Best time to visit India
51 destinations
India does not have a single best season. Its 51 destinations peak across 6 different months, which means an itinerary that moves around the country will be in the right season for some of it and the wrong one for the rest — worth building the route around.
Averaged across every destination listed, India is at its best in December, scoring 88 out of 100, with January close behind at 87. May is the weakest month nationally at 38. The window is narrow: only 3 months come within eight points of the best, so an itinerary covering several of these places should be built around that rather than around any one city's own peak.
India is not one climate. Ahmedabad averages 35 °C across the year against 11 °C in Leh — a 24 °C gap wide enough that advice for one is close to useless for the other. Rain splits the country further: Alappuzha sees 211 wet days a year against 48 in Jodhpur, which is a different kind of trip rather than a slightly damper one.