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Every page on the site, 471 in all, grouped by type and listed from A to Z: guides and tools, countries and Japanese prefectures, weather for each city, where to go by month, public holidays, comparisons, national parks and visitors from abroad. Use your browser's find (Ctrl+F) to jump to a place.
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Guides, tools and data
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- Austria's motorway vignette and France's Crit'Air sticker
- Autumn leaf dates in Japan: 2025 observed dates and averages
- Bathing water quality in Europe by country, 2025
- Best-month finder: quiet months with the weather you want
- Bringing a dog or cat into Japan: the quarantine rules
- Bringing a dog, cat or ferret into the EU from outside
- Bringing medicines into Japan: what the ministry says
- Car hire hacks, checked against official advice
- Cherry blossom dates in Japan: 2026 dates and averages
- Climbing Mount Fuji: 2026 season, fee and trail rules
- Cruise booking hacks, checked against official rules
- Dark nights and the Milky Way: Europe and Japan
- Driest month, wettest month and daylight by city
- Driving in Europe and Japan: rules and costs
- Driving in Europe: alcohol limits and rules by country
- Driving in Japan with a foreign licence: what counts
- Drone rules for travellers: EU and Japan compared
- Duty-free allowance checker: EU and Japan
- Duty-free allowances: EU and Japan side by side
- EES and ETIAS: what changes at Europe's borders
- EHIC or travel insurance? What the card does not cover
- Emergency numbers: 112 in the EU, 110 and 119 in Japan
- EU flight compensation checker: which rule applies?
- EU flight delay compensation in 2026, and the reform
- EU roaming: where 'roam like at home' stops
- EU train, coach and ferry delays: your rights
- European Capital of Smart Tourism: winners by year
- European Capitals of Culture 2026, and every city since 1985
- European Green Capital and Green Leaf winners by year
- European Heritage Label: all 80 sites by country and year
- Flight booking hacks, checked against official rules
- Golden hour is not an hour: what the term really means
- Hotel booking hacks, checked against official rules
- How long does golden hour last? Every place, every month
- How many days do visitors spend in each European country?
- How many hotels close in Spain out of season?
- How places stack up: rankings by topic
- Incognito, Tuesdays and VPNs: what the evidence says
- Is it expensive? Price levels in Europe and Japan, 2025
- Japan Heritage: all 104 stories by prefecture and year
- Japan tax-free shopping from 1 November 2026: new rules
- Japan through the year: seasons and dates
- Japan's least-visited prefectures, ranked (2025 data)
- Japan's rainy season (tsuyu): normal dates by region
- Japan's travel taxes in 2026: departure and hotel taxes
- Light calendar: golden hour for your dates
- Money and travel costs in Europe and Japan
- Museum photo rules: Louvre, Rijksmuseum and more
- Night and star photos with a phone: what makers say
- Officially recognised places in Europe and Japan
- Package holidays: when booking together protects you
- Pay in local currency or home currency? The EU rule
- Paying by card abroad: card rules checked
- Photographing military sites in Europe: UK advice
- Photographing people abroad: what the law says
- Photographing shrines in Japan: the official rules
- Power banks and liquids in cabin bags: 2026 rules
- Prague Airport to the city: the official PID lines
- Pre-trip checklist for Europe and Japan (printable)
- Quieter alternatives? 12 European pairs checked
- Quieter towns? 7 European groups checked town by town
- Schengen visa statistics 2025: applications and not issued
- Sea temperature by month: Europe and Japan
- Shoulder season: is it worth it?
- Snow and cold-weather photography: makers' advice
- Snow in Japan by prefecture: yearly snowfall normals
- Summer and winter getaways: where people travel
- The EU 90/180-day rule for short stays, explained
- Total solar eclipse in Spain, 2 August 2027: where
- Tourist tax in Florence, Barcelona and Amsterdam
- Transport strikes in Italy and Portugal: where to check
- Travel booking scams and lookalike sites: official warnings
- Travel hacks, checked against official sources
- Travel photography: 20 shot types and how to take them
- Travel photography: light, techniques and rules
- Travel rules that changed in 2026: Europe and Japan
- Travel tips that go beyond the usual
- UN Tourism’s best performers, H1 2026
- VAT refunds for visitors to the EU: the 3-month rule
- Visit Japan Web: what it is for, per the Digital Agency
- Visual guides: lean seasons, daylight and weather
- Visual guides: sea temperature, blossom and leaves
- Weather and climate in Europe and Japan
- When do Europe's clocks change? EU summer-time rules
- When does drift ice reach Hokkaido? JMA averages
- When is typhoon season in Japan? By month and region
- Where Australian residents travel in summer and winter
- Where Canadian residents travel in summer and winter (2025)
- Where does the sun rise and set? Directions by month
- Where Europeans fly in winter and summer (Eurostat, 2025)
- Where Irish residents travel in summer and winter (2025)
- Where New Zealand residents travel in summer and winter
- Where UK residents travel in summer and winter (2024)
- Which countries are in the Schengen area?
- Which countries use the euro in 2026?
- Which months is accommodation dearest? Europe by country
- Winter sun: warmest cities in Europe and Japan
Countries and regions
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- Albania off season: least crowded months, official data
- Austria off season: least crowded months, official data
- Belgium off season: least crowded months, official data
- Bulgaria off season: least crowded months, official data
- Croatia off season: least crowded months, official data
- Cyprus off season: least crowded months, official data
- Czechia off season: least crowded months, official data
- Denmark off season: least crowded months, official data
- Estonia off season: least crowded months, official data
- Europe's most seasonal regions: 123 ranked
- Finland off season: least crowded months, official data
- France off season: least crowded months, official data
- Germany off season: least crowded months, official data
- Greece off season: least crowded months, official data
- Hungary off season: least crowded months, official data
- Iceland off season: least crowded months, official data
- Ireland off season: least crowded months, official data
- Italy off season: least crowded months, official data
- Japan off season: least crowded months, 47 prefectures
- Kosovo off season: least crowded months, official data
- Latvia off season: least crowded months, official data
- Liechtenstein off season: the least crowded months
- Lithuania off season: least crowded months, official data
- Luxembourg off season: least crowded months, official data
- Malta off season: least crowded months, official data
- Montenegro off season: least crowded months, official data
- North Macedonia off season: the least crowded months
- Northern Ireland off season: quietest months for hotels
- Norway off season: least crowded months, official data
- Off-season in Europe: 35 countries ranked
- Poland off season: least crowded months, official data
- Portugal off season: least crowded months, official data
- Romania off season: least crowded months, official data
- Serbia off season: least crowded months, official data
- Slovakia off season: least crowded months, official data
- Slovenia off season: least crowded months, official data
- Spain off season: least crowded months, official data
- Sweden off season: least crowded months, official data
- Switzerland off season: least crowded months, official data
- The Netherlands off season: the least crowded months
- Türkiye off season: least crowded months, official data
Japan by prefecture
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- Aichi off season: least crowded months, official data
- Akita off season: least crowded months, official data
- Aomori off season: least crowded months, official data
- Best month to visit Kyoto for fewer crowds: the data
- Chiba off season: least crowded months, official data
- Ehime off season: least crowded months, official data
- Fukui off season: least crowded months, official data
- Fukuoka off season: least crowded months, official data
- Fukushima off season: least crowded months, official data
- Gifu off season: least crowded months, official data
- Gunma off season: least crowded months, official data
- Hiroshima off season: least crowded months, official data
- Hokkaido off season: least crowded months, official data
- Hyogo off season: least crowded months, official data
- Ibaraki off season: least crowded months, official data
- Ishikawa off season: least crowded months, official data
- Iwate off season: least crowded months, official data
- Kagawa off season: least crowded months, official data
- Kagoshima off season: least crowded months, official data
- Kanagawa off season: least crowded months, official data
- Kochi off season: least crowded months, official data
- Kumamoto off season: least crowded months, official data
- Mie off season: least crowded months, official data
- Miyagi off season: least crowded months, official data
- Miyazaki off season: least crowded months, official data
- Nagano off season: least crowded months, official data
- Nagasaki off season: least crowded months, official data
- Nara off season: least crowded months, official data
- Niigata off season: least crowded months, official data
- Oita off season: least crowded months, official data
- Okayama off season: least crowded months, official data
- Okinawa off season: least crowded months, official data
- Osaka off season: least crowded months, official data
- Saga off season: least crowded months, official data
- Saitama off season: least crowded months, official data
- Shiga off season: least crowded months, official data
- Shimane off season: least crowded months, official data
- Shizuoka off season: least crowded months, official data
- Tochigi off season: least crowded months, official data
- Tokushima off season: least crowded months, official data
- Tokyo off season: least crowded months, official data
- Tottori off season: least crowded months, official data
- Toyama off season: least crowded months, official data
- Wakayama off season: least crowded months, official data
- Yamagata off season: least crowded months, official data
- Yamaguchi off season: least crowded months, official data
- Yamanashi off season: least crowded months, official data
Weather by city
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- Akita weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Akureyri weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Amsterdam weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Ankara weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Antwerp weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Aomori weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Barcelona weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Bari weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Belgrade weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Bergen weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Berlin weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Bilbao weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Bordeaux weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Bratislava weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Brno weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Brussels weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Bucharest weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Budapest weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Chiba weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Cluj-Napoca weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Cologne weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Cork weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Daugavpils weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Debrecen weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Dublin weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Eindhoven weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Florence weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Frankfurt weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Fukui weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Fukuoka weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Fukushima weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Geneva weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Gifu weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Gothenburg weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Gran Canaria weather by month: temperature and rain
- Hamburg weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Helsinki weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Hiroshima weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Ibiza weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Innsbruck weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Kagoshima weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Kanazawa weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Kiruna weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Kobe weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Kochi weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Kofu weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Košice weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Kumamoto weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Kyoto weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Ljubljana weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Luxembourg weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Lyon weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Madrid weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Maebashi weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Malmö weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Marseille weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Matsue weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Matsuyama weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Milan weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Mito weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Miyazaki weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Morioka weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Munich weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Málaga weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Nagano weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Nagasaki weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Nagoya weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Naha weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Nara weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Nice weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Nicosia weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Niigata weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Oita weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Okayama weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Osaka weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Oslo weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Otsu weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Palma weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Paris weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Podgorica weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Prague weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Reykjavik weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Riga weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Rome weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Rotterdam weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Rovaniemi weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Saga weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Saitama weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Santa Cruz de Tenerife weather by month
- Sapporo weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Sendai weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Seville weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Shizuoka weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Sofia weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Stockholm weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Strasbourg weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Takamatsu weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Tallinn weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Tartu weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Tokushima weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Tokyo weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Tottori weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Toulouse weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Toyama weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Tromsø weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Tsu weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Utsunomiya weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Vaduz weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Valencia weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Varna weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Vienna weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Wakayama weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Warsaw weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Yamagata weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Yamaguchi weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Yokohama weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
- Zagreb weather by month: temperature, rain and daylight
Where to go by month
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- Where to go by month: Europe and Japan, from 2025 figures
- Where to go in April: quieter places in Europe and Japan
- Where to go in August: quieter places in Europe and Japan
- Where to go in December: quieter places in Europe and Japan
- Where to go in February: quieter places in Europe and Japan
- Where to go in January: quieter places in Europe and Japan
- Where to go in July: quieter places in Europe and Japan
- Where to go in June: quieter places in Europe and Japan
- Where to go in March: quieter places in Europe and Japan
- Where to go in May: quieter places in Europe and Japan
- Where to go in November: quieter places in Europe and Japan
- Where to go in October: quieter places in Europe and Japan
- Where to go in September: quieter places in Europe and Japan
Public holidays
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- Public holidays in Albania 2026 and 2027: dates and weekdays
- Public holidays in Austria 2026 and 2027: dates and weekdays
- Public holidays in Belgium 2026 and 2027: dates and weekdays
- Public holidays in Bulgaria 2026 and 2027: dates
- Public holidays in Croatia 2026 and 2027: dates and weekdays
- Public holidays in Cyprus 2026 and 2027: dates and weekdays
- Public holidays in Czechia 2026 and 2027: dates and weekdays
- Public holidays in Denmark 2026 and 2027: dates and weekdays
- Public holidays in Estonia 2026 and 2027: dates and weekdays
- Public holidays in Europe and Japan: 2026–2027 calendar
- Public holidays in Finland 2026 and 2027: dates and weekdays
- Public holidays in France 2026 and 2027: dates and weekdays
- Public holidays in Germany 2026 and 2027: dates and weekdays
- Public holidays in Greece 2026 and 2027: dates and weekdays
- Public holidays in Hungary 2026 and 2027: dates and weekdays
- Public holidays in Ireland 2026 and 2027: dates and weekdays
- Public holidays in Italy 2026 and 2027: dates and weekdays
- Public holidays in Japan 2026 and 2027: dates and weekdays
- Public holidays in Latvia 2026 and 2027: dates and weekdays
- Public holidays in Liechtenstein 2026 and 2027: dates
- Public holidays in Lithuania 2026 and 2027: dates
- Public holidays in Luxembourg 2026 and 2027: dates
- Public holidays in Malta 2026 and 2027: dates and weekdays
- Public holidays in Montenegro 2026 and 2027: dates
- Public holidays in Netherlands 2026 and 2027: dates
- Public holidays in Norway 2026 and 2027: dates and weekdays
- Public holidays in Poland 2026 and 2027: dates and weekdays
- Public holidays in Portugal 2026 and 2027: dates
- Public holidays in Romania 2026 and 2027: dates and weekdays
- Public holidays in Serbia 2026 and 2027: dates and weekdays
- Public holidays in Slovakia 2026 and 2027: dates
- Public holidays in Slovenia 2026 and 2027: dates
- Public holidays in Spain 2026: dates and weekdays
- Public holidays in Sweden 2026 and 2027: dates and weekdays
- Public holidays in Türkiye 2026 and 2027: dates and weekdays
Comparisons
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- Albania or Greece? When each is busy and quiet
- Albania or Montenegro? When each is busy and quiet
- Austria or Germany? When each is busy and quiet
- Austria or Switzerland? When each is busy and quiet
- Belgium or Luxembourg? When each is busy and quiet
- Bulgaria or Greece? When each is busy and quiet
- Bulgaria or Romania? When each is busy and quiet
- Croatia or Greece? When each is busy and quiet
- Croatia or Montenegro? When each is busy and quiet
- Croatia or Slovenia? When each is busy and quiet
- Cyprus or Greece? When each is busy and quiet
- Czechia or Austria? When each is busy and quiet
- Czechia or Hungary? When each is busy and quiet
- Czechia or Poland? When each is busy and quiet
- Denmark or Netherlands? When each is busy and quiet
- Denmark or Sweden? When each is busy and quiet
- Estonia or Latvia? When each is busy and quiet
- Finland or Sweden? When each is busy and quiet
- France or Italy? When each is busy and quiet
- France or Spain? When each is busy and quiet
- Germany or Switzerland? When each is busy and quiet
- Greece or Italy? When each is busy and quiet
- Hiroshima or Kyoto? When each is busy and quiet
- Hiroshima or Okayama? When each is busy and quiet
- Hokkaido or Aomori? When each is busy and quiet
- Hokkaido or Okinawa? When each is busy and quiet
- Hungary or Austria? When each is busy and quiet
- Hyogo or Osaka? When each is busy and quiet
- Ireland or Iceland? When each is busy and quiet
- Ishikawa or Toyama? When each is busy and quiet
- Italy or Portugal? When each is busy and quiet
- Italy or Spain? When each is busy and quiet
- Kanagawa or Tokyo? When each is busy and quiet
- Kumamoto or Kagoshima? When each is busy and quiet
- Kyoto or Nara? When each is busy and quiet
- Kyoto or Osaka? When each is busy and quiet
- Latvia or Lithuania? When each is busy and quiet
- Malta or Cyprus? When each is busy and quiet
- Mie or Nara? When each is busy and quiet
- Miyagi or Iwate? When each is busy and quiet
- Nagano or Yamanashi? When each is busy and quiet
- Nagasaki or Fukuoka? When each is busy and quiet
- Netherlands or Belgium? When each is busy and quiet
- Netherlands or Germany? When each is busy and quiet
- Norway or Finland? When each is busy and quiet
- Norway or Iceland? When each is busy and quiet
- Norway or Sweden? When each is busy and quiet
- Okinawa or Kagoshima? When each is busy and quiet
- Osaka or Fukuoka? When each is busy and quiet
- Poland or Hungary? When each is busy and quiet
- Portugal or Greece? When each is busy and quiet
- Serbia or Croatia? When each is busy and quiet
- Shizuoka or Yamanashi? When each is busy and quiet
- Slovakia or Czechia? When each is busy and quiet
- Slovenia or Austria? When each is busy and quiet
- Spain or Portugal? When each is busy and quiet
- Tokyo or Kyoto? When each is busy and quiet
- Tokyo or Osaka? When each is busy and quiet
- Türkiye or Greece? When each is busy and quiet
- Wakayama or Mie? When each is busy and quiet
National parks
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- National nature parks of Ukraine: all 56 in the cadastre
- National park of Portugal: Peneda-Gerês
- National park of Slovenia: Triglavski narodni park
- National park of Switzerland: the Swiss National Park
- National parks around the world: official lists
- National parks of Argentina: all 39 on APN's pages
- National parks of Australia: all 722 in CAPAD 2024
- National parks of Austria: all 6
- National parks of Belgium: Flanders and Wallonia
- National parks of Brazil: all 77 federal parks in CNUC
- National parks of Canada: the 36 parks and 9 reserves in law
- National parks of Colombia: all 44 national natural parks
- National parks of Czechia: all 4
- National parks of Denmark: all 5 under the Act
- National parks of Estonia: all 6
- National parks of Finland: all 41
- National parks of France: all 11
- National parks of Germany: all 16
- National parks of Ireland: all 6
- National parks of Italy: all 27 on the ministry list
- National parks of Japan: all 35, prefectures and dates
- National parks of Latvia: all 4
- National parks of New Zealand: all 13
- National parks of Norway: all 48, including Svalbard
- National parks of Poland: all 23
- National parks of Romania: all 13
- National parks of Slovakia: all 9
- National parks of South Korea: the names in the dataset
- National parks of Spain: all 16
- National parks of Taiwan: 9 parks and 1 nature park
- National parks of the Netherlands: all 22
- National parks of the United Kingdom: all 15 in the data
- National parks of the United States: all 63
- Philippines: protected areas in the national park class
Visitors from abroad
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- When do foreign nationals arrive in South Korea?
- When do international visitors arrive in Argentina?
- When do international visitors arrive in Australia?
- When do international visitors arrive in Brazil?
- When do international visitors arrive in Canada?
- When do international visitors arrive in Mexico?
- When do international visitors arrive in New Zealand?
- When do international visitors arrive in Singapore?
- When do international visitors arrive in USA?
- When do international visitors arrive?
- When do non-British nationals arrive in the UK?
- When do visitors arrive in Hong Kong?
About the site
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- About
- Affiliate Disclosure & Privacy
- Compare places
- Contact
- Explore
- Gadabout meaning: what is a gadabout?
- Gallivanting Gadabout — Off-Season Data and Travel Guides
- Gallivanting meaning: what does gallivanting mean?
- Guides & Journal
- Hotels
- How we research our guides
- Photo credits
- Terms of Use
- Travel glossary: the terms this site uses
- Travel services: what each one is for, and who provides it
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