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Delhi or Gulmarg?

663 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.

Delhi is the better pick in March, July to August and October to December; Gulmarg in February, April to June and September; either in January.

Month by month

Month JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Delhi 19° 3d 24° 2d 29° 2d 36° 0d 38° 1d 38° 4d 34° 12d 33° 11d 33° 7d 32° 1d 27° 1d 21° 1d
Gulmarg -1° 8d 0° 7d 4° 10d 9° 14d 14° 20d 18° 19d 20° 21d 20° 18d 18° 12d 12° 10d 6° 5d 1° 3d
Delhi, fare from Bengaluru ₹21,156₹20,718₹16,227——————₹18,197₹19,028₹21,323
Pick eitherGulmargDelhiGulmargGulmargGulmargDelhiDelhiGulmargDelhiDelhiDelhi

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

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.

On arrival

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

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Between them

663 km as the crow flies, about 1h 44m 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.