Weather in Kathmandu in February

Prime time. February is about as good as Kathmandu gets. Highs average 20.4 °C, lows 8.8 °C, and rain falls on 2 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

February ranks 2 of 12 in Kathmandu. 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 February reaches 30 °C. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest February day reached 27.8 °C and the coldest night fell to 1.4 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 34 mm — roughly 200% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. February rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 78 mm across the twenty years measured — a 78 mm spread around an average of 17 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 5.6 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 43%.

How February sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 3 °C warmer than January, and March adds another 4.4 °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 Kathmandu's extremes of 13.9 and 10.4 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 23.1 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights. At 1317 m the air is thin enough to matter — sun that burns faster than the temperature suggests, and nights that cool off quickly.

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.

February in Kathmandu versus nearby

If Kathmandu is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Bharatpur is close enough to be a coin toss — 7.4 °C warmer, 1 day more rain. Pokhara is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain.

So: February is effectively as good as it gets here — 3 points behind November, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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