Region

East India

Bengali, intellectual, river-fed

The Ganges delta, the Sundarbans, and Kolkata's literary bones. East India is the country's most culturally dense corner per square kilometre — Bengali sweets, jute fields, Buddhist circuits in Bihar, and the wild forests of Odisha and Jharkhand.

Cities indexed14

Best seasonOct – Feb

VibeBengali, intellectual, river-fed

What makes East India

All cities in East India

14 cities

Mizoram★ 8.3

Aizawl

12 sights262 stays14–28°C

Sikkim★ 8.1

Gangtok

11 sights233 stays14–28°C

Sikkim★ 7.2

Pelling

4 sights26 stays14–28°C

Meghalaya★ 9.4

Shillong

23 sights538 stays14–28°C

Odisha★ 9.7

Bhubaneswar

25 sights598 stays14–28°C

Bihar★ 8.7

Bodhgaya

16 sights368 stays14–28°C

Assam★ 9.4

Guwahati

22 sights529 stays14–28°C

West Bengal★ 7.4

Kolkata

5 sights69 stays14–28°C

Meghalaya★ 8.3

Mawlynnong

13 sights285 stays14–28°C

Arunachal Pradesh★ 9.2

Tawang

21 sights484 stays14–28°C

West Bengal★ 8.9

Darjeeling

18 sights402 stays14–28°C

Odisha★ 8.4

Konark

14 sights298 stays14–28°C

Arunachal Pradesh★ 8.3

Ziro

13 sights283 stays14–28°C

Odisha★ 9.5

Daringbadi

23 sights553 stays14–28°C

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