Mountains
5 destinations of this kind, each scored month by month on climate, crowds and fares.
February, September and October are a sweet spot at 2 of the 5.
The destinations
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Leh
India · best Jun, Jul, Sep
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Srinagar
India · best Apr, May, Oct
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Almaty
Kazakhstan · best Jun, Jul, Aug
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Kathmandu
Nepal · best Jan, Feb, Mar
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Cape Town
South Africa · best Feb, Sep, Oct
By region
- South Asia
- Leh India
- Srinagar India
- Kathmandu Nepal
- Caucasus and Central Asia
- Almaty Kazakhstan
- Africa
- Cape Town South Africa
Month by month
| Place | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leh | -9° | -8° | -3° | 2° | 9° | 15° | 21° | 21° | 18° | 7° | -1° | -8° |
| Srinagar | 5° | 7° | 12° | 17° | 21° | 24° | 25° | 25° | 24° | 19° | 13° | 8° |
| Almaty | 0° | 3° | 10° | 18° | 23° | 28° | 31° | 29° | 24° | 16° | 8° | 2° |
| Kathmandu | 14° | 16° | 20° | 23° | 23° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 22° | 19° | 16° |
| Cape Town | 25° | 25° | 24° | 21° | 19° | 17° | 16° | 16° | 18° | 20° | 22° | 23° |
| Sweet spots | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Each cell is that destination's own verdict for the month — sweet spot, ok or avoid — with its typical daily high, from the same ten years of climate readings its page is built from. A dot marks a busy month. The last row counts the sweet spots, and the best months are marked.
Trips in Mountains
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 Mountains as a whole that was not first measured at each place in it.