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Best time to visit Mount Everest
Nepal · South Asia
All twelve months scored on daily temperature, rainfall, humidity and holiday crowding.
The year in Mount Everest
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- JanJMount Everest in January: avoid
- FebFMount Everest in February: avoid
- MarMMount Everest in March: avoid
- AprAMount Everest in April: avoid
- MayMMount Everest in May: avoid
- JunJMount Everest in June: avoid
- JulJMount Everest in July: avoid
- AugAMount Everest in August: avoid
- SepSMount Everest in September: avoid
- OctOMount Everest in October: avoid
- NovNMount Everest in November: avoid
- DecDMount Everest in December: avoid
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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Things to do in Mount Everest
- Lhotse Mountain in Nepal
- Cho Oyu Mountain in Nepal/China
- Makalu Mountain in Nepal/China; 5th highest in the world
- Nuptse Mountain in Himalaya
- Ama Dablam Mountain in Nepal
- Mera Peak Mountain in Nepal
- Kala Patthar Landmark located on the south ridge of Pumori in the Nepalese Himalayas
Tours and tickets in Mount Everest
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Sights and their lines from Wikivoyage, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata; in order of how often each one's Wikipedia article was read on phones in the last 12 months.
Month by month
No fare history for this route yet, so this ranking is climate and crowds only — the price column will fill in as the scanner collects.
| Month | Max °C | Rain days | Humidity | Sun h/day | Verdict | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 1° | 20d | 58% | 9.8h | avoid | monsoon: 20 rainy days, 282mm |
| Feb | 1° | 22d | 63% | 10.2h | avoid | monsoon: 22 rainy days, 362mm |
| Mar | 3° | 24d | 64% | 11.0h | avoid | monsoon: 24 rainy days, 311mm |
| Apr | 6° | 23d | 71% | 11.6h | avoid | monsoon: 23 rainy days, 269mm |
| May | 9° | 27d | 84% | 11.1h | avoid | monsoon: 27 rainy days, 386mm |
| Jun | 13° | 26d | 90% | 10.3h | avoid | monsoon: 26 rainy days, 489mm |
| Jul | 15° | 29d | 92% | 6.0h | avoid | monsoon: 29 rainy days, 528mm |
| Aug | 15° | 29d | 92% | 6.3h | avoid | monsoon: 29 rainy days, 463mm |
| Sep | 14° | 24d | 91% | 8.4h | avoid | monsoon: 24 rainy days, 381mm |
| Oct | 9° | 23d | 79% | 10.3h | avoid | monsoon: 23 rainy days, 305mm |
| Nov | 5° | 20d | 68% | 10.1h | avoid | monsoon: 20 rainy days, 289mm |
| Dec | 3° | 18d | 58% | 9.8h | avoid | monsoon: 18 rainy days, 216mm |
Rain days are the days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them.
Weather read at Namche Bazaar, on the base-camp trek: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one — usually it is crowded because the weather is good. It is flagged rather than scored down, and crowds alone never make a month “avoid”: that is reserved for weather worth skipping.
How busy it gets
Then and now
No month in Mount Everest is clearly warmer than in 1981–1990: the differences are inside the ordinary spread between one year and the next.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981–90 | 3.3° | 3.8° | 6.9° | 10.2° | 12.8° | 15.1° | 15.3° | 15.5° | 13.9° | 11.0° | 7.8° | 5.7° |
| 2017–26 | 0.7° | 1.3° | 3.5° | 6.3° | 9.1° | 13.3° | 14.9° | 14.9° | 13.7° | 9.1° | 5.5° | 3.2° |
| Change | -2.6° | -2.5° | -3.5° | -3.9° | -3.8° | -1.9° | -0.5° | -0.6° | -0.3° | -2.0° | -2.3° | -2.5° |
The average daily high, month by month, for the nearest ERA5 grid cell. Bold is a clear change; grey is within the ordinary spread between years. Every destination, ranked.
Getting there
Fly into Kathmandu (KTM), then drive. The flights under Where to book are to Kathmandu.
The drive from each airport is the road's, from openrouteservice.org by HeiGIT: typical, not a schedule.
How far Mount Everest is, and what it costs, depends on where you set off from — the months above do not.
- from Kolkata
- from Delhi
- from Hyderabad
- from Ahmedabad
- from Mumbai
- from Chennai
- from Bengaluru
- from Bangkok
Open in Rome2rio for every way from to Mount Everest, flying or not.
Before you go
Type C and D plugs at 230 V. Drives on the left. The currency is the Nepalese rupee. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise a high degree of caution (with regional advisories). US State Department: Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution. Everything for Nepal: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
Being there
On arrival
- Paying — Carry cash: ATMs are unreliable outside tourist areas, cards are not taken in remote places, and some shops add a card fee. Local QR payments run on Fonepay, through Nepali banking apps.
- UPI, for visitors from India — Works at participating shops on the Fonepay network: scan the Fonepay QR with your UPI app.
- Tipping — Tourist restaurants usually add a 10% service charge plus 13% VAT to menu prices; taxi drivers do not expect a tip.
Getting around Mount Everest
- Apps — Rides: inDrive, Pathao, Uber. Maps: Google Maps. Messages: WhatsApp, Viber. Pathao needs a Nepali phone number; inDrive works with a foreign number.
Help
- Emergency — police 100 · ambulance 102 · fire 101 · tourist police 1144.
TravelCharika is not an emergency service: we cannot call for help or send anyone. Numbers can change; if one fails, ask someone local or your hotel.
- Hospitals near Mount Everesta search on Google Maps
- Pharmacies near Mount Everesta search on Google Maps
Your embassy — : how to reach your embassy or consulate abroad. A guess from your city, : a city is not a passport.
Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 3 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.
Sources (13)
- gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/nepal/getting-help
- en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Kathmandu
- pathao.com/np
- indrive.com/en-np
- uber.com/global/en/r/cities/kathmandu-bg-np
- fonepay.com
- gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/nepal/entry-requirements
- gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/nepal/safety-and-security
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viber
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp
- developers.google.com/maps/coverage
- nipl.com/uploads/UPI_is_now_accepted_in_Nepal_d99637b82a.pdf
- pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2286608
Mount Everest in pictures
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Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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