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Ana Larrea
Editor of When To Go — Seasons & Destination Rhythms
Ana Larrea studies destinations through the changes that shape them over time. Rather than focusing on weather or travel planning, her work explores when a place reveals its most meaningful version. She is drawn to seasonal rituals, shifting landscapes, local rhythms, cultural traditions, and the fleeting moments that make a destination feel different from one month to the next. Ana is an editorial voice created by FlowTravel to help travelers understand how time transforms places and why certain moments reveal them more clearly than others.
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In Vestland the whole of December brings thirteen hours of sun
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In Baja California Sur March to June do not add up to two millimetres of rain
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In Fez-Meknes barely a millimetre of rain falls in July
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In Hiroshima July rains six times more than January
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In New Mexico the capital gets twenty times more snow than the south
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In Split-Dalmatia November gets more rain than the whole summer together
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Draa-Tafilalet runs from minus eight to forty-five degrees
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In Salta winter is the dry season: five months with twenty-three millimetres
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In Nouvelle-Aquitaine, two hours south it rains sixty per cent more
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In Nevşehir in January seven of every ten balloon flights are cancelled
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In the Algarve it rains forty-nine days a year and none of them in summer
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In Jalisco the hottest month is May and the rain puts it out
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In Krabi the rainy season ends with its wettest month
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In Luxor it rains two days a year and the month is chosen by heat alone
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In the Canaries the whole year changes less than a single day in July
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In the Northern Territory there are three months without rain and three with over a metre
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In Jeju the best month arrives right after the worst
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In Arizona the hottest months are also the wettest
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In Tyrol the wettest month is August, in the middle of the mountain season
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In Chiapas July rains less than June, and that opens a window
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In Madeira the average high changes by only seven degrees all year
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In Xi'an the wettest month of the year is September
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In Naples it rains more in April than in January
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In Utah, on the same July day, two parks are eleven degrees apart
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In Alberta winter can rise forty degrees in an hour
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In Quang Nam more rain falls in October than from January to August combined
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In Kunming the temperature does not change all year: the only thing that changes is the sky
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In Arusha there are two dry seasons a year, and hardly anyone uses the second
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Palma does not have a Mediterranean climate: it has a semi-arid one
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In the Galápagos, the month with the most rainy days is also the driest
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Otago has the only continental climate in New Zealand
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In Bahia the coast gets wet in May and the interior in January
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In Crete the November sea is warmer than the May sea
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In Palermo it rains more in October than in January
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Mendoza is a desert that gets its rain in summer, just before the harvest
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The sunniest month in Chiang Mai is the worst one to go
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In Oaxaca the hottest month is April, and it is the rain that puts the summer out
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In Cusco the day is the same temperature all year: what changes is the night
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Kerala gets the monsoon before anyone else in India, and then it gets another one
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In Zanzibar the month decides whether it rains, but the tide decides whether you can swim
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In the Highlands the calendar is not decided by the weather but by an insect
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Quebec's whale season lasts half a year, and the big ones wait until August
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In Tasmania the year's best spectacle happens at night and you have to look south
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In Nara the calendar is set by fifteen hundred deer, and part of it is a safety warning
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In the Veneto it rains more in summer than in winter, the opposite of postcard Italy
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In Hawaii the thermometer is no use for choosing a month: what changes with the season is the swell, and it changes sides
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In the Bavarian Alps the calendar is set by the cattle, and the date is known a year in advance
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In the Rajasthan desert what decides the trip is not the month, it is the hour
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In British Columbia the biggest natural spectacle is not annual: it comes every four years
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In the Western Cape almost everything worth seeing happens in low season
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Andalusia has three calendars and they do not coincide: the valley's, the coast's and the mountains'
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In Okinawa the sea is ready for seven months, and the calendar closes two of them
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The best weather and the worst access fall in the same month.
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In Bali the thermometer moves two and a half degrees; the rain, twenty-four times.
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In Queensland the calendar is not set by the temperature: it is set by what is in the water.
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In California it does not rain in summer, and the coolest place in July is the coast.
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Catalonia has two calendars and they barely cross.
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In Marrakesh-Safi the same July day differs by fifteen degrees.
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Hokkaido is the only part of Japan without a rainy season.
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In Yucatán there is no cool month: only a dry one.
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In Tuscany the dry month and the good month are not the same one.
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In Munich the sunniest months are also the wettest.
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In Port Vila the year is not set by the heat: it is set by the rain and the cyclones.
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In Nuku'alofa winter exists, and it is when the whales arrive.
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Honiara has the dry season the rest of the country does not have.
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In Funafuti the calendar is not set by the rain: it is set by the tides.
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Apia's dry season is not dry: it is the one without cyclones.
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In Wellington the month is decided by the wind, not the thermometer.
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In Nauru the month you pick matters less than the year you get.
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In Palau it rains 263 days a year: the month only decides how much.
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Port Moresby is the driest place in New Guinea.
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Montevideo has no dry season: the driest month gets 83 millimetres.
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On Pohnpei it rains more the higher you go, not the longer you wait.
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Majuro gets 3,334 millimetres of rain and 2,612 hours of sunshine a year.
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In South Tarawa the average high varies by seven tenths of a degree all year.
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In Suva, the driest month gets 136 millimetres.
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Canberra has 99 frost days a year.
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In Brasília the problem with winter is not the cold: it is the dryness.
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In Trinidad the rainiest month is not the most dangerous.
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In Sucre the temperature never changes: only the rain does.
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In Washington the best week of the year is forecast like a harvest.
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In Quito the day lasts twelve hours all year.
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Georgetown has two dry seasons, not one.
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In Asunción winter can give you zero degrees or thirty-five.
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Paramaribo has four seasons and none of them is cold.
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Nashville has no dry season: the driest month still gets 86 millimetres.
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In Bogotá there are no seasons: there are two rainy seasons.
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In Saint Lucia carnival moved to the month with the most rainy days.
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In Kingston the driest month and the loudest are the same.
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In Panama City the dry season changes the sea too.
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In Managua the rainy season takes a break in July.
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In Basseterre carnival falls at Christmas.
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Saint George’s sits on the southern edge of the hurricane belt.
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In Roseau the year is decided between February and April.
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In Guatemala City the temperature never moves: the rain changes everything.
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Bridgetown changes little in temperature and a lot in rain.
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In Santo Domingo the heat does not change: the rain decides.
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In Belmopan the dry season lasts three months.
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In Harare the colour arrives before the rain.
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In San Salvador winter is the rainy season.
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In Saint John’s the only question is hurricane season.
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In Lomé the rain takes a break in August.
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Kampala has no real dry season.
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In San José the temperature does not change; the rain does.
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In Tegucigalpa the risk does not arrive as wind, it arrives as river.
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Tunis saves all its water for winter.
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Ottawa travels forty degrees between January and July.
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Lusaka has three seasons and only one comfortable.
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Nassau splits the year in two: six dry months and six of water.
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Pretoria makes sense when the purple arrives before the storms.
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Dodoma is the capital that harvests grapes twice a year.
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Machu Picchu runs on two calendars that do not match.
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Freetown makes sense when the dry season gives the road back.
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Porto makes sense on São João night.
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In Victoria the season does not decide whether you come: it decides which coast you swim on.
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The highest mean high is 27 degrees. The record is 47.
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The best month of the year is midwinter.
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March, April and May record not one millimetre of rain.
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In July and August mean rainfall is zero.
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It is on the equator and has four and a half hours of sun a day.
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Humidity goes from 44 to 88 per cent.
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It rains eight days a year.
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It is the dry capital of a wet island.
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Three thousand four hundred and ninety hours of sun a year.
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The temperature does not move all year.
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August rains less than June and is the greyest month of the year.
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In August five millimetres fall. In January, three hundred and twelve.
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The dry season is the least sunny time of year.
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August sits in the middle of the year and it barely rains.
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In August the sun adds up to eighty-one hours in the whole month.
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The temperature changes more in a day than in a whole year.
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March is the hottest month and not a drop falls.
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In July the mean minimum is below zero.
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New Year falls on 11 September, when the rains end.
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In August, more than a metre of rain falls.
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Across seven consecutive months, less than six millimetres fall.
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In July the night drops to nine degrees, and this is the equator.
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January leaves 205 millimetres and July leaves 16.
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December has four days of rain and September has twenty-one.
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In July, the average low is 31 degrees.
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In Segovia, day and night are two different climates
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In July and August it does not rain for a single day.
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The sun is out for under five hours a day here.
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It rains twelve days a year here.
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In June and July not a drop falls.
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The driest month receives ninety-seven millimetres.
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In July it rains half a millimetre.
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The dry season is the cloudiest of the year.
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The temperature does not move all year.
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There are two rainy seasons and a dry pause in August.
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It rains sixty-four days a year, and nearly all of them in winter.
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Seventy-one degrees separate its hottest and coldest records.
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It only rains fifty-three days a year here.
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March has forty-five hours of sunshine in the whole month.
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August brings two millimetres of rain and February seventy-two.
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Three thousand five hundred hours of sun and fifty millimetres of rain.
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63% of the rain falls in three months.
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One millimetre of rain falls in August.
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Five millimetres of rain fall in September.
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The thermometer here has dropped to almost twenty-five below.
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Humidity never drops below 70% in any month.
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It thunders here 167 days a year.
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The hottest month is not the wettest.
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There are 1.7 degrees between the warmest month and the coolest.
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In Kathmandu you are not choosing temperature: you are choosing visibility
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In Islamabad, the monsoon brings half the year's rain in just two months
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In Seward, the wettest month is not the coldest one: it is the prettiest
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In Juneau it rains 230 days a year: the question is which ones
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The year in Ulaanbaatar opens and closes across forty degrees
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In Muscat, fourteen degrees separate the good month from the unlivable one
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The year in Malé has twenty-seven parts, not twelve
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In Astana there are 93 degrees between the cold record and the heat record
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In Vientiane December is 5 millimetres and August is 341
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In Bishkek the wet season is April and summer is the dry one
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In Kuala Lumpur do not pick the month: pick the hour
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In Kuwait City there are four consecutive months without a single drop
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In New Delhi the month that looks best on the table is the worst to breathe
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In Amman there are three months a year without a single drop of rain
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Nicosia is the Mediterranean capital the sea breeze never reaches
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Yerevan swings forty degrees between January and August
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In Thimphu the month is decided by the night, not the day
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In Baku the sea holds out six weeks longer than the air
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In Manama there are only four months, and you choose among them
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In Tbilisi the wet season is spring, not winter
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In Dhaka the heat arrives ahead of the rain
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In Beijing more than half the year's rain falls in two months
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In Phnom Penh the month almost everyone gets wrong is April
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In Bandar Seri Begawan the whole year fits in two degrees
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In Bern the month is decided by the river temperature
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In the Vatican the month is decided by capacity, not climate
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In Stockholm the month is decided by the light, not the thermometer
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Bratislava is at its best when the slope is harvested
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In Belgrade, the calendar is set by the river, not the thermometer
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It rains all year in Ljubljana: you choose the month by sunshine hours
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In San Marino, the hour of the day matters more than the month
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Bucharest: seventy-seven degrees between its two records
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Skopje: a dry capital in a valley that does not ventilate
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Warsaw: the summer is measured in Sundays
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Monaco measures its year in assembly and dismantling
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Chișinău: the only thermometer that never moves is underground
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Podgorica: two European records that never overlap
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Luxembourg in late August: the three weeks when the capital stops being an office
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Valletta between April and May: the weeks when Malta is green and dry at once
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Vilnius in October: the last month the city has any light
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Riga in June: The Month Without Night and the Two Days the City Empties
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Reykjavík in September: The Month the Night Comes Back and You Can Still Get Everywhere
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Vaduz in October: In the Alps, Summer Is the Wet Season
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Pristina in September: The Year Splits in Two and Only One Half Is Easy to Breathe
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Budapest Only Makes Sense When It's Cold: January Gives the Steam Back
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Dublin in May: The Sunniest Month of a Year That Rains the Same in Every Month
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The Summer Copenhagen Gets into Its Own Harbour
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Zagreb's Green Horseshoe Fills Up When It Runs Out of Leaves
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Brussels Lights Up from Within When December Darkens the Sky
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Sofia Has a Mountain for a Ceiling, and Winter Proves It
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Helsinki, the Winter When the Sea Becomes Ground
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Sarajevo Explains Itself in Winter, When Snow Joins the Valley to the Olympic Mountains
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Tallinn Is Not Finished Until Snow Falls on Its Roofs
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Minsk Was Built Wide for a Summer That Barely Lasts
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Tirana Returns to the Street in March, as Dajti Begins to Lose Its Snow
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Andorra la Vella Breathes in October, Between the Last Trail and the First Snow
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Oslo Measures Its Year in Hours of Light, Not Degrees
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On Siesta Key the Sand Never Burns; the Gulf Writes the Year
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When Osaka: The Summer of a Hundred Fire-Lit Boats
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In Sarasota the Curtain Rises in Winter: The Season It Inherited from the Circus
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Athens Returns from the Sea in October and the Marble Regains Its Colour
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When Santiago: The Day the Cordillera Returns
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Málaga Is Understood When It Smells of Espeto, in the Months Without an R
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Santorini: A Rainless Island Harvested in August
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Maine Stops Being Vacationland When the Lobster Sheds Its Shell
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Vancouver Makes Sense When the Rain Turns to Blossom
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Quebec Makes Sense When the River Freezes
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When Berlin Steps Outside
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Key West Lives Off the Winter It Doesn't Have
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Jakarta Measures Its Year in Water, Not in Degrees
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Porto: The Autumn of the Douro Harvest
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Valencia Explains Itself in Autumn, When the Rice Field Becomes a Mirror
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When Milan: The Fog, Not the Runway
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Lisbon: When the Light Drops and the Tagus Turns to Mirror
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When Edinburgh Becomes a Stage
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When Prague Gets Its Fog Back
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Gray Lima: When the Desert Blooms
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San Juan Is Best When the Heat Eases and the Street Fills Up
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Vienna Changes Its Room With the Season
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Amsterdam Changes With the Light and the Street
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Florence in Winter, Without the Window Display
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Naples Is Best Understood When the Street Is Walkable
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When London: The City Built for the Gloom
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When Venice: The Fog, Not the Postcard
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When Barcelona: La Mercè, Not the Cruise
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When Marrakech: Pack for Two Climates
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When Rio: Not the Postcard Summer
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When Granada: The Contemplative Winter
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When Seville: The Orange Blossom and the Fair
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When Kyoto: You're Chasing Something That Lasts a Week
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When Cairo: Winter, When You Can See the Pyramids
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When Rome: The Golden Light, Not Summer
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When Sydney: Autumn and the Late Warm Sea
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When Istanbul: The Tulip Spring
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When Bangkok: The 'Cool' Season (That Isn't Cool)
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When New York: Not the Holiday Movie
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When Dubai: The Inverted Calendar
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When Mexico City: Altitude, Not Latitude
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When Buenos Aires: Autumn, Not the Jacarandas
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When Madrid Becomes Madrid Again
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When Tokyo: Autumn, Not Just the Sakura
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