Weather in Dārjiling in February

Prime time. February is about as good as Dārjiling gets. Highs average 15.4 °C, lows 3.7 °C, and rain falls on 2 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

February ranks 3 of 12 in Dārjiling. Only March 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. Pack for 15.4 °C days and 3.7 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

The averages here are honest — no hidden extremes worth planning around. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest February day reached 22.3 °C and the coldest night fell to -3 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 25 mm — roughly 192% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. February rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 46 mm across the twenty years measured — a 46 mm spread around an average of 13 mm. The average is real but almost no individual February looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 4.9 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 45%.

How February sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 2.9 °C warmer than January, and March adds another 4 °C. Late in the month feels noticeably different from the start of it, which is worth knowing if the trip is short.

Daylight in February

11.2 hours of daylight, gaining 0.7 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

Busy. Popular without being frantic; book the things you care about, improvise the rest.

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

February in Dārjiling versus nearby

If Dārjiling is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Kathmandu is a better bet in February — 5 °C warmer, the same number of rain days. Patna is close enough to be a coin toss — 13.6 °C warmer, the same number of rain days.

So: February is effectively as good as it gets here — 6 points behind March, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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