Best-month finder: quiet months with the weather you want

TL;DR

With a daytime high of 18 to 28 °C, at most 10 rainy days and fewer tourists than an average month, 40 of our 75 countries and prefectures have at least one matching month, 54 months in all. Change the choices to see which months suit you; every chart can be saved or shared.

Pick the weather you like and how busy you are willing to put up with. The chart marks, for every country and prefecture with a weather table on this site, the months that match all of your choices. It filters long-term averages and 2025 figures; it is not a forecast.

Which months match your weather and crowd level?

40 of 75 places have at least one matching month (54 months in all).

  • Matches all your choices
  • Does not match
  • Number at the end: matching months
Months that match your weather and crowd levelWeather: 1991–2020 averages from each place's page. Crowds: share of 2025 nights (Eurostat, Japan Tourism Agency).

No matching month: Aichi, Akita, Aomori, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, France, Fukui, Germany, Gifu, Hiroshima, Ibaraki, Iceland, Ireland, Ishikawa, Kyoto, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Nara, Netherlands, Norway, Osaka, Poland, Saitama, Shiga, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Tokushima, Tokyo, Tottori, Toyama, Türkiye, Yamagata.

Table: matching months by place
Months matching the chosen weather and crowd level, by place
PlaceMatching months
ItalyApril, May, October
OkinawaFebruary, November, December
RomaniaApril, May, October
AustriaMay, September
CroatiaApril, May
GunmaApril, May
MontenegroApril, October
NaganoMay, June
SerbiaApril, October
ShizuokaApril, May
YamanashiApril, May
BelgiumSeptember
BulgariaMay
ChibaApril
EhimeApril
FukuokaApril
FukushimaMay
HokkaidoJune
HungaryApril
HyogoApril
IwateJune
KagawaApril
KagoshimaApril
KanagawaMay
KochiApril
KumamotoApril
LuxembourgSeptember
MieApril
MiyagiMay
MiyazakiApril
NagasakiApril
NiigataJune
OitaApril
OkayamaApril
SagaOctober
ShimaneApril
SpainApril
TochigiApril
WakayamaApril
YamaguchiApril

How the finder decides

Daytime high is the 1991–2020 average daily maximum temperature for the month, and rainy days the average number of rainy days, both as printed in the weather table on each place's page; the definition of a rainy day follows that page's source. Quieter than an average month means the month held under 8.3% of the place's 2025 tourist nights, as rounded on its page. A month has to pass every choice to count.123

Averages hide variation: a month that suits you on average can still bring a heatwave or a wet week. The busy-or-quiet share is one year's pattern for a whole country or prefecture, not for a single town.

Key takeaways

  • Default choices (18–28 °C, at most 10 rainy days, quieter than average): 40 of 75 places have a matching month.
  • Most matching months: Italy, with 3.
  • What we would skip: treating a match as a guarantee. These are averages and one year of visitor figures.

Sources

The finder uses the shares and weather tables printed on each linked page. See how we research.

  1. 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.
  2. 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).
  3. Weather in Europe: each country page names its station. WMO Member Nations (2023). WMO Climatological Standard Normals for 1991-2020 (NCEI Accession 0253808), station RomaCiampino (station ID 00016239), 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. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. doi:10.25921/800j-vn07. Accessed 22 September 2026. Released by NOAA under CC0. Liechtenstein: Source: MeteoSwiss. Climate normals 1991–2020, station Vaduz: mean maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation total, days with at least 1 mm of precipitation and sunshine duration. Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, open data (opendata.swiss: Klimanormwerte). Accessed 23 September 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. MeteoSwiss does not endorse this site or how the data is used here.
  4. Weather in Japan: each prefecture page names its station and links its table. Example: 出典:気象庁ホームページ(京都 平年値). Japan Meteorological Agency, 1991–2020 normals for the Kyoto station: daily maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation, days with at least 1.0 mm of precipitation (降水量の階級日数) and hours of sunshine (日照時間). Accessed 22 September 2026. Licensed under PDL1.0. 気象庁「平年値」を加工して作成 — edited by Gallivanting Gadabout (English wording, selection and rounding).

Matching months are our calculation from the figures above. 「宿泊旅行統計調査」(観光庁)を加工して作成 — edited by Gallivanting Gadabout (shares and matching). 気象庁「平年値」を加工して作成 — edited by Gallivanting Gadabout (selection and matching).