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Bengaluru or Chennai?

268 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.

Bengaluru is the better pick in April to July and October to December; either in January to March and August to September.

Month by month

Month JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Bengaluru 27° 1d 30° 1d 33° 2d 34° 2d 32° 10d 29° 13d 28° 16d 28° 18d 28° 15d 27° 16d 27° 9d 26° 4d
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
Pick eithereithereitherBengaluruBengaluruBengaluruBengalurueithereitherBengaluruBengaluruBengaluru

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.

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

268 km as the crow flies, about 1h 15m in the air.

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.