India in May
19 of the 65 destinations in India are in season in May: 1 a sweet spot, 6 good, 12 ok.
May is a sweet spot at 1 of these 65 places: Badrinath. Best avoided at 46 of them.
Ranked for May
| # | Place | Verdict | High | Rain | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shimla | good | 22° | 10d | 22C max, 10 rainy days |
| 2 | Dwarka | good | 32° | 0d | 32C max, 0 rainy days |
| 3 | Rameswaram | good | 30° | 5d | 30C max, 5 rainy days |
| 4 | Kanyakumari | good | 32° | 6d | 32C max, 6 rainy days |
| 5 | Aizawl | good | 27° | 11d | 27C max, 11 rainy days |
| 6 | Dharamshala | goodbusy | 24° | 8d | busier than usual |
| 7 | Goa | ok | 33° | 5d | 33C max, 5 rainy days |
| 8 | Lakshadweep | okbusy | 30° | 10d | busier than usual |
| 9 | Manali | okbusy | 21° | 14d | busier than usual |
| 10 | Puri | ok | 33° | 3d | 33C max, 3 rainy days |
| 11 | Bengaluru | ok | 31° | 8d | 31C max, 8 rainy days |
| 12 | Mussoorie | okbusy | 22° | 15d | busier than usual |
| 13 | Leh | okbusy | 13° cool | 10d | busier than usual |
| 14 | Murdeshwar | ok | 32° | 10d | 32C max, 10 rainy days |
| 15 | Digha | okbusy | 33° | 6d | busier than usual |
| 16 | Mysuru | ok | 32° | 10d | 32C max, 10 rainy days |
| 17 | Badrinath | sweet spotbusy | 11° cool | 14d | busier than usual |
| 18 | Mumbai | ok | 32° | 1d | 32C max, 1 rainy day |
| 19 | Kedarnath | okbusy | 9° cool | 21d | busier than usual |
Not this May
- Agartala 33C max, 13 rainy days
- Agra extreme heat: 28 days over 35C
- Ahmedabad extreme heat: 30 days over 35C
- Amritsar extreme heat: 24 days over 35C
- Aurangabad extreme heat: 28 days over 35C
- Ayodhya extreme heat: 22 days over 35C
- Bodh Gaya extreme heat: 26 days over 35C
- Chennai extreme heat: 21 days over 35C
- Cherrapunji monsoon: 25 rainy days, 533mm
- Coorg monsoon: 19 rainy days, 285mm
- Darjeeling monsoon: 24 rainy days, 257mm
- Delhi extreme heat: 26 days over 35C
- Gangtok monsoon: 27 rainy days, 638mm
- Guwahati monsoon: 16 rainy days, 345mm
- Gwalior extreme heat: 29 days over 35C
- Hampi extreme heat: 24 days over 35C
- Haridwar extreme heat: 16 days over 35C
- Hyderabad extreme heat: 26 days over 35C
- Jaipur extreme heat: 29 days over 35C
- Jaisalmer extreme heat: 30 days over 35C
- Jodhpur extreme heat: 29 days over 35C
- Kaziranga monsoon: 17 rainy days, 350mm
- Kochi monsoon: 21 rainy days, 509mm
- Kohima monsoon: 27 rainy days, 470mm
- Kolkata extreme heat: 14 days over 35C
- Lucknow extreme heat: 25 days over 35C
- Madurai extreme heat: 26 days over 35C
- Majuli monsoon: 20 rainy days, 423mm
- Munnar monsoon: 27 rainy days, 504mm
- Omkareshwar extreme heat: 30 days over 35C
- Ooty monsoon: 22 rainy days, 232mm
- Pondicherry 34C max, 4 rainy days
- Rishikesh extreme heat: 17 days over 35C
- Shillong monsoon: 18 rainy days, 230mm
- Srisailam extreme heat: 21 days over 35C
- Tawang monsoon: 24 rainy days, 215mm
- Tezpur monsoon: 18 rainy days, 414mm
- The Andaman Islands monsoon: 16 rainy days, 308mm
- Thiruvananthapuram monsoon: 18 rainy days, 337mm
- Tirupati extreme heat: 27 days over 35C
- Tiruvannamalai extreme heat: 24 days over 35C
- Udaipur extreme heat: 26 days over 35C
- Ujjain extreme heat: 30 days over 35C
- Varanasi extreme heat: 28 days over 35C
- Visakhapatnam extreme heat: 10 days over 35C
- Vrindavan extreme heat: 28 days over 35C
Other months for India
- January 29 sweet
- February 48 sweet
- March 17 sweet
- April 6 sweet
- May
- June 6 sweet
- July 4 sweet
- August 2 sweet
- September 5 sweet
- October 19 sweet
- November 15 sweet
- December 8 sweet
- Every month, side by side
May elsewhere
Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. Nothing is said about India as a whole that was not first measured at each place in it.