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India onion export season

India ships onions year-round. Lands year-round on the India → Rotterdam run.

Ships
Year-round
October–March at the shoulders
Lands
Year-round
on the India → Rotterdam run, 18–25 days
India onions: the export window by month, and the weeks each lane lands it.
Stage Month
Ships out of India Ships april–september peak · october–march shoulder
India → Rotterdam 18–25 days · year-round Lands year-round on the India → Rotterdam run
Peak Shoulder Landing Port to port, across services rather than one schedule. Add the road leg at either end.

Load ports Nhava Sheva, Mundra, and Chennai

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.

The exposure on this row is not agricultural. India has repeatedly restricted, taxed or banned onion exports at short notice when the domestic price rises, and a programme can stop being legal between the booking and the loading. No other window in this section carries that risk, and it belongs in a contract clause rather than in a plan.

Last reviewed August 2026. Editorial ranges for a normal year, not a published schedule. Weather moves them, sometimes by weeks.

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