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Athens or Chamonix?

1,646 km apart, in Greece and France. 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.

Athens is the better pick in May to June and September to November; Chamonix in January to February and July; either in March to April, August and December.

Month by month

Month JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Athens 13° 7d 14° 6d 16° 4d 20° 5d 25° 4d 30° 2d 34° 0d 33° 1d 29° 1d 23° 2d 19° 7d 15° 8d
Chamonix 4° 12d 7° 9d 9° 12d 13° 10d 16° 15d 22° 13d 23° 11d 23° 9d 19° 10d 15° 11d 9° 12d 5° 14d
Athens, fare from Bengaluru ——————————₹49,201—
Pick ChamonixChamonixeithereitherAthensAthensChamonixeitherAthensAthensAthenseither

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": days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them). 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

Facts from Wikidata (CC0), the UK Foreign Office (Open Government Licence) and the World Bank. The advisory is written for British travellers; entry rules depend on your passport.

On arrival in Athens

Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 3 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.

Sources (15)

On arrival in Chamonix

Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 3 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.

Sources (16)

Between them

1,646 km as the crow flies, about 2h 55m in the air.

The flight time is estimated from the distance. A nonstop or a road is named only where a record has it — nonstop routes from Wikipedia's airport articles (CC BY-SA 4.0), roads from openrouteservice.org by HeiGIT — 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.