Climate averages 1991–2020
Pokhara weather
in January.
A cool, wet month: the coolest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Pokhara: daytime highs average 14.8°C and nights cool to about 4.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 131 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes January a wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 34 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Bharatpur, Nepal (80 km away). In January its highs average 20.7°C, 5.8°C warmer than Pokhara, with 27 mm of rain.
Among the 16 cities listed in Nepal, Pokhara ranks 16th of 16 for the warmest January highs and 16th of 16 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 16 cities is 20.0°C; Pokhara is 5.2°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.9°C to 16.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 131 mm to 171 mm.
The annual picture
January 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
Pokhara climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 14.8°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 131 | 15.9 | 10.611 h |
| February | 16.8°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 171 | 19.5 | 11.211 h |
| March | 20.5°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 159 | 19.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 24.0°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 163 | 16.5 | 12.813 h |
| May | 25.1°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 382 | 23.5 | 13.514 h |
| June | 25.7°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 690 | 28.0 | 13.914 h |
| July | 25.3°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 1,127 | 30.7 | 13.814 h |
| August | 25.3°C21.5°C | 21.5°C | 966 | 29.9 | 13.113 h |
| September | 24.7°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 603 | 27.5 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.5°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 196 | 19.1 | 11.512 h |
| November | 19.2°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 147 | 16.4 | 10.811 h |
| December | 16.3°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 105 | 14.6 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Bharatpur, Nepal in JanuaryNepal · 80 kmHigh 20.7°C · Low 10.0°C · 27 mm rain
- Butwāl in JanuaryNepal · 82 kmHigh 21.2°C · Low 10.6°C · 21 mm rain
- Bagaha (Bihar, 27.10°N 84.09°E), India in JanuaryIndia · 130 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 9.8°C · 17 mm rain
- Hetauda in JanuaryNepal · 140 kmHigh 19.7°C · Low 9.2°C · 24 mm rain
- Madhyapur Thimi in JanuaryNepal · 154 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 6.6°C · 42 mm rain
- Birgañj in JanuaryNepal · 165 kmHigh 21.7°C · Low 10.2°C · 13 mm rain
- Kushinagar in JanuaryIndia · 170 kmHigh 21.6°C · Low 10.0°C · 16 mm rain
- Bettiah in JanuaryIndia · 171 kmHigh 21.7°C · Low 10.3°C · 14 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 Pokhara) is explained once on the Pokhara year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.