Start here to find a quieter trip. The finder lists places with weather like a city you choose, where that month was less crowded in 2025, as a share of their year. Below it: 65 quieter-alternative lists for busy months, 33 city pairs, 37 region pairs and our month and ranking tools.
Similar weather, but quieter
Pick a city you like and a month. We list places whose weather that month is close to it and where that month took a smaller share of the 2025 visits than it did where you started.
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The rule: an average high within 2 °C and rainy days within 3 of your city's in that month, in a different country (or prefecture in Japan), and that month took a smaller share of its 2025 nights than that month did of your city's country or prefecture's. Matches stay in the same part of the world: Europe with Europe, Japan with Japan. Weather: 1991–2020 averages at each city's weather station (World Meteorological Organization normals in Europe, Japan Meteorological Agency in Japan); a rainy day has at least 1 mm of rain.
Find the right month
- Best-month finder · pick the weather and crowd level you want
- Where to go by month · quietest and busiest places for each month
- Are my dates busy? · holidays and how busy your dates were
- Long-weekend planner · the longest breaks public holidays allow
Quieter places
- Japan's least-visited prefectures
- Is the quieter alternative really quieter? · 12 European pairs
- Which town is quieter? · 32 European towns
- Europe's most seasonal regions · 123 regions
- Off-season report 2026
- Summer and winter getaways
Quieter alternatives in the busiest month
For each country and prefecture with a weather station on our pages: places with similar weather in its busiest month of 2025, where that month took a smaller share of the year.
March
May
July
- Instead of Belgium
- Instead of Estonia
- Instead of Finland
- Instead of Latvia
- Instead of Luxembourg
- Instead of Norway
- Instead of Sweden
August
- Instead of Aichi
- Instead of Akita
- Instead of Aomori
- Instead of Bulgaria
- Instead of Chiba
- Instead of Croatia
- Instead of Czechia
- Instead of Ehime
- Instead of France
- Instead of Fukui
- Instead of Fukushima
- Instead of Gifu
- Instead of Gunma
- Instead of Hiroshima
- Instead of Hungary
- Instead of Hyogo
- Instead of Ibaraki
- Instead of Ireland
- Instead of Italy
- Instead of Kagawa
- Instead of Kanagawa
- Instead of Kochi
- Instead of Liechtenstein
- Instead of Mie
- Instead of Miyazaki
- Instead of Montenegro
- Instead of Nagano
- Instead of Nagasaki
- Instead of Netherlands
- Instead of Niigata
- Instead of Okayama
- Instead of Okinawa
- Instead of Poland
- Instead of Romania
- Instead of Saga
- Instead of Saitama
- Instead of Shiga
- Instead of Shimane
- Instead of Shizuoka
- Instead of Slovakia
- Instead of Slovenia
- Instead of Tochigi
- Instead of Tokushima
- Instead of Tottori
- Instead of Toyama
- Instead of Türkiye
- Instead of Wakayama
- Instead of Yamagata
- Instead of Yamaguchi
- Instead of Yamanashi
October
November
December
City or city? 33 pairs with alike weather
Pairs of European cities in different countries where each is the other's closest match for weather over the whole year.
- Antalya or Granada
- Antwerp or Lille
- Avignon or Madrid
- Barcelona or Perpignan
- Bari or Marseille
- Biarritz or Oviedo
- Bilbao or Bordeaux
- Bodrum or Seville
- Bodø or Reykjavik
- Bratislava or Vienna
- Cagliari or Palma
- Cluj-Napoca or Košice
- Constanța or Varna
- Cork or Stavanger
- Daugavpils or Tartu
- Debrecen or Iași
- Dijon or Geneva
- Dresden or Szczecin
- Düsseldorf or Eindhoven
- Florence or Podgorica
- Hanover or Luxembourg
- Helsinki or Tallinn
- Innsbruck or Vaduz
- Jyväskylä or Luleå
- Liepāja or Visby
- Lucerne or Munich
- Lugano or Lyon
- Malmö or Rostock
- Novi Sad or Timișoara
- Oslo or Uppsala
- Prague or Wrocław
- Pécs or Sofia
- Toulouse or Trieste
Region or region? 37 pairs
The three regions with the most tourist nights in each country, compared two at a time (Eurostat, 2025).
- Tirol or Salzburg · Austria
- Tirol or Wien · Austria
- Salzburg or Wien · Austria
- Région lémanique or Ostschweiz · Switzerland
- Région lémanique or Espace Mittelland · Switzerland
- Ostschweiz or Espace Mittelland · Switzerland
- Praha or Severovýchod · Czechia
- Praha or Severozápad · Czechia
- Severovýchod or Severozápad · Czechia
- Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi or Helsinki-Uusimaa · Finland
- Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi or Länsi-Suomi · Finland
- Helsinki-Uusimaa or Länsi-Suomi · Finland
- Ile de France or Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur · France
- Ile de France or Rhône-Alpes · France
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur or Rhône-Alpes · France
- Jadranska Hrvatska or Grad Zagreb · Croatia
- Jadranska Hrvatska or Panonska Hrvatska · Croatia
- Grad Zagreb or Panonska Hrvatska · Croatia
- Budapest or Nyugat-Dunántúl · Hungary
- Budapest or Közép-Dunántúl · Hungary
- Nyugat-Dunántúl or Közép-Dunántúl · Hungary
- Veneto or Lazio · Italy
- Veneto or Lombardia · Italy
- Lazio or Lombardia · Italy
- Oslo og Viken or Vestlandet · Norway
- Oslo og Viken or Nord-Norge · Norway
- Vestlandet or Nord-Norge · Norway
- Algarve or Grande Lisboa · Portugal
- Algarve or Norte · Portugal
- Grande Lisboa or Norte · Portugal
- Sud-Est or Centru · Romania
- Sud-Est or Bucureşti-Ilfov · Romania
- Centru or Bucureşti-Ilfov · Romania
- Stockholm or Västsverige · Sweden
- Stockholm or Sydsverige · Sweden
- Västsverige or Sydsverige · Sweden
- Zahodna Slovenija or Vzhodna Slovenija · Slovenia
Compare and rank
- Compare up to three places
- How places stack up · rankings by topic
- Explore · search every place and topic
Key takeaways
- The finder matches weather within 2 °C and 3 rainy days, in a month that took a smaller share of the year.
- 65 busy-month alternative lists, 33 city pairs and 37 region pairs.
- What we would skip: booking on a match alone. Open the place, check its holidays and your dates.
Sources
Everything here is copied from our country, prefecture, region and city pages, which cite Eurostat, the Japan Tourism Agency, the World Meteorological Organization and the Japan Meteorological Agency. See how we research.
- Source: Eurostat, Nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments – monthly data, doi:10.2908/TOUR_OCC_NIM, accessed 25 September 2026. Dataset last updated by Eurostat on 22 September 2026. Extract: number of nights, NACE codes I55.1–I55.3, all guests and split by guests resident in the country and abroad, January–December 2025.
- Source: 「宿泊旅行統計調査」（観光庁） (Overnight Travel Statistics Survey, Japan Tourism Agency), 2025 annual figures (final), tables 2 and 8 and reference table 1, published 6 July 2026. Survey page · workbook. Accessed 17 September 2026. Licensed under the Public Data License 1.0 (PDL1.0).
- Weather: WMO Member Nations (2023). WMO Climatological Standard Normals for 1991-2020 (NCEI Accession 0253808), the station named for each country in the table (the same station its country page uses), mean daily maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation and number of days with at least 1 mm of precipitation, normals computed from at least 24 years; also station MilanoLinate (station ID 00016080); also station BariPalese (station ID 00016270), from the same files, downloaded 24 September 2026. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. doi:10.25921/800j-vn07. Accessed 22 September 2026. Released by NOAA under CC0.
- Weather in Japan: 出典：気象庁ホームページ（過去の気象データ検索）. Japan Meteorological Agency, 1991–2020 normals for the station named for each prefecture (the same station its prefecture page uses, where the page links the station's own table): daily maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation and days with at least 1.0 mm of precipitation (降水量の階級日数). Accessed 22 September 2026. Licensed under PDL1.0. 気象庁「平年値」を加工して作成 — edited by Traveloffsy (English wording, selection and rounding).
We matched, sorted and rounded the figures ourselves, and the rule for a match is ours; the agencies have not checked or endorsed these pages. Shares are rounded once, to one decimal.