Where to go in June

June is one of the even months — the shoulder seasons line up on both sides of the equator, so the list below spans 12 northern and 12 southern destinations. That makes it one of the better months for going somewhere unusual rather than somewhere obvious. On the scoring used here, the strongest single destination in June is Arequipa — 24.6 °C, rain on 0 days, and 100 out of 100.

Against May, the map has moved: Dar es Salaam (+29), Zanzibar (+27) and Aspen (+22) improve most sharply on May, while Las Vegas (-43), Albuquerque (-41) and Tucson (-38) fall away fastest. Those are the places where a fortnight's difference in your dates changes the trip.

Depending on what you are actually after in June: for heat with low odds of rain, Alexandria at 32.7 °C across 0 wet days, for the driest month outright, Hurghada with 0 rain days and for mild rather than hot, Tangier at 24 °C with 1 rain day.

Every strong destination this month is also in its own high season, which is the trade June asks you to accept: the weather is not the constraint, the price is.

Ranked on a 0–100 score combining temperature, rain days, heavy-rain days and humidity, computed from NASA POWER daily data 2001–2020. Capped at three cities per country so the list stays useful rather than becoming one coastline.

Best June destinations

1. 1 Arequipa Peru 24.6 °C and notably dry air at 36% humidity.
2. 2 Port Said Egypt 24.4 °C, though at 81% humidity it feels heavier than the number suggests.
3. 3 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain 22.2 °C, lows of 19.7 °C, rain on 0 days.
4. 4 Irvine United States 20.1 °C, lows of 16 °C, rain on 0 days.
5. 5 Firá Greece 23.2 °C, lows of 20.5 °C, rain on 1 day.
6. 6 Brasília Brazil 26.3 °C, but only 11.2 hours of daylight; short days for an otherwise good month.
7. 7 Pretoria South Africa 20.8 °C and notably dry air at 50% humidity.
8. 8 Córdoba Argentina 20.7 °C, but only 10.1 hours of daylight; short days for an otherwise good month.
9. 9 Tangier Morocco 24 °C, lows of 18.6 °C, rain on 1 day.
10. 10 San Francisco United States 22.1 °C, lows of 11.6 °C, rain on 1 day.
11. 11 Málaga Spain 24.5 °C, lows of 19.8 °C, rain on 1 day.
12. 12 Salta Argentina 25.5 °C and notably dry air at 52% humidity.
13. 13 Faro Portugal 25.6 °C, lows of 17.9 °C, rain on 1 day.
14. 14 Mount Isa Australia 25.8 °C and notably dry air at 42% humidity.
15. 15 Alice Springs Australia 21.2 °C and notably dry air at 49% humidity.
16. 16 Belo Horizonte Brazil 25.5 °C, but only 10.9 hours of daylight; short days for an otherwise good month.
17. 17 Cagliari Italy 24.3 °C, lows of 20.4 °C, rain on 2 days.
18. 18 Funchal Portugal 20.6 °C, lows of 18 °C, rain on 2 days.
19. 19 Chaniá Greece 27.6 °C, lows of 21.5 °C, rain on 1 day.
20. 20 Goiânia Brazil 27.6 °C, but only 11.1 hours of daylight; short days for an otherwise good month.
21. 21 Dodoma Tanzania 28 °C, but only 11.8 hours of daylight; short days for an otherwise good month.
22. 22 Pietermaritzburg South Africa 21.6 °C, but only 10.3 hours of daylight; short days for an otherwise good month.
23. 23 San Miguel de Tucumán Argentina 21.9 °C, but only 10.5 hours of daylight; short days for an otherwise good month.
24. 24 Lisbon Portugal 21 °C, lows of 16.4 °C, rain on 3 days.

Where to avoid in June

• Jabalpur India 21 days above 35 °C — the month is the problem, not a heatwave within it.
• Bharatpur Nepal 23 days above 35 °C — the month is the problem, not a heatwave within it.
• Rishīkesh India 26 days above 35 °C — the month is the problem, not a heatwave within it.
• Patna India 25 days above 35 °C — the month is the problem, not a heatwave within it.
• Ushuaia Argentina Highs of 3.1 °C, and 15 nights below freezing.
• Queenstown New Zealand 19 rain days, 2 of them heavy.
• Te Anau New Zealand 21 rain days, 6 of them heavy.
• Sharm el-Sheikh Egypt 28 days above 35 °C — the month is the problem, not a heatwave within it.

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