When to travel
118 destinations where April is the season worth going — with what each one costs a day, how safe it rates, and flights from your airport.
April is the best-value month in Europe: the Mediterranean is warm enough, the crowds have not arrived, and prices are still winter prices. It is also one of the two clear windows in the Himalaya.
The ones we would book this month, and why this month.
The Riviera is green and empty. Ksamil in April costs a third of Ksamil in August, and you get the beach to yourself.
Tbilisi is warm, the wine valleys are in leaf, and the mountain roads to Kazbegi are opening again after the snow.
Rhododendrons in bloom and the clearest Himalayan views of the year. April is the spring trekking window — the other is October.
Every destination in season this month, cheapest first. Daily cost is bed, food and getting around — not flights.
Seasons here are the destination’s own, not the calendar’s: for Argentina or New Zealand, “summer” means December to February. Daily costs are typical mid-range budgets, last reviewed in August 2026.