Your brain says it is autumn. Your calendar says it is autumn. The only thing that isn't autumn is the actual weather. Yes, September in Dubai can be tricky, but Dubai is no stranger to when one is feeling too heated up. This city beholds many tips and tricks to cool down.

Starting even with malls. I personally always carry a jacket or hoodie with me, when going to a mall, considering how chilly it can be there (which is of course nice, especially, when it is humid outside).

Furthermore, you can freeze oneself in the cinema or an adventure park — anything would do. Right now an amazing film “The Roses” (2025) is on and you can go ice yourself, while enjoying such a divine movie.

Or, you can even go lick the actual snow at the Mall of the Emirates.

Yeah, we all know about this one. But have you actually been there? It is so worth it when it is +38 outside. Tucked right there, Kempinski Hotel Mall of the Emirates offers this surreal little trick: you can experience both blazing desert heat and snowy alpine chill in the same day. As strange as it sounds, it is really exciting.

With complimentary access to Ski Dubai, it is one of those places that still makes you do a double-take, even if you have lived in the city for years. Imagine: 40 degrees outside, but inside, you are crunching over real snow. We still can’t wrap our heads around it, and yet — this is a reality.

The slopes around Kempinski Hotel Mall of the Emirates welcome both pros and first-timers, and there is something strangely liberating about strapping on skis in the middle of the desert.

What makes it even more surreal is the transition — one minute you are drifting past shop windows in the mall, and the next you are bundled up in gloves and a woolly hat. It is the ultimate cool-down trick for Dubai’s heat, and honestly, half the fun is in the sheer novelty of it.

If you miss the Alps badly, then you have to look into this one.

To have the most close-to-Austria experience, one can stay at the Aspen Chalet, which literally looks like a ski house, where everyone is having lunch in the mountains. And the view is the snow hill! So you go to bed in Dubai, seeing the snowflakes dancing around.

To cool down and have some fun over the weekend, we would suggest the following day plan:

So, there is this — the recipe to freeze your toosh in a desert. Because Dubai can satisfy even the craziest fantasies.