest · 1 Oct – 20 Nov (usually)Families take a fortnight off to pick the terraces and the presses in the surrounding villages run day and night.85climate
  11. 🇬🇷 Rhodes, GreeceOlive harvest · 1 Nov – 15 Jan (usually)Nets go down under the trees across the interior once the resorts have shut, and the village presses run into January.84climate
  12. 🇬🇷 Nafplio, GreeceArgolid orange harvest · 15 Nov – 31 Mar (usually)The plain between here and Argos is one long orange grove and it is picked through the winter, with fruit stacked at the roadside and the smell of it on the road to Mycenae.84climate
  13. 🇮🇳 Madikeri, IndiaCoffee harvest · 15 Nov – 31 Jan (usually)Arabica comes off first and robusta into January, and the estates run on migrant labour and drying yards for three months.84climate
  14. 🇯🇵 Kobe, JapanNada sake brewing season · 1 Oct – 31 Mar (usually)The Nada breweries press through the cold half of the year, which is when the tasting rooms east of the centre pour the unpasteurised new sake they cannot ship.83climate
  15. 🇬🇷 Chania, GreeceOlive harvest · 1 Nov – 31 Jan (usually)Nets go down under the trees across the whole prefecture from November and the presses run through the winter.80climate
  16. 🇲🇦 Chefchaouen, MoroccoOlive harvest in the Rif · 1 Nov – 15 Jan (usually)The terraces below the town are picked by hand and the presses in the valley run day and night; the new oil turns up on breakfast tables within the week.80climate
  17. 🇧🇩 Sylhet, BangladeshTea garden touring season · 1 Oct – 31 Mar (usually)At Malnicherra, one of the world's oldest tea estates and inside the city itself, pickers work the bushes for two leaves and a bud through the cool, dry months from October to March, when clear skies make for easy walking between the rows.80climate
  18. 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, IndiaKadalekai Parishe · 15 Nov – 15 Dec (usually)The groundnut fair around the Bull Temple in Basavanagudi, where farmers bring the season's first crop to be blessed and sold.78climate
  19. 🇹🇷 Izmir, TurkeyAegean olive harvest · 1 Nov – 20 Dec (usually)The groves around Urla and Seferihisar are picked and pressed through November, and the new oil turns up green and peppery in the markets.78climate
  20. 🇪🇸 Granada, SpainOlive harvest · 15 Nov – 10 Feb (usually)The vega and the road east to Jaen are picked through the winter and the mills sell the first pressing straight off.78climate
  21. 🇵🇭 Baguio, PhilippinesStrawberry season in La Trinidad · 1 Nov – 15 May (usually)The pick-your-own fields in the valley below town run through the cool months and peak around February.78climate
  22. 🇹🇿 Moshi, TanzaniaChagga coffee harvest · 1 Aug – 30 Nov (usually)The smallholdings on the lower slopes above Moshi pick from about August, and the co-operative walks around Machame and Marangu are worth doing then rather than the rest of the year.78climate
  23. 🇱🇦 Pakse, LaosBolaven coffee harvest · 1 Nov – 28 Feb (usually)Picking on the plateau above town, with cherries drying on tarps outside every village and the roadside places selling this year's crop before it leaves the country.77climate
  24. 🇺🇸 Kona, United StatesKona coffee harvest · 1 Sep – 15 Jan (usually)The cherry ripens unevenly on the slopes above town, so pickers go through the same trees several times between September and January.77climate
  25. 🇪🇸 Córdoba, Spain, SpainOlive harvest · 15 Nov – 10 Feb (usually)The countryside from here to Jaen is nothing but olive trees and it is all picked between late November and February.77climate

…and 22 more in November.

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Harvest in December

  1. 🇧🇩 Sylhet, BangladeshTea garden touring season · 1 Oct – 31 Mar (usually)At Malnicherra, one of the world's oldest tea estates and inside the city itself, pickers work the bushes for two leaves and a bud through the cool, dry months from October to March, when clear skies make for easy walking between the rows.90climate
  2. 🇮🇳 Madikeri, IndiaCoffee harvest · 15 Nov – 31 Jan (usually)Arabica comes off first and robusta into January, and the estates run on migrant labour and drying yards for three months.88climate
  3. 🇲🇦 Marrakesh, MoroccoOlive harvest · 1 Nov – 31 Dec (usually)The presses in the villages below the Atlas run the new olives from November, and the first oil of the year turns up on every breakfast table in the city.85climate
  4. 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, IndiaKadalekai Parishe · 15 Nov – 15 Dec (usually)The groundnut fair around the Bull Temple in Basavanagudi, where farmers bring the season's first crop to be blessed and sold.85climate
  5. 🇱🇦 Pakse, LaosBolaven coffee harvest · 1 Nov – 28 Feb (usually)Picking on the plateau above town, with cherries drying on tarps outside every village and the roadside places selling this year's crop before it leaves the country.85climate
  6. 🇪🇬 Siwa, EgyptOlive harvest · 1 Nov – 31 Dec (usually)The presses run from November and the year's oil turns up on every table.85climate
  7. 🇹🇳 Djerba, TunisiaOlive harvest · 1 Nov – 15 Jan (usually)The groves that cover most of the island's interior are picked and the small presses run through the night.84climate
  8. 🇻🇳 Dalat, VietnamCoffee harvest on the plateau · 1 Nov – 15 Jan (usually)Picking season across the Lam Dong smallholdings, with beans drying on tarps in every farmyard and the cafés in town selling this year's crop by December.84climate
  9. 🇰🇭 Battambang, CambodiaRice harvest on the plain · 15 Nov – 31 Jan (usually)Cambodia's rice province at work — cut paddy, drying mats on the shoulder of every road, and smoke from the stubble in the late afternoon.82climate
  10. 🇵🇭 Baguio, PhilippinesStrawberry season in La Trinidad · 1 Nov – 15 May (usually)The pick-your-own fields in the valley below town run through the cool months and peak around February.82climate
  11. 🇮🇹 Catania, ItalyBlood orange harvest · 15 Dec – 15 Apr (usually)Tarocco and moro oranges come off the volcanic plain north of the city through winter, which is the argument for eating here between January and March.82climate
  12. 🇬🇷 Heraklion, GreeceOlive harvest · 1 Nov – 31 Jan (usually)Nets under the trees across the whole prefecture from November, and the presses running late into the night.81climate
  13. 🇹🇳 Tozeur, TunisiaDeglet Nour harvest · 1 Oct – 20 Dec (usually)The palm groves are picked through the autumn, climbers going up the trunks with ropes, and the sorting sheds run into the night.80climate
  14. 🇹🇳 Tunis, TunisiaOlive harvest · 1 Nov – 15 Jan (usually)The country's biggest crop comes in from November and the presses in the Sahel run day and night.79climate
  15. 🇺🇸 Kona, United StatesKona coffee harvest · 1 Sep – 15 Jan (usually)The cherry ripens unevenly on the slopes above town, so pickers go through the same trees several times between September and January.78climate
  16. 🇲🇦 Fes, MoroccoOlive harvest and new oil · 1 Nov – 31 Dec (usually)The presses in the hills around the city run from November, and the first oil of the year turns up in the medina at breakfast.77climate
  17. 🇰🇭 Kampot, CambodiaSalt harvest on the flats · 15 Dec – 15 May (usually)The pans between town and Kep are worked through the dry months, with the rakes out at first light and cones of salt along the road.76climate
  18. 🇬🇷 Nafplio, GreeceArgolid orange harvest · 15 Nov – 31 Mar (usually)The plain between here and Argos is one long orange grove and it is picked through the winter, with fruit stacked at the roadside and the smell of it on the road to Mycenae.74climate
  19. 🇬🇷 Rhodes, GreeceOlive harvest · 1 Nov – 15 Jan (usually)Nets go down under the trees across the interior once the resorts have shut, and the village presses run into January.73climate
  20. 🇲🇦 Chefchaouen, MoroccoOlive harvest in the Rif · 1 Nov – 15 Jan (usually)The terraces below the town are picked by hand and the presses in the valley run day and night; the new oil turns up on breakfast tables within the week.73climate
  21. 🇯🇵 Kobe, JapanNada sake brewing season · 1 Oct – 31 Mar (usually)The Nada breweries press through the cold half of the year, which is when the tasting rooms east of the centre pour the unpasteurised new sake they cannot ship.73climate
  22. 🇪🇸 Granada, SpainOlive harvest · 15 Nov – 10 Feb (usually)The vega and the road east to Jaen are picked through the winter and the mills sell the first pressing straight off.73climate
  23. 🇵🇦 Boquete, PanamaCoffee harvest · 1 Oct – 28 Feb (usually)Pickers come down from the comarca and the fincas run mill and cupping tours through the harvest.72climate
  24. 🇪🇸 Córdoba, Spain, SpainOlive harvest · 15 Nov – 10 Feb (usually)The countryside from here to Jaen is nothing but olive trees and it is all picked between late November and February.71climate
  25. 🇪🇸 Ronda, SpainOlive harvest · 15 Nov – 31 Jan (usually)Nets under the trees from mid-November and the mills running through December.70climate

…and 7 more in December.

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