Experience Auli in Winter 2025: Adventure, Stay & Budget Tips

The month of January had started in which our friends had decided to go to a very beautiful place and that beautiful place was none other than Auli of our beloved beautiful Uttarakhand, which is known for its beautiful snow fields, clean environment and beautiful apple orchards which add to the beauty of Auli and lakhs of tourists come here every year from far and wide to see it. You get to see a lot of snowfall here during the month of January, during this time you can also enjoy the snowfall here. So let us tell you how was our journey from Delhi to Auli and what difficulties we had to face during this journey. When to Visit Auli for a Perfect Trip

Auli which is in Joshimath of Uttarakhand is a place where you can visit anytime in the whole year, here you will feel cold all the time, the temperature here does not exceed 20-22 degree Celsius even in summer and in the winter time we saw that it went up to -16 degrees in which we had to face a lot of difficulties and due to this we were also able to enjoy the snowfall. In this season you can do skiing and tube seat activities. In this season the whole of Auli seems to be covered with a white sheet of snow.

How to reach Delhi to Auli in Winter

Our journey starts from Anand Vihar bus stand from where we had booked tickets for our 9 companions. We got this bus from Anand Vihar to Rishikesh Nepali Farm because most of the buses leave for Dehradun and they drop us only till Nepali Farm. The ticket for one bus cost us Rs 488/-. This bus was at 11 pm which dropped us at Nepali Farm by 4:30 am. Then from here we booked an auto to the bus stand from where we had to take a bus for Joshimath. So the fare of this auto was Rs 70/- per person. 

The first bus from here was for Joshimath at 6 am, so we quickly packed our luggage and took our seats. Our journey from here was quite tough because the buses for that place are a little small and you must be aware of the mountain routes and this journey took 10 hours in which the bus stopped at only one place. The fare for one person in this bus was Rs 510. 

Then somehow we reached Joshimath, our condition had become bad, but we were so passionate about seeing snow that we had thought of stopping at Joshimath, but even after being so tired, we quickly booked a vehicle in time and left for Auli from Joshimath, which was 15-16 kilometers away. We were a group of 9 people, so we had to book 2 vehicles, the total fare of which was Rs 2200. The journey from here to Auli was full of beautiful views, the snow covered mountains were very beautiful to look at from here and the behavior of the people here was very friendly, the taxi drivers also behaved very well with us and then after a journey of 35 to 40 minutes we reached Auli and there the entire mountains and the sides of the roads were covered with snow, seeing which the people with us started playing with the snow. Stay tuned and let us know how we found the hotels and how was the journey from there onwards.

Auli in Winter: Hotels Price and Features

Although Auli is a hub for travelers, you will find everything here, but in winters many travelers come there to see Auli in Winter, so you may have to face some difficulty in finding hotels because the Price of Hotels in Auli is high in winters, so it may take you some time to find hotels according to your budget. As we reached Auli a little late, we had some difficulty in finding hotels because by evening the hotels around Auli taxi stand were booked, so we inquired in almost all the nearby hotels and found a tent house. At first we were hesitant to stay in a tent because the cold of January there was very severe, but that was our last option because it was about to be night, so we all thought it right to stay in a tent. As you must be knowing that we were 9 people and so we had to book 2 tents according to that, the cost of one tent was 2500/- rupees after bargaining.

Auli in Winter: Tent features in Auli

As you know, the winter cold in Auli was very severe and it was not easy for us to stay there, so we got a heater from the uncle of the tent, the rent of one heater was 500/- rupees. Apart from this, you can also enjoy the bornfire, bornfire is free, it is free with your tent but only for some time, like ours was from 8 to 10 o'clock, rest you can also talk and take more wood.

Due to so much cold, the water had accumulated there, so for that, the tent people gave us a rod to collect water, so that we could collect water.

We got a Bornfire Night from the tent owners in which tables, chairs, speakers and a bornfire were given to us by the tent owners for which there was no extra cost.

Food arrangements were also good, the taste and cleanliness of the food was good but we had taken some packets of Maggie which we got prepared by them for which they charged us 50/- Rs for preparing it once but that was not all, keeping in mind our group and to complete our trip in a low budget, we bought rice, tomatoes, soyabean and other things from the same shop and got it prepared by them. This sounds very strange but they prepared it for us for 100/- Rs so that we saved our food expenses to a great extent and were able to enjoy it as well.

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Know About Auli in Winter - Chair Car, Activities and Weather

Auli is full of beautiful scenes in winter. Wherever you look from here, you will see white snow-covered mountains everywhere which look very beautiful, but along with this, snowfall starts here, in which you have to take a lot of care because if the snowfall falls on you, then your health can deteriorate due to it and due to snowfall, you may have to face a lot of problems in walking on the roads because our normal shoes slip a lot there, due to which there is a fear of falling. Now we know that if we talk about Auli taxi stand, then first of all you have to take a chair car from here which takes you to the winter activities point of Auli where all the activities happen and where you get to see the artificial lake of Auli and the ticket price of one person for this chair car is 500 / - Rs. which includes both going and coming. 3 or 4 people can sit in one chair car. Along with taking this ticket, your arrival time is also decided from the ticket counter so that there is no crowd there. Our journey in this chair car was of 4-5 minutes. In this, you get to see all the mountains from a height, the view of which will surprise you a lot.

Auli is considered a hub of Activities in Winters because many types of activities take place here like tube sliding, skiing and others. But you can play in the snow with your friends, enjoy the Artificial Lake and have tea and maggies in such cold weather.

The weather of Auli changes very fast in winters. As per our own experience, when we were going there the weather was normal but when we reached there, after some time snowfall started, which gradually increased and started wetting our clothes and falling on our whole body and face, due to which we started having a lot of problems and the cold increased so much that our hands became numb due to cold and due to snow getting inside our feet, they also started paining. Then to go from here also you have to wait in the chair car line. We had to wait for 40 minutes for our turn to come and when we were going, all the snow accumulated on us. So whenever you think of going to Auli in Winter, definitely carry a shawl to cover yourself.

The Most Important Things to Carry While Going to Auli in Winter

When we went to Auli in Winter, we could not think much about it. We had an idea of ​​the cold but we could not bring all the things accordingly, due to which we had to face a lot of problems.

First of all, you should have warm socks and at least 4 to 5 socks, so that if one of them gets wet, you can replace it with another.

The second most important thing is your boot shoes or you should have something that does not cause any problem to your feet even after your shoes get wet, because the very next day of our visit to Auli, there was a lot of snowfall, due to which our shoes and socks got wet. After which we had a lot of problems because after the shoes got wet, our toes became numb and they started paining, which would be very painful, so keep this in mind whenever you go to any cold place in winter.

After these, the most important thing is warm gloves for our hands because due to the cold there, you will have to use your hands while playing in the snow and this will cause a lot of trouble if you do not take gloves because you will feel as if your fingernails are about to come out. Therefore, before going to any snowy place, it is also important to take these. Apart from these, there are other things like caps, warm inners and other things.

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Fare from Auli to Joshimath on Snow-Covered Road

As you must have already known everything about our Auli Trip, this was the most unexpected thing for us because we had paid Rs 2200/- for the fare while coming back and while going back, we paid Rs 4000/- for the same route. In which there was only one car which is open from the back and in which people used it to carry luggage. They had tied chains on all four tyres of the vehicle so that it did not slip and the vehicle was also 4×4.

The Last Bus Timing From Joshimath to Rishikesh

By the way, the bus from Joshimath to Rishikesh starts at 5 am and from here some buses to Rishikesh have timings every hour. But the last bus from here to Rishikesh is at 8 am, after that, you do not get to see any bus from here, so whenever you go to Auli in Winters, do take information about the buses once. You can see its fare according to different buses because the fare while going was Rs 575 /- per person.

Note:- It is not necessary that you book hotels in advance, you can book after coming here and seeing the hotels and tents.