India is a country where landscape differentiates wildly, climatic conditions are only bound to differ wildly too.
Classified as a hot tropical country by numerous, that is a definition that holds true for most of but not all of India. Exceptions include the northern states of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir in the north and Sikkim in the northeastern hills.

The majority of India summer is hot. It begins in April and continues till the beginning of October. The heat peaks in June with temperatures in the northern plains and the west soaring above 46° C. The monsoons hit the country throughout this period, commencing from the 1st of June when they are supposed to find the Kerala coast. Moisture loaded trade winds sweep the country bringing respite to a parched northern India but destruction in the east where the rivers Brahmaputra and Ganga flood yearly. Tamil Nadu in the south receives rainfall between October and December, beneficiary of the retreating Indian monsoons.

India’s widespread coastline lies approximately entirely below the Tropic of Cancer. The coast is typically warm and moist, prone to heavy rains in the monsoons and high summer temperatures. The eastern coast is defenseless to cyclones. Winters here are gentle and satisfyingly sunny.

Hill Stations are the content peculiarity that came up here when British wives and officers needed to flee the domineering heat and malaria of the plains. picturesque towns that buzz along "mall roads", tucked away in hills all over India, they are now weekend getaways at the pinnacle of summer for families and couples from India’s modern  cities.

The plains in India’s north and even the desolate countryside of Rajasthan spool under a cold wave every year in December-January. Minimum temperatures could dip below 4° C but maximum temperatures typically do not fall minor than 12° C. In the northern high altitude areas of Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Sikkim, and parts of Uttar Pradesh, it snows during the winter and even summer months are only meekly warm.

The east receives rain from April to August. September to November is moderately dry and the region only has irregular showers. There are winter rains in December and January. This abates for two months and then it’s time for the monsoon season yet again. The central plateau has comparable climate to the north but the mercury does not plunge as low in winter. It rains from mid-June to September.