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Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. The Best Time to Visit India, in One Sentence The first time I planned India, I picked May because the flights were cheap. A seasoned traveler at my hostel in Delhi heard the plan, put down her chai, and said simply: “You’re going to melt.” She was right. Forty-three degrees in the shade of a Jaipur fort, the marble too hot to touch, every sane local indoors by noon. I’d accidentally booked the worst possible month — and learned the single most important rule about this enormous, glorious country. ...

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. The Best Time to Visit Morocco, in One Sentence The first thing that hit me in Marrakech wasn’t the heat. It was the smell of orange blossom drifting over the Jemaa el-Fnaa as the call to prayer rolled across the rooftops and the snake charmers packed up for the night. I’d booked late March almost by accident, trying to dodge both the summer furnace and the Christmas crowds, and it turned out to be the smartest thing I did. The days were warm enough for the souks and cool enough to climb to the Atlas foothills without melting. ...

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. The Best Time to Visit Vietnam, in One Sentence We were three days into Hoi An when the sky simply fell out of itself. Lanterns still glowing over the old town, and the street outside our guesthouse turned into a calf-deep brown river while a man paddled past on a plastic stool, grinning. It was late October, and I had booked the whole trip around the south being dry without once checking what the central coast does that month. The lesson cost us a soggy afternoon and a lifelong habit: in Vietnam you do not plan one season, you plan three. ...