The Maldives or Srinagar?

3,316 km apart, in Maldives and 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.

• The Maldives Maldives · best Jan, Feb, Mar
• Srinagar India · best Apr, May, Oct

Month by month

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

• Cost of living — The Maldives: cheap, about 51% of the United States; Srinagar: very cheap, about 23% of the United States.
• Currency — The Maldives: Maldivian rufiyaa; Srinagar: Indian rupee.
• Plugs — The Maldives: type A and C and G and K and L, 230 V; Srinagar: type C and D, 230 V.
• Driving — The Maldives: on the left; Srinagar: on the left.
• Travel advice — The Maldives: no advice against travel; Srinagar: avoid all travel to parts.

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.

Between them

3,316 km as the crow flies, about 4h 58m 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

• The Maldives or The Andaman Islands
• The Maldives or Colombo
• The Maldives or Goa
• The Maldives or Jaipur
• The Maldives or Kathmandu
• The Maldives or Kochi
• The Maldives or Leh
• Srinagar or The Andaman Islands
• Srinagar or Colombo
• Srinagar or Goa
• Srinagar or Jaipur
• Srinagar or Kathmandu

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.