Destinations
Where to go in India, honestly, by season
11 June 2026 · 7 min read
India is not one climate and it does not have one season. Planning against the calendar rather than the country is the single most common reason a trip underdelivers.
High Himalaya — Spiti, Ladakh, upper Kinnaur — open properly from June to early October. Go outside that and you are negotiating with road closures.
The south inverts it. Kerala, Coorg and the Tamil hill country are at their kindest between October and March, when the light is long and the humidity finally relents.
Rajasthan and the desert circuits belong to winter. November to February is the only honest answer, whatever a brochure tells you about May rates.
We would rather move your dates than sell you the wrong month.