Places & weather
Climate by month, forecast and best time for every town
4,917,084PlacesPlaces & weatherType at least two letters.
Weather and climate, mountains and lakes, monuments, festivals, concerts and the night sky for 4,917,084 places in 197 countries.
Seven doors into the same world: each one opens country by country, then place by place.
The places with the best weather this month, scored from their climate: warmth, sun and dry days.
99OctoberNorthern lights, earthquakes, storms, wildfires and the sky — updated every 15 minutes.
The extremes among our places at this hour, from the latest forecast run.
Every town and village with its climate, and the country's monuments, summits and best months.


The highest, the largest and the longest among everything the atlas maps.
metres above sea level
Mount Everest8,849 mSouth Summit8,749 mK28,611 mKanchenjunga8,586 mLhotse8,516 msurface in km²
Lake Superior, Michigan82,350 km²Lake Michigan57,750 km²Lake Onega9,800 km²Vänern, Västra Götaland5,650 km²Saimaa4,400 km²height of the drop
Balta of Striga970 mOloʻupena Falls900 mYumbilla Falls896 mBalayfossen850 mVinnufossen845 mlength of the course
Amazon River6,992 kmNile6,650 kmParaná River4,880 kmRiver Congo4,700 kmMekong River4,350 kmHiking routes with their distance, climb and time, and everything to do outdoors, counted.
351,049 monuments and 61,777 museums, with their history, style and when to visit.
October60 football matches this week, the next concerts and each country's next public holiday.
Eclipses, meteor shower peaks and full moons, with the hours for every town.
Records, comparisons and country facts, drawn from the atlas's own data.
Every place scored for the month and the trip you pick.
Model run 00:00 UTCRefreshed several times a day
Climate by month, forecast and best time for every town
4,917,084PlacesPlaces & weather
Summits with heights, routes nearby and the weather at three altitudes
89,786SummitsMountains
Lakes, waterfalls, glaciers and national parks with their climate
340,125Places in natureLakes, waterfalls & parks
Castles, churches and World Heritage sites, with the weather to visit them
351,049MonumentsMonuments & heritage
Signposted routes with map, elevation profile, stages and GPX
1,243RoutesHiking routesRankings, maps and forecasts for the month you travel, and every way into the atlas.
Countries shaded by the average month score of their thirty best-known places; the table ranks the places behind the colours.
Every stop in a journey scores highest for that kind of trip in the same month.
Where January still means warm afternoons and a swimmable sea.
Mild, bright and before the summer crowds.
Towns above 600 m where July stays fresh.
October's best-scoring cities: warm days and settled weather.
Hot days and the warmest seas of the year.
Every mountain gets its own summit climate and a forecast at three heights; every monument the weather of the town around it.
How Places of Earth works, where the numbers come from and how to use them.
Each month gets a score out of 100 that weighs temperature comfort (42%), the chance of rain (33%) and cloud cover (25%). Beach scores add sea temperature. The formula is published in full in our methodology, and the same numbers appear on every page.
Forecasts are refreshed several times a day from a global weather model and cached briefly. Climate normals describe a typical month; forecasts describe the next ten days.
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