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United Kingdom, month by month

Where in the United Kingdom 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.

United Kingdom in January

Plan January

At their best

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

Mixed: Bath, Belfast, Birmingham, Brighton, Cambridge, Canterbury, Cardiff, Cornwall (St Ives & Penzance), Durham, Edinburgh, Giant's Causeway & the Causeway Coast, Glasgow, Glencoe & Fort William, Hadrian's Wall (Hexham), Inverness & Loch Ness, Isle of Skye, Leicester, Liverpool, Loch Lomond & the Trossachs, London, Manchester, Oxford, Snowdonia (Eryri), St Andrews, Stonehenge & Salisbury, Stratford-upon-Avon, The Cairngorms (Aviemore), The Cotswolds, The Jurassic Coast (Weymouth & Lulworth), The Lake District, The Peak District, Whitby & the North York Moors, Windsor, York.

Can fall this month

  • Hogmanay

United Kingdom in February

Plan February

At their best

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

Mixed: Bath, Belfast, Birmingham, Brighton, Cambridge, Canterbury, Cardiff, Cornwall (St Ives & Penzance), Durham, Edinburgh, Giant's Causeway & the Causeway Coast, Glasgow, Glencoe & Fort William, Hadrian's Wall (Hexham), Inverness & Loch Ness, Isle of Skye, Leicester, Liverpool, Loch Lomond & the Trossachs, London, Manchester, Oxford, Snowdonia (Eryri), St Andrews, Stonehenge & Salisbury, Stratford-upon-Avon, The Cairngorms (Aviemore), The Cotswolds, The Jurassic Coast (Weymouth & Lulworth), The Lake District, The Peak District, Whitby & the North York Moors, Windsor, York.

Can fall this month

  • Six Nations rugby
  • Jorvik Viking Festival

United Kingdom in March

Plan March

At their best

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

Mixed: Bath, Belfast, Birmingham, Brighton, Cambridge, Canterbury, Cardiff, Cornwall (St Ives & Penzance), Durham, Edinburgh, Giant's Causeway & the Causeway Coast, Glasgow, Glencoe & Fort William, Hadrian's Wall (Hexham), Inverness & Loch Ness, Isle of Skye, Leicester, Liverpool, Loch Lomond & the Trossachs, London, Manchester, Oxford, Snowdonia (Eryri), St Andrews, Stonehenge & Salisbury, Stratford-upon-Avon, The Cairngorms (Aviemore), The Cotswolds, The Jurassic Coast (Weymouth & Lulworth), The Lake District, The Peak District, Whitby & the North York Moors, Windsor, York.

Can fall this month

  • St Patrick's Day
  • Six Nations rugby

United Kingdom 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: Belfast, Brighton, Cardiff, Cornwall (St Ives & Penzance), Edinburgh, Giant's Causeway & the Causeway Coast, Glasgow, Glencoe & Fort William, Hadrian's Wall (Hexham), Inverness & Loch Ness, Isle of Skye, Leicester, Loch Lomond & the Trossachs, Snowdonia (Eryri), St Andrews, The Cairngorms (Aviemore), The Cotswolds, The Jurassic Coast (Weymouth & Lulworth), The Lake District, Whitby & the North York Moors.

Can fall this month

  • Vaisakhi
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Celebrations

United Kingdom in May

Plan May

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

United Kingdom in June

Plan June

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Can fall this month

  • Wimbledon
  • Trooping the Colour
  • Highland games

United Kingdom in July

Plan July

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Can fall this month

  • Wimbledon
  • Highland games
  • The Twelfth

United Kingdom in August

Plan August

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Can fall this month

  • Edinburgh Festival Fringe, International Festival and Tattoo
  • Notting Hill Carnival
  • Highland games

United Kingdom in September

Plan September

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Can fall this month

  • Highland games

United Kingdom in October

Plan October

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Bath, Belfast, Birmingham, Brighton, Cambridge, Canterbury, Cardiff, Cornwall (St Ives & Penzance), Durham, Edinburgh, Giant's Causeway & the Causeway Coast, Glasgow, Glencoe & Fort William, Hadrian's Wall (Hexham), Inverness & Loch Ness, Isle of Skye, Liverpool, Loch Lomond & the Trossachs, London, Manchester, Oxford, Snowdonia (Eryri), St Andrews, Stratford-upon-Avon, The Cairngorms (Aviemore), The Cotswolds, The Jurassic Coast (Weymouth & Lulworth), The Lake District, The Peak District, Whitby & the North York Moors, Windsor, York.

Can fall this month

  • Diwali on Belgrave Road (dates shift yearly)
  • Diwali on Trafalgar Square (dates shift yearly)

United Kingdom in November

Plan November

At their best

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

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Bath, Belfast, Birmingham, Brighton, Cambridge, Canterbury, Cardiff, Cornwall (St Ives & Penzance), Durham, Edinburgh, Giant's Causeway & the Causeway Coast, Glasgow, Glencoe & Fort William, Hadrian's Wall (Hexham), Inverness & Loch Ness, Isle of Skye, Liverpool, Loch Lomond & the Trossachs, London, Manchester, Oxford, Snowdonia (Eryri), St Andrews, Stonehenge & Salisbury, Stratford-upon-Avon, The Cairngorms (Aviemore), The Cotswolds, The Jurassic Coast (Weymouth & Lulworth), The Lake District, The Peak District, Whitby & the North York Moors, Windsor, York.

Can fall this month

  • Diwali on Belgrave Road (dates shift yearly)
  • Diwali on Trafalgar Square (dates shift yearly)
  • Bonfire Night
  • Christmas markets and lights

United Kingdom in December

Plan December

At their best

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

Mixed: Bath, Belfast, Birmingham, Brighton, Cambridge, Canterbury, Cardiff, Cornwall (St Ives & Penzance), Durham, Edinburgh, Giant's Causeway & the Causeway Coast, Glasgow, Glencoe & Fort William, Hadrian's Wall (Hexham), Inverness & Loch Ness, Isle of Skye, Leicester, Liverpool, Loch Lomond & the Trossachs, London, Manchester, Oxford, Snowdonia (Eryri), St Andrews, Stonehenge & Salisbury, Stratford-upon-Avon, The Cairngorms (Aviemore), The Cotswolds, The Jurassic Coast (Weymouth & Lulworth), The Lake District, The Peak District, Whitby & the North York Moors, Windsor, York.

Can fall this month

  • Hogmanay
  • Christmas markets and lights
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