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MIAMI · BEST TIME TO VISIT · NOAA 1991-2020 Miami sells one picture all year: palms, warm water, no jacket. It delivers that picture twice, in two different cities. From December through April the air dries out, highs sit between 76.2°F and 83.6°F, and rain shows up on fewer than five days a month. From … Read more
MIAMI · DAY TRIPS · DRY SEASON FIRST You are already here. The beach has been swum, the Cuban coffee counter has been visited twice, and the map starts pulling outward: sawgrass to the west, a hundred islands trailing south, a neighboring city up the interstate. Miami’s day-trip belt is narrower than the map suggests, … Read more
MIAMI · WHERE TO STAY · 25.8° N Book a room “in Miami” and you may well end up in a different city. Miami Beach is its own municipality, laid out on natural and man-made barrier islands, with Biscayne Bay between it and the mainland City of Miami. The bridge crossing is short. The two … Read more
ST. AUGUSTINE · DAY TRIPS · EASTERN TIME You are already in town, so the question has narrowed: what can you reach today and still be back before the light goes? On January 15 the sun rises at 7:20 a.m. and sets at 5:48 p.m. local time, for 10 hours 29 minutes of daylight. On … Read more
ST. AUGUSTINE · WHERE TO STAY · ST. JOHNS COUNTY The choice in St. Augustine comes down to which side of the water you wake up on. A bed in the historic district puts Castillo de San Marcos inside a walking radius, which matters more than it sounds: the fort takes its last visitors at … Read more
ALGARVE · DAY TRIPS · 37.0° N By the second morning the beach in front of your rental has been thoroughly investigated, and the question turns to what a single day can reach from it. The Algarve makes that harder than it looks. The coast runs about 150 km, the west end takes the full … Read more
