Where to go in January

Anjuna & Vagator, Goa, India

Cliffside, late, gloriously scruffy

31°C in January, and dry · 17h 40m from Los Angeles · a week or more

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Bangkok, Thailand

Hot, layered, relentlessly awake

31°C in January, and dry · 16h 25m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Lagos, Nigeria

Loud, ambitious, relentlessly creative

32°C in January · 15h 20m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Buenos Aires, Argentina

Late, theatrical, carnivorous

29°C in January · 12h 20m from Los Angeles · 4–5 nights

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Havana, Cuba

Musical, peeling, improvised, alive

27°C in January · 5h from Los Angeles · 4 nights

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Dubai, UAE

Glossy, ambitious, larger than life

25°C in January · 16h 30m from Los Angeles · 3-5 nights

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Koh Phangan, Thailand

Loud, languid, two islands in one

25°C in January · 16h 55m from Los Angeles · 4-7 nights

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Key West, Florida, USA

Sunburnt, boozy, cheerfully eccentric

23°C in January · 5h from Los Angeles · 2-3 nights

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Miami, Florida, USA

Glamorous, sun-drenched, energetic

24°C in January · sea at 23° · 5h 05m from Los Angeles · a long weekend, or a week with day trips

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sea, granite, music, constant motion

31°C in January · sea at 26° · 12h 40m from Los Angeles · a week

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Cancún & Tulum, Mexico

Turquoise, loud, style-conscious

26°C in January · 4h 40m from Los Angeles · a week

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Mexico City, Mexico

Sprawling, high-altitude, culturally dense

21°C in January · 3h 35m from Los Angeles · 4-5 nights

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Hong Kong

Vertical, fast, gloriously theatrical

19°C in January · 14h 30m from Los Angeles · 4 nights

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Humid, layered, late-night eating

30°C in January · 17h 25m from Los Angeles · 2-3 nights

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Hanoi, Vietnam

Loud, low-slung, endlessly sociable

21°C in January · 15h 15m from Los Angeles · 3 nights

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Singapore

Humid, polished, wide awake

28°C in January · 17h 20m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Austin, Texas

Laid-back, musical, sweaty, unpretentious

17°C in January · 2h 55m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Canggu & Uluwatu, Bali, Indonesia

Black sand, clifftop, permanently sociable

29°C in January · 17h 05m from Los Angeles · a week

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Boracay, Philippines

Sociable, sandy, sunset-driven

27°C in January · sea at 28° · 14h 40m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Ibiza, Spain

Loud, sun-drunk, expensively hedonistic

15°C in January · 12h 15m from Los Angeles · 4–5 nights

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Lisbon, Portugal

Steep, sunlit, gently melancholic

15°C in January · 11h 30m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Ayia Napa, Cyprus

Loud, sun-drunk, unapologetically hedonistic

16°C in January · 14h 40m from Los Angeles · a week

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Barcelona, Spain

Architectural, coastal, late-running

13°C in January · 12h 05m from Los Angeles · 4 nights

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New Orleans, Louisiana

Humid, musical, gloriously unbothered

17°C in January · 3h 45m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Palermo, Sicily

Raw, baroque, deliciously disorderly

15°C in January · 13h 10m from Los Angeles · 3 nights

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Tel Aviv, Israel

Loud, sun-bleached, permanently outdoors

17°C in January · 15h 05m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Taipei, Taiwan

Late-night, steamy, easy-going

18°C in January · 13h 35m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Ayia Napa's grown-up rival: Paphos & Limassol, Cyprus

Warm, unhurried, quietly stylish

16°C in January · 14h 40m from Los Angeles · 5–7 nights

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Athens, Greece

Ancient, gritty, sociable, sun-bleached

13°C in January · 13h 50m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Porto, Portugal

Tiled, steep, warmly unpolished

13°C in January · 11h 20m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Mykonos, Greece

Glossy, loud, expensively bronzed

14°C in January · 14h from Los Angeles · 3–5 nights

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Madrid, Spain

Late-night, grand, unpretentious

10°C in January · 11h 45m from Los Angeles · 3-4 nights

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Thessaloniki, Greece

Late-night, food-obsessed, unpolished

11°C in January · 13h 30m from Los Angeles · 3 nights

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Osaka, Japan

Neon, greedy, cheerfully brash

9°C in January · 11h 35m from Los Angeles · 2–3 nights

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Tokyo, Japan

Neon, precise, endlessly layered

9°C in January · 11h 05m from Los Angeles · 5 nights or more

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Hvar, Croatia

Glossy, sun-bleached, late-night

11°C in January · 12h 45m from Los Angeles · 4 nights

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