Weekly note

Hiking in December

Where the days are dry and cool enough to walk all day, measured over ten years. In December, 9 places are good and 13 fair.

Everywhere

  1. Kathmandu Nepal good 30 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 18°C by day
  2. Hong Kong Hong Kong good 29 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 20°C by day
  3. Tenerife Spain good 29 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 22°C by day
  4. Mallorca Spain good 26 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 16°C by day
  5. Granada Spain good 24 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 14°C by day
  6. Petra Jordan good 24 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 14°C by day
  7. Crete Greece good 23 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 18°C by day
  8. Madeira Portugal good 23 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 19°C by day
  9. Bhutan Bhutan good 22 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 15°C by day
  10. Corsica France fair 20 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 14°C by day
  11. Marseille France fair 20 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 13°C by day
  12. Taipei Taiwan fair 19 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 20°C by day
  13. The Amalfi Coast Italy fair 19 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 15°C by day
  14. Cape Town South Africa fair 18 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 26°C by day
  15. Cinque Terre Italy fair 18 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 13°C by day
  16. Oahu United States fair 18 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 26°C by day
  17. Queenstown New Zealand fair 17 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 20°C by day
  18. The Azores Portugal fair 17 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 17°C by day
  19. Yosemite United States fair 17 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 12°C by day
  20. Lake Como Italy fair 16 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 10°C by day
  21. Maui United States fair 16 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 26°C by day
  22. Montenegro Montenegro fair 16 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 13°C by day
Photo credits

Tenerife by H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMallorca by Heuschrecke (Dmitry Tonkonog and Ksenia Fedosova), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsGranada by Ввласенко, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPetra by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCrete by Ввласенко, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMadeira by Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBhutan by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCorsica by Isiwal, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMarseille by Clément Bardot, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Amalfi Coast by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCinque Terre by Luca Casartelli, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsQueenstown by Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Azores by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsLake Como by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMontenegro by Marcin Konsek, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How a month is tested for hiking

A test on measured figures, the same at every place and from every city: the same month always gives the same answer. It is "good" or "fair", and a month that passes neither is simply not listed. It is separate from the month's own verdict, which also weighs holidays, crowds and fares.

Hiking, other months

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Measured at each place's own point, where its visitors stay, not up on the trails: a mountain path is about 6.5 °C cooler for every 1,000 m it climbs.