When is the best time to visit a country?

Q: When is the best time to visit a country?

Each country's best month is the one with the highest average travel-comfort score across its cities (comfortable temperatures, low rainfall, and good sunshine from 2020–2024 data). See the ranked table above and follow a country to its month-by-month guide.

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Best time to visit — worldwide travel weather guide

The best month to visit every country, ranked by travel-comfort score (comfortable temperatures, low rainfall, and good sunshine) from 2020–2024 weather data for 406 cities across 100 countries.

Countries ranked by best month to visit

Each country's single best-scoring month, with the city that has the best weather that month. Higher score = better weather for a typical sightseeing trip.

Rank	Country	Best month	Score	Best city	Cities
1 ★	Sudan	January	100	Khartoum	1
2 ★	Jordan	June	100	Amman	1
3 ★	Zambia	May	100	Lusaka	1
4	Zimbabwe	August	100	Harare	1
5	Senegal	February	100	Dakar	1
6	Chile	February	99.5	Valparaíso	2
7	Egypt	April	99.3	Cairo	3
8	DR Congo	July	99	Kinshasa	1
9	Angola	June	99	Luanda	1
10	Portugal	July	99	Lisbon	1
11	Uzbekistan	September	99	Tashkent	1
12	Qatar	November	99	Doha	1
13	Tajikistan	September	99	Dushanbe	1
14	UAE	December	98	Abu Dhabi	2
15	Azerbaijan	June	98	Baku	1
16	Oman	February	98	Muscat	1
17	Madagascar	September	98	Antananarivo	1
18	Bahrain	March	98	Manama	1
19	Saudi Arabia	February	97.6	Medina	5
20	Iran	September	97	Mashhad	5
21	Morocco	June	97	Marrakesh	2
22	Myanmar	January	97	Yangon	1
23	United Arab Emirates	February	97	Dubai	1
24	Algeria	June	97	Algiers	1
25	Turkmenistan	September	97	Ashgabat	1
26	Iraq	April	96	Baghdad	1
27	Mozambique	July	96	Maputo	1
28	Armenia	September	96	Yerevan	1
29	Bangladesh	January	95.8	Dhaka	5
30	India	February	95	Mumbai	25
31	Pakistan	November	95	Hyderabad PK	9
32	Ethiopia	December	95	Addis Ababa	1
33	Kuwait	February	95	Kuwait City	1
34	Spain	June	94	Málaga	7
35	Peru	July	94	Lima	3
36	Bulgaria	July	94	Sofia	1
37	Tunisia	June	94	Tunis	1
38	Kyrgyzstan	September	94	Bishkek	1
39	Mexico	April	93.6	Guadalajara	11
40	North Macedonia	July	93	Skopje	1
41	Greece	September	92.5	Athens	2
42	Turkey	September	92.4	Ankara	5
43	Nigeria	January	92	Kano	6
44	France	July	91	Marseille	4
45	Tanzania	July	91	Dar es Salaam	1
46	Kenya	June	91	Nairobi	1
47	Romania	August	91	Bucharest	1
48	Georgia	August	91	Tbilisi	1
49	Macau	January	91	Macau	1
50	Ukraine	August	90.3	Odesa	6
51	Kazakhstan	August	90.3	Almaty	3
52	South Africa	September	90	Johannesburg	4
53	Venezuela	January	90	Valencia VE	3
54	Thailand	December	90	Bangkok	1
55	Denmark	June	90	Copenhagen	1
56	Albania	July	90	Tirana	1
57	Bolivia	July	89.7	Cochabamba	3
58	Taiwan	January	89.3	Tainan	4
59	Serbia	August	89	Belgrade	1
60	Finland	June	89	Helsinki	1
61	Argentina	September	88.6	Córdoba	7
62	Ecuador	September	88	Guayaquil	2
63	Hungary	August	88	Budapest	1
64	Uruguay	January	88	Montevideo	1
65	Estonia	June	88	Tallinn	1
66	Italy	July	87.5	Naples	6
67	Russia	August	87.4	Samara	23
68	Uganda	January	87	Kampala	1
69	Austria	July	87	Vienna	1
70	Belgium	August	86.5	Brussels	2
71	Sweden	June	86	Stockholm	2
72	Czechia	July	86	Prague	1
73	Paraguay	July	86	Asunción	1
74	Netherlands	June	85.3	The Hague	3
75	Poland	September	85	Poznań	6
76	Ghana	January	85	Accra	1
77	Belarus	August	85	Minsk	1
78	Croatia	June	85	Zagreb	1
79	Latvia	June	85	Riga	1
80	Germany	September	84.8	Berlin	14
81	Brazil	July	84.4	Brasília	28
82	Australia	December	84	Perth	7
83	Lithuania	September	84	Vilnius	1
84	South Korea	October	83.7	Gwangju	6
85	Canada	September	83.5	Winnipeg	10
86	United States	October	83.4	Las Vegas	46
87	United Kingdom	June	83	London	9
88	Indonesia	July	83	Bandung	3
89	Vietnam	December	83	Hanoi	2
90	New Zealand	March	83	Auckland	1
91	Sri Lanka	February	83	Colombo	1
92	Norway	June	83	Oslo	1
93	Ireland	June	82	Dublin	1
94	Colombia	January	80.2	Barranquilla	6
95	Côte d'Ivoire	January	79	Abidjan	1
96	China	October	78.2	Qingdao	35
97	Japan	October	72.2	Hiroshima	10
98	Philippines	February	71.3	Manila	3
99	Singapore	February	69	Singapore	1
100	Malaysia	February	65	Kuala Lumpur	1

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