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Where to travel in May on an Indian passport

For ordinary Indian passports, tourism travel only.

May is the school holidays, and that changes what you are optimising for. The dates are not yours to move, the party is usually larger, and the cost is multiplied by however many of you are going — so a difference of a thousand rupees a day between two destinations is a real difference, not a rounding error.

It also means visas in plural. Everyone travelling needs their own, applications for a family take longer than one for a single traveller, and May is the month the queues are longest for exactly that reason. The cards below show what each destination requires; the ones needing nothing arranged in advance are worth a second look when there are four passports on the table.

The daily budget on each card is our own mid-range estimate for one traveller. Multiply before you fall in love with anywhere.

Of the 25 countries we have verified so far, 19 rate May good or excellent. More are being added as each one is checked against its government’s own sources — this is not yet every country in the world, and a destination missing from this page has usually not been researched yet rather than been ruled out.

Best in May

Peak season in May: Uzbekistan. Expect higher prices and more people, and book earlier than you otherwise would — this is about crowds and cost, not weather.

Verified, but May is not their season

These are countries we have checked and published, whose measured weather does not support a May trip. They are here because a destination missing from a page tells you nothing about why — each card carries its own rating for May, and each country page shows the months that do work.

Daily budgets are our own mid-range estimates for one traveller, reviewed between 15 August 2026 and 18 August 2026. They are a guide, not a price anyone charges.

How these are ranked

A month is rated from published temperature and rainfall measurements for real weather stations, not from a general impression of the country.

Ranking is weather only. It says nothing about how easy a country is to enter or what it costs — both are on every card, and the visa rule on each one was read from that government’s own source, with the date shown on the country page.

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