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Kashmir is
one of India's most beautiful and touristically popular regions
and has been since the time of the great Moghul emperors. It’s
probably most famous for the houseboats on picturesque Dal Lake
you’ve not really been to Kashmir until you’ve not really been
to Kashmir until you’ve stayed on one - but there’s a lot more
to the Kashmir Valley than just lazing on board.
Jammu Kashmir is the first Himalayan state of India, but its not
another hill land of India. Jammu and Kashmir is really three
regions: the foothill plains of Jammu; the lakes and blue valleys
of Kashmir rising to alpine passes, the high altitude plains and
starkly beautiful mountains of Ladakh, which lies beyond those
passes. It's enough to move one to poetry. Among the most
attractive part that this Indian state has is the adventure
oppurtunities that can be seggragated into trekking,
mountaineering and Trans Himalayan Jeep Safari
Climate
of: Jammu & Kashmir
Minimum Temperature: -40°C (Ladakh
Region)
Maximum Temperature: 40°C (Jammu
Region)
Climate is the one
basic factor, which makes the state of J&K hard to resist for
tourists. While winter is not exactly a suitable time to visit the
Ladakh region, but for trekkers and adventurers May to September
are blissful months, opening numerous trekking opportunities to
explore this remote region. Jammu, the winter capital of the state
is at its best after October, just like Kashmir is an ideal
destination for summers. Anyway sports enthusiasts will get plenty
of options to try out their favorites winter sport activity here.
 Situated
at a height of only 300 metres, Jammu has the three-season
weather typical of the Indian plains. The best time of year in
Jammu is the cool season from early October to about
February-March. In October, immediately after the monsoon
finishes, the weather will be cool and fresh, the skies clear
and dust free. Later in the cool season, December and January in
particular, it can get quite crisp with temperatures as low as
50 C at night.
In February-March the temperature starts to climb as you enter
the hot season. By April, May and June it gets uncomfortably hot
and dry. Since there has been no rain for some time the air is
very dusty and the temperature scarcely seems to drop at night.
Towards the end of the hot season the mercury sill sit at 400 C
or above for days on end. Finally, the monsoon arrives around
the beginning of July; the dust is immediately cleared out of
the air although for some time the temperature change is merely
from hot and dry to hot and sticky.
Kashmir
At an
altitude of over 1,000 metres the Kashmir Valley is much cooler
than Jammu and it is at its best in the months of May-June for
visiting to get a respite from the hot, airless plains. At this
time the daily temperatures are around 200 C, a delightfully
cool contrast to the 400 C temperatures common on the plains to
the south. In July and August it can get rather hotter and the
valley somewhat humid and still - the simple solution is to move
out to one of the smaller resorts that lie around the valley
rim. At places like Srinagar Pahalgam,
Gulmarg and Sonamarg
the altitude ensures cooler weather even in mid summer.
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