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Best time to visit Kohima

India · South Asia

All twelve months scored on daily temperature, rainfall, humidity and holiday crowding.

The year in Kohima

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  1. Kohima in January: sweet spot
  2. Kohima in February: sweet spot
  3. Kohima in March: ok
  4. Kohima in April: avoid
  5. Kohima in May: avoid
  6. Kohima in June: avoid
  7. Kohima in July: avoid
  8. Kohima in August: avoid
  9. Kohima in September: avoid
  10. Kohima in October: avoid
  11. Kohima in November: ok, busy
  12. Kohima in December: ok, busy
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
Good for
Go in Jan or Feb — 18C max, 8 rainy days. Mar is the next best.

Things to do in Kohima

  • Kohima War Cemetery The cemetery is maintained by the Commonwealth Graves Commission for the Allied war dead.
  • Mary Help of Christians Cathedral, Kohima Cathedral in Kohima, Nagaland, India
  • Nagaland State Museum Museum Bayavü Hill, Kohima, Nagaland
  • Kohima Ao Baptist Church Church in Kohima, Nagaland
  • Sanctuary Falls Waterfall in India

Tours and tickets in Kohima

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Sights and their lines from Wikivoyage (Kohima), 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.

MonthMax °CRain days HumiditySun h/day VerdictWhy
Jan 16° 6d 76% 9.8h sweet spot 16C max, 6 rainy days
Feb 18° 8d 75% 10.1h sweet spot 18C max, 8 rainy days
Mar 21° 12d 75% 10.7h ok 21C max, 12 rainy days
Apr 23° 18d 78% 10.7h avoid monsoon: 18 rainy days, 224mm
May 23° 27d 86% 10.2h avoid monsoon: 27 rainy days, 470mm
Jun 24° 28d 90% 8.3h avoid monsoon: 28 rainy days, 843mm
Jul 25° 29d 90% 7.3h avoid monsoon: 29 rainy days, 904mm
Aug 25° 27d 90% 7.6h avoid monsoon: 27 rainy days, 724mm
Sep 24° 25d 89% 8.5h avoid monsoon: 25 rainy days, 581mm
Oct 22° 22d 88% 9.2h avoid monsoon: 22 rainy days, 356mm
Nov 20° 7d 80% 10.3h okbusy busier than usual
Dec 17° 4d 77% 9.8h okbusy busier than usual

Rain days are the days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them.

Weather read at the town: 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

Busiest from October to December; quietest in January, February, April and September.

Then and now

No month in Kohima is clearly warmer than in 1981–1990: the differences are inside the ordinary spread between one year and the next.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
1981–9016.2°17.7°20.8°22.9°24.1°25.3°24.9°24.8°23.9°22.3°19.6°17.1°
2017–2616.1°17.9°20.9°23.0°23.5°24.4°24.7°24.6°24.4°22.3°19.9°17.3°
Change-0.1°+0.2°+0.1°+0.1°-0.6°-0.9°-0.2°-0.2°+0.5°-0.0°+0.3°+0.2°

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 Dimapur (DMU), then drive. The flights under Where to book are to Dimapur.

The drive from each airport is the road's, from openrouteservice.org by HeiGIT: typical, not a schedule.

How far Kohima is, and what it costs, depends on where you set off from — the months above do not.

Before you go

Type C and D plugs at 230 V. Drives on the left. The currency is the Indian rupee. UK Foreign Office: avoid all travel to parts. Everything for India: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

Being there

On arrival

  • Paying — Cards are taken at larger hotels, chain stores and many restaurants; small shops and family-run businesses rarely take them, so carry some cash.
  • Tipping — Not traditional; up to 10% is usual only in smarter restaurants. Taxi and auto-rickshaw drivers do not expect a tip.

Getting around Kohima

  • Apps — Rides: Ola, Rapido, Uber. Maps: Google Maps, Apple Maps. Messages: WhatsApp. The apps also book auto-rickshaws, and bike taxis where these are allowed.

City buses (₹20) run to the centre during daylight hours. The centre, war cemetery and bazaar area are all within walking distance. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Kohima, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Help

  • Emergency — 112 (any emergency).
    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.

Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 3 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.

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Kohima in pictures

Kohima skyline from Bara Basti (2024)
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View of Naga Bazaar, Kohima (2024)
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Kohima city
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Kohima 24 July 2021
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Kohima City
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What Kohima is like

Kohima is the capital city of Nagaland in North-Eastern India. Nagaland, also known as the "Switzerland of Asia", is a breath-takingly beautiful place. More on Wikivoyage

Worth seeing
Bara Basti. Supposedly the second largest village in Asia. See the traditional Angami way of life. More on Wikivoyage
Worth doing
While you are visiting Kohima, you can go for a picnic/trekking in the forest. There are rivers where you can picnic and the forest are really beautiful. More on Wikivoyage
Getting in
Most visitors to Kohima arrive by land from Dimapur. Expect the weather to get much cooler along the way, since Dimapur is on the tropical plain, and Kohima is higher in the mountains. More on Wikivoyage
Staying safe
Kohima is generally calmer than several other parts of northeastern India, and the latest United States travel advisory reports no recent violence in Nagaland. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Kohima, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the full article has far more. The numbers above are measured; this is experience.

Around Kohima

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Kind of place

Kohima is in India, South Asia. Distances are great-circle, so a short one can still be a long way round.

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