Where to go in August

240 destinations genuinely in season, warmest first: typical daytime highs, budget level and the full travel window for each. Tap one for photos and details, or let the quiz pick for your whole group.

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The bars on each card are its daytime highs across the year, January to December, with August marked.

• Yosemite & the Sierra Nevada United States 39°C / 102°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Dushanbe & the Pamirs Tajikistan 35°C / 95°F $ Jun–Sep
• The Pantanal Brazil 35°C / 94°F $$ May–Sep
• Nha Trang Vietnam 34°C / 92°F $ Feb–Aug
• Cyprus Cyprus 33°C / 91°F $$ Apr–Oct
• Lake Tahoe United States 33°C / 91°F $$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Sep
• Rhodes Greece 33°C / 91°F $$ May–Oct
• Sun Valley United States 33°C / 92°F $$$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Sep
• Corfu Greece 32°C / 89°F $$ May–Sep
• Curaçao Curaçao 32°C / 89°F $$ Any month
• Jaffna Sri Lanka 32°C / 89°F $ Jan–Sep
• Jakarta Indonesia 32°C / 89°F $ May–Sep
• Kyrgyzstan – Issyk-Kul & the Tian Shan Kyrgyzstan 32°C / 89°F $ Jun–Sep
• Mallorca Spain 32°C / 89°F $$ May–Sep
• Sardinia Italy 32°C / 90°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Tbilisi & the Caucasus Georgia 32°C / 89°F $ May–Oct
• Telluride United States 32°C / 89°F $$$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Sep
• The Albanian Riviera Albania 32°C / 90°F $ Jun–Sep
• The Brazilian Amazon Brazil 32°C / 90°F $$ Jun–Nov
• Aruba Aruba 31°C / 88°F $$$ Any month
• Brazzaville & the Congo River Republic of the Congo 31°C / 87°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Crete Greece 31°C / 88°F $$ May–Oct
• Denver & the Front Range United States 31°C / 87°F $$ Jun–Sep, or Dec–Mar
• Gibraltar Gibraltar 31°C / 87°F $$ Apr–Sep
• Ibiza Spain 31°C / 87°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Malta Malta 31°C / 87°F $$ Apr–Oct
• Plitvice Lakes National Park Croatia 31°C / 88°F $$ Apr–Oct
• Suriname Suriname 31°C / 88°F $ Feb–Apr, Aug–Nov
• The Kimberley Australia 31°C / 88°F $$ May–Sep
• Yogyakarta & the temples of Java Indonesia 31°C / 88°F $ Apr–Oct
• Almaty & the Tian Shan Kazakhstan 30°C / 86°F $ Jun–Sep
• Annapolis United States 30°C / 85°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Bonaire Bonaire 30°C / 87°F $$ Any month
• Corsica France 30°C / 87°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Darwin Australia 30°C / 87°F $$ May–Sep
• French Guiana French Guiana 30°C / 87°F $$ Aug–Dec
• Guyana Guyana 30°C / 87°F $ Feb–Apr, Aug–Nov
• Iquitos & the Peruvian Amazon Peru 30°C / 87°F $ Jun–Oct
• Kakadu & the Top End Australia 30°C / 87°F $$ May–Sep
• Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 30°C / 86°F $ Any month, driest Jun–Aug
• Sabah – Borneo's rainforest Malaysia 30°C / 87°F $ Mar–Oct
• Santorini Greece 30°C / 85°F $$$ May–Oct
• Singapore & Malaysia Singapore 30°C / 85°F $$ Any month
• Solomon Islands Solomon Islands 30°C / 85°F $$ May–Oct
• The Bay of Kotor Montenegro 30°C / 85°F $$ May–Sep
• The Dolomites Italy 30°C / 86°F $$ Jul–Sep, or Jan–Mar
• Victoria Falls Zambia 30°C / 85°F $$ Aug–Nov, or Feb–May for full flow
• Andorra & the Pyrenees Andorra 29°C / 85°F $$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Sep
• Bulgaria’s Black Sea Coast Bulgaria 29°C / 84°F $ Jun–Sep
• Cinque Terre & the Italian Riviera Italy 29°C / 83°F $$ May–Sep
• Dar es Salaam & southern Tanzania Tanzania 29°C / 85°F $ Jun–Oct
• Dubrovnik Croatia 29°C / 84°F $$ May–Sep
• Hawai‘i – Big Island & Maui United States 29°C / 85°F $$$ Any month
• Istria Croatia 29°C / 84°F $ May–Sep
• Kiribati Kiribati 29°C / 84°F $ Apr–Oct
• Komodo Island Indonesia 29°C / 85°F $$ Apr–Dec
• Lake Como Italy 29°C / 83°F $$$ May–Sep
• Lake Ohrid North Macedonia 29°C / 83°F $ Jun–Sep
• Menorca Spain 29°C / 83°F $$ May–Sep
• Portland & the Oregon Coast United States 29°C / 84°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Portland, Oregon United States 29°C / 84°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Samoa Samoa 29°C / 84°F $ May–Oct
• Santa Barbara United States 29°C / 84°F $$$ Apr–Sep
• Sofia & the Rila Mountains Bulgaria 29°C / 85°F $ Jun–Sep, or Dec–Mar
• The Black Hills & Mount Rushmore United States 29°C / 85°F $ May–Sep
• The French Riviera France 29°C / 84°F $$$ May–Sep
• The Okavango Delta Botswana 29°C / 85°F $$$ Jun–Oct
• The Outer Banks United States 29°C / 85°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Bali & Lombok Indonesia 28°C / 82°F $ May–Sep
• Bermuda Bermuda 28°C / 83°F $$$ Apr–Oct
• Bujumbura & Lake Tanganyika Burundi 28°C / 83°F $ Jun–Aug
• Chicago United States 28°C / 82°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Comoros Comoros 28°C / 82°F $ May–Oct
• Fiji Fiji 28°C / 83°F $$$ May–Oct
• Hwange & the Zimbabwean side of Victoria Falls Zimbabwe 28°C / 83°F $$ May–Oct
• Kigali Rwanda 28°C / 82°F $$ Jun–Sep, Dec–Feb
• Mostar Bosnia and Herzegovina 28°C / 82°F $ May–Sep
• Nauru Nauru 28°C / 83°F $$ Any month
• Newport, Rhode Island United States 28°C / 82°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea 28°C / 83°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Salalah Oman 28°C / 82°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina 28°C / 82°F $ May–Sep
• Sendai Japan 28°C / 82°F $$ Apr–Aug
• Srinagar & Kashmir India 28°C / 82°F $$ Apr–Oct
• The Adirondacks United States 28°C / 83°F $ Jun–Oct
• The Marquesas Islands French Polynesia 28°C / 83°F $$$ Any month
• Tuvalu Tuvalu 28°C / 83°F $ May–Oct
• Volcanoes National Park Rwanda 28°C / 82°F $$$ Jun–Sep
• Wallis and Futuna Wallis and Futuna 28°C / 82°F $$ May–Oct
• American Samoa American Samoa 27°C / 81°F $$ May–Sep
• Belo Horizonte & Ouro Preto Brazil 27°C / 80°F $ May–Aug
• Bora Bora & Moorea French Polynesia 27°C / 81°F $$$ Any month
• Boston United States 27°C / 81°F $$ Jun–Oct
• Espiritu Santo Vanuatu 27°C / 80°F $$ May–Oct
• Gabon – Loango National Park Gabon 27°C / 81°F $$$ Jun–Sep, Dec–Feb
• Glacier National Park United States 27°C / 80°F $$ Jul–Sep
• Kauai United States 27°C / 81°F $$$ Apr–Oct
• Lamu Kenya 27°C / 80°F $ Jul–Oct, Dec–Mar
• Madison United States 27°C / 81°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Mammoth Lakes & the Eastern Sierra United States 27°C / 80°F $$ Dec–Apr, or Jun–Sep
• Minneapolis & the Boundary Waters United States 27°C / 81°F $ Jun–Sep
• Moorea French Polynesia 27°C / 81°F $$$ May–Oct
• Paraty Brazil 27°C / 80°F $$ May–Sep
• Pemba Mozambique 27°C / 80°F $$$ May–Nov
• South Luangwa National Park Zambia 27°C / 80°F $$ May–Oct
• São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé and Príncipe 27°C / 81°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Tenerife Spain 27°C / 80°F $$ Any month
• Toronto & Niagara Falls Canada 27°C / 80°F $$ May–Sep
• Transylvania Romania 27°C / 81°F $ Jun–Sep
• Aspen & the Colorado Rockies United States 26°C / 79°F $$$ Jun–Sep, or Dec–Mar
• Asunción & the Paraguayan missions Paraguay 26°C / 78°F $ May–Aug
• Eswatini Eswatini 26°C / 79°F $ May–Sep
• Fernando de Noronha Brazil 26°C / 79°F $$$ Aug–Dec
• Gaborone Botswana 26°C / 79°F $$ May–Sep
• Geneva & Lake Geneva Switzerland 26°C / 80°F $$$ May–Sep
• Lake Bled & the Julian Alps Slovenia 26°C / 78°F $ Jun–Sep
• Ljubljana Slovenia 26°C / 78°F $ Apr–Sep
• Luanda Angola 26°C / 78°F $$$ Jun–Sep
• Madeira Portugal 26°C / 78°F $$ Any month
• Magnetic Island Australia 26°C / 79°F $$ May–Oct
• Ottawa Canada 26°C / 78°F $$ Jun–Aug, or Jan–Feb
• Serengeti & Zanzibar Tanzania 26°C / 79°F $$$ Jun–Oct, Jan–Feb
• Suva & the Fijian highlands Fiji 26°C / 78°F $ May–Oct
• The Cocos (Keeling) Islands Cocos (Keeling) Islands 26°C / 80°F $$ Apr–Oct
• The Finger Lakes United States 26°C / 79°F $ Jun–Oct
• The Galápagos Ecuador 26°C / 79°F $$$ Any month
• The Rhine Valley Germany 26°C / 79°F $$ May–Oct
• Vanua Levu Fiji 26°C / 79°F $$ Apr–Oct
• Vanuatu Vanuatu 26°C / 78°F $$ May–Oct
• Acadia & the Maine coast United States 25°C / 77°F $$ Jun–Oct
• Aitutaki Cook Islands 25°C / 78°F $$$ Apr–Nov
• Astana Kazakhstan 25°C / 77°F $$ May–Sep
• Berlin Germany 25°C / 77°F $$ May–Sep
• Biarritz & the French Basque coast France 25°C / 77°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Cairns Australia 25°C / 78°F $$ Jun–Oct
• Innsbruck Austria 25°C / 77°F $$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Aug
• Kraków & the Tatras Poland 25°C / 77°F $ May–Sep
• Lake Malawi Malawi 25°C / 77°F $ May–Oct
• Mackinac Island United States 25°C / 77°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Montreal Canada 25°C / 77°F $$ Jun–Oct
• Niue Niue 25°C / 76°F $$ May–Oct
• Portland, Maine United States 25°C / 77°F $$ Jun–Oct
• Rügen & the Baltic Coast Germany 25°C / 77°F $$ Jun–Aug
• San Diego & La Jolla United States 25°C / 78°F $$ Mar–Oct
• San Sebastián Spain 25°C / 76°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Seattle & the San Juan Islands United States 25°C / 77°F $$ Jun–Sep
• The Azores Portugal 25°C / 76°F $$ Jun–Sep
• The Bazaruto Archipelago Mozambique 25°C / 78°F $$$ Apr–Nov
• The Great Barrier Reef Australia 25°C / 78°F $$$ Jun–Oct
• The Whitsundays Australia 25°C / 77°F $$$ Jun–Oct
• Traverse City & the Great Lakes United States 25°C / 77°F $$ Jun–Oct
• Uganda – gorillas and the source of the Nile Uganda 25°C / 77°F $$ Jun–Sep, Dec–Feb
• Vava'u Tonga 25°C / 76°F $$ Jul–Oct
• Winnipeg & the Canadian Prairies Canada 25°C / 77°F $ Jun–Sep
• Yellowstone & the Tetons United States 25°C / 77°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Brittany France 24°C / 75°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Cape Breton Island Canada 24°C / 74°F $ Jun–Oct
• Halifax Canada 24°C / 76°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Hamburg Germany 24°C / 74°F $$ May–Sep
• Kenya – the Masai Mara Kenya 24°C / 76°F $$$ Jul–Oct
• Kruger & the South African Lowveld South Africa 24°C / 75°F $$ May–Sep
• Luxembourg City Luxembourg 24°C / 75°F $$$ Apr–Sep
• Munich Germany 24°C / 75°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Nairobi Kenya 24°C / 76°F $$ Jun–Oct, Jan–Feb
• Namibia Namibia 24°C / 75°F $$$ May–Oct
• Neuschwanstein & the Bavarian Alps Germany 24°C / 75°F $$ Jun–Sep, or Dec for the markets
• Nova Scotia Canada 24°C / 76°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Prince Edward Island Canada 24°C / 75°F $ Jul–Aug
• Québec City & Montréal Canada 24°C / 74°F $$ Jun–Sep, or Feb
• Rarotonga & Aitutaki Cook Islands 24°C / 75°F $$$ Apr–Nov
• The California Coast United States 24°C / 74°F $$$ May–Oct
• Uluru & the Red Centre Australia 24°C / 75°F $$$ Apr–Sep
• Zermatt & the Bernese Oberland Switzerland 24°C / 76°F $$$ Jun–Sep, or Dec–Mar
• Banff & the Canadian Rockies Canada 23°C / 74°F $$$ Jun–Sep, or Jan–Mar
• Calgary Canada 23°C / 74°F $$ Jun–Aug, or Dec–Mar
• Gdańsk & the Baltic Coast Poland 23°C / 74°F $ Jun–Aug
• Ladakh – the Indian Himalaya India 23°C / 73°F $ Jun–Sep
• Lifou New Caledonia 23°C / 74°F $$$ Apr–Nov
• London England 23°C / 73°F $$$ Apr–Sep
• Rotterdam Netherlands 23°C / 73°F $$ Apr–Sep
• Réunion Island Réunion 23°C / 73°F $$ May–Nov
• Salzburg Austria 23°C / 74°F $$ May–Sep
• Salzburg & the Salzkammergut lakes Austria 23°C / 74°F $$ Jun–Sep, or Dec–Feb
• São Paulo Brazil 23°C / 73°F $$ May–Aug
• The Bay of Fundy Canada 23°C / 73°F $ Jun–Sep
• The High Tatras Slovakia 23°C / 73°F $ Jul–Sep, or Jan–Mar
• Tonga Tonga 23°C / 74°F $$ Jun–Oct
• Vancouver Island Canada 23°C / 73°F $$ May–Sep
• Victoria Canada 23°C / 73°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Vilnius Lithuania 23°C / 74°F $ May–Sep
• Whistler & the Sea to Sky Canada 23°C / 73°F $$$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Sep
• Amsterdam & the Dutch coast Netherlands 22°C / 72°F $$ Apr–Sep
• K'gari (Fraser Island) Australia 22°C / 71°F $$ Apr–Oct
• Medellin Colombia 22°C / 72°F $ Any month
• Nantucket & Cape Cod United States 22°C / 72°F $$$ Jun–Sep
• Northern British Columbia Canada 22°C / 71°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Quito & the Ecuadorian Andes Ecuador 22°C / 72°F $ Jun–Sep, Dec–Jan
• Riga Latvia 22°C / 71°F $ May–Sep
• Aarhus Denmark 21°C / 69°F $$$ Jun–Aug
• Copenhagen & the Danish coast Denmark 21°C / 69°F $$$ Jun–Aug
• Helsinki Finland 21°C / 69°F $$ Jun–Aug
• Lhasa & the Tibetan plateau Tibet 21°C / 71°F $$ May–Sep
• Madagascar Madagascar 21°C / 70°F $ Apr–Nov
• Malmo Sweden 21°C / 70°F $$$ Jun–Aug
• Newfoundland Canada 21°C / 70°F $ Jun–Sep
• Stockholm & its archipelago Sweden 21°C / 70°F $$$ Jun–Aug
• Tallinn Estonia 21°C / 70°F $ May–Sep
• The Cotswolds England 21°C / 70°F $$ May–Sep
• Gothenburg Sweden 20°C / 68°F $$$ Jun–Aug
• Mongolia – the steppe Mongolia 20°C / 69°F $ Jun–Aug
• Oslo Norway 20°C / 67°F $$$ Jun–Aug
• Snowdonia Wales 20°C / 68°F $ Apr–Oct
• The Lake District England 20°C / 67°F $$ Apr–Oct
• Ulaanbaatar & the Steppe Mongolia 20°C / 69°F $$ Jun–Aug
• Cornwall England 19°C / 66°F $$ May–Sep
• Cusco & Machu Picchu Peru 19°C / 66°F $$ May–Sep
• Dublin & the east coast Ireland 19°C / 66°F $$ May–Sep
• Edinburgh Scotland 19°C / 65°F $$ May–Sep
• Sucre Bolivia 19°C / 66°F $ Apr–Oct
• The Redwood Coast United States 19°C / 67°F $ May–Sep
• The Wild Atlantic Way Ireland 19°C / 67°F $$ May–Sep
• Alaska – Kenai & Denali United States 18°C / 65°F $$$ Jun–Aug
• Belfast & the Causeway Coast Northern Ireland 18°C / 65°F $$ May–Sep
• Bergen Norway 18°C / 65°F $$$ Jun–Aug
• Bogotá & the Colombian Andes Colombia 18°C / 65°F $ Dec–Mar, Jul–Aug
• Juneau & the Inside Passage United States 18°C / 64°F $$$ May–Sep
• St Helena St Helena 18°C / 64°F $$$ May–Sep
• The Norwegian Fjords Norway 18°C / 65°F $$$ Jun–Aug
• The Scottish Highlands Scotland 18°C / 64°F $$ May–Sep
• The Lofoten Islands Norway 16°C / 61°F $$$ Jun–Aug, or Jan–Mar for aurora
• Swedish Lapland Sweden 15°C / 60°F $$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Aug
• Copacabana Bolivia 14°C / 58°F $ Apr–Oct
• La Paz Bolivia 14°C / 58°F $ Apr–Oct
• Iceland Iceland 13°C / 56°F $$$ Jun–Aug, or Feb for aurora
• Pucon Chile 12°C / 54°F $$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Aug for ski
• The Faroe Islands Faroe Islands 12°C / 54°F $$$ Jun–Aug
• Ilulissat & the Greenland ice sheet Greenland 11°C / 51°F $$$ Jun–Aug
• Iqaluit & Baffin Island Canada 11°C / 52°F $$$ Jul–Aug, or Feb–Mar
• Svalbard Norway 8°C / 47°F $$$ Feb–Apr, or Jun–Aug
• Bariloche Argentina 6°C / 44°F $$ Dec–Feb, or Jul–Aug for ski