June, at the world’s best hotels.

Spring in the olive groves — warm days, cool nights, the coast to yourself.

Early-summer Adriatic: swimmable seas before the yachts arrive.

Spring in the olive groves — warm days, cool nights, the coast to yourself.

Early-season Aegean: warm light, cool evenings, islands still local.

Long northern days before midge season, the glens at their greenest.

Green-season Niseko: alpine hiking and onsen at a fraction of powder-season rates.

Green-season Angkor: moats full, rice paddies electric green, temples uncrowded.

The southwest monsoon barely brushes the high tea country — misty mornings, low rates.

The green season in Lanna country: dramatic skies, full rivers, empty temples.

Green-season Kyoto: river dining and mossy temples between the tourist waves.

Green-season Kyoto: river dining and mossy temples between the tourist waves.

Green-season Kyoto: river dining and mossy temples between the tourist waves.

Green-season Kyoto: river dining and mossy temples between the tourist waves.

The Izu peninsula in the green rains — bamboo groves at their most luminous.

Kaga's gardens in the rainy season: moss at its deepest green.

Rainy-season Hakone: hydrangeas, steam rising off the onsen, and the year's quietest weeks.

Winelands winter: fireside tastings, green vineyards, and the Cape to yourself.

High summer in the palm grove — early desert mornings and long shaded afternoons.

The southeast trades arrive: cooler, breezier, and far quieter.

Summer Marrakech: courtyard plunge pools earn their keep and riad rates drop.

Summer Marrakech: courtyard plunge pools earn their keep and riad rates drop.

Summer highs top 105F, but this is precisely when Palm Springs rates crater; plan around dawn tee times, misted patios and long pool afternoons and it works.

Big Sky without ski-season prices: hiking, fly fishing, dark-sky nights.

Early green season: cenotes at their clearest and haciendas at shoulder rates.

Green season in the rainforest: rivers full, wildlife loud, lodges at their gentlest rates.

After the Brazilian summer: warm seas, quiet Quadrado, casas at their calmest.

The old city between seasons: brief showers, full color, easy reservations.

New Zealand's quiet season: misty river mornings and the lodge at winter rates.

Wild winter on the Southern Ocean: storm-watching, whales offshore, fires lit.

Iceberg alley in its final weeks and the headlands turning green.

The green season under the Pitons — brief showers and the island unhurried.

The green season: warm seas, passing rains, the island near-private.