Destination and Season Guides
Destination and Season Guides
What to actually pack for specific climates, based on what the national meteorological services publish rather than on generic listicles.
Each guide starts from the same layering system and then adapts it to one real problem: humidity that stops anything drying, wind that makes 12 °C feel serious, or rain that lasts eight hours rather than twenty minutes.
Published guides
- Singapore: 24 to 32 °C year round, over 90% humidity at dawn, and air conditioning that is colder than the weather. Our most over-represented city.
- Iceland in summer: cool, wet and extremely windy in every month. Wind, not temperature, is what makes it hard.
- Japan for two weeks: a laundry problem rather than a volume problem, plus shoes you can slip off.
- A UK city break: persistent light rain, mild temperatures, and why jeans are the worst thing to pack.
How we choose destinations
Partly by search demand and partly by where our customers actually are. Singapore was the number one backer city in both of our funded Kickstarter campaigns, ahead of London and every American city, which is not where we expected to find our audience. The full distribution is on our campaigns page, and it shapes what we write next.
Before you pack
- The practical travel wardrobe: the system every guide here adapts.
- Softshell vs hardshell for travel: the shell decision.
- Merino vs synthetic base layers: which fibre suits which climate.
- VEAR Jacket and all products.