According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the USA is good to visit all year. Plan 10–14 days.
Best months for the USA
- JanuaryBest
- FebruaryBest
- MarchBest
- AprilBest
- MayBest
- JuneBest
- JulyBest
- AugustBest
- SeptemberBest
- OctoberBest
- NovemberBest
- DecemberBest
- Best months
- All year
- How long to stay
- 10–14 days
- Continent
- North & Central America
- Note
- Whole year, depending on where you go
What the USA is best for
Famous national parks, scenic cross-country highways, theme parks, and major cultural cities like New York.
- Prices
- €€€ · more expensive than in Slovakia
Weather in the USA by month
Monthly averages around New York; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January best | about 1 °C | some rain (96 mm) |
| February best | about 1 °C | a lot of rain (102 mm) |
| March best | about 4 °C | a lot of rain (111 mm) |
| April best | about 9 °C | a lot of rain (108 mm) |
| May best | about 14 °C | some rain (96 mm) |
| June best | about 20 °C | a lot of rain (114 mm) |
| July best | about 24 °C | a lot of rain (111 mm) |
| August best | about 24 °C | a lot of rain (111 mm) |
| September best | about 21 °C | some rain (96 mm) |
| October best | about 15 °C | a lot of rain (120 mm) |
| November best | about 9 °C | a lot of rain (102 mm) |
| December best | about 4 °C | a lot of rain (129 mm) |
Sources: what a place is best for — our own travel guides and, for places we have not written about yet, research done with the help of AI (Google Gemini); weather — NASA POWER climate averages; prices — World Bank price levels (CC BY 4.0).
Good to know about the USA
- Capital
- Washington, D.C.
- Language
- English
- Currency
- US Dollar (USD)
- Time
- UTC−10 to UTC−5 (several time zones)
- Plugs
- Type A, B · 120 V
- Driving
- On the right
- Calling code
- +1
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
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