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Perfect time to visit Bhutan depends on your reasons for traveling to this magical Himalayan kingdom.
Weather-wise, the best seasons for general travel are spring (March and April) and autumn (October and November). Which timeframe you pinpoint will depend on whether your main goal is trekking, avoiding the crowds or attending a specific festival. In general, October is the single most popular month for foreign visitors to Bhutan, closely followed by April.
With a perfect combination of comfortable temperatures, clear skies, spectacular festivals and good trekking, October is the single best month to visit Bhutan – which is why it’s the most popular month for international visitors. Expect to encounter large groups at the more popular sights and throughout western Bhutan, as well as numerous trekking groups in camping areas.
Springtime in the eastern Himalaya brings not only delightful weather but entire hillsides of pink, red and white rhododendron blooms, as well as the dramatic spiky blossoms of Bhutan’s many red silk-cotton trees. In this timeframe, temperatures are warm, the fields are greener and snow still shrouds the higher peaks.
The spring and autumn seasons are easily the best times to go trekking in the Bhutanese Himalaya. Spring brings colorful blooms but also more rain and mud than autumn, as well as more snow on the higher passes.
By early November, up to 600 black-necked cranes have established their winter home in Bhutan’s beautiful Phobjikha Valley, making it one of the best places in the world to spot these graceful, auspicious birds. While the cranes roost in the valley until March, November, before winter temperatures drop below freezing, offers the most comfortable viewing conditions. Most of Bhutan is accessible during the winter months of November to February – save for the high mountain passes of the main trekking areas, which stay snowbound until late spring.
Since lower-lying areas such as the subtropical Punakha Valley and most of eastern Bhutan are already comfortably warm in February, this a great time to visit these regions.
The high-altitude wildflowers in mountain valleys are at their peak, and this is the only time to spot the almost mythological blue poppy, The monsoon months also usher in wild-mushroom season, as well as summer festivals in little-visited places like the lovely Haa Valley.
Whenever you visit, try to structure your itinerary around one of Bhutan’s spectacular and colorful religious festivals. Large crowds of Bhutanese attend these events, dressed in their finest traditional robes, and a motley crew of holy men and hucksters also set up shop. They’re true social highlights of the year for the country’s citizens. The most popular of Bhutan’s many tsechus (masked dance festivals) are held in Paro and Thimphu in April and September respectively, and though they are spectacular affairs they do attract a lot of tourists.
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