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Where is it warm

Where Is It Warm Right Now?

Most trips start with dates, not a destination. Pick the month you can travel and this guide turns it around: every place in our catalog that is genuinely warm then, ranked by temperature, with a fare from your airport and a route through to booking.

Where’s it warm right now

It’s September. Three of the warmest places you can fly to this month, drawn from destinations with full guides behind them. See all of them for September.

Cancún84°FMexico$304 rt · NYC · seen Aug 18
Bangkok88°FThailand$756 rt · NYC · seen Aug 18
Tenerife82°FSpain$705 rt · NYC · seen Aug 20

Every month

Pick a month

Every month has its own page: the full list of warm destinations, a temperature range you can drag, and filters for sea temperature, rainfall and overnight lows. Prices are round-trip and update with the catalog.

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Looking for somewhere specific?

Already have somewhere in mind? Search the catalog by city or country and go straight to its fares, guides and best time to visit. All 554 destinations are searchable.

From a warm month to a booked flight

Every destination on a month page is a live entry in our catalog, not a name on a list. The card carries a round-trip fare, and clicking it opens that destination’s own page — flight search, a fare chart across the twelve months, and, for our busiest routes, a low fare calendar showing the cheapest departure dates day by day. Warm months are usually peak months, so that calendar is worth opening before you commit to dates.

Twenty-eight of our destinations also have full city guides behind them — attractions, restaurants, hotels, transport, weather and what a trip actually costs. If you would rather browse by idea than by temperature, the travel guides and destination explorer cover the same catalog from the other direction, and head-to-head comparisons help when you are torn between two.

What the numbers mean

Every temperature here is the average daily high for that destination in that month, from measured climate records rather than editorial judgement. A monthly average describes a typical day, not a promise — but it is the right number to plan around, and it is the same number for every destination, which is what makes the ranking meaningful.

The filters read the same records. Warm sea uses measured sea surface temperature, which is what separates a place that looks warm from one you would actually swim in — the Mediterranean in May is the standing example, warm in the air and cold in the water. Dry uses monthly rainfall, which is how you tell a tropical dry season from a monsoon at the same temperature. Cool nights uses the overnight low, which is usually what people mean when they say somewhere was unbearable rather than merely hot.

Fares are round-trip and come from the same catalog the rest of the site uses. They move, and the figures in our month-by-month writing are medians across all the warm destinations for that month — useful for comparing one month against another, not a quote for your route.

Good to know

Where is it warm — your questions answered

What does this guide actually do?
It answers the question the other way round. Instead of picking a destination and hoping the weather works, you pick the month you can travel and see every destination that is genuinely warm then — sorted warmest first, with a round-trip fare next to each one. From there you can open the destination for its guides, its price calendar and a flight search.
Where is it warm right now?
The current month's page has the full answer, and it changes as the calendar does. Broadly: from November to April the warmth is in Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, the Gulf and the southern hemisphere, with almost nothing in Europe. From May to October Europe takes over, peaking in July and August.
Which month is warmest overall?
August, by a wide margin — more destinations clear 75 °F then than in any other month. The narrowest month is April, not midwinter, because the southern hemisphere has cooled out of its summer before the northern hemisphere has warmed into its own.
Are the temperatures reliable?
Each figure is the average daily high for that destination in that month, from measured climate records rather than editorial judgement. The sea temperature, rainfall and overnight low filters come from the same source. It is a monthly average, so it describes a typical day rather than promising one.
How do I find cheap flights once I have picked a destination?
Every destination card links through to its own page, which carries a flight search, a fare chart across the year and, for our most popular routes, a low fare calendar showing the cheapest departure dates day by day. Warm months are often peak months, so the calendar is usually worth a look before you commit to dates.
Can I filter by more than temperature?
Yes. Each month page has filters for warm sea, dry weather and cool nights, plus a region filter. They read measured sea temperature, monthly rainfall and overnight lows, which is what separates somewhere that is hot and dry from somewhere that is hot and wet — a distinction the daytime temperature alone will never make.