Jumla weather by month & the best time to visit
🇳🇵 Nepal · highland town · oceanic / maritime climate
The best time to visit Jumla is May — its sunniest month (Sunshine Score 87/100), with September and June close behind. Jumla averages about 2,966 hours of sunshine a year. Daytime highs around 21°C / 70°F and roughly 52 mm of rain in May.
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- Sun hours / year
- 2,966
- Sunniest month
- May
- Peak score
- 87/100
- Rain / year
- 752 mm
- Snow / year
- ≈84 cm
- Midday UV at peak
- 9 (very high)
- Population
- 9k
- Elevation
- 2,371 m
When is the best time to visit Jumla?
For sunshine, the best time to visit Jumla is May, then September and June. The dullest month is January (0/100, 24 mm of rain). The full month-by-month picture is in the table below.
How sunny is Jumla?
Jumla gets a lot of sun: around 2,966 hours a year. 87 Sunshine Score points separate May (87) from January (0), so the month you pick matters. Jumla is the sunniest of the 18 destinations tracked in Nepal. Rain is strongly seasonal here: roughly 61% of the year's 752 mm falls in the three months around July.
Sunshine Score by month
| Month | Score | Day high | Night low | Rain | UV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 | 8° / 46°F | -4° / 25°F | 24 mm | 4 |
| February | 15 | 10° / 50°F | -3° / 27°F | 36 mm | 5 |
| March | 38 | 13° / 55°F | 1° / 34°F | 29 mm | 7 |
| April | 68 | 17° / 63°F | 6° / 43°F | 30 mm | 8 |
| May | 87 | 21° / 70°F | 9° / 48°F | 52 mm | 9 |
| June | 77 | 25° / 77°F | 13° / 55°F | 105 mm | 8 |
| July | 69 | 25° / 77°F | 16° / 61°F | 204 mm | 7 |
| August | 69 | 25° / 77°F | 16° / 61°F | 149 mm | 7 |
| September | 81 | 23° / 73°F | 13° / 55°F | 86 mm | 7 |
| October | 77 | 18° / 64°F | 7° / 45°F | 22 mm | 7 |
| November | 48 | 14° / 57°F | 3° / 37°F | 5 mm | 5 |
| December | 24 | 11° / 52°F | -1° / 30°F | 10 mm | 4 |
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Nearby places for sunshine
- Nepalgunj Nepal · 140 km · best in Nov · 2,459 h sun/yr
- Pokhara Nepal · 211 km · best in Nov · 2,469 h sun/yr
- Siddharthanagar (Bhairahawa) Nepal · 230 km · best in Nov · 2,692 h sun/yr
- Lucknow India · 307 km · best in Nov · 2,543 h sun/yr
- Kathmandu Nepal · 356 km · best in Mar · 2,569 h sun/yr
- Dehradun (Jauligrant) India · 401 km · best in Nov · 2,883 h sun/yr
Nearest destinations
- Dolpa Nepal · 69 km · 2,545 h sun/yr · best in May
- Simikot Nepal · 86 km · 2,660 h sun/yr · best in Jun
- Surkhet Nepal · 94 km · 2,458 h sun/yr · best in Nov
- Silgadi Doti Nepal · 122 km · 2,883 h sun/yr · best in Nov
- Jomsom Nepal · 159 km · 2,468 h sun/yr · best in Sep
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