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Gulmarg in May
ok · worth considering
The year in Gulmarg
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- JanJGulmarg in January: ok, busy
- FebFGulmarg in February: ok, busy
- MarMGulmarg in March: ok, busy
- AprAGulmarg in April: ok
- MayMGulmarg in May: ok
- JunJGulmarg in June: sweet spot
- JulJGulmarg in July: avoid
- AugAGulmarg in August: avoid
- SepSGulmarg in September: sweet spot
- OctOGulmarg in October: ok
- NovNGulmarg in November: avoid
- DecDGulmarg in December: avoid
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- Busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 14°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 5°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 14°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 20 · 167 mm |
| Humidity | 70% |
| Sunshine | 11.2 h/day |
| Daylight | 13.9 h/day |
| Crowds | 80 / 100, higher is quieter |
Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.
Weather read at Gulmarg, at the gondola's foot: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
How busy it gets
Public holidays in May
Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.
Gulmarg in pictures
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KennyOMG, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Mohamad Talib Bhat, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Slyronit, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What to pack
- A proper coat, hat and gloves: nights average 5°C.
- Rain gear you will actually use: about 20 rainy days and 167 mm.
- Sun protection: about 11 hours of sunshine a day.
Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.
Before you go
Type C and D plugs at 230 V. Drives on the left. The currency is the Indian rupee. UK Foreign Office: avoid all travel to parts. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise a high degree of caution (with regional advisories). US State Department: Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution. Everything for India: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
On arrival in Gulmarg: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
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