Where to go in February

251 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 February marked.

• Bissau & the Bijagós Archipelago Guinea-Bissau 36°C / 96°F $ Dec–May
• Kerala's backwaters India 35°C / 94°F $ Oct–Mar
• Dakar & the Petite Côte Senegal 34°C / 93°F $ Nov–Apr
• Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam 34°C / 93°F $ Dec–Apr
• Lagos Nigeria 34°C / 93°F $ Nov–Feb
• Madurai India 34°C / 92°F $ Oct–Mar
• San Cristobal de las Casas Mexico 34°C / 92°F $ Oct–Apr
• Yangon Myanmar 34°C / 92°F $ Nov–Feb
• Banjul & the Gambian coast Gambia 33°C / 92°F $ Nov–Apr
• El Salvador's Pacific coast El Salvador 33°C / 92°F $ Nov–Apr
• Goa India 33°C / 91°F $ Nov–Feb
• Nicaragua's volcanoes and colonial towns Nicaragua 33°C / 91°F $ Nov–Apr
• Phnom Penh Cambodia 33°C / 92°F $ Nov–Feb
• Siem Reap & Angkor Wat Cambodia 33°C / 92°F $ Nov–Feb
• Cartagena Colombia 32°C / 90°F $ Dec–Mar
• Cartagena & the coffee region Colombia 32°C / 90°F $ Dec–Mar
• Diani Beach & the Kenyan coast Kenya 32°C / 89°F $$ Dec–Mar
• Krabi & Bangkok Thailand 32°C / 90°F $ Nov–Mar
• Langkawi Malaysia 32°C / 90°F $$ Nov–Mar
• Mysore India 32°C / 89°F $ Oct–Feb
• Panama City & the canal Panama 32°C / 89°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Perth & Margaret River Australia 32°C / 90°F $$ Nov–Mar
• Phuket Thailand 32°C / 89°F $ Nov–Apr
• Pune India 32°C / 89°F $ Oct–Feb
• Rottnest Island Australia 32°C / 90°F $$ Sep–Mar
• Accra & the Cape Coast Ghana 31°C / 88°F $ Nov–Mar
• Bagan Myanmar 31°C / 88°F $ Nov–Feb
• Chiang Mai Thailand 31°C / 87°F $ Nov–Feb
• Cotonou Benin 31°C / 87°F $ Nov–Mar
• Douala & Mount Cameroon Cameroon 31°C / 88°F $ Nov–Mar
• Freetown & the Sierra Leone coast Sierra Leone 31°C / 88°F $ Nov–Apr
• Galle Sri Lanka 31°C / 88°F $ Dec–Mar
• Iguazu Falls Argentina 31°C / 87°F $$ Sep–Feb
• Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 31°C / 88°F $ Any month, driest Jun–Aug
• Lome Togo 31°C / 88°F $ Nov–Mar
• Luang Prabang Laos 31°C / 87°F $ Nov–Feb
• Luang Prabang & the Mekong Laos 31°C / 87°F $ Nov–Feb
• Merida Mexico 31°C / 87°F $ Nov–Mar
• Monrovia & the Liberian coast Liberia 31°C / 88°F $ Nov–Apr
• Mumbai India 31°C / 87°F $ Nov–Feb
• Nouakchott & the Sahara Mauritania 31°C / 87°F $ Nov–Feb
• Pattaya & Rayong Thailand 31°C / 87°F $ Nov–Mar
• Rio & Iguaçu Brazil 31°C / 88°F $$ Dec–Mar
• Serengeti & Zanzibar Tanzania 31°C / 87°F $$$ Jun–Oct, Jan–Feb
• Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 31°C / 88°F $ Dec–Mar
• Abidjan & Grand-Bassam Côte d'Ivoire 30°C / 87°F $ Nov–Feb
• Bengaluru & Mysore India 30°C / 85°F $ Oct–Mar
• Chennai & the Coromandel Coast India 30°C / 86°F $ Nov–Feb
• Conakry & the Fouta Djallon Guinea 30°C / 86°F $ Nov–Mar
• Heron Island Australia 30°C / 86°F $$$ Oct–Mar
• Hyderabad India 30°C / 86°F $ Oct–Mar
• Lamu Kenya 30°C / 86°F $ Jul–Oct, Dec–Mar
• Malabo Equatorial Guinea 30°C / 85°F $$ Dec–Feb
• Recife & Fernando de Noronha Brazil 30°C / 85°F $$ Sep–Mar
• Salvador & the Bahia coast Brazil 30°C / 85°F $ Dec–Mar
• Singapore & Malaysia Singapore 30°C / 86°F $$ Any month
• Suriname Suriname 30°C / 85°F $ Feb–Apr, Aug–Nov
• The Andaman Islands India 30°C / 85°F $$ Nov–Apr
• Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago 30°C / 86°F $$ Jan–May
• Vientiane Laos 30°C / 85°F $ Nov–Feb
• Aruba Aruba 29°C / 83°F $$$ Any month
• Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei 29°C / 84°F $$$ Feb–Apr
• Bora Bora & Moorea French Polynesia 29°C / 84°F $$$ Any month
• Copán & western Honduras Honduras 29°C / 83°F $ Nov–Apr
• Costa Rica Costa Rica 29°C / 85°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Curaçao Curaçao 29°C / 84°F $$ Any month
• Gabon – Loango National Park Gabon 29°C / 85°F $$$ Jun–Sep, Dec–Feb
• Guam Guam 29°C / 83°F $$ Dec–Jun
• Guayaquil & the Ecuadorian coast Ecuador 29°C / 85°F $ Dec–Apr
• Guyana Guyana 29°C / 84°F $ Feb–Apr, Aug–Nov
• Havana & the Cuban coast Cuba 29°C / 84°F $ Dec–Apr Advisory
• Jeddah & the Red Sea coast Saudi Arabia 29°C / 83°F $$ Nov–Mar
• Kolkata India 29°C / 84°F $ Nov–Feb
• Nauru Nauru 29°C / 83°F $$ Any month
• Oaxaca Mexico 29°C / 84°F $ Oct–Feb
• Penang Malaysia 29°C / 85°F $ Jan–Mar
• Pohnpei Micronesia 29°C / 84°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Pondicherry India 29°C / 85°F $ Oct–Feb
• Raja Ampat Indonesia 29°C / 85°F $$$ Oct–Apr
• The Marquesas Islands French Polynesia 29°C / 85°F $$$ Any month
• Trinidad Cuba 29°C / 85°F $ Nov–Apr Advisory
• Vinales Cuba 29°C / 84°F $ Nov–Apr Advisory
• Barbados Barbados 28°C / 82°F $$$ Dec–Apr
• Bonaire Bonaire 28°C / 82°F $$ Any month
• Cape Town & the Garden Route South Africa 28°C / 82°F $$ Dec–Mar
• Cebu & the Visayas Philippines 28°C / 83°F $ Dec–May
• Chuuk Lagoon Micronesia 28°C / 83°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Djibouti Djibouti 28°C / 82°F $$ Nov–Feb
• Esperance Australia 28°C / 82°F $$ Oct–Mar
• Florianópolis Brazil 28°C / 82°F $$ Dec–Mar
• Grenada Grenada 28°C / 82°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Guadeloupe Guadeloupe 28°C / 83°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Jaffna Sri Lanka 28°C / 83°F $ Jan–Sep
• Jamaica Jamaica 28°C / 82°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Martinique Martinique 28°C / 82°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Nairobi Kenya 28°C / 82°F $$ Jun–Oct, Jan–Feb
• Palau Palau 28°C / 83°F $$$ Nov–Apr
• Palawan Philippines 28°C / 82°F $ Nov–May
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 28°C / 82°F $$$ Dec–Apr
• Saipan Northern Mariana Islands 28°C / 83°F $$ Dec–Jun
• Santo Domingo Dominican Republic 28°C / 83°F $ Dec–Apr
• St Lucia Saint Lucia 28°C / 82°F $$$ Dec–Apr
• Stellenbosch South Africa 28°C / 82°F $$ Sep–Apr
• Tegucigalpa Honduras 28°C / 82°F $ Nov–Apr
• The Cayman Islands Cayman Islands 28°C / 82°F $$$ Dec–Apr
• The Galápagos Ecuador 28°C / 83°F $$$ Any month
• The Maldives Maldives 28°C / 83°F $$$ Nov–Apr
• The Marshall Islands Marshall Islands 28°C / 82°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Victoria Falls Zambia 28°C / 83°F $$ Aug–Nov, or Feb–May for full flow
• Yap Micronesia 28°C / 82°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Antigua & Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda 27°C / 81°F $$$ Dec–Apr
• Belize Belize 27°C / 80°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Bocas del Toro Panama 27°C / 81°F $$ Feb–Apr
• Byron Bay & the Gold Coast Australia 27°C / 81°F $$ Sep–Apr
• Chittagong Bangladesh 27°C / 81°F $ Nov–Feb
• Da Lat Vietnam 27°C / 81°F $ Dec–Mar
• Dhaka Bangladesh 27°C / 80°F $ Nov–Feb
• Dominica Dominica 27°C / 80°F $$ Dec–Jun
• Guadalajara Mexico 27°C / 81°F $ Oct–Apr
• Kigali Rwanda 27°C / 80°F $$ Jun–Sep, Dec–Feb
• Lima & the Peruvian coast Peru 27°C / 80°F $ Dec–Apr
• Nha Trang Vietnam 27°C / 80°F $ Feb–Aug
• Punta Cana Dominican Republic 27°C / 80°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Punta Cana & Samaná Dominican Republic 27°C / 80°F $$ Dec–Apr
• San Juan & the Puerto Rican coast Puerto Rico 27°C / 81°F $$ Dec–May
• The Sunshine Coast Australia 27°C / 81°F $$ Sep–Apr
• Tulum Mexico 27°C / 81°F $$$ Nov–Apr
• Udaipur India 27°C / 81°F $$ Oct–Mar
• Yucatán & the Riviera Maya Mexico 27°C / 81°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates 26°C / 79°F $$$ Nov–Mar
• Antigua & Tikal Guatemala 26°C / 78°F $ Nov–Apr
• Antigua Guatemala Guatemala 26°C / 78°F $ Nov–Apr
• Jaipur India 26°C / 79°F $ Nov–Feb
• Lake Atitlan Guatemala 26°C / 78°F $ Nov–Apr
• Miami & South Beach United States 26°C / 79°F $$ Nov–Apr
• Montevideo Uruguay 26°C / 79°F $$ Nov–Mar
• Montevideo & Punta del Este Uruguay 26°C / 79°F $$ Dec–Mar
• Muscat & the Wahiba Sands Oman 26°C / 79°F $$ Oct–Mar
• Providenciales & Grace Bay Turks and Caicos 26°C / 78°F $$$ Dec–Apr
• Puerto Vallarta Mexico 26°C / 78°F $$ Nov–Apr
• Rajasthan India 26°C / 79°F $ Nov–Mar
• Roatán & the Bay Islands Honduras 26°C / 80°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Kitts and Nevis 26°C / 80°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Sydney & the NSW coast Australia 26°C / 79°F $$$ Dec–Mar
• The British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands 26°C / 78°F $$$ Dec–Apr
• The Exumas Bahamas 26°C / 79°F $$$ Dec–Apr
• The US Virgin Islands U.S. Virgin Islands 26°C / 78°F $$$ Dec–Apr
• Uganda – gorillas and the source of the Nile Uganda 26°C / 79°F $$ Jun–Sep, Dec–Feb
• Varanasi India 26°C / 79°F $ Oct–Mar
• Agra India 25°C / 76°F $ Oct–Mar
• Cabo San Lucas Mexico 25°C / 78°F $$$ Nov–Apr
• Cape Verde Cape Verde 25°C / 77°F $$ Nov–Jun
• Da Nang & Hoi An Vietnam 25°C / 76°F $ Feb–Jul
• Dubai & the desert United Arab Emirates 25°C / 77°F $$$ Nov–Mar
• Hawai‘i – Big Island & Maui United States 25°C / 77°F $$$ Any month
• Hoi An Vietnam 25°C / 76°F $ Feb–Jul
• Honolulu & Waikiki United States 25°C / 76°F $$$ Nov–Apr
• Iquique Chile 25°C / 76°F $$ Nov–Mar
• Pucon Chile 25°C / 76°F $$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Aug for ski
• San Luis Potosi Mexico 25°C / 76°F $ Oct–Feb
• The Big Island of Hawai‘i United States 25°C / 77°F $$$ Nov–Apr
• Asmara Eritrea 24°C / 75°F $ Dec–Mar
• Aswan & Nubia Egypt 24°C / 75°F $ Oct–Apr
• Doha Qatar 24°C / 74°F $$$ Nov–Mar
• Easter Island Chile 24°C / 74°F $$$ Nov–Mar
• Lalibela & the Ethiopian Highlands Ethiopia 24°C / 75°F $ Oct–Mar
• Lord Howe Island Australia 24°C / 75°F $$$ Sep–May
• Tampa United States 24°C / 75°F $$ Nov–Apr
• The Florida Keys United States 24°C / 75°F $$ Dec–Apr
• AlUla Saudi Arabia 23°C / 73°F $$$ Oct–Mar
• Auckland New Zealand 23°C / 74°F $$ Dec–Feb
• Bariloche Argentina 23°C / 73°F $$ Dec–Feb, or Jul–Aug for ski
• Bay of Islands New Zealand 23°C / 74°F $$ Dec–Feb
• Coromandel Peninsula New Zealand 23°C / 74°F $$ Dec–Feb
• Delhi & the Golden Triangle India 23°C / 74°F $ Oct–Mar
• La Serena Chile 23°C / 73°F $$ Nov–Apr
• New Zealand – North Island New Zealand 23°C / 74°F $$$ Dec–Mar
• Riyadh Saudi Arabia 23°C / 74°F $$$ Nov–Mar
• Tauranga New Zealand 23°C / 74°F $$ Dec–Feb
• Waiheke Island New Zealand 23°C / 74°F $$$ Dec–Feb
• Bahrain Bahrain 22°C / 71°F $$ Nov–Mar Advisory
• Christchurch & Canterbury New Zealand 22°C / 71°F $$ Nov–Mar
• Kuwait City Kuwait 22°C / 71°F $$$ Nov–Mar Advisory
• Lahore Pakistan 22°C / 72°F $ Nov–Feb
• Lake Taupo New Zealand 22°C / 72°F $$ Dec–Feb
• Lanzarote Spain 22°C / 71°F $$ Nov–Apr
• Sharm El Sheikh & the Red Sea Egypt 22°C / 71°F $$ Oct–Apr
• Tenerife Spain 22°C / 71°F $$ Any month
• Amritsar India 21°C / 70°F $ Nov–Mar
• Aqaba & the Jordanian Red Sea Jordan 21°C / 71°F $$ Oct–Apr
• Gran Canaria Spain 21°C / 71°F $$ Nov–Apr
• Medellin Colombia 21°C / 70°F $ Any month
• Nelson & the Abel Tasman New Zealand 21°C / 71°F $$ Dec–Mar
• New Plymouth New Zealand 21°C / 70°F $$ Dec–Feb
• New Zealand – South Island New Zealand 21°C / 69°F $$$ Dec–Mar, or Jul for snow
• Rishikesh India 21°C / 69°F $ Sep–Nov, Feb–Apr
• Tasmania Australia 21°C / 70°F $$$ Dec–Mar
• Dunedin & the Otago Peninsula New Zealand 20°C / 69°F $ Nov–Mar
• Franz Josef Glacier New Zealand 20°C / 67°F $$$ Nov–Mar
• Palm Springs United States 20°C / 68°F $$ Nov–Apr
• Palm Springs & Joshua Tree United States 20°C / 68°F $$ Oct–Apr
• Phoenix & the Sonoran Desert United States 20°C / 67°F $$ Nov–Apr
• Siwa Oasis Egypt 20°C / 67°F $ Oct–Mar
• The Nile & the Red Sea Egypt 20°C / 67°F $$ Oct–Apr
• Wellington New Zealand 20°C / 67°F $$ Dec–Mar
• Bogotá & the Colombian Andes Colombia 19°C / 67°F $ Dec–Mar, Jul–Aug
• Puerto Montt & the Chilean Lake District Chile 19°C / 66°F $$ Dec–Mar
• Stewart Island New Zealand 19°C / 65°F $$$ Dec–Feb
• Taipei Taiwan 19°C / 67°F $$ Oct–Dec, Feb–Apr
• Alexandria Egypt 18°C / 65°F $ Oct–Apr
• Houston United States 18°C / 65°F $$ Nov–Apr
• Madeira Portugal 18°C / 65°F $$ Any month
• The Salar de Uyuni Bolivia 18°C / 64°F $ Dec–Apr, for the mirror
• The Chatham Islands New Zealand 17°C / 62°F $$$ Dec–Mar
• Big Bend National Park United States 16°C / 60°F $ Oct–Apr
• Death Valley United States 16°C / 61°F $$ Nov–Mar
• Puerto Natales Chile 15°C / 59°F $$$ Nov–Mar
• Andorra & the Pyrenees Andorra 14°C / 57°F $$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Sep
• Patagonia Chile 14°C / 56°F $$$ Dec–Feb
• The Falkland Islands Falkland Islands 14°C / 57°F $$$ Oct–Mar
• Ushuaia – the end of the world Argentina 13°C / 55°F $$$ Nov–Mar
• The Dolomites Italy 12°C / 54°F $$ Jul–Sep, or Jan–Mar
• Innsbruck Austria 9°C / 48°F $$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Aug
• Sofia & the Rila Mountains Bulgaria 9°C / 49°F $ Jun–Sep, or Dec–Mar
• Lake Tahoe United States 8°C / 46°F $$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Sep
• Salzburg & the Salzkammergut lakes Austria 8°C / 47°F $$ Jun–Sep, or Dec–Feb
• Zermatt & the Bernese Oberland Switzerland 8°C / 47°F $$$ Jun–Sep, or Dec–Mar
• Niigata Japan 7°C / 44°F $$ Dec–Feb
• Sun Valley United States 6°C / 43°F $$$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Sep
• Whistler & the Sea to Sky Canada 6°C / 42°F $$$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Sep
• Denver & the Front Range United States 5°C / 41°F $$ Jun–Sep, or Dec–Mar
• Park City & the Wasatch United States 4°C / 39°F $$$ Dec–Mar
• Telluride United States 4°C / 39°F $$$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Sep
• The High Tatras Slovakia 4°C / 39°F $ Jul–Sep, or Jan–Mar
• Iceland Iceland 3°C / 37°F $$$ Jun–Aug, or Feb for aurora
• Mammoth Lakes & the Eastern Sierra United States 2°C / 36°F $$ Dec–Apr, or Jun–Sep
• Aspen & the Colorado Rockies United States 0°C / 33°F $$$ Jun–Sep, or Dec–Mar
• Stowe & the Green Mountains United States 0°C / 31°F $$ Sep–Oct, or Dec–Mar
• Hokkaidō Japan -1°C / 31°F $$$ Jan–Feb
• Sapporo Japan -1°C / 31°F $$ Dec–Feb
• The Lofoten Islands Norway -1°C / 30°F $$$ Jun–Aug, or Jan–Mar for aurora
• Ottawa Canada -2°C / 28°F $$ Jun–Aug, or Jan–Feb
• Banff & the Canadian Rockies Canada -4°C / 26°F $$$ Jun–Sep, or Jan–Mar
• Calgary Canada -4°C / 26°F $$ Jun–Aug, or Dec–Mar
• Harbin & the Ice Festival China -5°C / 22°F $ Jan–Feb
• Québec City & Montréal Canada -5°C / 23°F $$ Jun–Sep, or Feb
• Finnish Lapland Finland -6°C / 22°F $$$ Dec–Feb
• Swedish Lapland Sweden -7°C / 20°F $$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Aug
• The Yukon & the northern lights Canada -9°C / 17°F $$ Sep–Mar
• Svalbard Norway -10°C / 14°F $$$ Feb–Apr, or Jun–Aug
• Iqaluit & Baffin Island Canada -24°C / -11°F $$$ Jul–Aug, or Feb–Mar