Best places to visit in July

Leh & Ladakh

Leh-Ladakh

Leh-Ladakh is a high-altitude desert region cradled by the Himalayan and Karakoram ranges in the union territory of Ladakh.

Peak season, all routes open

Leh & Ladakh

Pangong Tso

Pangong Tso is an endorheic lake at roughly 4,225 metres on the Changtang plateau of eastern Ladakh.

Pleasant day temperatures with maximum water color depth.

Leh & Ladakh

Nubra Valley

Nubra is a three-armed valley north of Leh at an average of nearly 3,048 metres, cut over millennia where the Shyok and the Nubra meet.

Pleasant daytime weather and clear highway access.

Leh & Ladakh

Tso Moriri

Tso Moriri, or Mountain Lake, is an offbeat high-altitude lake tucked away at an astounding elevation of 4,522 metres on the Changtang plateau of southeastern…

Pleasant daytime hours under open sunny skies.

Leh & Ladakh

Magnetic Hill

Magnetic Hill is a famous gravity-defying road stretch on the Srinagar-Leh National Highway, roughly 30 kilometres outside the capital town of Leh.

Warm afternoon hours with excellent horizon clarity.

Himachal Pradesh

Key Monastery

Key Monastery is a thousand-year-old Tibetan Buddhist monastery belonging to the Gelugpa (Yellow Hat) lineage.

Comfortably cool daytime weather and high visibility.

Leh & Ladakh

Zanskar Valley

Zanskar is one of the last genuinely difficult journeys left in India, and that is the whole appeal.

Cool refreshing daytimes with high mountain visibility.

Maharashtra

Lonavala & Khandala

Lonavala and Khandala are twin hill stations at 622 metres on the sweeping Sahyadri ridges of the Western Ghats, close enough together to be treated as one…

Torrential downpours with dense rolling mists and cloud cover.

Himachal Pradesh

Chandratal Lake

Chandratal means Lake of the Moon, and the name comes from its crescent shape.

Pleasant clear daytimes with perfect mirror reflections.

Leh & Ladakh

Leh

Leh sits at 3,500 metres and the single most important thing about it is that you cannot skip the first two days.

Warm weather with bright direct solar glare.

Himachal Pradesh

Spiti Valley (Kaza)

Spiti is the emptiest place in India that you can still drive to, and the reason to come is the scale of the nothing.

Comfortably warm daytime weather with open blue skies.

Leh & Ladakh

Hemis Monastery

Hemis belongs to the Drukpa (Dragon) lineage of the Kagyu sect, and it is set back in a mountain canyon on the western bank of the Indus, roughly 45…

Pleasant daytimes with comfortable walking temperatures.

Nagaland

Dzukou Valley

Dzukou Valley, straddling the Nagaland-Manipur border, is a high-altitude trekking paradise famous for its rolling green meadows and the rare seasonal Dzukou…

Lush green meadows in full bloom.

Maharashtra

Ajanta Caves

The Ajanta Caves are 30 rock-cut Buddhist monuments set into a horseshoe-shaped gorge in Aurangabad district.

Humid and rainy with fully lush green canyon walls.

Maharashtra

Matheran

Matheran bans motor vehicles inside the town, which makes it the quietest place within two hours of Mumbai and the only hill station in Asia to enforce that.

Torrential non-stop rain with near-zero viewpoint visibility and deep fog layers.

Uttarakhand

Valley of Flowers National Park

A UNESCO World Heritage Site in the high Himalayas famed for its vast meadows of endemic alpine flowers blooming in monsoon.