Climate averages 1991–2020
Hetauda weather
in August.
A hot, very wet month: the 4th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Hetauda: daytime highs average 28.5°C and nights cool to about 23.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 485 mm of rain on roughly 31 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 07 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Madhyapur Thimi (45 km away). In August its highs average 25.2°C, 3.3°C cooler than Hetauda, with 571 mm of rain.
Among the 16 cities listed in Nepal, Hetauda ranks 13th of 16 for the warmest August highs and 11th of 16 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 16 cities is 29.3°C; Hetauda is 0.8°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 28.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 485 mm to 252 mm.
The annual picture
August 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 | 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, selected | 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
August in nearby cities
- Madhyapur Thimi in AugustNepal · 45 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 20.0°C · 571 mm rain
- Birgañj in AugustNepal · 48 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 25.6°C · 347 mm rain
- Bharatpur, Nepal in AugustNepal · 65 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 25.1°C · 555 mm rain
- Bettiah in AugustIndia · 87 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 25.8°C · 332 mm rain
- Mothīhāri in AugustIndia · 87 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 25.9°C · 385 mm rain
- Bagaha (Bihar, 27.10°N 84.09°E), India in AugustIndia · 100 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 25.8°C · 358 mm rain
- Janakpur in AugustNepal · 118 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 25.6°C · 270 mm rain
- Kushinagar in AugustIndia · 137 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 25.9°C · 310 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.