Destinations
Home, and six continents beyond it.
33 regions — from Savannah and the Georgia coast to the Serengeti, Kyoto and Accra. Every guide gives you the best months, what the week actually costs at three different budgets, and the things that go wrong — load-shedding, tide charts, monsoon coasts, noise curfews, visa rules that changed last month. We would rather you knew now.
And the guides are honest about cheap as well as grand. A week in Zanzibar under $3,000 and a private-island buyout are both in here, because both are real.
United States
United States
Savannah & the Georgia Coast
Spanish moss, squares, and a wedding town that knows what it is doing.
Best months: March to May and late September to November. Summer is hot and humid with afternoon storms; that is also when rates soften. Late March brings the azaleas and the crowds together.
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Charleston & the Lowcountry
The prettiest small city in America, and it knows it.
Best months: March to May and September to November. August is hot and it is hurricane season through November.
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New Orleans
The only American city that feels like somewhere else entirely.
Best months: October to May. Mardi Gras is February or early March and books a year out. Jazz Fest is late April and early May. July and August are brutally humid.
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New York City
Everything, at every price, at every hour.
Best months: April to June and September to early December. The holiday windows and the tree are magnificent and mobbed. January and February are cold and the cheapest by a wide margin.
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Napa & Sonoma
America’s wine country, and a very easy place to be spoiled.
Best months: April to June for green hills and fewer people. Harvest is late August to October — the most beautiful and the most expensive. Winter is quiet, cheap and lovely.
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Maui, Kaua‘i & the Big Island
A foreign country without a passport.
Best months: April to early June and September to mid-November — good weather, lower rates, fewer people. Winter brings whales and big surf on the north shores. Christmas and New Year are the peak of the peak.
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Miami & the Florida Keys
Latin America’s northern capital, with a hundred and thirteen miles of road to the end of the country.
Best months: December to April is dry, warm and peak. Summer is hot, humid and cheap, with afternoon storms. Hurricane season is June to November.
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Sedona & the Grand Canyon
Red rock, deep sky, and a canyon that does not photograph.
Best months: March to May and September to November. Summer at the canyon rim is manageable; inside it is dangerous. Winter brings snow on red rock, which is extraordinary and quiet.
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Puerto Rico
The Caribbean, with no passport and no currency to change.
Best months: December to April is dry and peak. Hurricane season is June to November. Summer is hot and much cheaper.
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Alaska
The last genuinely wild place you can drive to.
Best months: Mid-May to mid-September is the season — almost everything else is closed. June and July have the longest days. Late August and September bring autumn colour, fewer people and the first northern lights.
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Europe
Italy
Tuscany
Stone farmhouses, long tables, and light that does half the work for you.
Best months: Late April to mid-June, then September to mid-October. July and August are hot, busy and dearer.
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Italy
The Amalfi Coast
Vertical, theatrical, and worth every step.
Best months: May, June, September and early October. Many properties close November to March.
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Portugal
The Algarve & Lisbon
Where a modest budget still buys a beautiful week.
Best months: May, June, September, October. Lisbon is good year-round.
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Greece
Santorini & the Cyclades
The caldera at sunset, and the quieter islands that cost a third of it.
Best months: Late April to June, September to mid-October. Peak July–August is crowded and expensive.
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Africa
South Africa
Cape Town & the Winelands
A mountain in the middle of a city, and vineyards forty minutes away.
Best months: November to March is Cape summer — warm, dry, long evenings, and peak. April, May, September and October are the value months and the weather is still good. June to August is wet and green and very cheap.
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South Africa
Kruger & the Sabi Sand
Two game drives a day, and the fire lit when you come back.
Best months: May to September is dry season and the best game viewing — thin bush, animals at the water. October and November are hot and green with newborn animals. January to March is the wet season, cheapest, and the birding is extraordinary.
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Tanzania & Kenya
The Serengeti & Maasai Mara
The migration is real, and it does not care about your calendar.
Best months: July to October for the migration river crossings in the Mara. January to March for the calving in the southern Serengeti, which is quieter and cheaper and arguably better. April and May are the long rains — many camps close.
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Tanzania
Zanzibar
Stone Town, spice, and water the colour of a swimming pool.
Best months: June to October and December to February are dry. The long rains in April and May close a lot of things.
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Ghana
Accra, Cape Coast & the Volta
For many travellers this is not a holiday. It is a homecoming.
Best months: November to March is dry and the big cultural season, and late December in Accra is extraordinary and fully booked months out. The rains come roughly May to July.
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Morocco
Marrakech & the Atlas
A riad behind a plain door, and mountains an hour away.
Best months: March to May and October to November. July and August regularly pass 40°C. December and January are cool, bright and cheap.
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Egypt
Cairo & the Nile
Five thousand years, and most of it still standing.
Best months: October to April. June to August in Luxor and Aswan is genuinely dangerous heat, and prices reflect it.
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Zimbabwe & Zambia
Victoria Falls & the Zambezi
The best three-night add-on in Africa.
Best months: February to May is peak flow and the falls are thunderous — and the spray hides the view. August to December is lower water, clearer views and the Devil's Pool swimming season. Both are worth it for different reasons.
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Asia
Japan
Tokyo, Kyoto & beyond
The most rewarding country in the world to travel well in.
Best months: Late March to early April for cherry blossom and November for autumn colour — both spectacular and both mobbed. May, June, September and October are easier and still lovely. Skiing in Hokkaido is January and February.
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China
Beijing, Shanghai & Guilin
Enormous, ancient, ultra-modern, and far easier than most people expect.
Best months: April, May, September and October. Beijing in winter is bitter and in August is heavy and hot. Avoid the national holiday in the first week of October — the whole country travels.
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Thailand
Bangkok, Chiang Mai & the islands
The best value luxury on earth, and it is not close.
Best months: November to March is dry and cool and peak. The Andaman side — Phuket, Krabi — and the Gulf side — Koh Samui — have opposite rainy seasons, so there is a good island somewhere in Thailand almost every month of the year.
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Indonesia
Bali
Rice terraces, cliff temples, and a private pool for the price of a hotel room.
Best months: April to October is dry. July and August are peak. The wet season is November to March — mornings are often fine and prices drop a long way.
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Maldives
The Maldives
One island, one resort, and nothing else to think about.
Best months: November to April is dry and calm and peak. May to October has more rain and wind, much lower rates, and better prices on overwater villas.
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India
Rajasthan & the Golden Triangle
Palaces you can actually sleep in.
Best months: October to March. April and May are extreme heat, and the monsoon runs roughly June to September.
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Middle East
Caribbean
Mexico & Central America
Mexico
Riviera Maya
The easiest long weekend in the world to make feel enormous.
Best months: November to April. Hurricane season runs June to November, peaking August–October.
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Mexico
Los Cabos
Desert meeting ocean, and a direct flight from most of the US.
Best months: October to May. Summer is very hot; September is the wettest month.
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South America
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