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Goa to the Maldives

Down India's west coast to Sri Lanka and out to the atolls. 4 stops, 1,929 km end to end as the crow flies.

Goa
Photo by Ravi Dwivedi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
January and February are a sweet spot at 3 of the 4.

The stops, in order

Month by month

Place JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Goa 28° 29° 29° 30° 30° 28° 27° 27° 27° 29° 30° 29°
Kochi 32° 34° 34° 33° 30° 28° 28° 28° 29° 29° 30° 31°
Colombo 30° 32° 32° 31° 30° 29° 29° 29° 29° 29° 29° 29°
The Maldives 28° 28° 28° 29° 29° 29° 28° 28° 28° 28° 28° 28°
Sweet spots 332100000000

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.

Between the stops

Goa → Kochi 645 km, about 1h 42m in the air
Kochi → Colombo 506 km, about 1h 32m in the air
Nonstop, about 1 a day · SriLankan Airlines
Colombo → The Maldives 778 km, about 1h 52m in the air

Distances are great-circle and the flight time is estimated from them. A road, train or bus line is listed only where it was measured — flights from AeroDataBox, roads from OpenRouteService, trains and buses from public timetables via Transitous — and none of it is a fare; the searches on each stop's page are where prices live.

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 Goa to the Maldives as a whole that was not first measured at each place in it.