USA

New York City

The counterintuitive move: the best views of Manhattan are not from Manhattan.

Best forNightlife
Approx. flying time~5h 20m from Los Angeles
Nearest airportNew York (LGA)

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Why go

The city that revived the cocktail still sets the pace, and the East Village and Lower East Side hold the densest constellation of great rooms — Death & Co, Attaboy and their many descendants within stumbling distance. Most don't take bookings: put your name down early, then drink somewhere unambitious until the text arrives. One structural tip: bartenders here genuinely enjoy 'make me something' briefs, and tipping well makes round two better.

Featured in Ten rooftop-bar cities for golden-hour drinks and Ten cocktail cities for a very grown-up bar crawl

When to go

Daytime highs run from about 5°C in January to 30°C in July. Driest February and September to November; wettest in July, with rain on about 15 days.

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August28° · rain 12 daysWarm and often wet.

Monthly figures averaged from daily records for 2020–2024 at this location (ERA5 reanalysis).

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