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Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. The Best Time to Visit Dubai, in One Sentence The first time I landed in Dubai it was August, and the heat hit me on the airbridge like opening an oven door. I spent that trip ricocheting between air-conditioned malls and the hotel pool, and honestly, it was fine, even fun, but I didn’t see the city. The second time I came in January, and it was a different planet: 25 C and dry, dinner outdoors by the fountains, a dawn desert safari with a chill in the air, beach mornings that didn’t melt me. Same city, completely different trip. Timing is everything here. ...

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. The Best Time to Visit Montenegro, in One Sentence The ferry across the Bay of Kotor cut its engine and we drifted for a second in total silence, mountains dropping straight into water so still it doubled the sky. It was late September, the air was 24 C, and the woman selling figs at the dock told us we’d just missed “the madness” by three weeks. She meant August, when the same road we’d had half to ourselves crawls bumper to bumper and the prices double. We’d booked late by accident, and it turned out to be the smartest mistake of the trip. ...

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. The Best Time to Visit Turkey, in One Sentence It was a Tuesday in late September, and I had the rooftop terrace in Istanbul’s Galata district almost entirely to myself. The call to prayer rolled across the Golden Horn, ferries cut white lines through the water below, and the tea the owner kept refilling was still warm enough to wrap my hands around. Three weeks earlier, the same terrace would have had a queue. I’d come in the shoulder, almost by accident, and it turned out to be the smartest travel decision I made all year. ...