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Chennai or Kochi?

518 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.

Chennai is the better pick in August to September and December to March. April to July and October to November are best avoided at both.

Month by month

Month JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
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
Kochi 33° 4d 35° 3d 35° 13d 34° 24d 31° 28d 29° 30d 29° 29d 29° 27d 29° 25d 30° 26d 30° 18d 31° 8d
Kochi, fare from Bengaluru ————————₹7,530——₹9,534
Pick ChennaiChennaiChennaineitherneitherneitherneitherChennaiChennaineitherneitherChennai

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

518 km as the crow flies, about 1h 33m in the air.Nonstop, about 6 a day · IndiGo. By road, 641 km and about 8h 35m.

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.