Weather and climate in Europe and Japan

Start with a ranking or the best-month finder, or go straight to a city below.

Rankings and tools

• Summer and winter getaways: where people travel
• Winter sun: warmest cities in Europe and Japan
• Driest month, wettest month and daylight by city
• Best-month finder: quiet months with the weather you want
• Sea temperature by month: Europe and Japan
• Where to go by month: Europe and Japan, from 2025 figures
• Visual guides: lean seasons, daylight and weather

Light and sky

• Midnight sun and polar night dates, 2026
• How long does golden hour last? Every place, every month
• Light calendar: golden hour for your dates
• Dark nights and the Milky Way: Europe and Japan
• Where does the sun rise and set? Directions by month

Seasons and events

• Japan's rainy season (tsuyu): normal dates by region
• Snow in Japan by prefecture: yearly snowfall normals
• When is typhoon season in Japan? By month and region
• When does drift ice reach Hokkaido? JMA averages
• Cherry blossom dates in Japan: 2026 dates and averages
• Autumn leaf dates in Japan: 2025 observed dates and averages
• Total solar eclipse in Spain, 2 August 2027: where
• Bathing water quality in Europe by country, 2025
• Visual guides: sea temperature, blossom and leaves

City weather: Austria

• When to visit Graz: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Innsbruck: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Klagenfurt: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Vienna: weather, crowds and holidays

City weather: Belgium

• When to visit Antwerp: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Brussels: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Ostend: weather, crowds and holidays

City weather: Bulgaria

• When to visit Burgas: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Sofia: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Varna: weather, crowds and holidays

City weather: Croatia

• When to visit Zagreb: weather, crowds and holidays

City weather: Cyprus

• When to visit Larnaca: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Nicosia: weather, crowds and holidays

City weather: Czechia

• When to visit Brno: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Karlovy Vary: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Ostrava: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Prague: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit České Budějovice: weather, crowds and holidays

City weather: Estonia

• When to visit Pärnu: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Tallinn: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Tartu: weather, crowds and holidays

City weather: Finland

• When to visit Helsinki: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Jyväskylä: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Lahti: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Rovaniemi: weather, crowds and holidays

City weather: France

• When to visit Ajaccio: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Avignon: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Bastia: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Biarritz: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Bordeaux: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Brest: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Cannes: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Carcassonne: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Dijon: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Lille: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Lyon: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Marseille: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Montpellier: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Nantes: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Nice: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Paris: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Perpignan: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Rennes: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Strasbourg: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Toulouse: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Tours: weather, crowds and holidays

City weather: Germany

• When to visit Berlin: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Bremen: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Cologne: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Dresden: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Düsseldorf: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Frankfurt: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Freiburg: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Hamburg: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Hanover: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Leipzig: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Munich: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Nuremberg: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Rostock: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Stuttgart: weather, crowds and holidays

City weather: Hungary

• When to visit Budapest: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Debrecen: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Pécs: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Szeged: weather, crowds and holidays

City weather: Iceland

• When to visit Akureyri: weather and crowds
• When to visit Reykjavik: weather and crowds

City weather: Ireland

• When to visit Cork: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Dublin: weather, crowds and holidays

City weather: Italy

• When to visit Bari: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Bergamo: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Cagliari: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Florence: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Lecce: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Milan: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Olbia: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Pisa: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Rome: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Trieste: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Verona: weather, crowds and holidays

City weather: Latvia

• When to visit Daugavpils: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Liepāja: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Riga: weather, crowds and holidays

City weather: Liechtenstein

• When to visit Vaduz: weather, crowds and holidays

City weather: Luxembourg

• When to visit Luxembourg: weather, crowds and holidays

City weather: Montenegro

• When to visit Podgorica: weather, crowds and holidays

City weather: Netherlands

• When to visit Amsterdam: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Eindhoven: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Groningen: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Maastricht: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Rotterdam: weather, crowds and holidays

City weather: Norway

• When to visit Bergen: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Bodø: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Kristiansand: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Oslo: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Stavanger: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Tromsø: weather, crowds and holidays

City weather: Poland

• When to visit Poznań: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Szczecin: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Warsaw: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Wrocław: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Zakopane: weather, crowds and holidays

City weather: Romania

• When to visit Bucharest: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Cluj-Napoca: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Constanța: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Iași: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Sibiu: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Timișoara: weather, crowds and holidays

City weather: Serbia

• When to visit Belgrade: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Niš: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Novi Sad: weather, crowds and holidays

City weather: Slovakia

• When to visit Bratislava: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Košice: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Poprad: weather, crowds and holidays

City weather: Slovenia

• When to visit Ljubljana: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Maribor: weather, crowds and holidays

City weather: Spain

• When to visit A Coruña: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Alicante: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Barcelona: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Bilbao: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Cádiz: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Córdoba: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Fuerteventura: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Gran Canaria: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Granada: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Ibiza: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Lanzarote: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Madrid: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Málaga: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Oviedo: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Palma: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Salamanca: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Santa Cruz de Tenerife: weather and crowds
• When to visit Santander: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Santiago de Compostela: weather and crowds
• When to visit Seville: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Valencia: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Zaragoza: weather, crowds and holidays

City weather: Sweden

• When to visit Gothenburg: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Kalmar: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Kiruna: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Luleå: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Malmö: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Stockholm: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Uppsala: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Visby: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Östersund: weather, crowds and holidays

City weather: Switzerland

• When to visit Basel: weather and crowds
• When to visit Bern: weather and crowds
• When to visit Geneva: weather and crowds
• When to visit Lucerne: weather and crowds
• When to visit Lugano: weather and crowds
• When to visit Zurich: weather and crowds

City weather: Türkiye

• When to visit Ankara: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Antalya: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Bodrum: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Dalaman: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Izmir: weather, crowds and holidays

City weather: Japan

• When to visit Akita: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Aomori: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Chiba: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Fukui: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Fukuoka: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Fukushima: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Gifu: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Hiroshima: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Kagoshima: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Kanazawa: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Kobe: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Kochi: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Kofu: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Kumamoto: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Kyoto: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Maebashi: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Matsue: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Matsuyama: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Mito: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Miyazaki: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Morioka: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Nagano: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Nagasaki: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Nagoya: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Naha: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Nara: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Niigata: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Oita: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Okayama: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Osaka: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Otsu: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Saga: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Saitama: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Sapporo: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Sendai: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Shizuoka: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Takamatsu: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Tokushima: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Tokyo: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Tottori: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Toyama: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Tsu: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Utsunomiya: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Wakayama: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Yamagata: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Yamaguchi: weather, crowds and holidays
• When to visit Yokohama: weather, crowds and holidays