June brings the longest days of the year in the northern hemisphere, and northern Europe makes the most of them. Midsummer is a major celebration in Scandinavia and Finland, and in St. Petersburg the White Nights barely let the sky go dark. Mediterranean cities are hot but not yet at their peak, and summer prices are starting to rise.
June is also the start of the dry season in the Andes, a good time for Cusco, and of the monsoon season in much of South and Southeast Asia.
Top picks for June
What June is good for
Midsummer and White Nights
Near-endless daylight and midsummer celebrations around the solstice.
Andean dry season
Clear skies and cold nights, and Inti Raymi in Cusco on 24 June.
Summer festivals
Music and street festivals begin across Europe and Canada, including the Montreal jazz festival from late June.
Montreal · Copenhagen · Berlin
☀️ Warm-weather picks
Cities with a tropical or desert climate that are in season in June.
- 🇧🇷 Rio de JaneiroTropical
- 🇮🇩 UbudTropical monsoon
- 🇧🇷 BrasíliaTropical savanna
- 🇮🇩 JakartaTropical monsoon
- 🇹🇿 ZanzibarTropical
- 🇦🇺 CairnsTropical
- 🇲🇾 Kuala LumpurTropical rainforest
- 🇲🇦 CasablancaHot semi-arid
💰 Good value in June
In season and easy on the budget. Estimate the cost of a trip with the budget estimator.
- 🇨🇿 Prague€€ Moderate
- 🇩🇪 Berlin€€ Moderate
- 🇭🇺 Budapest€€ Moderate
- 🇬🇷 Athens€€ Moderate
- 🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro€€ Moderate
- 🇰🇷 Seoul€€ Moderate
- 🇵🇹 Porto€€ Moderate
- 🇵🇱 Krakow€ Budget
🌗 Quieter shoulder-season options
June is just outside these cities' best months: expect fewer visitors and lower prices, with less predictable weather.
- 🇮🇹 RomeBest: March–May, September–November
- 🇯🇵 TokyoBest: March–May, September–November
- 🇯🇵 KyotoBest: March–May (cherry blossoms), October–November (autumn leaves)
- 🇵🇹 LisbonBest: March–May, September–October
- 🇦🇺 SydneyBest: September–November, March–May
- 🇲🇦 MarrakechBest: March–May, September–November
- 🇺🇸 Los AngelesBest: March–May, September–November
- 🇦🇷 Buenos AiresBest: March–May, September–November
All 109 cities in season in June
🏰 Europe 71
- Amsterdam
- Antwerp
- Athens
- Barcelona
- Belgrade
- Bergen
- Berlin
- Bilbao
- Bologna
- Bordeaux
- Bratislava
- Bruges
- Brussels
- Budapest
- Cologne
- Copenhagen
- Dresden
- Dublin
- Dubrovnik
- Edinburgh
- Florence
- Frankfurt
- Gdansk
- Geneva
- Glasgow
- Gothenburg
- Granada
- Hamburg
- Helsinki
- Innsbruck
- Krakow
- Kyiv
- Ljubljana
- London
- Lucerne
- Lyon
- Madrid
- Manchester
- Marseille
- Milan
- Moscow
- Munich
- Naples
- Nice
- Oslo
- Palermo
- Paris
- Porto
- Prague
- Reykjavik
- Riga
- Rotterdam
- Salzburg
- San Sebastián
- Sofia
- St. Petersburg
- Stockholm
- Strasbourg
- Tallinn
- The Hague
- Turin
- Valencia
- Valletta
- Venice
- Verona
- Vienna
- Vilnius
- Warsaw
- York
- Zagreb
- Zurich
🏯 Asia 11
🗽 Americas 18
- Boston
- Brasília
- Calgary
- Chicago
- Cusco
- Honolulu
- La Paz
- Montreal
- New York
- Ottawa
- Philadelphia
- Quebec City
- Quito
- Rio de Janeiro
- São Paulo
- Seattle
- Toronto
- Vancouver
🦁 Africa 5
🕌 Middle East 2
🌊 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 June 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 June 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.