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Belgium, month by month

Where in Belgium 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.

Belgium in January

Plan January

At their best

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

Mixed: Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Dinant, Durbuy, Ghent, Leuven, Mechelen, Ypres (Ieper).

Can fall this month

  • Winter Wonders Christmas market (Plaisirs d'Hiver)
  • Bruges Christmas market and Winter Glow
  • Ghent Christmas market

Belgium in February

Plan February

At their best

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

Mixed: Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Dinant, Durbuy, Ghent, Leuven, Mechelen, Ypres (Ieper).

Belgium in March

Plan March

At their best

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

Mixed: Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Dinant, Durbuy, Ghent, Leuven, Mechelen, Ypres (Ieper).

Belgium 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: Dinant, Durbuy.

Belgium in May

Plan May

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Belgium in June

Plan June

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Can fall this month

  • Ommegang pageant

Belgium in July

Plan July

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Leuven, Mechelen, Ypres (Ieper).

Can fall this month

  • Gentse Feesten (Ghent Festivities)
  • Belgian National Day
  • Ommegang pageant
  • Tomorrowland (Boom)

Belgium in August

Plan August

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Ghent, Leuven, Mechelen, Ypres (Ieper).

Can fall this month

  • Flower Carpet on the Grand-Place
  • Dinant bathtub regatta

Belgium in September

Plan September

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Belgium in October

Plan October

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Dinant.

Belgium in November

Plan November

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Antwerp, Dinant, Durbuy, Ghent, Leuven, Mechelen.

Can fall this month

  • Winter Wonders Christmas market (Plaisirs d'Hiver)
  • Bruges Christmas market and Winter Glow
  • Armistice Day at the Menin Gate

Belgium 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: Antwerp, Dinant, Durbuy, Ghent, Leuven, Mechelen, Ypres (Ieper).

Can fall this month

  • Winter Wonders Christmas market (Plaisirs d'Hiver)
  • Bruges Christmas market and Winter Glow
  • Ghent Christmas market