Best for July: Singapore, Vietnam (Central), Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur & west coast and East-coast islands), Indonesia / Bali and Sri Lanka (East coast). Skip if you can: Thailand (Andaman coast), UAE / Dubai, Vietnam (North and Phu Quoc), Bhutan, Nepal and South Korea.
Ratings come from national met services and tourism boards; the split between best and okay is editorial guidance. Figures are monthly averages (high/low °C, rain), not a forecast. Updated 17 October 2026.
Kuala Lumpur & west coastKuala Lumpur: 30°/24°C, 159 mm rainMetMalaysia: most of the peninsula has rain peaks in Oct-Nov and Apr-May, with minima in Jun-Jul and Feb.
East-coast islands (Perhentian, Redang, Tioman)No climate figures in our dataMetMalaysia: NE monsoon (Nov-Mar) brings heavy rain, floods and rough seas to the east coast; Nov-Jan wettest, Jun-Jul driest.
BaliBali (Denpasar): 26°/24°C, 72 mm rainBali Provincial Govt: dry season generally Apr-Oct, rainy season Oct-Apr, with Oct and Apr as transition months.
East coast (Trincomalee, Arugam Bay)Trincomalee: 34°/27°C, 36 mm rainMet Dept: the NE monsoon (Dec-Feb) rains on the north and east; Tourism SL says the east coast is at its finest May-Sep.
Bhutan: Paro, Thimphu, PunakhaJul-Aug (monsoon). Best instead: Mar-May, Oct-Nov.
Nepal: Kathmandu, PokharaJun-Aug (monsoon; 80% of rain falls Jun-Sep). Best instead: Mar-Apr, Oct-Nov.
South Korea: Seoul, Busan, JejuJul (jangma rainy season; Seoul's wettest month, 282 mm in our data). Best instead: Apr-May, Sep-Oct.
Weather data by Open-Meteo.com, licensed CC BY 4.0. Climate averages are 2016–2025 ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service, ECMWF), processed by India Outbound Travel News. These are not official WMO normals; where a met service publishes station figures, the charts use them instead, as labelled.