Best time to visit Lithuania
Every guide's best months, checked against its own thirty-year rainfall: a filled month is recommended, a hatched one has over 250 mm of rain. Most of Lithuania agrees on May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep.
| Place | J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | In words |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VilniusMay to September (the balloons fly on summer evenings; the Kaziukas fair in early spring and the Christmas tree are the other seasons) | May to September (the balloons fly on summer evenings; the Kaziukas fair in early spring and the Christmas tree are the other seasons) | ||||||||||||
| KaunasMay to September (the city is best walked in leaf; winter is grey and the rivers freeze) | May to September (the city is best walked in leaf; winter is grey and the rivers freeze) | ||||||||||||
| KlaipėdaMay to September (the sea festival in high summer; the spit ferry runs all year) | May to September (the sea festival in high summer; the spit ferry runs all year) | ||||||||||||
| Curonian SpitMay to September (the village is quiet in winter but open; the dunes are best in the low light of spring and autumn) | May to September (the village is quiet in winter but open; the dunes are best in the low light of spring and autumn) | ||||||||||||
| TrakaiMay to September (the lake is rowed and swum in summer; the castle on ice in winter is the other photograph) | May to September (the lake is rowed and swum in summer; the castle on ice in winter is the other photograph) |
best month · over 250 mm · the letters are the months, January to December.
The guides in Lithuania
VilniusLithuaniaA baroque old town on a scale no one expects, a self-declared republic of artists across the river, and a hot-air balloon over it all on a summer evening
KaunasLithuaniaThe interwar capital, a whole city of modernism between two rivers, with a castle, a funicular, a devil museum and a basketball obsession
KlaipėdaLithuaniaThe port that was Memel: a German old town of timber warehouses, the ferry to the Curonian Spit, and the country’s only sea
Curonian SpitLithuaniaA ninety-kilometre sandbar between the sea and a lagoon, with dunes the height of a cathedral, a fishing village of painted wooden houses and Thomas Mann’s summer house
TrakaiLithuaniaA red-brick castle on an island in a lake, a Karaim community that has been here six hundred years and bakes the country’s favourite pastry, and Vilnius half an hour away