The Pakistan Mango Season Calendar — Variety By Variety

A pre-booked mango is only as good as the week it ships. Order too early and you taste starch; too late and you miss the variety entirely. Pakistan's mango season runs roughly late May through September — but each premium variety has its own window inside that.

Sindhri is the season-opener. Golden skin, fibreless flesh, honeyed sweetness. The first export Sindhri leaves the orchard in the last week of May and the variety peaks through mid-June.

If you want to gift the very first mangoes of the year, this is the only variety on the table.

The fragrant heart of the season. Anwar Ratool is the aristocrat — small, deeply aromatic, creamy. 12 No Ratool is its elite graft cousin: even more intense, slightly smaller, the variety connoisseurs reserve for themselves.

Both peak in the last two weeks of June and the first week of July.

The longest-running and best-loved of the export cultivars. Royal Chaunsa is the king — buttery flesh, intense fragrance, deep golden colour. It overlaps the Ratool window and then carries the season through July.

If you are picking one variety for a whole household, Chaunsa is usually the answer.

The late-season delicacy. Pale golden skin, refined restrained sweetness, silky texture and the longest shelf life of the bunch. White Chaunsa closes the season — the last premium mangoes you'll get until next May.

Pre-book a single variety to enjoy one cultivar at its peak, or pre-book a season pass that mixes the calendar — one box of Sindhri in June, Anwar Ratool in early July, and Chaunsa late July.