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Weather maxing map

Q: Where is the best weather in the world right now?

It depends on the month and on what you call good weather. Set the month and your own limits for heat, humidity and rain in the map above. With warm, dry and not-muggy settings, the southern hemisphere (Perth, Buenos Aires, Cape Town) leads from November to February, the Mediterranean and Portugal lead from June to September, and Los Cabos and Southern California fill the gaps.

Q: Which city has the best weather all year round?

No city scores high in every month for every preference. With mild settings (highs of 21 to 27°C, low humidity), Mexico City, San Diego, Honolulu and Madeira hold the steadiest scores. With warmer settings, Honolulu and Los Cabos do. The year table in the tool ranks every city by its twelve-month average for your settings.

Q: Why does Southeast Asia score lower than I expected?

Because of dew point. Bangkok, Singapore, Bali and Ho Chi Minh City sit at dew points of 21 to 24°C for most of the year, which most people feel as sticky or oppressive. Raise the humidity limit or set humidity to "Ignore" and they climb quickly. Their dry seasons (December to February for Bangkok and Saigon, July to September for Bali) are their best months.

Q: Where does the data come from?

Monthly averages for 2021 to 2025 from the ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo, with US AQI from the CAMS air-quality model for 2023 to 2025. Each city is one grid cell of roughly 25 km, so a coast and the hills behind it are averaged together. UV is an estimate from latitude, month and cloud cover, not a measurement.

Q: What is weather maxing?

Choosing where you spend each month so that you live in the weather you like best, and moving when somewhere else is clearly better. The full idea, and how I run my own rotation, is in the weather maxing article.

Tell it what good weather means to you, and it shows where that weather is in any month, then plans a year that keeps you in it. It runs on the same five years of daily data I use to decide where to spend my own months. The idea behind it is in Weather maxing: how I chase the best weather on earth.

1. Your weather

Ideal daytime high

From 25°CTo 31°C

Humidity you acceptDew point up to 19°C (sticky)

Rain you acceptUp to 9 rainy days a month

SunCloud cover up to 55%

Air quality

Scores against US AQI 50, the "good" line.

Seasons

Strong tan (UV 8+)Outdoor training (runnable mornings, clean air)

2. Where it is best in November

Region

Match score<40405060708090+

3. Your 12-month rotation

Starting in November. Average 85/100 with 1 move. Each move has to buy back its cost in better weather, so the plan only relocates when the gain is real.

Nov85
Dec84
Jan78
Feb83
Mar91
Apr91
May84
Jun87
Jul85
Aug83
Sep83
Oct85

4. The whole year, every city

Ranked by your average over twelve months

Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
73	79	73	74	80	87	85	83	83	85	82	74	80
78	83	91	91	84	82	57	52	62	76	85	84	77
47	45	49	64	71	83	85	89	84	75	58	53	67
56	58	70	71	73	68	65	74	80	63	68	63	67
70	84	82	79	66	52	55	51	50	57	71	70	66
68	75	73	75	50	36	33	54	79	84	74	77	65
59	74	81	82	71	53	47	45	50	66	73	66	64
55	77	88	86	79	59	38	38	38	49	64	45	60
21	27	32	65	77	92	82	71	81	83	53	21	59
49	44	46	51	63	70	70	76	72	64	57	51	59
85	85	90	78	45	19	18	21	31	46	83	92	58
63	73	66	58	44	57	48	53	55	52	55	57	57
38	48	62	90	80	52	27	27	61	79	76	36	56
86	79	47	33	30	31	36	40	44	68	79	85	55
82	81	46	34	32	36	41	42	44	58	75	81	54
22	23	22	40	72	93	83	80	89	67	32	21	54
45	44	45	52	54	59	65	66	60	54	43	45	53
22	22	23	41	73	88	88	88	85	63	27	21	53
86	89	78	40	22	21	22	23	25	52	80	89	52
60	51	50	51	51	50	59	53	54	51	48	48	52

Best places by month, at a glance

The top three cities for each month with my own settings: highs of 25 to 31°C, dew point up to 19°C, nine rainy days at most, mostly clear skies, strong UV and runnable mornings. Change any of that above and the list changes with it.

Month	1st	2nd	3rd
January	Buenos Aires Argentina · 86	Luang Prabang Laos · 86	Perth Australia · 85
February	Buenos Aires Argentina · 89	Perth Australia · 85	Playa del Carmen Mexico · 84
March	Los Cabos Mexico · 91	Perth Australia · 90	Mexico City Mexico · 88
April	Los Cabos Mexico · 91	Marrakech Morocco · 90	Mexico City Mexico · 86
May	Los Cabos Mexico · 84	Honolulu USA · 80	Marrakech Morocco · 80
June	Marbella Spain · 93	Los Angeles USA · 92	Valencia Spain · 91
July	Lisbon Portugal · 91	Faro Portugal · 88	Nice France · 88
August	Lisbon Portugal · 90	Madeira Portugal · 89	Nadi Fiji · 89
September	Marbella Spain · 89	Cagliari Italy · 88	Malta Malta · 87
October	Honolulu USA · 85	Brisbane Australia · 84	Los Angeles USA · 83
November	Los Cabos Mexico · 85	Perth Australia · 83	Honolulu USA · 82
December	Perth Australia · 92	Buenos Aires Argentina · 89	Luang Prabang Laos · 85

How the score works

Each city gets a score from 0 to 100 for each month. Temperature carries the most weight: a month inside your daytime-high range scores full marks, and one 6°C outside it scores nothing for temperature, which also pulls the overall score down. You can't make up for 8°C in January with dry skies. The other criteria are soft limits. Staying under a limit scores well, staying well under it scores a little better, and going over it drops off steadily.

Humidity uses dew point, not relative humidity. 80% humidity at 21°C feels fine. 55% at 38°C does not. Dew point measures the moisture you actually feel: under 16°C is comfortable, 19°C is sticky, and 22°C or more is oppressive.
Rain counts days with at least 1 mm. A tropical month with eighteen wet days usually still means sunny mornings and an afternoon storm, so set the limit with that in mind.
Sun uses mean cloud cover.
Tan scores the estimated noon UV index: 3 or lower counts for nothing, 8 or higher counts in full.
Outdoor training looks at the morning low (between 8 and 23°C is runnable), dew point, air quality and rain.
Seasons compares the warmest month's high with the coolest month's. A gap of 15°C or more counts as real seasons, and under 5°C counts as the same all year.
The rotation picks one city per month to get the highest total, with a cost for each move. "A few moves" means a move has to gain about 25 points across the months that follow to be worth it.

What the data can and can't tell you

These are 2021 to 2025 monthly averages from the ERA5 reanalysis (via Open-Meteo), on a grid of about 25 km. That is good for comparing places and months, and weaker where a coast meets mountains. The Bali cell, for example, mixes Canggu with the wetter hills behind it, so it overstates rain days on the beach. Air quality comes from the CAMS model for 2023 to 2025. UV is calculated from sun angle and cloud, so read it as a guide. An average is not a forecast either: a single October can be much wetter than the mean. For the next two weeks, check a forecast.

The 82 cities are the ones I track for my own planning, so the list leans towards places with good flights, gyms and work-friendly time zones. Cold-weather and ski destinations are thin, which is why the "Proper winter" preset mostly finds Oslo.

Questions

Where is the best weather in the world right now?