Weather in Kathmandu, month by month
- Warmest month
- June, 24.8
- Coldest month
- January, 11.1
- Wettest month
- July, 280 mm
- Year
- 2001-2020
Same data, same method, different place.
Your own numbers, worked out on the page.
Across the 2001-2020 normals, the warmest month in Kathmandu is June at 24.8 degrees and the coldest is January at 11.1, a swing of 13.7 degrees over the year. Those are monthly averages for the model cell the city sits in, not readings from a weather station in it.
Rain is heaviest in July, about 280 mm, and lightest in November at roughly 3 mm. Over a full year the cell above Kathmandu collects around 1,084 mm.
The months whose average sits between 15 and 24 degrees are March, April, July, August, September, October and November. That band is this page's own definition of mild and is stated so you can disagree with it rather than guess at it.
Humidity peaks in August at 87 percent, and the windiest month is April at 1.9 metres per second. Both are monthly means from the same twenty year series as the temperatures.
Rainfall is not spread evenly: 92 per cent of the year total falls in May, June, July, August, September and October.
Every figure here comes from one NASA POWER grid cell, at 27.7, 85.32, covering Kathmandu on the 2001-2020 climatology. One cell, one period and one provider for every month, which is what makes the twelve rows comparable with each other.
The source publishes a monthly mean and, separately, the highest and lowest values it recorded in twenty years. Those extremes are not a typical afternoon or a typical night, so nothing here is quoted as one. This page does not say what the daytime high usually is, because this source cannot say it.
Normals are not a forecast. They describe what twenty years averaged to, and any single year can sit well outside them. They also describe a model grid cell of roughly fifty kilometres rather than a weather station, so a coastal city and the sea beside it share one figure.
Weather in Kathmandu, month by month
| Month | Mean temperature | Rainfall | Humidity |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 11.1 | 10 mm | 46% |
| February | 13.8 | 17 mm | 43% |
| March | 18.1 | 21 mm | 37% |
| April | 22.4 | 37 mm | 37% |
| May | 24.2 | 89 mm | 49% |
| June | 24.8 | 170 mm | 66% |
| July | 23.3 | 280 mm | 85% |
| August | 22.8 | 238 mm | 87% |
| September | 21.6 | 169 mm | 86% |
| October | 19 | 45 mm | 74% |
| November | 15.5 | 3 mm | 62% |
| December | 12.3 | 5 mm | 52% |
Questions
What is the warmest month in Kathmandu?
June, on the 2001-2020 monthly averages.
What is the coldest month in Kathmandu?
January, on the same twenty year series.
When does it rain most in Kathmandu?
July carries the highest monthly total in the 2001-2020 normals.
Same data, same method, different place.
Your own numbers, worked out on the page.
Related pages
Sources
- NASA POWER, https://power.larc.nasa.gov/api/temporal/climatology/point (CC BY 4.0; 'There are no restrictions on the use, access, and/or download of data from the NASA POWER Project' (AWS Open Data Registry entry))