Climate averages 1991–2020
Hetauda weather
in April.
A hot, moderately wet month: the warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a hot month in Hetauda: daytime highs average 32.0°C and nights cool to about 19.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 55 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 48 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Madhyapur Thimi (45 km away). In April its highs average 24.4°C, 7.5°C cooler than Hetauda, with 86 mm of rain.
Among the 16 cities listed in Nepal, Hetauda ranks 12th of 16 for the warmest April highs and 14th of 16 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 16 cities is 32.4°C; Hetauda is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 0.2°C to 31.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 55 mm to 154 mm.
The annual picture
April in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Hetauda climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 19.7°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 24 | 3.9 | 10.611 h |
| February | 23.0°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 28 | 5.3 | 11.211 h |
| March | 28.3°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 28 | 6.0 | 12.012 h |
| April, selected | 32.0°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 55 | 10.6 | 12.813 h |
| May | 31.8°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 154 | 19.5 | 13.513 h |
| June | 30.5°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 340 | 25.9 | 13.814 h |
| July | 28.4°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 615 | 30.9 | 13.714 h |
| August | 28.5°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 485 | 30.7 | 13.113 h |
| September | 28.1°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 252 | 26.8 | 12.312 h |
| October | 27.2°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 56 | 10.8 | 11.512 h |
| November | 24.6°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 9.6 | 2.0 | 10.811 h |
| December | 21.2°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 10 | 1.4 | 10.410 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
April in nearby cities
- Madhyapur Thimi in AprilNepal · 45 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 13.5°C · 86 mm rain
- Birgañj in AprilNepal · 48 kmHigh 35.7°C · Low 21.9°C · 26 mm rain
- Bharatpur, Nepal in AprilNepal · 65 kmHigh 32.8°C · Low 19.5°C · 53 mm rain
- Bettiah in AprilIndia · 87 kmHigh 36.2°C · Low 22.7°C · 21 mm rain
- Mothīhāri in AprilIndia · 87 kmHigh 36.5°C · Low 23.2°C · 30 mm rain
- Bagaha (Bihar, 27.10°N 84.09°E), India in AprilIndia · 100 kmHigh 35.8°C · Low 22.2°C · 21 mm rain
- Janakpur in AprilNepal · 118 kmHigh 35.4°C · Low 22.6°C · 27 mm rain
- Kushinagar in AprilIndia · 137 kmHigh 36.8°C · Low 22.9°C · 15 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Hetauda) is explained once on the Hetauda year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.