The Himalaya
Kashmir, Ladakh and Nepal, west to east along the range. 3 stops, 1,289 km end to end as the crow flies.
The stops, in order
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Srinagar
India · best Apr, May, Oct
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Leh
India · best Jun, Jul, Sep
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Kathmandu
Nepal · best Jan, Feb, Mar
Month by month
| Place | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Srinagar | 5° | 7° | 12° | 17° | 21° | 24° | 25° | 25° | 24° | 19° | 13° | 8° |
| Leh | -9° | -8° | -3° | 2° | 9° | 15° | 21° | 21° | 18° | 7° | -1° | -8° |
| Kathmandu | 14° | 16° | 20° | 23° | 23° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 22° | 19° | 16° |
| Sweet spots | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 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.
Between the stops
| Srinagar → Leh | 256 km, about 1h 14m in the air |
|---|---|
| Leh → Kathmandu | 1,033 km, about 2h 11m 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 The Himalaya as a whole that was not first measured at each place in it.