Summer — islands and high ground — Visit India
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A man rowing a boat on calm water

March – June · sea level, or 1,500 metres up

Islands before the rain

Summer closes the plains and opens two other Indias: coral atolls with their clearest water of the year, and hill stations that spend nine months in cloud. Both have a hard end date — the monsoon.

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Read the water before you book

Drag through the year. Sea state decides everything on the islands — not just diving, but whether the inter-island ferry sails at all.

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Permits, ferries and the rules nobody mentions

Both island groups are protected territory and neither works like the mainland. This is the part that catches people out a week before departure.

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Reef and lagoon

Sixteen frames of island summer

Boats, palms, shallow water and empty road. March and April on the Andamans and Lakshadweep.

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