Month-by-month guides to weather, wildlife, crowds and prices, so you can choose the right time as well as the right place.
Plenty of places are sunny in winter. Fewer are properly warm, and fewer still are dry in the month you can travel. An honest guide from the UK, with flight times and the long-term weather averages.
Sakura and koyo move across Japan like weather fronts, one north in spring, the other south in autumn. How to time them by region, how to see them without the queues, and where to base yourself.
Sri Lanka is caught between two monsoons that arrive from opposite directions at opposite times of year. Understand them and you can find a dry beach in almost any month. Here is which coast to choose, and when.
There is no bad month to be in the Maldives, but there are very different ones. Here is how the two monsoons shape the water, the light, the prices and the wildlife, and how we match the month to the trip.
