Ideal weather days in Islamabad
The best time to visit Islamabad for warm, dry weather is March and October to December, with 24 to 29 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Islamabad's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in March and October to December.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Islamabad, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too hot108
- Too wet60
- Too cold28
- Too windy21
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Islamabad averaged 182 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Pakistan, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in October (up to 24 a month, 85 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in December (up to 28 a month, 95 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too hot (over 33 °C): 108 a year, mostly in May to September. Another 60 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in July and August. A day can fail more than one test.
Islamabad weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18 °C 64 °F | 1 | 0 | 19 | 16 of 31 |
| February | 21 °C 70 °F | 4 | 1 | 18 | 21 of 28 |
| March | 26 °C 78 °F | 8 | 1 | 16 | 24 of 31 |
| April | 32 °C 89 °F | 9 | 4 | 14 | 15 of 30 |
| May | 36 °C 96 °F | 6 | 4 | 15 | 7 of 31 |
| June | 38 °C 100 °F | 6 | 4 | 7 | 3 of 30 |
| July | 34 °C 93 °F | 14 | 4 | 2 | 3 of 31 |
| August | 34 °C 92 °F | 13 | 3 | 2 | 4 of 31 |
| September | 34 °C 93 °F | 7 | 1 | 11 | 7 of 30 |
| October | 31 °C 87 °F | 3 | 1 | 25 | 27 of 31 |
| November | 24 °C 75 °F | 1 | 0 | 20 | 29 of 30 |
| December | 20 °C 67 °F | 1 | 0 | 26 | 26 of 31 |
| Year | 73 | 21 | 175 | 182 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 187 warm, dry days
- 2024 173 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Islamabad for good weather?
The best time to visit Islamabad for warm, dry weather is March and October to December, with 24 to 29 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in October (up to 24 a month, 85 a year). Counted from measured days at Chaklala station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Islamabad?
On average 73 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was July (14 rain days), the driest November (1).
How many sunny days does Islamabad get a year?
About 175 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in December (26).
How warm does Islamabad get?
The median daily high ranged from 18 °C (64 °F) in January to 38 °C (100 °F) in June.
Nearby
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- Kathmandu1350 km, Nepal259 days
- Ürümqi1690 km, China129 days
Where is the best climate in Pakistan?
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Source: Chaklala weather station (41571099999), 8 km from the centre of Islamabad, 508 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 86% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.