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Best cities to visit in September (2026)

25 cities score best for September on the visit score, which weighs temperature, rain and sunshine from the Open-Meteo climate record. Rio de Janeiro leads at 10 out of 10, with a daily average of 24 °C and 27 mm of rain that month. The median mid-range daily cost across the list is $110.

Ordered by that month's visit score, highest first.
#	City	Country	Average high	Average low	Rain	Visit score
1	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	27.6 °C	19.9 °C	27 mm	10.0 / 10
2	Los Angeles	United States	29.8 °C	17.8 °C	26 mm	10.0 / 10
3	Lisbon	Portugal	26.3 °C	17.0 °C	29 mm	10.0 / 10
4	Athens	Greece	29.0 °C	20.1 °C	25 mm	10.0 / 10
5	Jerusalem	Israel	30.6 °C	18.6 °C	4 mm	10.0 / 10
6	São Paulo	Brazil	27.9 °C	15.4 °C	27 mm	10.0 / 10
7	Changchun	China	22.9 °C	13.1 °C	38 mm	10.0 / 10
8	Kabul	Afghanistan	29.6 °C	14.1 °C	3 mm	10.0 / 10
9	Nairobi	Kenya	26.6 °C	13.6 °C	22 mm	10.0 / 10
10	Casablanca	Morocco	26.4 °C	18.4 °C	9 mm	10.0 / 10
11	Ankara	Turkey	26.8 °C	13.9 °C	29 mm	10.0 / 10
12	İzmir	Turkey	30.9 °C	19.9 °C	23 mm	10.0 / 10
13	Kyiv	Ukraine	23.3 °C	13.6 °C	17 mm	10.0 / 10
14	Luanda	Angola	26.1 °C	20.8 °C	3 mm	10.0 / 10
15	Belo Horizonte	Brazil	28.6 °C	16.7 °C	18 mm	10.0 / 10
16	Mashhad	Iran	28.3 °C	13.9 °C	0 mm	10.0 / 10
17	Gaziantep	Turkey	31.5 °C	19.4 °C	5 mm	10.0 / 10
18	Lubumbashi	Democratic Republic of the Congo	31.3 °C	16.8 °C	0 mm	10.0 / 10
19	Brasília	Brazil	30.1 °C	18.6 °C	21 mm	10.0 / 10
20	Pretoria	South Africa	27.2 °C	12.5 °C	21 mm	10.0 / 10
21	Tijuana	Mexico	24.3 °C	17.7 °C	21 mm	10.0 / 10
22	Istanbul	Turkey	26.3 °C	19.2 °C	65 mm	9.1 / 10
23	Beijing	China	26.8 °C	17.4 °C	48 mm	9.1 / 10
24	Tianjin	China	27.1 °C	18.2 °C	48 mm	9.1 / 10
25	Dalian	China	25.4 °C	19.1 °C	47 mm	9.1 / 10

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Sources

GeoNames city database — CC BY 4.0, fetched September 14, 2026
Open-Meteo climate archive — CC BY 4.0, fetched September 21, 2026

Dates are the most recent fetch across the cities on this page. Every sentence here is generated from the data by rule, with no AI writing; the formulas are public.