Weekly note
Pokhara
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The numbers

Daily high27°C
Nightly low22°C
Feels like, afternoon32°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more24 · 642 mm
Humidity88%
Sunshine7.5 h/day
Daylight13.1 h/day
Hiking0 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C
Crowds100 / 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 Lakeside, on Phewa Lake, 6 km from the city centre: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

August: quieter than usual. Busiest in March and November; quietest in June and July.

Public holidays in August

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

Pokhara in pictures

What to pack

  • Summer clothes by day, highs around 27°C.
  • Rain gear you will actually use: about 24 rainy days and 642 mm.
  • Humidity averages 88%; breathable fabrics dry faster.

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 Pokhara: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

August elsewhere

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