SeasonMap

Rutting season, month by month around the world

Stags roaring, elk bugling, moose on the road — the autumn weeks the big animals are loud and close.

9 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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When it is on

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

Rutting season in June

  1. 🇺🇸 Wind Cave National Park, United StatesBison rut · 20 Jun – 15 Sep (usually)Late June starts the rut, when two-thousand-pound bulls square off across the mixed-grass prairie along US 385, young red calves from the spring still at their sides.74climate

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Rutting season in July

  1. 🇺🇸 Yellowstone National Park, United StatesBison rut · 20 Jul – 25 Aug (usually)Bulls bellow, wallow and fight through the Hayden and Lamar valleys in high summer, and they stand in the road while they do it.80climate
  2. 🇺🇸 Wind Cave National Park, United StatesBison rut · 20 Jun – 15 Sep (usually)Late June starts the rut, when two-thousand-pound bulls square off across the mixed-grass prairie along US 385, young red calves from the spring still at their sides.72climate
  3. 🇺🇸 Theodore Roosevelt National Park, United StatesBison rut · 15 Jul – 5 Sep (usually)Bulls bellow, wallow and fight through high summer, and they are unpredictable and fast at exactly the time visitors are closest to them.71climate
  4. 🇺🇸 Badlands National Park, United StatesBison rut · 15 Jul – 31 Aug (usually)The herd bunches up on the Sage Creek grasslands and the bulls bellow through the afternoon.66climate

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Rutting season in August

  1. 🇺🇸 Yellowstone National Park, United StatesBison rut · 20 Jul – 25 Aug (usually)Bulls bellow, wallow and fight through the Hayden and Lamar valleys in high summer, and they stand in the road while they do it.77climate
  2. 🇺🇸 Wind Cave National Park, United StatesBison rut · 20 Jun – 15 Sep (usually)Late June starts the rut, when two-thousand-pound bulls square off across the mixed-grass prairie along US 385, young red calves from the spring still at their sides.76climate
  3. 🇺🇸 Theodore Roosevelt National Park, United StatesBison rut · 15 Jul – 5 Sep (usually)Bulls bellow, wallow and fight through high summer, and they are unpredictable and fast at exactly the time visitors are closest to them.73climate
  4. 🇺🇸 Badlands National Park, United StatesBison rut · 15 Jul – 31 Aug (usually)The herd bunches up on the Sage Creek grasslands and the bulls bellow through the afternoon.72climate

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Rutting season in September

  1. 🇺🇸 Wind Cave National Park, United StatesBison rut · 20 Jun – 15 Sep (usually)Late June starts the rut, when two-thousand-pound bulls square off across the mixed-grass prairie along US 385, young red calves from the spring still at their sides.79climate
  2. 🇺🇸 Theodore Roosevelt National Park, United StatesBison rut · 15 Jul – 5 Sep (usually)Bulls bellow, wallow and fight through high summer, and they are unpredictable and fast at exactly the time visitors are closest to them.78climate
  3. 🇺🇸 Redwood National Park, United StatesRoosevelt elk rut · 1 Sep – 31 Oct (usually)Bulls bugle and spar on the meadows at Elk Prairie and Gold Bluffs Beach through the autumn, and they are genuinely dangerous at close range.77climate
  4. 🇮🇪 Killarney, IrelandRed deer rut · 25 Sep – 25 Oct (usually)The native herd in the national park is the last wild one in Ireland, and through October the stags roar across Knockreer and the Muckross oakwoods.73climate
  5. 🇨🇦 Banff, CanadaElk rut in the townsite · 1 Sep – 15 Oct (usually)Bulls bugle on the golf course and the Bow River flats through the autumn and the town fences off the school field.71climate
  6. 🇺🇸 Rocky Mountain National Park, United StatesElk rut · 10 Sep – 20 Oct (usually)Bulls bugle in the Moraine Park and Horseshoe Park meadows at dawn and dusk through the autumn, and the traffic jams that follow are managed by rangers.71climate
  7. 🇺🇸 Isle Royale National Park, United StatesMoose rut · 15 Sep – 20 Oct (usually)Bulls are loud, unpredictable and on the trails through late September and October, and the island has a famously dense moose population with nothing much hunting them.70climate
  8. 🇺🇸 Yellowstone National Park, United StatesElk rut at Mammoth · 5 Sep – 15 Oct (usually)Bulls bugle on the lawns at Mammoth through September and rangers cone off the ones that will not move.68climate

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Rutting season in October

  1. 🇺🇸 Redwood National Park, United StatesRoosevelt elk rut · 1 Sep – 31 Oct (usually)Bulls bugle and spar on the meadows at Elk Prairie and Gold Bluffs Beach through the autumn, and they are genuinely dangerous at close range.66climate
  2. 🇮🇪 Killarney, IrelandRed deer rut · 25 Sep – 25 Oct (usually)The native herd in the national park is the last wild one in Ireland, and through October the stags roar across Knockreer and the Muckross oakwoods.63climate
  3. 🇺🇸 Rocky Mountain National Park, United StatesElk rut · 10 Sep – 20 Oct (usually)Bulls bugle in the Moraine Park and Horseshoe Park meadows at dawn and dusk through the autumn, and the traffic jams that follow are managed by rangers.60climate
  4. 🇺🇸 Isle Royale National Park, United StatesMoose rut · 15 Sep – 20 Oct (usually)Bulls are loud, unpredictable and on the trails through late September and October, and the island has a famously dense moose population with nothing much hunting them.59climate
  5. 🇨🇦 Banff, CanadaElk rut in the townsite · 1 Sep – 15 Oct (usually)Bulls bugle on the golf course and the Bow River flats through the autumn and the town fences off the school field.57climate
  6. 🇺🇸 Yellowstone National Park, United StatesElk rut at Mammoth · 5 Sep – 15 Oct (usually)Bulls bugle on the lawns at Mammoth through September and rangers cone off the ones that will not move.54climate

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