Best places to visit each month of the year

The right month changes everything: the same coast can be empty in May and shoulder to shoulder in August, the same waterfall a trickle in September and in full flow in April.

 

Pick a month below and you will find our guides to the best places to visit that month, country by country, each one built from the Hidden Gem Finder's map of more than 300,000 hidden places across 230 countries, with the weather to expect and when in the month to go.