Our Major Disruptive Events Policy (the “Policy”) explains how Airbnb handles cancellations and refunds when large-scale events prevent or legally prohibit completion of a reservation. The Policy excludes weather or natural conditions that are common enough to be foreseeable in a given location, except when they result in another covered Event (as defined in the Policy) that prevents completion of the reservation, such as a mandatory evacuation order or large-scale outage of essential utilities. Below is a non-exhaustive list of the most common foreseeable weather events, natural conditions and endemic diseases. This list is subject to change over time, and users should consult this page for updates.
We encourage guests to research their destination before booking and carefully review their reservation’s cancellation policy.
Location | Time period |
CANADA | |
Non-coastal British Columbia, Labrador, northern Quebec, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon | October through April |
Alberta, coastal British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland, Ontario, southern Quebec, Saskatchewan | November through March |
New Brunswick, Nova Scotia | December through March |
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | |
Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Vermont, Wisconsin, Wyoming Mountainous areas of: Arizona, California, Oregon, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Washington | November through March |
Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, northern and western North Carolina, Ohio, northern and mountainous Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, eastern and mountainous areas in Tennessee, northern Texas, non-mountainous Utah, Virginia, West Virginia | December through February |
Location | Time period |
Finland, Sweden | October through March |
Greenland | October through May |
Iceland, Norway | November through March |
Andorra, Austria, Czechia, Denmark, Liechtenstein, Romania, Slovenia, northern and mountainous Spain, northern United Kingdom, Ukraine | December through March |
Albania, Belgium, France, Germany, northern and mountainous Greece, Hungary, Ireland, northern and mountainous Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Turkiye | December through February |
Location | Time period |
Afghanistan, Kazakhstan | November through March |
Location | Time period |
Japan (with the exception of Okinawa and Amami), South Korea | December through February |
Location | Time period |
Mountainous areas of: Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Balochistan, Gilgit Baltistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Murree Region in Pakistan | November through February |
Mountainous areas of: Bhutan, Nepal | December through February |
Northern states of India | January through February |
Location | Time period |
Argentina | June through August |
Bolivia, Chile, Peru | June through September |
Location | Time period |
Australian Highlands of Australia Capital Territory, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria Mountainous and South Island of New Zealand | June through August |
Location | Time period |
North America Canada—Eastern provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador Mexico* United States of America—Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia Caribbean Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Azores, Barbados, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Saba and Sint Eustatius, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Sint Maarten, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, Trinidad and Tobago, US Virgin Islands Central/South America Belize, Colombia, Honduras*, Nicaragua, Venezuela | June through November |
Location | Time period |
Hawaii, Mexico*, Honduras* | May through November |
Location | Time period |
Hong Kong, Japan, Macao, Philippines, Taiwan | May through November |
Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos PDR, Thailand*, Guam (US), Northern Mariana Islands (US) | June through November |
Location | Time period |
Bangladesh | March through July, and September to December |
India (Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, West Bengal, Telangana, and Puducherry), Oman | April through December |
Sri Lanka, Thailand* | October through April |
Comoros, La Reunion (France), Madagascar, Malawi, Mayotte (France), Mozambique, Mauritius, Seychelles, Zimbabwe | November through April |
Location | Time period |
Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland and northern parts of Western Australia), Fiji, Solomon Islands, Samoa, American Samoa, Vanuatu, New Caledonia (France), New Zealand, Tonga | November through April |
Location | Verified Endemic Diseases |
Worldwide | COVID-19, Giardiasis, Hansen’s disease (Leprosy), HIV/AIDS, Leptospirosis, Measles, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), Soil-transmitted helminth (STH), Tuberculosis, Vector-borne diseases** |
Africa | Chikungunya**, Cholera, Cyclosporiasis, Hepatitis A, Lymphatic filariasis**, Malaria**, Meningococcal Disease (Meningitis), Rabies, Sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis or HAT)**, Typhoid, West Nile Virus**, Yellow Fever** |
Middle East | Chikungunya**, Cholera, Cyclosporiasis, Rabies, Trachoma, Typhoid, West Nile Virus** |
Asia (entire) | Japanese Encephalitis**, Rabies, Trachoma, Typhoid |
Central Asia | Hepatitis A, Malaria**, West Nile Virus** |
East Asia | Chikungunya**, Schistosomiasis** |
South East Asia | Chikungunya**, Cholera, Cyclosporiasis, Dengue**, Hepatitis A, Lymphatic filariasis**, Malaria**, Schistosomiasis**, Zika** |
South Asia | Chikungunya**, Cholera, Cyclosporiasis, Dengue**, Hepatitis A, Lymphatic filariasis**, Malaria**, Zika** |
Australia | Dengue**, Japanese Encephalitis**, Trachoma |
Europe | Chikungunya**, West Nile Virus** |
South/Central America^ and the Caribbean | Chagas disease**, Chikungunya**, Cholera, Cyclosporiasis, Dengue**, Eastern equine encephalitis**, Hepatitis A, Malaria**, Onchocerciasis (River Blindness)**, Rabies, Schistosomiasis**, Trachoma, Typhoid, West Nile Virus**, Yellow Fever**, Zika** |
Pacific Islands | Chikungunya**, Dengue**, Lymphatic filariasis**, Malaria**, Trachoma, Typhoid, Zika** |
United States and Canada | Chikungunya** in United States, Eastern equine encephalitis**, West Nile Virus** |
*Indicates a country impacted by two seasons
**Diseases that fall under the category of vector-borne diseases
^South/Central America refers to the geographical area