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Goa or Mumbai?

425 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.

Mumbai is the better pick in October to May. June to September are best avoided at both.

Month by month

Month JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Goa 32° 1d 33° 0d 33° 1d 34° 2d 33° 9d 29° 27d 27° 30d 28° 29d 28° 25d 30° 19d 33° 4d 33° 2d
Mumbai 29° 0d 31° 0d 33° 0d 33° 0d 33° 4d 30° 24d 28° 30d 28° 29d 28° 25d 31° 10d 32° 1d 31° 1d
Goa, fare from Bengaluru —₹12,033———————₹7,531₹9,590—
Pick MumbaiMumbaiMumbaiMumbaiMumbaineitherneitherneitherneitherMumbaiMumbaiMumbai

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

425 km as the crow flies, about 1h 26m in the air.Nonstop, about 13 a day · 3 airlines. By road, 571 km and about 7h 16m.

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.