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Gulmarg from Ahmedabad

1,232 km, about 2h 25m in the air. Every month scored for the weather at Gulmarg and for the holidays that crowd it out at both ends.

  1. Gulmarg in January: ok, busy
  2. Gulmarg in February: ok, busy
  3. Gulmarg in March: ok, busy
  4. Gulmarg in April: ok
  5. Gulmarg in May: ok
  6. Gulmarg in June: sweet spot
  7. Gulmarg in July: avoid
  8. Gulmarg in August: avoid
  9. Gulmarg in September: sweet spot
  10. Gulmarg in October: ok
  11. Gulmarg in November: avoid
  12. Gulmarg in December: avoid
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
Go in Jun or Sep — 18C max, 12 rainy days. Feb is the next best.

Month by month from Ahmedabad

No fare history on AMD– yet, so this ranking is climate and crowds only. The price column fills in as the scanner collects.

MonthMax °CRain days Crowds VerdictWhy
Jan -1° 8d 65 okbusy busier than usual
Feb 0° 7d 45 okbusy busier than usual
Mar 4° 10d 45 okbusy busier than usual
Apr 9° 14d 80 ok 9C max, 14 rainy days
May 14° 20d 80 ok 14C max, 20 rainy days
Jun 18° 19d 94 sweet spot 18C max, 19 rainy days
Jul 20° 21d 100 avoid monsoon: 21 rainy days, 247mm
Aug 20° 18d 80 avoid monsoon: 18 rainy days, 195mm
Sep 18° 12d 100 sweet spot 18C max, 12 rainy days
Oct 12° 10d 80 ok 12C max, 10 rainy days
Nov 6° 5d 59 avoid bitter cold: 6C daily max
Dec 1° 3d 45 avoid bitter cold: 1C daily max

Rain days are the days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them.

Crowds is a score out of 100 where higher is quieter. It counts public-holiday clusters in IN as well as at Gulmarg, which is why this table differs from the same one read from another country. A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one — usually it is crowded because the weather is good. Crowds alone never make a month “avoid”: that is reserved for weather worth skipping.

How busy it gets

Busiest from December to March; quietest from July to October.

Getting there

Fly into Srinagar (SXR), then drive. The flights under Where to book are to Srinagar.

The drive from each airport is the road's, from openrouteservice.org by HeiGIT: typical, not a schedule.

Open in Rome2rio for every way from Ahmedabad to Gulmarg, flying or not.

Without flying

No free source quotes live fares for trains, buses or ferries, so these are searches to run rather than prices we can stand behind.

Gulmarg from anywhere · everywhere from Ahmedabad

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