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CASCAIS · THE 12-MONTH VERDICT · 38.7° N An average August day in Cascais tops out at 84.2°F and the whole month records measurable rain on a single day. An average November brings 4.51 inches of it, spread across 9.3 days. Between those two lines sits the month most travelers should be booking, plus a … Read more
CARVOEIRO · THE ALGARVE · BEST TIME TO VISIT Carvoeiro puts its whole town on one cove: white houses that stop where the sand starts, stairs cut into the sandstone, a boardwalk east toward the blowholes at Algar Seco, and boats leaving the beach for the caves along the coast toward Benagil. Most of what … Read more
BENAGIL · ALGARVE · THE 12-MONTH VERDICT Almost everyone who books Benagil wants the same twenty minutes: a boat, kayak or paddleboard slipping under the arch into the domed chamber with the hole in its roof. Everything around it (the cliff path toward Praia da Marinha, lunch in Carvoeiro, an afternoon on a cove the … Read more
ALENTEJO · BEST TIME TO VISIT · ÉVORA · 248 M A trip to the Alentejo usually means a rental car, two or three white hill towns and a dinner table nobody leaves before eleven. The month decides how much of that happens outdoors. Between a July afternoon averaging 91.9°F on the Évora thermometer and … Read more
ALBUFEIRA · THE ALGARVE · BEST TIME TO VISIT The weather station that speaks for this coast records 0.04 inches of rain in an average July and 3.54 inches in an average December. That gap explains most of an Albufeira vacation: a five-month dry run when nothing on the calendar gets rained out, a wet … Read more
WARM MINERAL SPRINGS · FLORIDA · 1991-2020 NORMALS The question arrives long before the trip does: which month to drive down to Warm Mineral Springs. The air gives a clean answer. At Sarasota Bradenton airport, the nearest official thermometer, average highs run from 72.5°F in January to 91.5°F in August, and rainfall from 1.81 inches … Read more
