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Where to go in June
24 vetted destinations are at their best in June, across 18 countries. Each one is rated from ten years of daily temperature and rainfall recorded at that city's own coordinates — so this is a weather answer, not a popularity ranking, and the figure beside every place is the actual average it earns that rating on.
A rating of “ideal” means the month lands in that destination's comfortable band for both heat and rain. It says nothing about crowds or prices, which move on school holidays rather than on the weather — a city can be at its climatic best and still be at its busiest, and several here are both.
- Paris · FranceComfortable days around 24°C, and little rain (73mm rain).
- Istanbul · TürkiyeComfortable days around 26°C, and little rain (65mm rain).
- London · United KingdomComfortable days around 21°C, and little rain (74mm rain).
- New York · United StatesComfortable days around 26°C, and little rain (89mm rain).
- Vienna · AustriaComfortable days around 26°C, and little rain (86mm rain).
- Santorini · GreeceBeach weather at 27°C, and dry (6mm rain).
- Amsterdam · NetherlandsComfortable days around 21°C, and little rain (74mm rain).
- Barcelona · SpainComfortable days around 26°C, and little rain (35mm rain).
- Zermatt · SwitzerlandComfortable days around 16°C, and little rain (54mm rain).
- Lisbon · PortugalComfortable days around 25°C, and little rain (17mm rain).
- Dubrovnik · CroatiaComfortable days around 27°C, and little rain (49mm rain).
- Prague · CzechiaComfortable days around 25°C, and little rain (90mm rain).
- Berlin · GermanyComfortable days around 24°C, and little rain (71mm rain).
- Mexico City · MexicoComfortable days around 25°C, and little rain (143mm rain).
- Kraków · PolandComfortable days around 25°C, and little rain (62mm rain).
- Venice · ItalyComfortable days around 26°C, and little rain (61mm rain).
- Da Nang · VietnamBeach weather at 34°C, and dry (34mm rain).
- Sapporo · JapanComfortable days around 21°C, and little rain (113mm rain).
- Provence · FranceComfortable days around 26°C, and little rain (65mm rain).
- Cappadocia · TürkiyeComfortable days around 26°C, and little rain (40mm rain).
- Edinburgh · United KingdomComfortable days around 17°C, and little rain (71mm rain).
- San Francisco · United StatesComfortable days around 18°C, and little rain (2mm rain).
- Salzburg · AustriaComfortable days around 24°C, and little rain (116mm rain).
- Athens · GreeceBeach weather at 30°C, and dry (31mm rain).
Where to skip in June
These are worth going to — just not now. The same ten-year record puts each of them outside its comfortable band this month, and every one has a better window on its own guide.
- Delhi · IndiaPunishing heat, around 38°C (46mm rain).
- Hanoi · VietnamPunishing heat, around 34°C (228mm rain).
- Grand Canyon · United StatesPunishing heat, around 35°C (3mm rain).
- Chichén Itzá · MexicoPunishing heat, around 34°C (146mm rain).
- Jungfraujoch · SwitzerlandCold, around 2°C (86mm rain).
- Hakone · JapanVery wet — 293mm rain across the month (24°C).
- Ayutthaya · ThailandPunishing heat, around 34°C (178mm rain).
- Agra · IndiaPunishing heat, around 39°C (66mm rain).