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MAY · WHERE TO GO · 14 TRIPS FROM MARRAKECH TO PATAGONIA A May trip can land you in Luxor, where the average afternoon reaches 100.7°F and the whole month records no rain at all, or in El Calafate, where the same week averages 41.5°F and hands you 8 hours 58 minutes of daylight to … Read more
APRIL · WHERE TO GO · 12 TRIPS COMPARED One April week, two trips with nothing in common. Fly to Luxor and your afternoons run 92.9°F with 0.00 inches of rain on the whole month’s ledger. Drive into Zion the same week and you pitch a tent at 35.7°F, cold enough to find frost on … Read more
MARCH · WHERE TO GO · 14 TRIPS COMPARED A March trip can be built around 91.0°F afternoons in Guanacaste or around a 28.2°F dawn in Zion Canyon, and both leave on the same Saturday. That is a spread of nearly 63 degrees between two vacations booked in the same week, so the question in … Read more
FEBRUARY · WHERE TO GO · 16 TRIPS No month spreads the choice wider than February. Book a week in Rio de Janeiro and you land in 87.9°F afternoons with a sea averaging 82.4°F. Take the same week in Kyoto and you are packing for 33.0°F dawns and eastern temples you get to yourself. The … Read more
ALGARVE · THE THREE-DAY ITINERARY · 37.0° N The Algarve is about 150 km of coast, and its two ends have almost nothing in common. Faro sits at the eastern edge, on a lagoon of sandbanks, salt pans and ferry-served islands. Sagres sits at the western tip, where the cliffs turn to face open Atlantic … Read more
AZORES · THE THREE-DAY ITINERARY · SÃO MIGUEL Three days is what most people get in the Azores, because that is what the flight schedule and the vacation calendar allow. São Miguel absorbs it well. The island runs 744.7 square kilometers, 62.1 km end to end and 15.8 km at its widest, and more than … Read more
