Where to go in August

241 destinations genuinely in season, warmest first: typical daytime highs, budget level and the full travel window for each. Tap one for photos and details, or let the quiz pick for your whole group.

• Yosemite & the Sierra Nevada United States 38°C / 100°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Dushanbe & the Pamirs Tajikistan 35°C / 95°F $ Jun–Sep
• Nha Trang Vietnam 34°C / 92°F $ Feb–Aug
• Hoi An Vietnam 33°C / 92°F $ Feb–Apr, Aug–Oct
• Kyrgyzstan — Issyk-Kul & the Tian Shan Kyrgyzstan 33°C / 91°F $ Jun–Sep
• Cyprus Cyprus 32°C / 90°F $$ Apr–Oct
• Jaffna Sri Lanka 32°C / 89°F $ Jan–Sep
• Rhodes Greece 32°C / 90°F $$ May–Oct
• Sardinia Italy 32°C / 89°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Sun Valley United States 32°C / 90°F $$$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Sep
• Telluride United States 32°C / 89°F $$$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Sep
• The Pantanal Brazil 32°C / 90°F $$ May–Sep
• Aruba Aruba 31°C / 87°F $$$ Any month
• Corfu Greece 31°C / 87°F $$ May–Sep
• Curaçao Curaçao 31°C / 88°F $$ Any month
• Jakarta Indonesia 31°C / 88°F $ May–Sep
• Lake Tahoe United States 31°C / 89°F $$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Sep
• Mallorca Spain 31°C / 87°F $$ May–Sep
• Suriname Suriname 31°C / 87°F $ Feb–Apr, Aug–Nov
• Tbilisi & the Caucasus Georgia 31°C / 88°F $ May–Oct
• The Albanian Riviera Albania 31°C / 88°F $ Jun–Sep
• The Brazilian Amazon Brazil 31°C / 88°F $$ Jun–Nov
• Yogyakarta & the temples of Java Indonesia 31°C / 88°F $ Apr–Oct
• Almaty & the Tian Shan Kazakhstan 30°C / 86°F $ Jun–Sep
• Annapolis United States 30°C / 85°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Bonaire Bonaire 30°C / 86°F $$ Any month
• Brazzaville & the Congo River Republic of the Congo 30°C / 86°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Corsica France 30°C / 86°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Crete Greece 30°C / 86°F $$ May–Oct
• Darwin Australia 30°C / 86°F $$ May–Sep
• Denver & the Front Range United States 30°C / 85°F $$ Jun–Sep, or Dec–Mar
• Guyana Guyana 30°C / 85°F $ Feb–Apr, Aug–Nov
• Ibiza Spain 30°C / 85°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Iquitos & the Peruvian Amazon Peru 30°C / 85°F $ Jun–Oct
• Kakadu & the Top End Australia 30°C / 86°F $$ May–Sep
• Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 30°C / 86°F $ Any month, driest Jun–Aug
• Malta Malta 30°C / 85°F $$ Apr–Oct
• Plitvice Lakes National Park Croatia 30°C / 86°F $$ Apr–Oct
• Sabah — Borneo's rainforest Malaysia 30°C / 86°F $ Mar–Oct
• Solomon Islands Solomon Islands 30°C / 85°F $$ May–Oct
• The Dolomites Italy 30°C / 86°F $$ Jul–Sep, or Jan–Mar
• The Kimberley Australia 30°C / 86°F $$ May–Sep
• Dar es Salaam & southern Tanzania Tanzania 29°C / 84°F $ Jun–Oct
• French Guiana French Guiana 29°C / 85°F $$ Aug–Dec
• Gibraltar Gibraltar 29°C / 85°F $$ Apr–Sep
• Hawai‘i — Big Island & Maui United States 29°C / 84°F $$$ Any month
• Kiribati Kiribati 29°C / 83°F $ Apr–Oct
• Komodo Island Indonesia 29°C / 85°F $$ Apr–Dec
• Nauru Nauru 29°C / 83°F $$ Any month
• Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea 29°C / 83°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Salalah Oman 29°C / 84°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Samoa Samoa 29°C / 84°F $ May–Oct
• Santorini Greece 29°C / 84°F $$$ May–Oct
• Singapore & Malaysia Singapore 29°C / 85°F $$ Any month
• The Bay of Kotor Montenegro 29°C / 83°F $$ May–Sep
• The Black Hills & Mount Rushmore United States 29°C / 84°F $ May–Sep
• The Outer Banks United States 29°C / 84°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Tuvalu Tuvalu 29°C / 83°F $ May–Oct
• American Samoa American Samoa 28°C / 82°F $$ May–Sep
• Andorra & the Pyrenees Andorra 28°C / 82°F $$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Sep
• Bali & Lombok Indonesia 28°C / 83°F $ May–Sep
• Bulgaria’s Black Sea Coast Bulgaria 28°C / 82°F $ Jun–Sep
• Chicago United States 28°C / 82°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Comoros Comoros 28°C / 82°F $ May–Oct
• Dubrovnik Croatia 28°C / 83°F $$ May–Sep
• Fiji Fiji 28°C / 83°F $$$ May–Oct
• Istria Croatia 28°C / 83°F $ May–Sep
• Lake Como Italy 28°C / 83°F $$$ May–Sep
• Minneapolis & the Boundary Waters United States 28°C / 82°F $ Jun–Sep
• Sofia & the Rila Mountains Bulgaria 28°C / 82°F $ Jun–Sep, or Dec–Mar
• The Adirondacks United States 28°C / 82°F $ Jun–Oct
• The French Riviera France 28°C / 82°F $$$ May–Sep
• The Marquesas Islands French Polynesia 28°C / 83°F $$$ Any month
• Wallis and Futuna Wallis and Futuna 28°C / 82°F $$ May–Oct
• Bermuda Bermuda 27°C / 80°F $$$ Apr–Oct
• Bora Bora & Moorea French Polynesia 27°C / 81°F $$$ Any month
• Bujumbura & Lake Tanganyika Burundi 27°C / 81°F $ Jun–Aug
• Cinque Terre & the Italian Riviera Italy 27°C / 81°F $$ May–Sep
• Espiritu Santo Vanuatu 27°C / 80°F $$ May–Oct
• Fernando de Noronha Brazil 27°C / 80°F $$$ Aug–Dec
• Gabon — Loango National Park Gabon 27°C / 81°F $$$ Jun–Sep, Dec–Feb
• Kauai United States 27°C / 80°F $$$ Apr–Oct
• Kigali Rwanda 27°C / 80°F $$ Jun–Sep, Dec–Feb
• Lake Ohrid North Macedonia 27°C / 81°F $ Jun–Sep
• Lamu Kenya 27°C / 81°F $ Jul–Oct, Dec–Mar
• Madison United States 27°C / 81°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Menorca Spain 27°C / 81°F $$ May–Sep
• Moorea French Polynesia 27°C / 81°F $$$ May–Oct
• Mostar Bosnia and Herzegovina 27°C / 80°F $ May–Sep
• Newport, Rhode Island United States 27°C / 81°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Paraty Brazil 27°C / 80°F $$ May–Sep
• Portland & the Oregon Coast United States 27°C / 80°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Portland, Oregon United States 27°C / 80°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Santa Barbara United States 27°C / 81°F $$$ Apr–Sep
• Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina 27°C / 80°F $ May–Sep
• Srinagar & Kashmir India 27°C / 80°F $$ Apr–Oct
• São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé and Príncipe 27°C / 81°F $$ Jun–Sep
• The Cocos (Keeling) Islands Cocos (Keeling) Islands 27°C / 80°F $$ Apr–Oct
• The Galápagos Ecuador 27°C / 80°F $$$ Any month
• The Okavango Delta Botswana 27°C / 80°F $$$ Jun–Oct
• Toronto & Niagara Falls Canada 27°C / 80°F $$ May–Sep
• Vanua Levu Fiji 27°C / 80°F $$ Apr–Oct
• Victoria Falls Zambia 27°C / 80°F $$ Aug–Nov, or Feb–May for full flow
• Volcanoes National Park Rwanda 27°C / 80°F $$$ Jun–Sep
• Aitutaki Cook Islands 26°C / 78°F $$$ Apr–Nov
• Astana Kazakhstan 26°C / 78°F $$ May–Sep
• Boston United States 26°C / 80°F $$ Jun–Oct
• Geneva & Lake Geneva Switzerland 26°C / 79°F $$$ May–Sep
• Hwange & the Zimbabwean side of Victoria Falls Zimbabwe 26°C / 78°F $$ May–Oct
• Lake Bled & the Julian Alps Slovenia 26°C / 79°F $ Jun–Sep
• Ljubljana Slovenia 26°C / 79°F $ Apr–Sep
• Luanda Angola 26°C / 79°F $$$ Jun–Sep
• Ottawa Canada 26°C / 78°F $$ Jun–Aug, or Jan–Feb
• Pemba Mozambique 26°C / 80°F $$$ May–Nov
• Suva & the Fijian highlands Fiji 26°C / 78°F $ May–Oct
• The Finger Lakes United States 26°C / 79°F $ Jun–Oct
• The Rhine Valley Germany 26°C / 79°F $$ May–Oct
• Transylvania Romania 26°C / 79°F $ Jun–Sep
• Vanuatu Vanuatu 26°C / 78°F $$ May–Oct
• Acadia & the Maine coast United States 25°C / 76°F $$ Jun–Oct
• Aspen & the Colorado Rockies United States 25°C / 77°F $$$ Jun–Sep, or Dec–Mar
• Belo Horizonte & Ouro Preto Brazil 25°C / 78°F $ May–Aug
• Berlin Germany 25°C / 77°F $$ May–Sep
• Cairns Australia 25°C / 77°F $$ Jun–Oct
• Eswatini Eswatini 25°C / 77°F $ May–Sep
• Glacier National Park United States 25°C / 78°F $$ Jul–Sep
• Innsbruck Austria 25°C / 78°F $$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Aug
• Kraków & the Tatras Poland 25°C / 76°F $ May–Sep
• Mackinac Island United States 25°C / 76°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Magnetic Island Australia 25°C / 77°F $$ May–Oct
• Mammoth Lakes & the Eastern Sierra United States 25°C / 78°F $$ Dec–Apr, or Jun–Sep
• Montreal Canada 25°C / 77°F $$ Jun–Oct
• Niue Niue 25°C / 77°F $$ May–Oct
• Portland, Maine United States 25°C / 76°F $$ Jun–Oct
• Rügen & the Baltic Coast Germany 25°C / 77°F $$ Jun–Aug
• Sendai Japan 25°C / 77°F $$ Apr–Aug
• Serengeti & Zanzibar Tanzania 25°C / 76°F $$$ Jun–Oct, Jan–Feb
• Tenerife Spain 25°C / 78°F $$ Any month
• The Bazaruto Archipelago Mozambique 25°C / 77°F $$$ Apr–Nov
• The Great Barrier Reef Australia 25°C / 77°F $$$ Jun–Oct
• Traverse City & the Great Lakes United States 25°C / 76°F $$ Jun–Oct
• Vava'u Tonga 25°C / 77°F $$ Jul–Oct
• Winnipeg & the Canadian Prairies Canada 25°C / 78°F $ Jun–Sep
• Zermatt & the Bernese Oberland Switzerland 25°C / 76°F $$$ Jun–Sep, or Dec–Mar
• Asunción & the Paraguayan missions Paraguay 24°C / 75°F $ May–Aug
• Biarritz & the French Basque coast France 24°C / 76°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Brittany France 24°C / 75°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Kenya — the Masai Mara Kenya 24°C / 75°F $$$ Jul–Oct
• Lifou New Caledonia 24°C / 75°F $$$ Apr–Nov
• Luxembourg City Luxembourg 24°C / 75°F $$$ Apr–Sep
• Madeira Portugal 24°C / 75°F $$ Any month
• Munich Germany 24°C / 75°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Nairobi Kenya 24°C / 75°F $$ Jun–Oct, Jan–Feb
• Neuschwanstein & the Black Forest Germany 24°C / 75°F $$ Jun–Sep, or Dec for the markets
• Québec City & Montréal Canada 24°C / 75°F $$ Jun–Sep, or Feb
• Rarotonga & Aitutaki Cook Islands 24°C / 75°F $$$ Apr–Nov
• Salzburg Austria 24°C / 75°F $$ May–Sep
• Salzburg & the Salzkammergut lakes Austria 24°C / 75°F $$ Jun–Sep, or Dec–Feb
• San Diego & La Jolla United States 24°C / 75°F $$ Mar–Oct
• San Sebastián Spain 24°C / 75°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Seattle & the San Juan Islands United States 24°C / 75°F $$ Jun–Sep
• South Luangwa National Park Zambia 24°C / 75°F $$ May–Oct
• The Whitsundays Australia 24°C / 75°F $$$ Jun–Oct
• Tonga Tonga 24°C / 75°F $$ Jun–Oct
• Uganda — gorillas and the source of the Nile Uganda 24°C / 76°F $$ Jun–Sep, Dec–Feb
• Yellowstone & the Tetons United States 24°C / 74°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Gaborone Botswana 23°C / 74°F $$ May–Sep
• Gdańsk & the Baltic Coast Poland 23°C / 73°F $ Jun–Aug
• Halifax Canada 23°C / 74°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Hamburg Germany 23°C / 74°F $$ May–Sep
• Lake Malawi Malawi 23°C / 74°F $ May–Oct
• Nova Scotia Canada 23°C / 74°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Prince Edward Island Canada 23°C / 73°F $ Jul–Aug
• Réunion Island Réunion 23°C / 74°F $$ May–Nov
• The Azores Portugal 23°C / 73°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Vilnius Lithuania 23°C / 74°F $ May–Sep
• Amsterdam & the Dutch coast Netherlands 22°C / 71°F $$ Apr–Sep
• Banff & the Canadian Rockies Canada 22°C / 72°F $$$ Jun–Sep, or Jan–Mar
• Calgary Canada 22°C / 72°F $$ Jun–Aug, or Dec–Mar
• Cape Breton Island Canada 22°C / 72°F $ Jun–Oct
• Helsinki Finland 22°C / 71°F $$ Jun–Aug
• Kruger & the South African Lowveld South Africa 22°C / 72°F $$ May–Sep
• Lhasa & the Tibetan plateau Tibet 22°C / 72°F $$ May–Sep
• London England 22°C / 72°F $$$ Apr–Sep
• Medellin Colombia 22°C / 71°F $ Year-round
• Mongolia — the steppe Mongolia 22°C / 71°F $ Jun–Aug
• Namibia Namibia 22°C / 71°F $$$ May–Oct
• Riga Latvia 22°C / 71°F $ May–Sep
• Rotterdam Netherlands 22°C / 72°F $$ Apr–Sep
• Stockholm & its archipelago Sweden 22°C / 71°F $$$ Jun–Aug
• São Paulo Brazil 22°C / 72°F $$ May–Aug
• The Bay of Fundy Canada 22°C / 71°F $ Jun–Sep
• The California Coast United States 22°C / 72°F $$$ May–Oct
• The High Tatras Slovakia 22°C / 72°F $ Jul–Sep, or Jan–Mar
• Ulaanbaatar & the Steppe Mongolia 22°C / 71°F $$ Jun–Aug
• Uluru & the Red Centre Australia 22°C / 71°F $$$ Apr–Sep
• Vancouver Island Canada 22°C / 71°F $$ May–Sep
• Victoria Canada 22°C / 71°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Whistler & the Sea to Sky Canada 22°C / 71°F $$$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Sep
• K'gari (Fraser Island) Australia 21°C / 71°F $$ Apr–Oct
• Malmo Sweden 21°C / 70°F $$$ Jun–Aug
• Northern British Columbia Canada 21°C / 70°F $$ Jun–Sep
• Quito & the Ecuadorian Andes Ecuador 21°C / 70°F $ Jun–Sep, Dec–Jan
• Tallinn Estonia 21°C / 70°F $ May–Sep
• Aarhus Denmark 20°C / 69°F $$$ Jun–Aug
• Copenhagen & the Danish coast Denmark 20°C / 69°F $$$ Jun–Aug
• Gothenburg Sweden 20°C / 68°F $$$ Jun–Aug
• Ladakh — the Indian Himalaya India 20°C / 69°F $ Jun–Sep
• Madagascar Madagascar 20°C / 68°F $ Apr–Nov
• Nantucket & Cape Cod United States 20°C / 68°F $$$ Jun–Sep
• Oslo Norway 20°C / 69°F $$$ Jun–Aug
• The Cotswolds England 20°C / 69°F $$ May–Sep
• Cornwall England 19°C / 65°F $$ May–Sep
• Cusco & Machu Picchu Peru 19°C / 65°F $$ May–Sep
• Dublin & the east coast Ireland 19°C / 66°F $$ May–Sep
• Edinburgh Scotland 19°C / 65°F $$ May–Sep
• Newfoundland Canada 19°C / 66°F $ Jun–Sep
• Snowdonia Wales 19°C / 67°F $ Apr–Oct
• St Helena St Helena 19°C / 66°F $$$ May–Sep
• The Lake District England 19°C / 67°F $$ Apr–Oct
• The Wild Atlantic Way Ireland 19°C / 65°F $$ May–Sep
• Alaska — Kenai & Denali United States 18°C / 65°F $$$ Jun–Aug
• Belfast & the Causeway Coast Northern Ireland 18°C / 64°F $$ May–Sep
• Bergen Norway 18°C / 65°F $$$ Jun–Aug
• Bogotá & the Colombian Andes Colombia 18°C / 64°F $ Dec–Mar, Jul–Aug
• Juneau & the Inside Passage United States 18°C / 64°F $$$ May–Sep
• Sucre Bolivia 18°C / 65°F $ Apr–Oct
• The Norwegian Fjords Norway 18°C / 65°F $$$ Jun–Aug
• The Redwood Coast United States 18°C / 65°F $ May–Sep
• The Scottish Highlands Scotland 17°C / 63°F $$ May–Sep
• Swedish Lapland Sweden 16°C / 61°F $$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Aug
• The Lofoten Islands Norway 16°C / 61°F $$$ Jun–Aug, or Jan–Mar for aurora
• Copacabana Bolivia 14°C / 57°F $ Apr–Oct
• La Paz Bolivia 14°C / 57°F $ Apr–Oct
• Iceland Iceland 13°C / 55°F $$$ Jun–Aug, or Feb for aurora
• Pucon Chile 12°C / 53°F $$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Aug for ski
• The Faroe Islands Faroe Islands 12°C / 53°F $$$ Jun–Aug
• Ilulissat & the Greenland ice sheet Greenland 10°C / 50°F $$$ Jun–Aug
• Iqaluit & Baffin Island Canada 10°C / 50°F $$$ Jul–Aug, or Feb–Mar
• Svalbard Norway 8°C / 47°F $$$ Feb–Apr, or Jun–Aug
• Bariloche Argentina 6°C / 42°F $$ Dec–Feb, or Jul–Aug for ski