When is Sindhri mango season?
Sindhri is picked from the middle of May into June. Here is the whole season month by month, and why the dates move from one year to the next.
The short answer
Sindhri is picked from the middle of May into late June. That is the window. If you want Sindhri specifically, you are looking at those six weeks and not much more.
The wider Pakistani mango season runs from May to August. On our orchard that means four varieties in sequence rather than all at once. Langro comes off first in the second half of May, Sindhri is the main harvest through to late June, Sohnaro fills a short window in early June, and Chaunsa carries the rest of the summer and closes the season.
Month by month
| Month | What is happening |
|---|---|
| February | Flowering. This is the month that decides the size of the crop you will pick in June. |
| March and April | Fruit sets and fills out. Nothing is picked yet. |
| Mid to late May | Langro. The first fruit off the trees, and the one that stays green when it is ripe. |
| Mid May to late June | Sindhri is picked. The most important harvest of the year for us. |
| Early to mid June | Sohnaro. A short window, and the one fewest people outside Sindh have tried. |
| June to August | Chaunsa. The mid-season fruit, the one most people abroad have eaten, and the one that closes the season. |
| September onward | No fruit. The trees are left to recover and the next year's crop is already being decided. |
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Why the dates move
People ask for an exact start date and we cannot give one. A mango harvest is not scheduled, it is observed. The flowering in February sets the whole thing in motion, and the weather between then and May decides whether picking starts in the second week of May or the fourth.
A cold spell at the wrong moment, an early heatwave, rain when you do not want it: any of those move the date. This is the part of the job that keeps you awake. You can walk the rows every day and still not know for certain until the fruit tells you.
So when we say mid May, we mean mid May in most years. We confirm the real date to people on the list before anyone else hears it.
When boxes and export loads go out
Boxes for customers in Pakistan start moving as soon as Sindhri picking is properly underway. Export consignments follow the same rhythm, because the fruit has to be picked, graded and packed before it goes anywhere.
The practical consequence is that the season is short and the good fruit goes quickly. Individual 5 KG boxes sell out every year. That is not a sales line, it is just what happens when one orchard has one harvest.
How we decide the day
There is no instrument for this. You walk the rows and you look at the fruit. The shoulders fill out and the shape changes from the long tapering form of an immature Sindhri to something fuller. The green loses its hardness and starts to turn. A few fruit drop on their own, which is the tree telling you something.
Then you cut one open. If the flesh has gone from white to pale yellow through to the stone, it is close. That is the test that settles it, and it is the same test the previous three generations used.
Fruit for people in Pakistan is picked riper than fruit going abroad, because it has less distance to travel. A box going to Karachi and a consignment going to London do not come off the tree on the same day even though they come off the same tree.
If you miss the Sindhri window
It happens, because six weeks is not long. Chaunsa runs from June into August and is the obvious alternative. It is sweeter than Sindhri and much softer, with a strong smell. Plenty of people prefer it.
Langro and Sohnaro will not help you here. Both are earlier than Sindhri rather than later, so if the Sindhri window has closed they have closed too. Chaunsa is the one that runs on.
What you cannot do is get Sindhri in September. There is no cold store version of this and we would not sell you one.
Ordering around the season
If you want boxes, the sensible thing is to get on the list before the season rather than during it. We write to the list when picking starts, with dispatch dates, and those are taken in order.
If you are an importer, the lead time matters more. Pack sizes, volumes and freight need to be agreed before the fruit is on the tree, not after. Ask for the 2027 export sheet and we will send what we have.
Not sure which variety you actually want? The mango guide sets all four of them side by side.