The green season is the Serengeti at its most photogenic: emerald plains, towering thunderclouds and soft, dramatic light that landscape and wildlife photographers dream about.
It's also the quietest and best-value time to visit. Camps are less busy, prices are lower, and resident wildlife — lions, elephants, giraffes — remains easy to find even as the great herds move south.
Showers tend to come in short, sharp bursts rather than all-day rain, so game drives are rarely disrupted for long.