Weather in Kathmandu in November

Prime time. November is about as good as Kathmandu gets. Highs average 20.4 °C, lows 11.8 °C, and rain falls on 0 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

November is the highest-scoring month of the twelve. The nearest rival is February, and the month at the other end of the year is June.

Rain is not a factor worth planning around this month. 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 November reaches 30 °C. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 25.8 °C and the coldest night fell to 7.1 °C.

November is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest November on record still only managed 28 mm, and the driest managed 0 mm. There is no meaningful variability to plan around, which makes this one of the few months anywhere that you can build a fixed outdoor itinerary against without a fallback. The wettest single day in twenty years of Novembers brought 24 mm. Rain simply is not the variable that decides this trip — heat, crowds and cost are.

Wind is light at 4 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 62%.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 2.7 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 2.4 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip. Rain has already shifted: 7 days fewer than October had.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Kathmandu's year — 10.8 hours of daylight against 13.9 at midsummer, losing 0.6 hours across the month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

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.

November 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 °C warmer, the same number of rain days. Pokhara is close enough to be a coin toss — 3.8 °C warmer, 1 day more rain.

So: November is the answer for Kathmandu. If it is booked out or priced out, February is the next best thing at 3 points behind, and June is the month to keep off the shortlist.

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