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40 Manali itineraries.

From a day plan to a week, for a first visit, a couple, a family, a trek or a snow morning — each a different trip, each with real drive times, and any of them yours to copy and change.

Pick by nights first (day plans, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 nights are covered), then by who is going and the month. Every plan opens to a day-by-day with the minutes between stops, where to stay, what it costs on the ground, and a button that copies it into your own trips. New to Manali? Read the Manali guide first.

Showing the 10 plans that stop at Manali Sanctuary.Show all 40
Old Manali's café lane by the Manalsu at dusk
Old Manali — two days of cafés, lanes and one forest walk
1 night · 2 days · Slow travel · Cafés & food
Two days in Old Manali without a car: long breakfasts on the lane, the Manu temple, the riverside lawns, the forest walk, the Hadimba grove and the hot springs.
Best Mar–Jun · Sep–Nov
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Solang under snow
Manali in the snow — December and January in three days
2 nights · 3 days · Couples · Snow
Three winter days in Manali: a slow cold town, the hot springs at Vashisht, and the snow day through the Atal Tunnel to Sissu while Rohtang is shut.
Best Jan–Feb · Dec
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Monsoon mist through grass and deodars near Manali
Manali in the monsoon — three slow, green days
2 nights · 3 days · Slow travel · Monsoon
Manali in July and August: the forest path, the museum, Naggar Castle under a roof, the hot springs and Old Manali — three green days that need no high road.
Best Jul–Sep
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Deodars and cliffs around Jogini Falls
Manali day hikes — three days on foot, home every night
2 nights · 3 days · Trekkers · Walks & treks
Three days of walking from Manali with a bed every night: Jogini Falls from Vashisht, the Anjani Mahadev climb and the sanctuary forest, then a temple walk.
Best Mar–Jun · Sep–Nov
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Paragliders landing at Solang's meadow
Manali with kids — four easy days
3 nights · 4 days · Family · Classic
Four easy days in Manali with children: a river park and the temple grove, Solang's meadow, snow through the tunnel to Sissu with no altitude, and the forest.
Best Mar–Jun · Sep–Dec
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Old Manali's lane by the Manalsu at dusk
Manali solo on a budget — four days on foot and by local bus
3 nights · 4 days · Solo · Classic
A four-day Manali plan with no taxi: the town on foot, free hot springs and a waterfall walk from Vashisht, Naggar Castle by local bus, and the forest.
Best Mar–May · Sep–Nov
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Four days in Manali — the valley, the pass and the meadow
Four days in Manali — the valley, the pass and the meadow
3 nights · 4 days · First visit · Classic
A four-day Manali itinerary: the temples on foot, a full day up to Rohtang Pass with the permit sorted, a slow day at Naggar Castle, then waterfall walks.
Best May–Jun · Sep–Oct
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Hadimba temple's pagoda roofs among deodars
Five days in Manali, slowly — one thing a day
4 nights · 5 days · Slow travel · Classic
A five-day Manali plan at one thing a day: the temple and Old Manali, Naggar Castle and Jana Falls, the hot springs, the tunnel to Sissu, then the forest.
Best Mar–May · Sep–Nov
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Shimla's houses on the hillside in evening light
Shimla and Manali in six days — the classic Himachal trip, day by day
5 nights · 6 days · First visit · Multi-hub · starts in Manali
Shimla and Manali in six days: the Ridge, Jakhoo and Kufri, the long road via Naggar, then Hadimba, Vashisht, Solang and Sissu, with measured drive times.
Best Mar–Jun · Sep–Nov
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The Manalsu tumbling past Old Manali under deodars
A week's workation in Manali — work the days, use the ends
6 nights · 7 days · Workation · Classic
Seven days in Manali with a laptop: five weekdays at a desk in Old Manali with the forest, hot springs and grove in the breaks, then Solang and Naggar.
Best Mar–May · Sep–Nov
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Questions people ask

How do I choose between the 40 Manali itineraries?

Start from how many nights you have — the cards say it in the corner — then who is going. A first visit with two or three nights takes the classic plan; couples, families and friends have their own; the season plans fit the month you are coming. Every plan is a real trip, and any can be copied and changed.

What does "Copy to my trips" do?

It puts the whole plan — every day and every stop, with our measured drive times — into your own trip on HimLocal, where you can add a night, drop a stop or move a day. The published plan stays as it is; your copy is yours. A free HimLocal account takes a minute.

Are the drive times and prices real?

The minutes between stops come from our own road routing on OpenStreetMap data, and every plan was checked against a daily budget so no day asks more than a day allows. Prices are typical local bands with the date we checked them — operators quote on the day, and nothing here is a booking.

Photographs by Wikimedia Commons contributors (CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA), resized; each picture is credited on its own page.