Where to go in September
September is a sweet spot: the sea is still warm, the summer crowds thin out and prices drop across southern Europe and Turkey. It is also a good month for the Balkans, the Caucasus and the Rockies.
Great weather in September
Comfortable midday temperatures and few rainy days, based on last year's weather.
Europe 20
Santorini
27° / 23° · 1 rainy day
Madrid
28° / 16° · 1 rainy day
Crete
20° / 12° · 1 rainy day
Rhodes
30° / 23° · 1 rainy day
Lisbon
27° / 17° · 2 rainy days
Athens
29° / 20° · 2 rainy days
Thessaloniki
29° / 19° · 2 rainy days
Valletta
29° / 23° · 2 rainy days
the Algarve
27° / 17° · 2 rainy days
Nice
25° / 17° · 3 rainy days
Valencia
28° / 21° · 3 rainy days
Granada
30° / 18° · 3 rainy days
Madeira
26° / 19° · 4 rainy days
the Albanian Riviera
28° / 18° · 4 rainy days
Mallorca
28° / 17° · 5 rainy days
Budapest
24° / 14° · 6 rainy days
Dubrovnik
26° / 16° · 6 rainy days
Provence
24° / 14° · 6 rainy days
Tenerife
21° / 12° · 6 rainy days
Sicily
29° / 16° · 6 rainy days
Türkiye & Caucasus 6
Çeşme & Alaçatı
27° / 22° · 1 rainy day
Bodrum
30° / 21° · 1 rainy day
Cappadocia
26° / 11° · 1 rainy day
Yerevan
28° / 15° · 3 rainy days
Ankara
26° / 13° · 4 rainy days
Bursa
28° / 17° · 5 rainy days
Africa 3
Cape Town
20° / 12° · 4 rainy days
Chefchaouen
30° / 17° · 4 rainy days
Nairobi
27° / 14° · 5 rainy days
Asia 3
Samarkand
30° / 16° · No rainy days
Beijing
28° / 19° · 4 rainy days
Almaty
24° / 13° · 5 rainy days
Americas 7
San Francisco
21° / 15° · 2 rainy days
Santiago
20° / 8° · 3 rainy days
São Paulo
26° / 15° · 4 rainy days
Seattle
22° / 14° · 5 rainy days
Chicago
24° / 16° · 5 rainy days
Quebec City
20° / 9° · 5 rainy days
Montreal
20° / 12° · 6 rainy days
Oceania 1
Also good in September
Amman
31° / 19° · No rainy days
Gaziantep
32° / 19° · No rainy days
Bukhara
32° / 17° · No rainy days
Hurghada
33° / 26° · No rainy days
Izmir
31° / 20° · 1 rainy day
Seville
33° / 20° · 1 rainy day
Los Angeles
31° / 19° · 1 rainy day
Fethiye
32° / 21° · 1 rainy day
Kaş
31° / 22° · 1 rainy day
Marmaris
32° / 19° · 1 rainy day
Antalya
33° / 21° · 3 rainy days
Fes
33° / 19° · 3 rainy days
Tunis
31° / 21° · 5 rainy days
New Orleans
32° / 25° · 6 rainy days
Brussels
20° / 12° · 7 rainy days
Rome
28° / 18° · 7 rainy days
Toronto
22° / 14° · 7 rainy days
Buenos Aires
19° / 11° · 7 rainy days
Porto
22° / 15° · 7 rainy days
Transylvania
20° / 9° · 7 rainy days
Kotor
26° / 20° · 7 rainy days
the Amalfi Coast
25° / 19° · 7 rainy days
Berlin
20° / 12° · 8 rainy days
Vancouver
20° / 13° · 8 rainy days
Naples
26° / 19° · 8 rainy days
Copenhagen
18° / 14° · 8 rainy days
New York City
26° / 16° · 9 rainy days
Boston
23° / 14° · 9 rainy days
Split
26° / 17° · 9 rainy days
Busan
28° / 22° · 9 rainy days
Stockholm
18° / 12° · 10 rainy days
Warsaw
21° / 12° · 10 rainy days
Lyon
21° / 13° · 10 rainy days
Baku
24° / 18° · 10 rainy days
Bruges
19° / 12° · 10 rainy days
Tbilisi
24° / 15° · 10 rainy days
Seoul
26° / 19° · 11 rainy days
Ljubljana
22° / 12° · 11 rainy days
London
19° / 12° · 11 rainy days
Montevideo
16° / 11° · 9 rainy days
Jaipur
32° / 24° · 10 rainy days
Hokkaido
17° / 7° · 11 rainy days
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