Trade-fair week, month by month around the world
The fair or congress that doubles hotel prices and fills every room, weather aside.
10 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.
When it is on
Trade-fair week in January
- Frankfurt 🇩🇪 GermanyHeimtextil and Ambiente fairs · 9 Jan – 12 Feb (usually)Two of the Messe's biggest trade fairs, Heimtextil in mid-January and Ambiente around the turn of January and February, bring tens of thousands of buyers.48
- Nuremberg 🇩🇪 GermanySpielwarenmesse toy fair · 25 Jan – 10 Feb (usually)The world's largest toy trade fair takes the city's hotel beds for five days around the start of February.45
Trade-fair week in February
- Frankfurt 🇩🇪 GermanyHeimtextil and Ambiente fairs · 9 Jan – 12 Feb (usually)Two of the Messe's biggest trade fairs, Heimtextil in mid-January and Ambiente around the turn of January and February, bring tens of thousands of buyers.61
- Nuremberg 🇩🇪 GermanySpielwarenmesse toy fair · 25 Jan – 10 Feb (usually)The world's largest toy trade fair takes the city's hotel beds for five days around the start of February.57
Trade-fair week in March
- Geneva 🇨🇭 SwitzerlandWatches and Wonders · 30 Mar – 25 Apr (usually)The watch industry's biggest fair takes over Palexpo for a week each April, with public days at the end.70
- Gdańsk 🇵🇱 PolandAMBERIF amber fair · 15–31 Mar (usually)The leading international amber and jewellery fair fills AmberExpo for three days each spring.64
Trade-fair week in April
- Cochabamba 🇧🇴 BoliviaFEXCO trade fair · 20 Apr – 5 May (usually)Bolivia's largest trade fair takes over the Laguna Alalay fairgrounds for about ten days, with hundreds of thousands of visitors, food courts and concerts.92
- Geneva 🇨🇭 SwitzerlandWatches and Wonders · 30 Mar – 25 Apr (usually)The watch industry's biggest fair takes over Palexpo for a week each April, with public days at the end.80
Trade-fair week in May
Trade-fair week in July
Trade-fair week in August
Trade-fair week in September
- Newport 🇺🇸 United StatesNewport International Boat Show · 12–22 Sep (usually)One of the largest in-water boat shows in the country, four days at the Newport Yachting Center in mid-September.88
- Thessaloniki 🇬🇷 GreeceThessaloniki International Fair · 1–15 Sep (usually)The country's biggest trade exhibition takes over the fairgrounds for over a week and has traditionally closed with the Prime Minister's economic policy speech; hotels fill and traffic around the site gets heavy even for visitors with no reason to attend.87