SeasonMap

About SeasonMap

Pick the month you can travel and the kind of trip you want. SeasonMap ranks 1,413 destinations by how the weather actually feels — then tells you what's on, how busy it will be, and what to watch for.

In the maker’s words

Author here. I'm trying to visit every country and I've been to 158 so far. Before I decide where to travel, I'd ask a local friend which season to avoid, or open up dozens of browser tabs on climate data to figure out what the place is like in a given month. Climate data still miss things. Cancun in September looks great on paper, with 31°C and 10 hours of sun, but it's hurricane season and the beaches can be covered in seaweed. Typical info that locals would know, which can also be captured as static data. So I built SeasonMap to answer "when should I go to <place>?" What you can do: - Pick a travel style (city walk, beach, hiking, skiing, max sun, low humidity, etc.) and see every place ranked on a map - See what's in season and what to avoid, and why: monsoon, hurricanes, extreme heat, bad air, peak crowds - Filter destinations by temperature, rainfall, sunshine, air quality and haza…

Where people found it

• Hacker NewsShow HN: SeasonMap – when to travel where? visualized with climate data23 points11 comments17 days ago