Ideal weather days in Kathmandu
The best time to visit Kathmandu for warm, dry weather is October to March, with 25 to 30 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Kathmandu's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in October to March.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Kathmandu, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too wet92
- Too cold10
- Too hot6
- Too windy0
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), Kathmandu averaged 259 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Nepal, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in April (up to 19 a month, 63 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in November to February (up to 31 a month, 150 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are wet (more than 1 mm of rain): 92 a year, mostly in June, July and August. A day can fail more than one test.
Kathmandu weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 19 °C 66 °F | 0 | 0 | 19 | 25 of 31 |
| February | 22 °C 71 °F | 1 | 0 | 13 | 27 of 28 |
| March | 25 °C 76 °F | 4 | 0 | 9 | 28 of 31 |
| April | 29 °C 84 °F | 6 | 0 | 9 | 23 of 30 |
| May | 29 °C 84 °F | 12 | 0 | 2 | 18 of 31 |
| June | 31 °C 87 °F | 17 | 0 | 0 | 13 of 30 |
| July | 30 °C 85 °F | 25 | 0 | 0 | 8 of 31 |
| August | 29 °C 84 °F | 22 | 0 | 0 | 11 of 31 |
| September | 30 °C 86 °F | 12 | 0 | 0 | 20 of 30 |
| October | 27 °C 81 °F | 4 | 0 | 4 | 27 of 31 |
| November | 24 °C 74 °F | 0 | 0 | 14 | 30 of 30 |
| December | 19 °C 66 °F | 0 | 0 | 20 | 28 of 31 |
| Year | 104 | 0 | 91 | 259 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 258 warm, dry days
- 2024 259 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Kathmandu for good weather?
The best time to visit Kathmandu for warm, dry weather is October to March, with 25 to 30 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in April (up to 19 a month, 63 a year). Counted from measured days at Tribhuvan International station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Kathmandu?
On average 104 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was July (25 rain days), the driest January (0).
How many sunny days does Kathmandu get a year?
About 91 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 (20).
How warm does Kathmandu get?
The median daily high ranged from 19 °C (66 °F) in January to 31 °C (87 °F) in June.
Nearby
- Dhaka670 km, Bangladesh157 days
- Lahore1140 km, Pakistan153 days
- Islamabad1350 km, Pakistan182 days
- Kashgar1570 km, China173 days
- Bengaluru1830 km, India234 days
- Kochi2200 km, India201 days
Weather in other cities and countries
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Source: Tribhuvan International weather station (44454099999), 5 km from the centre of Kathmandu, 1338 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 83% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.