Weather in Dārjiling in April

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, April is the one. Highs average 22 °C, lows 9.9 °C, and rain falls on 13 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

April ranks 4 of 12 in Dārjiling: past the worst of the year but short of March, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 13 days, 1 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. 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 April reaches 30 °C. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest April day reached 27.9 °C and the coldest night fell to 4.2 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 27 mm — roughly 43% of the month's rain in one day.

April is statistically steady but not small: the year-to-year variation is modest in relative terms, yet the wettest April on record still delivered 120 mm against 27 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 63 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 5.4 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 48%.

How April sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 19.4 °C in March, 22 here, 22.3 in May. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain is the thing that moves: May brings 8 days more of it, so the earlier half of a flexible trip is the safer half.

Daylight in April

12.8 hours of daylight, gaining 0.8 hours across the month. That is between Dārjiling's extremes of 13.8 and 10.5 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 20.5 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights. At 2127 m, altitude is doing as much work here as latitude: thinner air means fierce sun by day and heat that leaves the moment it sets.

How busy it gets

Shoulder. The value months — prices ease off and you get the place closer to itself. April is the value pick for Dārjiling: it scores within 10 points of March without carrying March's prices.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

April in Dārjiling versus nearby

If Dārjiling is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Kathmandu is close enough to be a coin toss — 6.8 °C warmer, 6 days less rain. Patna is the weaker option in April — 18.7 °C warmer, 10 days less rain.

So: April works, with March the better month by 10 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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