Kerala, India

Kochi

Kerala cooking is the gentle giant of Indian food — coconut-milk fish curries, appams like lace-edged pancakes, and thalis that keep arriving until you surrender — and Fort Kochi serves it with colonial-era atmosphere and Chinese fishing nets creaking on the shoreline.

Best forTropical
Approx. flying time~18h 15m from Los Angeles
Nearest airportKochi (COK)

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About this place

Buy prawns fresh from the nets and have a shack grill them on the spot. A backwater houseboat from nearby Alleppey adds a floating feast. Visit November to February, before the heat builds.

Featured in Ten tropical escapes where the food is half the point

When to go

Daytime highs run from about 27°C in July to 32°C in March. Driest in February; wettest in July, with rain on about 30 days. The sea is warmest in April at around 32°C, coolest at 28°C.

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August28° · rain 27 days · sea 28°Warm and often wet.

Monthly figures averaged from daily records for 2020–2024 at this location (ERA5 reanalysis). Highlighted months are warm and mostly dry — January and February.

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Flights

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