Where to go in September

200 cities where September is one of the best months to travel. 147 of them need no visa. Temperature and rainfall are climate normals; prices are median nightly rates for a 2–3 star room and a hostel bed.

Found: 200

City	Daytime	Rainfall	Room 2–3★	Hostel	Visa
Jermuk Armenia	21 °C	21 mm	$53	—	Visa-free
Ashgabat Turkmenistan	32 °C	3 mm	$50	—	Visa needed
Sighnaghi Georgia	25 °C	34 mm	$54	$26	Visa-free
Gabala Azerbaijan	24 °C	30 mm	$54	—	Visa needed
Osh Kyrgyzstan	28 °C	4 mm	$22	—	Visa-free
Khorog Tajikistan	23 °C	1 mm	$54	—	Visa-free
Balkh Afghanistan	33 °C	0 mm	—	—	Visa needed
Oran Algeria	31 °C	31 mm	$69	—	Visa needed
Mehriz Iran	33 °C	2 mm	—	—	Visa needed
Harare Zimbabwe	29 °C	5 mm	$55	—	Visa-free
Sossusvlei Namibia	32 °C	1 mm	—	—	Visa-free
Bishkek Kyrgyzstan	27 °C	15 mm	$73	$22	Visa-free
Sintra Portugal	24 °C	26 mm	$157	$113	Visa-free
Cairns Australia	28 °C	31 mm	$125	$31	Visa-free
Quito Ecuador	24 °C	38 mm	$97	—	Visa-free
Sheki Azerbaijan	28 °C	34 mm	$43	$23	Visa needed
Almaty Kazakhstan	27 °C	22 mm	$68	—	Visa-free
Masuleh Iran	29 °C	31 mm	—	—	Visa needed
Gyumri Armenia	23 °C	28 mm	$53	$32	Visa-free
Hisor Tajikistan	31 °C	2 mm	—	—	Visa-free
Isfahan Iran	32 °C	1 mm	$71	$53	Visa needed
Dilijan Armenia	25 °C	23 mm	$78	$56	Visa-free
Zhangye China	24 °C	29 mm	$24	—	Visa needed
Hami China	28 °C	4 mm	—	—	Visa needed
Tabriz Iran	29 °C	6 mm	—	—	Visa needed
Nafplio Greece	31 °C	39 mm	$125	$103	Visa-free
Tiraspol Moldova	24 °C	39 mm	$43	—	Visa-free
Tehran Iran	32 °C	16 mm	$61	—	Visa needed
Tangier Morocco	25 °C	26 mm	$85	—	Visa-free
Hamadan Iran	29 °C	2 mm	—	—	Visa needed
Kermanshah Iran	32 °C	2 mm	—	—	Visa needed
Athens Greece	28 °C	29 mm	$160	$34	Visa-free
İzmir Turkey	29 °C	19 mm	$65	—	Visa-free
Denizli Turkey	32 °C	20 mm	$73	—	Visa-free
Eskişehir Turkey	26 °C	30 mm	$69	—	Visa-free
Chișinău Moldova	24 °C	39 mm	$69	$26	Visa-free
Orhei Moldova	23 °C	41 mm	$60	—	Visa-free
Granada Spain	27 °C	26 mm	$84	—	Visa-free
Gori Georgia	26 °C	38 mm	—	—	Visa-free
Odessa Ukraine	23 °C	38 mm	$134	$78	Visa-free
Évora Portugal	30 °C	28 mm	$112	—	Visa-free
Erzurum Turkey	22 °C	35 mm	$40	—	Visa-free
Denver United States	28 °C	36 mm	$137	—	—
Mashhad Iran	29 °C	2 mm	—	—	Visa needed
Baku Azerbaijan	25 °C	13 mm	$57	—	Visa needed
Quba Azerbaijan	23 °C	32 mm	$33	—	Visa needed
Khujand Tajikistan	30 °C	3 mm	$43	—	Visa-free
Bukhara Uzbekistan	31 °C	0 mm	$46	$22	Visa needed
Lisbon Portugal	22 °C	25 mm	$125	$46	Visa-free
Volgograd Russia	23 °C	32 mm	$81	$17	Visa needed
Elazığ Turkey	30 °C	9 mm	$83	—	Visa-free
Ankara Turkey	27 °C	19 mm	—	—	Visa-free
Urumqi China	26 °C	20 mm	$53	$39	Visa needed
Crete Greece	29 °C	18 mm	$129	—	Visa-free
Konya Turkey	28 °C	19 mm	—	—	Visa-free
Turkmenbashi Turkmenistan	28 °C	4 mm	—	—	Visa needed
Bulawayo Zimbabwe	30 °C	7 mm	$121	—	Visa-free
Kars Turkey	23 °C	33 mm	—	—	Visa-free
Van Turkey	25 °C	11 mm	—	—	Visa-free
Göreme Turkey	27 °C	15 mm	—	—	Visa-free
Samarkand Uzbekistan	30 °C	2 mm	$60	—	Visa needed
Skardu Pakistan	24 °C	21 mm	$63	—	Visa-free
Batroun Lebanon	27 °C	11 mm	—	—	Visa-free
Chefchaouen Morocco	29 °C	32 mm	$60	—	Visa-free
Amasya Turkey	29 °C	26 mm	$89	—	Visa-free
Kashgar China	27 °C	13 mm	$56	—	Visa needed
Santorini Greece	25 °C	18 mm	$178	—	Visa-free
Kerman Iran	31 °C	0 mm	—	—	Visa needed
Vagharshapat (Etchmiadzin)Armenia	29 °C	18 mm	$55	—	Visa-free
San Francisco United States	23 °C	4 mm	$254	$92	—
Cappadocia Turkey	27 °C	15 mm	$145	$65	Visa-free
Tbilisi Georgia	27 °C	25 mm	$58	—	Visa-free
Kunduz Afghanistan	32 °C	1 mm	—	—	Visa needed
Mary Turkmenistan	32 °C	0 mm	$173	$91	Visa needed
Jiayuguan China	24 °C	13 mm	—	—	Visa needed
Elista Russia	25 °C	34 mm	$46	—	Visa needed
Brisbane Australia	24 °C	38 mm	$140	$102	Visa-free
Bamiyan Afghanistan	22 °C	16 mm	—	—	Visa needed
Herat Afghanistan	30 °C	0 mm	—	—	Visa needed
Malaga Spain	24 °C	29 mm	$184	$61	Visa-free
Mazar-i-Sharif Afghanistan	32 °C	0 mm	—	—	Visa needed
Toledo Spain	29 °C	22 mm	$116	—	Visa-free
Karakol Kyrgyzstan	20 °C	29 mm	$24	—	Visa-free
Yerevan Armenia	29 °C	18 mm	$92	—	Visa-free
Shymkent Kazakhstan	29 °C	6 mm	$50	$17	Visa-free
Machu Picchu Peru	22 °C	22 mm	$152	—	Visa-free
Mendoza Argentina	23 °C	8 mm	$88	—	Visa-free
Lusaka Zambia	32 °C	1 mm	$55	—	Visa-free
Arusha Tanzania	28 °C	17 mm	$83	$21	Visa-free
Madrid Spain	27 °C	24 mm	$200	—	Visa-free
Kokand Uzbekistan	32 °C	4 mm	$60	—	Visa needed
Khiva Uzbekistan	30 °C	1 mm	$27	—	Visa needed
Tatev Armenia	22 °C	17 mm	$90	$36	Visa-free
Mykonos Greece	24 °C	20 mm	$244	$101	Visa-free
Astrakhan Russia	25 °C	17 mm	$52	—	Visa needed
Rhodes Greece	29 °C	18 mm	$84	—	Visa-free
Dunhuang China	28 °C	4 mm	$54	—	Visa needed
Turkestan Kazakhstan	28 °C	3 mm	$41	—	Visa-free
Sisian Armenia	24 °C	17 mm	$37	—	Visa-free
Meghri Armenia	29 °C	14 mm	—	—	Visa-free
Dushanbe Tajikistan	31 °C	2 mm	$83	$19	Visa-free
Zanzibar Tanzania	28 °C	22 mm	$106	$63	Visa-free
Rostov-on-Don Russia	25 °C	33 mm	$42	$10	Visa needed
Kabul Afghanistan	28 °C	33 mm	—	—	Visa needed
Shahrisabz Uzbekistan	31 °C	2 mm	—	—	Visa needed
Tashkent Uzbekistan	30 °C	4 mm	$58	—	Visa needed
Adiyaman Turkey	32 °C	8 mm	$108	—	Visa-free
Paris France	21 °C	42 mm	$344	—	Visa-free
Dar es Salaam Tanzania	28 °C	24 mm	$65	$28	Visa-free
Mont Saint-Michel France	20 °C	45 mm	$242	—	Visa-free
Bordeaux France	25 °C	46 mm	$207	$54	Visa-free
Frankfurt Germany	22 °C	46 mm	$85	—	Visa-free
Guimarães Portugal	28 °C	46 mm	$124	—	Visa-free
Bursa Turkey	28 °C	47 mm	$77	—	Visa-free
Nice France	23 °C	47 mm	$213	$134	Visa-free
Petra Jordan	32 °C	1 mm	$60	$20	Visa-free
Voronezh Russia	21 °C	46 mm	$74	—	Visa needed
Kyiv Ukraine	21 °C	48 mm	$38	$11	Visa-free
Thessaloniki Greece	28 °C	47 mm	$107	$61	Visa-free
Berlin Germany	21 °C	49 mm	$159	$74	Visa-free
Valencia Spain	30 °C	49 mm	$199	$62	Visa-free
Amman Jordan	31 °C	1 mm	$82	$33	Visa-free
Lamu Kenya	28 °C	36 mm	$99	—	Visa-free
Nis Serbia	25 °C	50 mm	$55	—	Visa-free
Porto Portugal	23 °C	49 mm	$170	$47	Visa-free
Gaziantep Turkey	32 °C	10 mm	$76	—	Visa-free
Varna Bulgaria	23 °C	50 mm	$124	—	Visa-free
Plovdiv Bulgaria	27 °C	50 mm	$107	—	Visa-free
Asenovgrad Bulgaria	27 °C	50 mm	—	—	Visa-free
Heidelberg Germany	21 °C	50 mm	$158	—	Visa-free
Bucharest Romania	26 °C	52 mm	$87	$24	Visa-free
Haifa Israel	29 °C	5 mm	$242	$145	Visa-free
Sozopol Bulgaria	25 °C	52 mm	$404	—	Visa-free
Warsaw Poland	20 °C	52 mm	$112	—	Visa-free
Burgas Bulgaria	25 °C	52 mm	$205	—	Visa-free
Turpan China	33 °C	6 mm	$33	—	Visa needed
Nesebar Bulgaria	25 °C	52 mm	$163	—	Visa-free
Samara Russia	20 °C	41 mm	$98	$13	Visa needed
Prague Czech Republic	20 °C	53 mm	$123	$41	Visa-free
Cluj-Napoca Romania	22 °C	53 mm	$110	—	Visa-free
Bilbao Spain	22 °C	53 mm	$177	$27	Visa-free
Sofia Bulgaria	24 °C	54 mm	$49	—	Visa-free
Sibiu Romania	22 °C	54 mm	$49	—	Visa-free
Istanbul Turkey	25 °C	54 mm	$73	—	Visa-free
Shumen Bulgaria	24 °C	55 mm	$65	—	Visa-free
Košice Slovakia	21 °C	55 mm	$60	—	Visa-free
Strasbourg France	21 °C	56 mm	$122	$69	Visa-free
Eger Hungary	22 °C	55 mm	$55	—	Visa-free
Luxembourg City Luxembourg	20 °C	56 mm	$186	—	Visa-free
Novi Sad Serbia	25 °C	55 mm	$85	—	Visa-free
Constantine Algeria	29 °C	56 mm	$55	—	Visa needed
Fez Morocco	32 °C	24 mm	$56	$19	Visa-free
Belgrade Serbia	25 °C	56 mm	$90	$18	Visa-free
Qazvin Iran	28 °C	56 mm	—	—	Visa needed
Brest Belarus	20 °C	54 mm	$71	—	Visa needed
Chernivtsi Ukraine	21 °C	56 mm	$32	—	Visa-free
Veliko Tarnovo Bulgaria	26 °C	57 mm	$41	—	Visa-free
Cologne Germany	20 °C	57 mm	$192	—	Visa-free
Dresden Germany	21 °C	58 mm	$128	—	Visa-free
Gabrovo Bulgaria	24 °C	57 mm	—	—	Visa-free
Cinque Terre Italy	23 °C	57 mm	$131	—	Visa-free
Wrocław Poland	20 °C	57 mm	$116	—	Visa-free
Budapest Hungary	23 °C	57 mm	$129	—	Visa-free
Kastamonu Turkey	25 °C	57 mm	$63	—	Visa-free
Tianjin China	27 °C	57 mm	$47	—	Visa needed
Seattle United States	20 °C	58 mm	$242	—	—
Antwerp Belgium	20 °C	55 mm	$116	—	Visa-free
Mardin Turkey	33 °C	5 mm	—	—	Visa-free
Brussels Belgium	20 °C	55 mm	$163	$114	Visa-free
Krasnodar Russia	26 °C	59 mm	$46	$10	Visa needed
Barcelona Spain	26 °C	59 mm	$235	$76	Visa-free
Echternach Luxembourg	20 °C	59 mm	$131	—	Visa-free
Meteora Greece	27 °C	59 mm	$139	—	Visa-free
Brașov Romania	21 °C	61 mm	$49	—	Visa-free
Brno Czech Republic	21 °C	61 mm	$132	—	Visa-free
Palermo Italy	27 °C	61 mm	$139	$93	Visa-free
Lyon France	23 °C	60 mm	$200	$30	Visa-free
Bitola North Macedonia	25 °C	60 mm	$98	—	Visa-free
Sinop Turkey	24 °C	61 mm	$172	—	Visa-free
Vladikavkaz Russia	24 °C	62 mm	$51	—	Visa needed
Victoria Malta	26 °C	63 mm	$158	—	Visa-free
Mdina Malta	26 °C	63 mm	$171	—	Visa-free
Valletta Malta	26 °C	63 mm	$179	$110	Visa-free
Pamukkale Turkey	33 °C	20 mm	$67	—	Visa-free
Beijing China	26 °C	64 mm	$87	—	Visa needed
San Sebastian Spain	22 °C	64 mm	$236	—	Visa-free
Tunis Tunisia	29 °C	65 mm	$95	$83	Visa-free
Florence Italy	26 °C	66 mm	$183	$31	Visa-free
Pisa Italy	26 °C	66 mm	$113	$106	Visa-free
London United Kingdom	20 °C	44 mm	$244	$48	Visa-free
Marvdasht Iran	34 °C	1 mm	—	—	Visa needed
Toronto Canada	21 °C	66 mm	$240	$106	Visa-free
Siena Italy	26 °C	66 mm	$123	$108	Visa-free
Skopje North Macedonia	27 °C	68 mm	$92	—	Visa-free
Pécs Hungary	23 °C	68 mm	$122	—	Visa-free
Sao Paulo Brazil	26 °C	68 mm	$73	$28	Visa-free
Naples Italy	28 °C	68 mm	$146	$51	Visa-free
Diyarbakır Turkey	33 °C	9 mm	—	—	Visa-free
Bratislava Slovakia	22 °C	69 mm	$180	$27	Visa-free
Rio de Janeiro Brazil	25 °C	69 mm	$75	—	Visa-free

Where the numbers come from

Temperature and rainfall are monthly climate normals from NASA POWER and NOAA weather stations, averaged over many years. They are not a forecast for a given date: a single year deviates from the norm, but the order of magnitude holds.

Prices are median nightly rates blended from several booking sources, flights excluded. "Room 2–3★" is a double room in a mid-range hotel or guesthouse, priced per room. "Hostel" is a bed in a shared dorm, priced per person, and is known for about half the cities.

Which column to read depends on who is travelling. Solo, a hostel bed is cheaper. For two, a room usually wins: split in half it costs about the same as two dorm beds, but comes with a door and a bathroom. For three or four, the room wins outright.

Visa status is shown for a US passport and applies to the country, not the city. Check the rules on the country page before you travel: they change far more often than the climate.

Frequently asked

Where can I go visa-free in September?

147 of the 200 cities listed are in countries that need no visa. The visa-free filter leaves exactly those in the table, and the daytime column shows which of them are warm this month.

Where is it warm in September?

The daytime column is the average daily high for the month, and warmest-first sorts by it. Watch the rainfall too: in the tropics a warm month can coincide with the wet season, and the rainfall normal will be several times higher.

How much does a night cost in September?

The table carries two prices: a double room in a 2–3 star hotel or guesthouse per room, and a dorm bed per person. Solo travellers usually do better in a hostel; for two, the room split in half costs about the same as two beds but comes with a private bathroom. Flights are not included.

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