Weather in Pokhara in March

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, March is the one. Highs average 25 °C, lows 11.8 °C, and rain falls on 5 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

March ranks 5 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 5 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

The averages here are honest — no hidden extremes worth planning around. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest March day reached 33.4 °C and the coldest night fell to 0.8 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 32 mm — roughly 107% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. March rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 131 mm across the twenty years measured — a 131 mm spread around an average of 30 mm. The average is real but almost no individual March looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 6.4 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 53%.

How March sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 3.3 °C warmer than February, and April adds another 3.7 °C. Late in the month feels noticeably different from the start of it, which is worth knowing if the trip is short.

Daylight in March

12 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.

March in Pokhara versus nearby

If Pokhara is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Bharatpur is the weaker option in March — 8.3 °C warmer, 1 day less rain. Kathmandu is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain.

So: March works, with November the better month by 7 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

Every month in Pokhara

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