Two bank holidays, warm gardens, the harbour busy with sails and the beaches still uncrowded.
May is arguably the best month here: everything open, nothing crowded.
See Poole in spring.
Two bank holidays, the sailing season getting properly under way on the harbour, gardens at their fullest and beaches that are warm but not yet busy. One of the best-value months of the year.
Poole's crowds follow the school calendar and the weather: July and August are the peak, with half terms and bank holidays busy in miniature. Outside those, the beaches and the Quay are noticeably calmer.
Sandbanks hotels, harbourside flats a street back from the Quay and the quieter beds out at Hamworthy and Broadstone, with the areas each one suits.