Trips that go together

A region is not a trip. These are the routes people actually plan — two to five stops in the order you would travel them — and for each, the month that is a sweet spot at the most of them.

• Western Europe Lisbon · Barcelona · Paris · Amsterdam · London May, June and August are a sweet spot at every one of these 5 destinations.
• Central Europe Prague · Vienna · Budapest April is a sweet spot at every one of these 3 destinations.
• Southern Europe Lisbon · Barcelona · Rome · Athens · Istanbul May, June and July are a sweet spot at 4 of the 5.
• Indochina Hanoi · Da Nang · Ho Chi Minh City · Bangkok February and March are a sweet spot at 3 of the 4.
• The Malay Peninsula Bangkok · Phuket · Kuala Lumpur · Singapore February is a sweet spot at 3 of the 4.
• Singapore to Bali Singapore · Kuala Lumpur · Bali July and September are a sweet spot at 2 of the 3.
• East Asian cities Tokyo · Seoul · Taipei · Hong Kong February and May are a sweet spot at 3 of the 4.
• The Gulf Dubai · Abu Dhabi · Doha · Muscat February and March are a sweet spot at every one of these 4 destinations.
• The Himalaya Srinagar · Leh · Kathmandu January, February, March, September and October are a sweet spot at 1 of the 3.
• Goa to the Maldives Goa · Kochi · Colombo · The Maldives January and February are a sweet spot at 3 of the 4.
• The Silk Road Tbilisi · Baku · Tashkent · Almaty June is a sweet spot at every one of these 4 destinations.
• Kenya to the Cape Nairobi · Cape Town · Mauritius September and October are a sweet spot at every one of these 3 destinations.
• North Africa Marrakech · Cairo February is a sweet spot at both.
• North America New York · Toronto · San Francisco May and June are a sweet spot at every one of these 3 destinations.
• Australia and New Zealand Sydney · Melbourne · Auckland January, February, July, August, September, October and November are a sweet spot at 1 of the 3.

Hand-picked, and a choice rather than a claim: every verdict on a trip's page is measured at each stop, and nothing is said about the trip that its stops did not say first.