Weather in Pokhara in December

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, December is the one. Highs average 21.9 °C, lows 11.5 °C, and rain falls on 1 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

December ranks 2 of 12 in Pokhara. Only November scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

Rain falls on only 1 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 December reaches 30 °C. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest December day reached 29.1 °C and the coldest night fell to 1 °C.

December is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest December on record still only managed 39 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 Decembers brought 24 mm. Rain simply is not the variable that decides this trip — heat, crowds and cost are.

Wind is light at 4.6 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 48%.

How December sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 2.3 °C cooler than November, with January dropping another 1.9 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in December

December sits at the dark end of Pokhara's year — 10.4 hours of daylight against 13.9 at midsummer, holding steady all 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: 22.8 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights. At 1008 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.

December in Pokhara versus nearby

If Pokhara is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Bharatpur is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.4 °C warmer, the same number of rain days. Kathmandu is close enough to be a coin toss — 3.9 °C cooler, the same number of rain days.

So: December is effectively as good as it gets here — 0 points behind November, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

Every month in Pokhara

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