The Ultimate Guide to Living in 72 Degrees Around the World – One Month at a Time!
We have been traveling around the world for four years, living in 72 degrees, and staying in wonderful places for a month at a time. It’s a magical life filled with great weather, fun adventures, and wonderful friends, and we do it all for under $50,000 a year for a couple. (For our non-US friends, we have chased 22 degrees Celsius for four years.)

This ultimate guide to traveling the world full-time and staying in 72 degrees, one month at a time, tells you absolutely EVERYTHING you need to know to do this nomad lifestyle, too.
If you want more information or background to our backstory, how we launched our nomad life, how we live our life, and all the tips and tricks to living as full-time travelers who retired early, you’ll want to get our two books, Two Carry-Ons and a Plan and The Nomad Life. The love story combined with more travel tips than you could ever imagine will keep you adventuring for years!
But here in this guide, we’re going to give you all the tools you need to arrange your life to travel full-time, stay 30 days at a time, and find 72 degrees every time you move about.
How to Find 72 Degrees (20 Degrees Celsius) Globally
Let’s start with the 72 degree part. Afterall, you need to know where you want to go in order to plan to get there, right? There are two basic principles of finding the perfect 72 degree spot.

First principle to finding 72 degrees: Understand the seasons around the world. The northern hemisphere is warm from March to October, and the southern hemisphere is warm from October to March. Thus, you’ll spend half of your year in the northern hemisphere, and the other half of the year in the southern hemisphere.
Second principle to finding 72 degrees: Understand your weather by hemisphere. In the northern hemisphere, you want to start your travel in the southern part of the hemisphere in March and work your way north.
You’ll follow the warmest March weather up the continent to the warmest October weather. In the US, for example, you’d start in Florida in March in the nice spring weather, working your way to Maine in the nice Fall weather. Then you leave the hemisphere.

In the southern hemisphere, you’d start in the most northern portion of the hemisphere in October and work your way south to the southern end in April. In Australia, for example, you’d start in Cairns in October at the beginning of the spring, and you’d work your way down to Melbourne in April at the beginning of fall.

Regardless of hemisphere, mountains will generally be cooler than beaches.
Show an Itinerary to Follows 72 Degrees for Three Years
Read about our our 3-year route that we took to chase 72 degrees. We started Dublin in September 2021 and worked our way around the world, averaging 72 degrees as we went. Below is a video of our itinerary in our third year where we stayed in 72 degrees, average, for the entire year.
Look at this post to see how we found 72 degrees using the data from WeatherSpark and The Weather Channel to find the cities and countries that suited our temperature needs.
Where Have We Stayed for a Month in 72 Degrees?
We try our best to find places to stay for one month, then we move on. If we look back at our 4 years of travel, we see a pattern emerging. In one year of time, we’ll stay for one month is 5-6 places, we’ll have 2 cruises of about 3-4 weeks, and the rest of the time is cobbling together one week or two week “trips.” These “trip” locations tend to be where we wanted to visit someplace but didn’t want to stay a week, or they were places we wanted to catch on the way to our next one-month stay.
For example, we were in Aruba for a month, then Dublin for a week, Paris for a week, the Camino for 21 days, Tirana for a week, then a month in Fethiye. Here is a list of all the places we’ve stayed for about a month. Also listed are either the blog post or the youtube video we did about that place.
Places to Live for One Month Around the World
(These aren’t all the places we’ve stayed a month; they’re all the places we’ve written about/video’ed about where we stayed a month.)
Use the search feature above to find other places we’ve been where we didn’t stay a month. Our list of places we’ve lived for one month around the world.
Ajijic, Mexico Blog Video
Akumal, Mexico Blog Video
Aruba, Aruba Video
Brisbane, Australia Video
Buenos Aires, Argentina (pending)
Chania, Crete, Greece Video
Chiang Mai, Thailand Blog Video
Dublin, Ireland. Blog Video
Fethiye, Turkey Blog Video
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Video
Lima, Peru Blog
Medellin, Colombia Blog
Mexico City, Mexico Blog Video
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico Blog Video
Riga, Latvia Video
Santiago, Chile Blog
Seattle, WA Blog Video
Split, Croatia Blog Video
Sydney, Australia Video
If you’d like to see another list of where a nomad couple has stayed for a month, take a look at this one from our friends, Brent and Michael.
Why Do We Stay a Month?
We find that staying in a well-chosen place for a month suits our need to slow down and relax while at the same time lets us leave as we start to get a little mossy. In addition, many short-term rental agencies (whether that’s AirBnb, Booking, or an agent) will give us discounts after 28 days.
Sometimes those discounts are 50% off the daily rate. We’ll even book a place for a month and only stay 25 days in order to garner a discount.
By the way, everything we own in the world is in our Osprey Transporter Wheeled 40 bags. Take a look.

How Do We Find Our 1-Month Stays?
We have a toolbox we use to find our 1-month stays.
First we ask how much a nightly rate is in our chosen location. We’ll scan AirBnB or Booking to get a feel for the going rate. If it’s over $60/night, we’ll do a housesit.
Housesitting allows us to stay in a nice comfortable home for free and possibly get the use of the owner’s car as well. In exchange, we take care of a pet(s) and a home. We’ve saved easily $20000 in accommodation fees over time by housesitting.
If you want to sign up for housesitting, we use a website called Trusted Housesitters. Sign up for their annual plan (about $150) and use our code for a discount. Click here and use code EATWALK25.
Watch this video for more info about how and why we use housesitting as a strategy to stay 30 days in one location and save money (while also finding great comfort!)
If the nightly rate is less than $60/night, we use one of three tools if not all three.
- We start at AirBnb to see what the inventory is for a location and what the going rate is for place that is a one-bedroom with a king-sized bed, private entry, private bath, washing machine, balcony, and near bus lines.
- We’ll then scour Booking.com for the same criteria. Booking now has long-term homes and stays and has moved beyond just hotel rooms.
- We’ll go to google and search for “apartments for rent” in a particular area and for “property managers.” We’ll then look at individual listings to see if there’s a place we like and an agent/owner willing to work with us.
In all cases, we will do our best to work directly with the owner/agent. If that’s not possible, we’ll look for the best cancellation policies and the ability to pay with a credit card.
Often the same property will be in all three locations. In that case, we’ll strike a deal based on price and cancellation policies. Often AirBnb won’t allow cancellations after 48 hours of booking, whereas Booking will offer cancellations up to 48 hours before check in. This is a big difference and very valuable to us.
Watch this video about how our friend finds properties via the property manager strategy. We now use this as our first line of defense when trying to book long-term stays.
Our friend at A Suitcase and a Smile also wrote out her process for evaluating short-term and long-term properties found from property managers.
How to Pick a Place to Stay
Discerning the photos and reviews that come with AirBnb stays and other descriptions can be a true time-suck. Pictures are edited, shot from wide angles, and often don’t properly represent a place. Once we have filtered properties to our criteria, we dig in, critiquing every shot, angle, and window views.
This article from our friends at The Barr Scene, tells the story the best. We follow their tips every time. Read them here.
And while we haven’t stayed in a hotel, yet, for a month, our friends at Brent and Michael Are Going Places have. They wrote about it, one day at a time, and tell quite a story of how they adapted to daily life in a motel. Have a look at this article.
How Do We Get From Continent to Continent and Stay Under Budget?
Our strategy to moving around the world revolves around a little-known secret, the Repositioning Cruises. “Repo” cruises are one-way cruises that generally occur in March and October.
The entire cruise fleet repositions itself to serve the markets where the weather is the best. For example, the ships positioned in Mexico for the winter season move to Alaska for the summer season and the Caribbeans ships go to the Mediterranean.
Throughout the globe, these ships move across the hemispheres twice a year. So we schedule our big movements when the ships are moving, which, coincidentally, is also when the weather shifts from hot to cold or cold to hot. In addition, because we have to pay for some place to sleep every night, these cruises are a bargain.
For example, rather than pay for a flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, we take a cruise. The prices are about the same; except with the cruise we also get 25 days of hotels, food, and entertainment, plus we get a few extra places/ports to go along the way. So a $1500 plane ticket plus 25 days of hotel ($2500), 75 meals $750), and entertainment ($500) makes a $2500 cruise fare look cheap.
For more about repositioning cruises, you can read this article or watch the video below.
What is Your Travel Style?
The idea of staying a month in each place might suit you perfectly. It does us, until it doesn’t suit us. That’s when we hop about and do a bit of fast travel–staying one week here, one week there. Some months we think of ourselves as slowmads; other months were just on vacation! What type of traveler are you? Take this quiz and find out.
If you have any questions about how to live one month at a time as your travel the world searching for 72 degrees, join us in our Facebook group where we talk about this and other nomad life issues every day.
Chris Englert, the Walking Traveler, believes walking is the platform for life. Wanderlusting since the age of 5, she’s since traveled all 50 US states and 62 countries. Chris shares her love of walking while traveling via blogs, books, and presentations. A natural storyteller, she invites you along as she explores the world, one walk at a time.
Currently, Chris and her husband, Steve, travel the world, full-time as nomads, with just their two carry-ons. They’ve been traveling since May, 2021.