Weather in Bharatpur in January
Nepal · 20-year averages, January
Prime time. January is about as good as Bharatpur gets. Highs average 23.6 °C, lows 11.2 °C, and rain falls on 2 days — nothing in the month is working against you.
January ranks 3 of 12 in Bharatpur. Only November scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.
Rain falls on only 2 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.
What the averages hide
Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average January reaches 30 °C. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest January day reached 29.8 °C and the coldest night fell to 2.8 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 27 mm — roughly 208% of the month's rain in one day.
This is the volatile part. January rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 50 mm across the twenty years measured — a 50 mm spread around an average of 13 mm. The average is real but almost no individual January looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.
Wind is light at 4.5 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 47%.
How January sits in the year
Temperatures hold steady either side: 24.3 °C in December, 23.6 here, 27.8 in February. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.
Daylight in January
January sits at the dark end of Bharatpur's year — 10.6 hours of daylight against 13.9 at midsummer, gaining 0.4 hours across the month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.
An inland climate
With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 27.7 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.
How busy it gets
Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead.
Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.
January in Bharatpur versus nearby
If Bharatpur is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Pokhara is close enough to be a coin toss — 3.6 °C cooler, 1 day more rain. Kathmandu is the weaker option in January — 6.2 °C cooler, the same number of rain days.
So: January is effectively as good as it gets here — 1 points behind November, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.
Every month in Bharatpur
| Month | High °C | Low °C | Rain days | Rain mm | Humidity % | Daylight h | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 23.6 | 11.2 | 2 | 13 | 47 | 10.6 | 97 |
| February | 27.8 | 14.2 | 3 | 20 | 40 | 11.2 | 90 |
| March | 33.3 | 18.4 | 4 | 24 | 32 | 12 | 64 |
| April | 38.1 | 23.1 | 7 | 38 | 28 | 12.8 | 30 |
| May | 38.9 | 25.6 | 15 | 103 | 39 | 13.5 | 20 |
| June | 37.4 | 27.1 | 21 | 219 | 57 | 13.9 | 18 |
| July | 33.2 | 26.4 | 27 | 363 | 80 | 13.7 | 37 |
| August | 32.2 | 25.9 | 25 | 281 | 83 | 13.2 | 39 |
| September | 31.1 | 24.6 | 21 | 203 | 83 | 12.4 | 44 |
| October | 29.9 | 21.1 | 8 | 57 | 72 | 11.5 | 71 |
| November | 27.4 | 16.7 | 0 | 3 | 59 | 10.8 | 98 |
| December | 24.3 | 12.7 | 1 | 5 | 52 | 10.4 | 98 |
See all twelve months in Bharatpur, or where else to go in January.
Planning the rest of the trip
- Flight time to Bharatpur how long you are actually in the air
- Bharatpur time zone and the difference from home
- Days until your trip count down to the departure date