Nepal Weather

Nepal has a vivid relief and geographical features. The Northern, Northwestern and the Northeastern areas of Nepal are mountainous while the Central, South and the Southwestern Nepal is Plain that is also known as Tarai region. Due to this vivid relief, there is vast difference in the average temperature of these areas.

While the Northwestern Nepal is moderately cool in summers, Northern and Northeastern Nepal has extreme cold in summers too. The lower Himalayan regions have an average summer temperature of around 22-25 C where as the upper Himalayan region has an average temperature of around 2-3 C. In the winters, the temperature in these areas dip way below the freezing point.

Central and southern Nepal witnesses simmering temperature in summers. At places, it can go as high as 44 Celsius. The nights are relatively cooler. The wind from the mountains cools down the night temperature significantly. In the winters, even these areas witness abnormal dip in temperature and at places in Tarai, it dips as low as 2-3 Celsius.

As far as monsoons are concerned, it is said that," it doesn't rain, it pours in South-Asia". Nepal witnesses both monsoon and torrential rainfall. The average annual rainfall in the Tarai region is around 120 centimeters where as in some places in mountains it is as high as 300 centimeters annually.