July is peak season in Europe and North America: school holidays, the busiest flights and the highest prices. Southern European cities can be very hot, so this is the month to favour coasts, mountains and northern cities where summer is mild, such as Edinburgh, Copenhagen and Reykjavik.
It is the dry season in East Africa and on Bali, and winter in the southern hemisphere, which makes it a quiet, good-value time for cities like Buenos Aires.
Top picks for July
What July is good for
Mild northern summers
Comfortable temperatures and long daylight hours, perfect for walking cities.
Edinburgh · Copenhagen · Reykjavik · Oslo
Safari and island season
The dry season in East Africa and Zanzibar, and on Bali.
Canadian summer
Festivals, terraces and long evenings in Canada's cities.
☀️ Warm-weather picks
Cities with a tropical or desert climate that are in season in July.
- 🇮🇩 UbudTropical monsoon
- 🇧🇷 BrasíliaTropical savanna
- 🇮🇩 JakartaTropical monsoon
- 🇹🇿 ZanzibarTropical
- 🇦🇺 CairnsTropical
- 🇲🇾 Kuala LumpurTropical rainforest
- 🇳🇦 WindhoekHot semi-arid
💰 Good value in July
In season and easy on the budget. Estimate the cost of a trip with the budget estimator.
- 🇵🇹 Porto€€ Moderate
- 🇮🇩 Ubud€€ Moderate
- 🇷🇼 Kigali€€ Moderate
- 🇺🇦 Kyiv€€ Moderate
- 🇷🇺 Moscow€€ Moderate
- 🇮🇩 Jakarta€€ Moderate
- 🇰🇪 Nairobi€€ Moderate
- 🇵🇱 Gdansk€€ Moderate
🌗 Quieter shoulder-season options
July is just outside these cities' best months: expect fewer visitors and lower prices, with less predictable weather.
- 🇺🇸 New YorkBest: April–June, September–November
- 🇪🇸 BarcelonaBest: May–June, September
- 🇹🇷 IstanbulBest: April–June, September–October
- 🇨🇿 PragueBest: April–June, September–October
- 🇮🇹 VeniceBest: April–June, September–October
- 🇮🇹 FlorenceBest: April–June, September–October
- 🇪🇸 MadridBest: April–June, September–October
- 🇭🇺 BudapestBest: April–June, September–October
All 78 cities in season in July
🏰 Europe 52
- Amsterdam
- Antwerp
- Belgrade
- Bergen
- Berlin
- Bilbao
- Bordeaux
- Bratislava
- Bruges
- Brussels
- Cologne
- Copenhagen
- Dresden
- Dublin
- Edinburgh
- Frankfurt
- Gdansk
- Geneva
- Glasgow
- Gothenburg
- Hamburg
- Helsinki
- Innsbruck
- Kyiv
- Ljubljana
- London
- Lucerne
- Lyon
- Manchester
- Marseille
- Moscow
- Munich
- Oslo
- Paris
- Porto
- Reykjavik
- Riga
- Rotterdam
- Salzburg
- San Sebastián
- Sofia
- St. Petersburg
- Stockholm
- Strasbourg
- Tallinn
- The Hague
- Vienna
- Vilnius
- Warsaw
- York
- Zagreb
- Zurich
🏯 Asia 5
🗽 Americas 15
- Boston
- Brasília
- Calgary
- Chicago
- Cusco
- La Paz
- Montreal
- Ottawa
- Quebec City
- Quito
- Rio de Janeiro
- São Paulo
- Seattle
- Toronto
- Vancouver
🦁 Africa 4
🌊 Oceania 2
How we choose these cities
Every city guide on GuesTheCity lists the months when we think the city is at its best, balancing weather, crowds and prices. A city appears on this page when July is one of those months. Warm-weather picks are filtered by climate, value picks by our budget rating for each city, and shoulder-season options are cities where July falls just before or after their best months.
Weather varies from year to year and festival dates move, so check the forecast and event calendar before you book. To see the full year for any city, use the best time to visit calendar, explore cities by region on the world map, or compare two options with City vs City.