Rainy-day ideas

Cardiff when it rains

18 indoor places from our Cardiff guide, grouped by area. Tagged by type of place (museums, galleries, theatres, libraries and similar), so check opening times and booking with each venue. Month-by-month weather

Dry or bright day? Outdoor picks

The same tagging in reverse: 10 parks, gardens, streets, bridges, viewpoints and similar places that are best when it is dry.

Cathays Park and Roath (4)

Pontcanna, Canton and Llandaff (3)

Cardiff Bay (2)

City centre and Cardiff Castle (1)

Places are tagged from their type and a short list of manual overrides (src/data/weather-fit.json). Anything we cannot place with confidence, such as colleges, castles and mixed sites, is not listed. This is not a weather forecast.

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