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Lumbini in April

avoid · not the best time to go · the warmest month of the year, the sunniest month of the year

The year in Lumbini

Tap a month for its page

  1. Lumbini in January: good
  2. Lumbini in February: sweet spot
  3. Lumbini in March: sweet spot
  4. Lumbini in April: avoid
  5. Lumbini in May: avoid
  6. Lumbini in June: avoid
  7. Lumbini in July: avoid
  8. Lumbini in August: avoid
  9. Lumbini in September: avoid
  10. Lumbini in October: ok
  11. Lumbini in November: good, busy
  12. Lumbini in December: ok, busy
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
April is ruled out at Lumbini: extreme heat: 13 days over 35C.

The numbers

Daily high35°C
Nightly low22°C
Feels like, afternoon35°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more2 · 23 mm
Humidity44%
Sunshine11.1 h/day
Daylight12.8 h/day
Days over 35°C13
Crowds80 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at Lumbini, by the Sacred Garden, 14 km from the airport (BWA): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

April: quieter than usual. Busiest in May, November and December; quietest in January, June and September.

Public holidays in April

Holidays crowd a place out; they count toward the crowd score above.

Lumbini in pictures

What to pack

  • Light, loose clothes: daily highs average 35°C.
  • Plan the middle of the day indoors: 13 days a month pass 35°C.
  • Sun protection: about 11 hours of sunshine a day.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

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. Everything for Nepal: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Lumbini: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

April elsewhere

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