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Best time to visit Nashville

United States · North America

All twelve months scored on daily temperature, rainfall, humidity and holiday crowding.

The year in Nashville

Tap a month for its page

  1. Nashville in January: ok, busy
  2. Nashville in February: ok
  3. Nashville in March: sweet spot
  4. Nashville in April: sweet spot
  5. Nashville in May: sweet spot
  6. Nashville in June: sweet spot
  7. Nashville in July: ok, busy
  8. Nashville in August: sweet spot
  9. Nashville in September: sweet spot
  10. Nashville in October: sweet spot
  11. Nashville in November: ok
  12. Nashville in December: ok
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
Go in Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Aug, Sep or Oct — these months score within a whisker of each other; 29C max, 7 rainy days. Nov is the next best.

Things to do in Nashville

  • Grand Ole Opry The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country music radio program and concert broadcast live on…
  • Ryman Auditorium Completed in 1892 as the Union Gospel Tabernacle as commissioned by riverboat Captain…
  • Parthenon Created for Tennessee's Centennial Exposition…
  • The Hermitage The former home of U.S. President Andrew Jackson is full of his family's personal…
  • AT&T Building An instantly recognizable downtown Nashville landmark, the AT&T Building…
  • Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Regularly changing exhibits and live performances make this Nashville landmark someplace…
  • Bluebird Cafe With its unlikely location in a strip mall in Green Hills…

Tours and tickets in Nashville

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Sights and their lines from Wikivoyage (Nashville), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; in order of how often each one's Wikipedia article was read on phones in the last 12 months.

Month by month

No fare history for this route yet, so this ranking is climate and crowds only — the price column will fill in as the scanner collects.

MonthMax °CRain days HumiditySun h/day VerdictWhy
Jan 9° 9d 72% 6.1h okbusy busier than usual
Feb 13° 11d 73% 6.1h ok 13C max, 11 rainy days
Mar 17° 11d 68% 8.1h sweet spot 17C max, 11 rainy days
Apr 21° 11d 69% 9.5h sweet spot 21C max, 11 rainy days
May 26° 11d 74% 10.4h sweet spot 26C max, 11 rainy days
Jun 30° 10d 73% 11.6h sweet spot 30C max, 10 rainy days
Jul 32° 12d 77% 11.8h okbusy holidays: US: Independence Day
Aug 31° 10d 75% 10.8h sweet spot 31C max, 10 rainy days
Sep 29° 7d 73% 9.9h sweet spot 29C max, 7 rainy days
Oct 22° 8d 71% 8.6h sweet spot 22C max, 8 rainy days
Nov 15° 8d 72% 7.1h ok 15C max, 8 rainy days
Dec 11° 10d 75% 5.8h ok 11C max, 10 rainy days

Rain days are the days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them.

Weather read at Broadway, downtown, 10 km from the airport (BNA): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one — usually it is crowded because the weather is good. It is flagged rather than scored down, and crowds alone never make a month “avoid”: that is reserved for weather worth skipping.

How busy it gets

No month stands out as busy; quietest in February.

Then and now

Nashville's February days now average 12.8°C, 2.8°C warmer than in 1981–1990. 4 of 12 months are clearly warmer.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
1981–907.0°10.0°15.4°19.8°24.7°29.5°31.4°30.7°27.0°21.0°15.3°8.7°
2017–268.5°12.8°17.0°21.1°25.8°30.1°31.7°30.7°28.6°22.5°15.3°11.4°
Change+1.6°+2.8°+1.6°+1.3°+1.0°+0.6°+0.4°-0.0°+1.6°+1.5°-0.0°+2.7°

The average daily high, month by month, for the nearest ERA5 grid cell. Bold is a clear change; grey is within the ordinary spread between years. Every destination, ranked.

Getting there

How far Nashville is, and what it costs, depends on where you set off from — the months above do not.

Before you go

Type A and B plugs at 120 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the United states dollar. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for United States: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

Being there

On arrival

  • Paying — Cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay work almost everywhere, though a few small places take cash only. Keep some $1 and $5 notes for tips; Venmo and PayPal are for locals.
  • UPI, for visitors from India — Not accepted for paying here; bring a card that works abroad.
  • Tipping — Expected: 15–20% in sit-down restaurants (18–20% is standard in New York) and 10–20% for taxi, Uber and Lyft drivers. Large groups may find it already on the bill.

Getting around Nashville

Tap a contactless bank card or phone (not American Express) on the validator as you board a WeGo bus or the WeGo Star train: $2 covers two hours of local bus rides, and with the same card you never pay more than $4 a day on them. A QuickTicket card or app works too, and exact cash ($2, no change or transfers) is taken on board. Route 18 links the airport (BNA) with WeGo Central downtown for $2.

  • Apps — Rides: Lyft, Uber. Maps: Google Maps, Apple Maps. Messages: Text messages (SMS), WhatsApp. In San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami and some other cities you can also book a driverless Waymo in its own app.

Nashville MTA (WeGo Public Transit). Operates routes throughout downtown and the surrounding area. $2 for an adult 2-hour pass. An all-day pass for an adult is $4. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Nashville, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Help

  • Emergency — 911 (any emergency).
    TravelCharika is not an emergency service: we cannot call for help or send anyone. Numbers can change; if one fails, ask someone local or your hotel.

Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 7 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.

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Nashville in pictures

Ryman Auditorium
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Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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LONGVIEW, NASHVILLE, DAVIDSON COUNTY
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Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Nashville day
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What Nashville is like

Nashville is the capital of the American state of Tennessee. With 716,000 residents in 2022, it is the state's largest city. More on Wikivoyage

Worth seeing
Nashville is a very historic town and as such, many of its attractions are restorations or museums. Most attractions of interest to tourists are in the Downtown, Midtown, and Music Valley neighborhoods. More on Wikivoyage
Worth doing
Adventure Science Center (Formerly the Cumberland Science Museum), 800 Fort Negley Blvd. 9AM-5PM except Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day. More on Wikivoyage
Getting in
Nashville International Airport (BNA IATA) (About 5 mi (8.0 km) from downtown). More on Wikivoyage
Staying safe
Avoid walking in North Nashville, especially the Bordeaux and MetroCenter districts, and use caution when driving through the district at night. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Nashville, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the full article has far more. The numbers above are measured; this is experience.

Around Nashville

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Kind of place

Nashville is in United States, North America. Distances are great-circle, so a short one can still be a long way round.

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