France

The Dordogne

The Dordogne is the countryside as children imagine it: castles on every crag, rivers you drift down in a canoe, night markets where dinner is a plate of duck under fairy lights.

Best forFamily
Approx. flying time~11h 40m from Los Angeles
Nearest airportBergerac (EGC)

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About this place

Base yourselves in a gîte or farm campsite near Sarlat and mix lazy pool days with canoeing the loop past La Roque-Gageac — book the descent from Vitrac and the current does most of the work. The prehistoric cave art at Lascaux IV genuinely awes all ages.

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When to go

Daytime highs run from about 9°C in January to 28°C in August. Driest in July and August; wettest in December, with rain on about 15 days.

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August28° · rain 7 daysWarm with the odd shower.

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

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