12 months, 12 trips, 12 ways to make your friends jealous

2012-12-27

Why stay home when there are 195 or 196 (depending on whom you ask) countries out there with so much to show off? Granted, spending January in the middle of Moscow won’t do your poor circulation much good, and July in New Delhi requires industrial-strength antiperspirant. But for each month there’s a perfect city, and conversely each city can be best enjoyed in a specific month.

Here’s a yearlong guide to the when, where and why…