Comment by apexalpha
1 year ago
Fun experiment but in reality people take vacation in the summer due to the season and schools, not because there are more public holidays then.
This tool just told me to take all of December off, great time to sit somewhere in the cold.
December is a great time to take a vacation to somewhere warm if you don't like the winter. I like to travel to the Canary Islands from end of December to January. Last time we had 20-25 degrees. Definitely warm enough for the beach.
Even if it was cooler, say 15 degrees, going somewhere with more daylight hours is really great at that time of year.
On 1st January, London gets 8 hours of daylight, Edinburgh 7 hours, Stockholm 6 hours. Tenerife has nearly 11!
Winter doesn't even start until late December, seems like February would be a better time to nope out of the cold weather, after you've gotten tired of the novelty.
Obviously the astronomical winter begins with the solstice in late Dec, but meteorological winter is usually the whole months of Dec, Jan and Feb.
By February it's almost spring, there's hope, light at the end of the tunnel. I agree with GP that Dec/Jan is a great time to get away from northern Europe.
Different people have different preferences and life circumstances.
Same here. While it's great to have long holidays, it doesn't sound fun at all to have no days off between June and November.
See, for me it prefers I take nearly the whole month of May off once I go over 15 days of vacation. I think it's very much going for local maxima.