Weekly note
Kolkata
i

Photo: Paras Verma, Unsplash.

Kolkata from Casablanca

9,163 km, about 12h 05m in the air. Every month scored for the weather at Kolkata and for the holidays that crowd it out at both ends.

  1. Kolkata in January: sweet spot
  2. Kolkata in February: sweet spot
  3. Kolkata in March: good, busy
  4. Kolkata in April: avoid
  5. Kolkata in May: avoid
  6. Kolkata in June: ok
  7. Kolkata in July: avoid
  8. Kolkata in August: avoid
  9. Kolkata in September: avoid
  10. Kolkata in October: ok
  11. Kolkata in November: sweet spot
  12. Kolkata in December: sweet spot
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
Go in Nov–Feb — these months score within a whisker of each other; 25C max, 1 rainy day. Mar is the next best.

Month by month from Casablanca

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

MonthMax °CRain days Crowds VerdictWhy
Jan 25° 1d 100 sweet spot 25C max, 1 rainy day
Feb 29° 2d 72 sweet spot 29C max, 2 rainy days
Mar 33° 3d 45 goodbusy busier than usual
Apr 36° 5d 80 avoid extreme heat: 18 days over 35C
May 34° 9d 45 avoid extreme heat: 14 days over 35C
Jun 33° 13d 100 ok 33C max, 13 rainy days
Jul 32° 21d 80 avoid monsoon: 21 rainy days, 390mm
Aug 31° 21d 75 avoid monsoon: 21 rainy days, 395mm
Sep 31° 19d 100 avoid monsoon: 19 rainy days, 321mm
Oct 31° 11d 80 ok 31C max, 11 rainy days
Nov 29° 1d 80 sweet spot 29C max, 1 rainy day
Dec 26° 1d 80 sweet spot 26C max, 1 rainy day

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 MA as well as at Kolkata, 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 in March and May.

Getting there

Open in Rome2rio for every way from Casablanca to Kolkata, flying or not.

The year in Kolkata

Expect severe rainfall during the monsoon season, especially from June to September. Temperatures can also be extremely high before the monsoon. Observations from the ERA5 data are consistent with this information.

Busiest
mid Oct to mid Nov — Festivals and pleasant weather attract many tourists.
Quieter, still good
early Dec to late Dec — Weather is still pleasant post-festivals, but tourist traffic declines.
early Feb to late Mar — Mild temperatures and lower humidity make this a good time to visit.
early Oct to mid Oct — Weather is pleasant before the festival rush.
Wet or stormy
early Jun to late Sep — monsoon, severe
Worth timing for
Durga Puja, October, lunar — Prices surge and some infrastructure may close.
Watch out for extreme heat; haze

Written by a language model from the climate figures above. The month-by-month table is measured — ten years of ERA5 readings and published holiday calendars — and where the two disagree, the table is the one to believe.

Kolkata from anywhere · everywhere from Casablanca · Fares in USD: no free rate exists for MAD.

Links marked Ad pay us a commission if you book through one, at no extra cost to you. That does not affect the scores on this page, which are computed from climate, holiday and fare data before any link is built.