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The Andaman Islands or Chennai?

1,373 km apart, both in India. Each is scored month by month on the same ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. This is where they part, and when.

The Andaman Islands is the better pick in March to April; Chennai in August to September and December to February. May to July and October to November are best avoided at both.

Month by month

Month JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
The Andaman Islands 29° 6d 30° 4d 32° 4d 32° 12d 30° 24d 29° 24d 29° 23d 29° 26d 29° 26d 29° 26d 29° 16d 29° 9d
Chennai 28° 4d 30° 0d 33° 1d 35° 2d 36° 6d 36° 9d 34° 13d 34° 17d 33° 15d 31° 18d 29° 18d 28° 9d
The Andaman Islands, fare from Bengaluru ₹30,419—₹20,315——————₹23,982₹26,566₹33,002
Pick ChennaiChennaiThe Andaman IslandsThe Andaman IslandsneitherneitherneitherChennaiChennaineitherneitherChennai

Each cell is that destination's own verdict for the month — sweet spot, ok or avoid — with its typical daily high and its rainy days ("11d"). The pick goes to the better verdict; with the same verdict, to the higher score, unless the two are within a whisker of each other, when it is either. A month both would avoid is neither. A dot marks a busy month. Fares are the typical return from Bengaluru, in INR.

Before you go

Both are in India, so the currency, the plugs and the travel advice are the same: type C and D plugs, driving on the left, paying in the Indian rupee. Everything for India.

Between them

1,373 km as the crow flies, about 2h 35m in the air.Nonstop, about 3 a day · IndiGo, Starlight Airline.

The flight time is estimated from the distance. A road, train or bus is named only where it was measured — flights from AeroDataBox, roads from OpenRouteService, timetables via Transitous — and none of it is a fare; the searches on each destination's page are where prices live.

Also compared

Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. The comparison is the difference between two pages, not a third opinion.