Weather in Pokhara in February

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, February is the one. Highs average 21.7 °C, lows 9.5 °C, and rain falls on 3 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

February ranks 4 of 12 in Pokhara: past the worst of the year but short of November, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain falls on only 3 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 29.5 °C and the coldest night fell to -3.9 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 56 mm — roughly 243% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. February rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 110 mm across the twenty years measured — a 110 mm spread around an average of 23 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 54%.

How February sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 1.7 °C warmer than January, and March adds another 3.3 °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 0.8 hours across the month. That is between Pokhara'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: 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.

February 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 — 6.1 °C warmer, the same number of rain days. Kathmandu is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain.

So: February is effectively as good as it gets here — 4 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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