This map tells you where to find perfect weather any time of the year

One tool for your No. 1 travel question.

There’s a lot to be said for lingering shoulder seasons and quieter off seasons that present the perfect opportunity to explore a destination without, well, everyone else. But sometimes, we want to hit a place at its prime. Hence, the ever-popular Google search, ’What’s the best time to visit [insert-destination-here]?’ Problem is, that search often yields underwhelming results: wide temperature ranges that don’t quite dictate future plans.

Enter Ryan Whitaker, a data and digital guru who crafted a handy new tool published on DecisionData.org to help travelers track temperatures at any given week around the world, Lonely Planet reports.

To build the map, Whitaker curated 10 years of weather data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and 10,000+ weather stations worldwide (35 million lines of data).

How it works: You simply plug in your dates by week (4/16/17, for example); your ideal mean temp, low temp, and high temp in Fahrenheit or Celsius; as well as a preferred amount of rain. Then, pink dots pop up showing you where in the world your desired conditions exist.

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