When to travel
61 destinations where September is the season worth going — with what each one costs a day, how safe it rates, and flights from your airport.
September is the best month of the European year and most people miss it: the sea is still warm from August, the crowds go home the first week, and prices drop with them. Asia's autumn window opens at the same time.
The ones we would book this month, and why this month.
The Mediterranean holds August's warmth, the queues at the Uffizi halve, and the grape harvest starts in Tuscany and Piedmont.
The Aegean coast stays swimmable into October and Cappadocia is comfortable again after the summer heat. Around €50 a day.
The typhoon season is easing and the first autumn colour appears in Hokkaido. It is the quiet half of Japan's two good seasons.
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.