Where to go in August
154 destinations genuinely in season, warmest first: typical daytime highs, budget level and the full travel window for each. Tap one for details, or let the quiz pick for your whole group.
The band on each card is its year, January to December: blue where it's cool, red where it's hot, with August marked.
- Yosemite & the Sierra Nevada United States
- The Pantanal Brazil
- Cyprus Cyprus
- Lake Tahoe United States
- Rhodes Greece
- Corfu Greece
- Curaçao Curaçao
- Kyrgyzstan – Issyk-Kul & the Tian Shan Kyrgyzstan
- Mallorca Spain
- Sardinia Italy
- Tbilisi & the Caucasus Georgia
- The Albanian Riviera Albania
- The Brazilian Amazon Brazil
- Aruba Aruba
- Crete Greece
- Ibiza Spain
- Malta Malta
- Plitvice Lakes National Park Croatia
- The Kimberley Australia
- Yogyakarta & the temples of Java Indonesia
- Almaty & the Tian Shan Kazakhstan
- Corsica France
- Kakadu & the Top End Australia
- Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
- Sabah – Borneo's rainforest Malaysia
- Santorini Greece
- Singapore & Malaysia Singapore
- The Bay of Kotor Montenegro
- The Dolomites Italy
- Victoria Falls Zambia
- Andorra & the Pyrenees Andorra
- Bulgaria’s Black Sea Coast Bulgaria
- Cinque Terre & the Italian Riviera Italy
- Dubrovnik Croatia
- Hawai‘i – Big Island & Maui United States
- Istria Croatia
- Komodo Island Indonesia
- Lake Como Italy
- Lake Ohrid North Macedonia
- Menorca Spain
- Portland & the Oregon Coast United States
- Samoa Samoa
- Sofia & the Rila Mountains Bulgaria
- The Black Hills & Mount Rushmore United States
- The French Riviera France
- The Okavango Delta Botswana
- The Outer Banks United States
- Bali & Lombok Indonesia
- Bermuda Bermuda
- Chicago United States
- Fiji Fiji
- Mostar Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Srinagar & Kashmir India
- Volcanoes National Park Rwanda
- Bora Bora & Moorea French Polynesia
- Boston United States
- Glacier National Park United States
- Kauai United States
- Lamu Kenya
- Paraty Brazil
- South Luangwa National Park Zambia
- Tenerife Spain
- Toronto & Niagara Falls Canada
- Transylvania Romania
- Aspen & the Colorado Rockies United States
- Fernando de Noronha Brazil
- Geneva & Lake Geneva Switzerland
- Lake Bled & the Julian Alps Slovenia
- Ljubljana Slovenia
- Madeira Portugal
- Serengeti & Zanzibar Tanzania
- The Galápagos Ecuador
- The Rhine Valley Germany
- Vanuatu Vanuatu
- Acadia & the Maine coast United States
- Berlin Germany
- Biarritz & the French Basque coast France
- Cairns Australia
- Innsbruck Austria
- Kraków & the Tatras Poland
- Lake Malawi Malawi
- Rügen & the Baltic Coast Germany
- San Diego & La Jolla United States
- San Sebastián Spain
- Seattle & the San Juan Islands United States
- The Azores Portugal
- The Bazaruto Archipelago Mozambique
- The Great Barrier Reef Australia
- The Whitsundays Australia
- Uganda – gorillas and the source of the Nile Uganda
- Yellowstone & the Tetons United States
- Brittany France
- Hamburg Germany
- Kenya – the Masai Mara Kenya
- Kruger & the South African Lowveld South Africa
- Munich Germany
- Namibia Namibia
- Neuschwanstein & the Bavarian Alps Germany
- Nova Scotia Canada
- Prince Edward Island Canada
- Québec City & Montréal Canada
- Rarotonga & Aitutaki Cook Islands
- The California Coast United States
- Uluru & the Red Centre Australia
- Zermatt & the Bernese Oberland Switzerland
- Banff & the Canadian Rockies Canada
- Gdańsk & the Baltic Coast Poland
- Ladakh – the Indian Himalaya India
- London England
- Réunion Island Réunion
- Salzburg Austria
- The High Tatras Slovakia
- Tonga Tonga
- Vancouver Island Canada
- Vilnius Lithuania
- Whistler & the Sea to Sky Canada
- Amsterdam & the Dutch coast Netherlands
- K'gari (Fraser Island) Australia
- Medellin Colombia
- Nantucket & Cape Cod United States
- Quito & the Ecuadorian Andes Ecuador
- Riga Latvia
- Aarhus Denmark
- Copenhagen & the Danish coast Denmark
- Helsinki Finland
- Madagascar Madagascar
- Newfoundland Canada
- Stockholm & its archipelago Sweden
- Tallinn Estonia
- The Cotswolds England
- Gothenburg Sweden
- Mongolia – the steppe Mongolia
- Oslo Norway
- Snowdonia Wales
- The Lake District England
- Cornwall England
- Cusco & Machu Picchu Peru
- Dublin & the east coast Ireland
- Edinburgh Scotland
- The Wild Atlantic Way Ireland
- Alaska – Kenai & Denali United States
- Belfast & the Causeway Coast Northern Ireland
- Bergen Norway
- Bogotá & the Colombian Andes Colombia
- The Norwegian Fjords Norway
- The Scottish Highlands Scotland
- The Lofoten Islands Norway
- Swedish Lapland Sweden
- Iceland Iceland
- The Faroe Islands Faroe Islands
- Ilulissat & the Greenland ice sheet Greenland
- Svalbard Norway
- Bariloche Argentina
Nothing in August matches all of those.
Which one would your whole group pick?
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Where should I go in August?
154 destinations are genuinely in season in August. The warmest are Yosemite & the Sierra Nevada (39°C/102°F), The Pantanal (35°C/94°F), Cyprus (33°C/91°F), Lake Tahoe (33°C/91°F), Rhodes (33°C/91°F).
Where is it warmest in August?
Of the destinations in season in August, Yosemite & the Sierra Nevada is the warmest, with typical daytime highs around 39°C (102°F).

























































































































































