If you plan to travel here in December and January, we recommend booking your transport and accommodation well in advance. Over Christmas and New Year, Goa is overwhelmed by domestic tourists as well as international visitors. This is also the season when most of Goa’s famous club nights and parties take place. At this time the coastal areas are blessed with dry weather and balmy temperatures post monsoon. The months of November, December and January are peak tourist season for the beach towns of Goa. While Delhi, for example, may be ravaged by chill winds blowing off the snowfields of the Himalayas, the Tamil plains and coastal Kerala, more than 1000km south, still stew under fierce post-monsoon sunshine. Mid-winter sees the most marked contrasts between the climates of north and south India. These months are in the shoulder season between peak tourist months of December and January, but before the monsoons begin across the country. The best months to visit India would be either November or February. By December, however, most of the Subcontinent enjoys clear skies and relatively cool temperatures.
The east coast of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, and the south of Kerala, get a second drenching between October and December, when the “northwest” or “retreating” monsoon sweeps in from the Bay of Bengal.
The trekking season reaches its peak in August and September while the rest of the Subcontinent is being soaked by the rains.īy September, the monsoon has largely receded from the north, but it takes another couple of months before the clouds disappear altogether from the far south. However, from March onwards, the Himalayas grow more accessible for hikers. Aim to be in Tamil Nadu and Kerala between January and March. The heat of the south is never less than intense but it becomes stifling in May and June. Delhi, Agra, Varanasi, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh are ideal at this time of year, and temperatures in Goa and central India remain comfortable. The best time to visit most of India is during the cool, dry season, between November and March. In the Himalayan foothills, landslides are common, and entire valley systems can be cut off for weeks. During the monsoon, regular and prolonged downpours are interspersed with bursts of hot sunshine, and the pervasive humidity can be intense.Īt the height of the monsoon – especially in the jungle regions of the northwest and the low-lying delta lands of Bengal – flooding can severely disrupt communications, causing widespread destruction.
This breaks on the Keralan coast at the end of May, and works its way northeast across the country over the following month and a half. The most influential feature of the Subcontinent’s climate is the wet season, or monsoon. Read below for our guide on the best times to visit India and its main attractions. Festivals also play a big part in deciding when to travel to India, with multiple religious festivals celebrated at different times of the year, across the country.
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