Weekly note

Where should you go, and when?

902 places, the ones travellers go to most first, each with its weather in the month you choose.

From

902 places in November · most visited first

Sweet spot, good, ok: how the month rates there, best first. Quiet or busy: how crowded.

  1. LondonUnited Kingdom ok Cool 11°C · 9 rainy days · quiet
  2. New YorkUnited States ok Cool 12°C · 7 rainy days · quiet
  3. Singapore Warm 29°C · 20 rainy days · quiet
  4. ParisFrance ok Cool 11°C · 9 rainy days · quiet
  5. TokyoJapan good Mild 17°C · 7 rainy days · quiet
  6. Mexico CityMexico good Warm 23°C · 3 rainy days · busy
  7. BerlinGermany ok Cool 9°C · 7 rainy days · quiet
  8. IstanbulTurkey ok Mild 16°C · 7 rainy days · busy
  9. Los AngelesUnited States good Warm 23°C · 2 rainy days · quiet
  10. AmsterdamNetherlands Cool 10°C · 12 rainy days · quiet
  11. Hong Kong sweet spot Warm 25°C · 4 rainy days · quiet
  12. BarcelonaSpain good Mild 18°C · 6 rainy days · quiet
  13. PragueCzechia ok Cool 8°C · 6 rainy days · quiet
  14. RomeItaly ok Mild 17°C · 11 rainy days · quiet
  15. SeattleUnited States Cool 10°C · 16 rainy days · quiet
  16. VeniceItaly ok Cool 13°C · 8 rainy days · quiet
  17. DublinIreland Cool 11°C · 11 rainy days · quiet
  18. BangkokThailand ok Hot 31°C · 6 rainy days · quiet
  19. VancouverCanada Cool 9°C · 16 rainy days · quiet
  20. GlasgowUnited Kingdom Cool 9°C · 12 rainy days · quiet
  21. MilanItaly ok Cool 12°C · 9 rainy days · quiet
  22. TorontoCanada ok Cool 8°C · 7 rainy days · quiet
  23. MelbourneAustralia good Mild 22°C · 10 rainy days · quiet
  24. BaliIndonesia good Hot 30°C · 9 rainy days · quiet

How a month is scored

Every month of the year is ranked on climate, how busy it will be, and the daylight you get. A month too wet or too hot is excluded outright rather than quietly ranked low, and the reason is printed beside it.

How busy a month will be counts the public holidays at both ends of the trip and how often the place's English Wikipedia and Wikivoyage articles are opened on a phone that month against its average month, the middle value of the last ten years (interest, not a count of visitors). A busy month is flagged rather than scored down.

The verdicts are worked out from measured figures, printed beside each one. Destination pages also carry a written season profile, which is labelled where it appears.