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Austria, month by month

Where in Austria is at its best each month, and where to skip. Each verdict comes from the place's stated best season and the closures, weather warnings and festivals Tourisma has for it: in the middle of the season is a great month, its first or last month a good one; a weather warning (monsoon seas, smoke) moves a month down, a closure (a park shut, the boats stopped) moves it down to mixed at most, and a shut place is better avoided.

Austria in January

Plan January

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Graz, Hallstatt, Krimml Waterfalls, Salzburg, St Wolfgang & the Salzkammergut Lakes, Vienna, Wachau Valley (Melk & Dürnstein).

Better avoided

Can fall this month

  • New Year's Concert and the ball season
  • Hahnenkamm races
  • Mozart Week (Mozartwoche)

Austria in February

Plan February

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Graz, Hallstatt, Krimml Waterfalls, Salzburg, St Wolfgang & the Salzkammergut Lakes, Vienna, Wachau Valley (Melk & Dürnstein).

Better avoided

Can fall this month

  • New Year's Concert and the ball season
  • Vienna Opera Ball (dates shift yearly)
  • Mozart Week (Mozartwoche)

Austria in March

Plan March

At their best

No place is in the middle of its season this month.

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Graz, Hallstatt, Krimml Waterfalls, Salzburg, St Wolfgang & the Salzkammergut Lakes, Vienna, Wachau Valley (Melk & Dürnstein).

Better avoided

Can fall this month

  • Vienna Opera Ball (dates shift yearly)
  • Apricot blossom in the Wachau

Austria in April

Plan April

At their best

No place is in the middle of its season this month.

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Ötztal & Sölden, Bad Gastein, Hallstatt, Innsbruck, Kitzbühel, Krimml Waterfalls, Salzburg, St Wolfgang & the Salzkammergut Lakes, Zell am See & Kaprun.

Better avoided

Can fall this month

  • Apricot blossom in the Wachau

Austria in May

Plan May

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Bad Gastein, Grossglockner High Alpine Road (Heiligenblut), Kitzbühel, Ötztal & Sölden, Zell am See & Kaprun.

Can fall this month

  • Corpus Christi procession on the lake (dates shift yearly)

Austria in June

Plan June

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Ötztal & Sölden.

Can fall this month

  • Corpus Christi procession on the lake (dates shift yearly)
  • Donauinselfest

Austria in July

Plan July

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Hallstatt, Vienna.

Can fall this month

  • Salzburg Festival

Austria in August

Plan August

At their best

Mixed: Hallstatt, Vienna.

Can fall this month

  • Salzburg Festival

Austria in September

Plan September

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Can fall this month

  • Almabtrieb (cattle coming down from the high pastures)
  • Wine harvest in the Wachau
  • Aufsteirern

Austria in October

Plan October

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Bad Gastein, Grossglockner High Alpine Road (Heiligenblut), Kitzbühel, Ötztal & Sölden, Salzburg, St Wolfgang & the Salzkammergut Lakes, Zell am See & Kaprun.

Can fall this month

  • Almabtrieb (cattle coming down from the high pastures)
  • Wine harvest in the Wachau
  • Ski World Cup opener

Austria in November

Plan November

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Bad Gastein, Graz, Hallstatt, Innsbruck, Kitzbühel, Krimml Waterfalls, Ötztal & Sölden, St Wolfgang & the Salzkammergut Lakes, Wachau Valley (Melk & Dürnstein), Zell am See & Kaprun.

Better avoided

Can fall this month

  • Christmas markets
  • Krampus runs

Austria in December

Plan December

At their best

No place is in the middle of its season this month.

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Graz, Hallstatt, Krimml Waterfalls, St Wolfgang & the Salzkammergut Lakes, Wachau Valley (Melk & Dürnstein).

Better avoided

Can fall this month

  • Christmas markets
  • Krampus runs
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