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India fresh produce export calendar

When India ships table grapes, mangoes, pomegranates and onions, month by month, out of Nhava Sheva and Mundra.

Load ports
Nhava Sheva, Mundra, and Chennai
Produce covered
Table grapes Mango Pomegranate Onion
Lanes out of here
India → Rotterdam
India fresh produce export calendar: which produce ships in which month.
Produce January February March April May June July August September October November December
Table grapes January: Shoulder February: Peak March: Peak April: Shoulder May: Not shipping June: Not shipping July: Not shipping August: Not shipping September: Not shipping October: Not shipping November: Not shipping December: Not shipping
Mango January: Not shipping February: Not shipping March: Shoulder April: Peak May: Peak June: Shoulder July: Not shipping August: Not shipping September: Not shipping October: Not shipping November: Not shipping December: Not shipping
Pomegranate January: Not shipping February: Shoulder March: Shoulder April: Shoulder May: Shoulder June: Not shipping July: Not shipping August: Not shipping September: Peak October: Peak November: Peak December: Peak
Onion January: Shoulder February: Shoulder March: Shoulder April: Peak May: Peak June: Peak July: Peak August: Peak September: Peak October: Shoulder November: Shoulder December: Shoulder
Peak — shipping in volume Shoulder — opening or closing Export windows out of the origin, not arrival weeks. Add the lane's transit.

Last reviewed August 2026. Windows are editorial ranges for a normal year, not a published schedule, and they are export weeks out of India rather than arrival weeks in your market.

India is the origin European buyers meet in the weeks when the Southern Hemisphere is finishing. Nashik in Maharashtra ships table grapes from about January to April, into Rotterdam in roughly three weeks, which is short enough to make a Northern Hemisphere programme out of a Southern Hemisphere gap. Pomegranate follows the same route, twice a year. Mangoes are what the country is famous for and the one line that barely travels by sea: Alphonso and Kesar fly, and the sea programme is a small, technically difficult subset of it.

What shapes the calendar is a monsoon rather than a winter, which is why so much of it is compressed into the first half of the year. What shapes the risk is everything that happens after loading. Indian produce into the EU is inspected and residue-tested more closely than most origins, and a held container on a three-week lane has already spent the margin the voyage banked. Onions add a second kind of exposure that is not on any other row here: the export itself can be restricted at short notice when the domestic price moves.

Table grapes

February–March peak · January, April shoulder Varieties: Thompson Seedless

Roughly February and March out of Nashik, opening in January and finishing in April. Rotterdam is about three weeks away through Nhava Sheva, which is what makes the window work at all.

India table grapes: window and arrival weeks · Table grapes across every origin

Mango

April–May peak · March, June shoulder Varieties: Alphonso, Kesar

April and May for Alphonso, with Kesar behind it into June. It is the export India is famous for and the one that barely uses a container: the fruit is picked mature, ripens fast and is worth enough per kilo to fly.

India mango: window and arrival weeks · Mango across every origin

Pomegranate

September–December peak · February–May shoulder Varieties: Bhagwa

India ships on more than one crop. The main harvest carries the export window from about September to December, and a second, thinner window follows in the Northern Hemisphere spring. Growers decide which crop a tree carries by forcing it to flower in a chosen season.

India pomegranate: window and arrival weeks · Pomegranate across every origin

Onion

April–September peak · October–March shoulder

Effectively year-round on three harvests. The rabi crop lifted from March cures and carries exports through the middle of the year; the kharif crop from October covers the rest, which is why the shoulder band below is every remaining month.

India onion: window and arrival weeks · Onion across every origin

FAQ

What fresh produce does India export?
India ships table grapes, mangos, pomegranates, and onions. The calendar on this page gives each one's export window month by month.
When does India export pomegranates?
India ships pomegranates September–December, with February–May at the shoulders. These are export weeks out of the origin, not arrival weeks in your market.
Which ports does India export fresh produce from?
Nhava Sheva, Mundra, and Chennai. The load port is worth knowing because the lane's transit — and so the shelf life left on arrival — is measured from it.

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