The honest answer to when you should fly Chennai to New York is mostly about weather and demand at the far end. On three years of daily observations at the arrival airport, Jun, Aug-Oct gives the most comfortable combination of temperature and rainfall in New York.
Averages below come from three full years of daily readings at New York’s main airport, not from a seasonal generalisation. The warmest month is July (average high 29°C), the coolest is January (average low -4°C), and the wettest is March (150 mm).
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Rainfall | Wet days | Chennai high |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3°C | -4°C | 85 mm | 9 | 29°C |
| February | 4°C | -3°C | 71 mm | 9 | 32°C |
| March | 11°C | 3°C | 150 mm | 10 | 34°C |
| April | 15°C | 7°C | 93 mm | 11 | 36°C |
| May | 20°C | 13°C | 128 mm | 12 | 36°C |
| June good | 26°C | 19°C | 82 mm | 9 | 36°C |
| July | 29°C | 22°C | 135 mm | 16 | 35°C |
| August good | 27°C | 20°C | 113 mm | 12 | 34°C |
| September good | 24°C | 17°C | 125 mm | 10 | 34°C |
| October good | 19°C | 11°C | 85 mm | 5 | 31°C |
| November | 12°C | 5°C | 64 mm | 8 | 29°C |
| December | 6°C | 0°C | 136 mm | 10 | 29°C |
Climate data: Open-Meteo reanalysis archive.
New York runs 9.5 hours behind Chennai. Travelling west is generally the easier direction, and you gain usable hours on the day you fly out.
We publish observed fares for this route when we have them, and say nothing when we do not — there is no estimate on this page. What holds regardless of the route:
Midweek departures are consistently cheaper than Friday and Sunday on most routes, because that is where demand sits rather than because of any pricing trick. Where we have observed fares for Chennai–New York, the weekday breakdown appears further down this page; where we do not, we leave it out rather than estimate it.
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