Vyas valley 3,200 m
Gunji Village, Vyas valley: Height, Weather and the Road
Gunji is a village in the Vyas valley of Pithoragarh district, at 3,200 m, 80 km by road from Dharchula. A Rung village of the Gunjiyal families, who move to winter homes in Dharchula in November and return in early May.
Pithoragarh district tourism newsletter, Mar 2025
Gunji in numbers
- Height
- 3,200 m (10,500 ft)
- Valley
- Vyas valley, Pithoragarh district
- From Dharchula
- 80 km by road
- From Pithoragarh
- 168 km by road
- From Delhi
- 648 km by road
- Coldest month, January
- −14 to −2 °C
- Warmest month, July
- 12 to 18 °C
- Nights below freezing
- 195 a year
- Wettest month, July
- 479 mm of rain
- Stays listed here
- 3
Is Adi Kailash open now?
As of
Open: permits are issued until 10 November 2026
- Permits
- Issued again since the Parikrama Run hold ended on 26 October. The last permits of the 2026 season are issued on 10 November, by the SDM's office at Dharchula and on the district's portal. (Adi Kailash Explore's team at Dharchula, 6 November 2026; The district's permit portal, checked 7 November 2026)
- The yatra
- Open on 6 November 2026, in the second phase of the year, which began on 20 September. (Adi Kailash Explore's team at Dharchula, 6 November 2026; The Northern Gazette, 20 September 2026)
- The road
- Adi Kailash and Om Parvat darshan carry on. The Army closed the Old Lipulekh Pass for snow on 13 October, until further orders. (The Northern Gazette, 13 October 2026)
- 2027
- No opening date for 2027 has been announced. In 2026 the first phase ran from 1 May to 1 July. (Amar Ujala, 21 September 2026)
The position changes with the weather and the district's orders. Ask us on WhatsApp where it stands today
Weather in Gunji now, and the next 7 days
The forecast is for the village's own height, refreshed through the day. Highs and lows are in °C; times are IST.
Gunji3,200 m
−1°CClear
Now, 18:59 IST · wind 3 km/h
- Clear−1° −8°Dry
- Clear6° −9°Dry
- Partly cloudy4° −11°Dry
- Mostly clear5° −14°Dry
- Light snow5° −10°0.9 mm
- Mostly clear7° −10°Dry
- Mostly clear7° −8°Dry
Forecast for 3,200 m, updated . Data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0); the daily figures are worked out by us.
Hour by hour and the next 10 days: Gunji weather today
Weather in Gunji by month
Gunji is coldest in January, when days reach −2 °C and nights fall to −14 °C on average; July is the warmest month, 18 °C by day and 12 °C at night. Nights drop below freezing about 195 times a year, on most nights from November to April. Snow falls on about 32 days a year, mostly from November to April. The monsoon brings 479 mm of rain in July; November and December are the driest months, with 13 and 23 mm.
| Month | Day °C | Night °C | Rain mm | Snow days | Frost nights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −2 | −14 | 69 | 8 | 31 |
| February | −1 | −12 | 83 | 8 | 28 |
| March | 3 | −9 | 66 | 8 | 31 |
| April | 8 | −4 | 59 | 4 | 25 |
| May | 12 | 1 | 74 | 0 | 10 |
| June | 16 | 8 | 199 | 0 | 0 |
| July | 18 | 12 | 479 | 0 | 0 |
| August | 17 | 12 | 437 | 0 | 0 |
| September | 16 | 8 | 176 | 0 | 0 |
| October | 11 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 14 |
| November | 7 | −5 | 13 | 1 | 26 |
| December | 3 | −10 | 23 | 3 | 30 |
The road to Gunji
Gunji is 80 km by road from Dharchula, 168 km from Pithoragarh, 353 km from Haldwani and 648 km from Delhi, measured on OpenStreetMap's road network.
Dharchula to Lipulekh, the Vyas valley road
| Stop | km | Height |
|---|---|---|
| Dharchula | 0 | 908 m |
| Tawaghat | 19 | about 1,160 m |
| Budhi | 56 | about 2,750 m |
| Chialekh | 66 | about 3,300 m |
| Garbyang | 69 | about 3,140 m |
| Napalchu | 78 | about 3,200 m |
| Gunji | 80 | 3,200 m |
| Kalapani | 89 | about 3,600 m |
| Nabhidhang | 99 | about 4,250 m |
| Lipulekh Pass | 111 | 5,099 m |
Where to stay in Gunji
All 29 stays in Gunji, mapped, with the snow peaks each one sees.
Adi Kailash Explore's travellers stay at Om Stay or Shivdham Homestay in Gunji: standard stays, in the team's own photographs.
Photo: Adi Kailash Explore. Which of these hosts your night is confirmed with your booking.
Other stays listed in Gunji
One stay is listed here, from the source named under it. Rooms, rates and seasons change: ask us before you travel.
- KMVN TRH, Gunji. KMVN tourist rest house / camp. Marked on the district tourism map. KMVN's 2026 packages spend two nights at Gunji. Amar Ujala (14 Jul 2026): the existing KMVN rest house holds about 200 tourists and is dated; a new KMVN tourist accommodation (20 rooms and two dormitories, Rs 12 crore, Swadesh Darshan 2.0) has a DPR ready and awaits budget. The… Source: District tourism map 'Pithoragarh Destination' (Google My Maps, linked from the district's monthly tourism newsletters as 'Map Source: Googlemymaps & PDMC'), checked 29 September 2026.
Worth knowing about Gunji
- Where the road forks: north-west up the Kuthi Yankti to Kuti and Jolingkong, north-east to Kalapani, Nabhidhang and Lipulekh. (district newsletters 2024-25; Wikipedia 'Gunji')
- The KMVN rest house holds about 200 and is dated; a new 20-room building (Rs 12 crore, Swadesh Darshan 2.0) awaits budget. (Amar Ujala, 14 Jul 2026)
Near Gunji
The nearest places on the map, as the crow flies; the road is longer.
- Napalchu, Vyas valley, about 3,200 m: 0.5 km away
- Nabi, Kuti valley, about 3,290 m: 2.4 km away
- Rongkong, Kuti valley, about 3,260 m: 2.6 km away
- Garbyang, Vyas valley, about 3,140 m: 6.9 km away
- Kalapani, Vyas valley, about 3,600 m: 7.2 km away
- Chialekh, Vyas valley, about 3,300 m: 7.5 km away
- Budhi, Vyas valley, about 2,750 m: 9.6 km away
- Nabhidhang, Vyas valley, about 4,250 m: 13.4 km away
Our guides on this road
- Gunji, Uttarakhand: The Village Where the Road Forks
- Adi Kailash and Darma Valley in One Trip: 2 Climbs, 9 Days
- Adi Kailash Weather and Temperature: Today and by Month
- Can You Do the Adi Kailash Yatra Without a Tour Package?
Expedition 01, our 4x4 convoy from Delhi from 13 to 19 November 2026, drives this road.
Questions travellers ask about Gunji
Gunji stands at 3,200 m (10,500 ft) above sea level.
80 km by road, measured on OpenStreetMap; from Delhi it is 648 km and from Haldwani 353 km.
Gunji is coldest in January, when days reach −2 °C and nights fall to −14 °C on average; July is the warmest month, 18 °C by day and 12 °C at night. Nights drop below freezing about 195 times a year, on most nights from November to April.
Yes: snow falls on about 32 days a year, mostly from November to April, on the 1991 to 2020 averages.
Adi Kailash Explore's travellers stay at Om Stay (standard), Shivdham Homestay (standard); which of them hosts a night is confirmed with the booking. Other stays listed here: KMVN TRH, Gunji.
How we made this page
Every figure here comes from data and is filled in each time the page is built: the map point from docs/research/distances.json places.gunji (OpenStreetMap village node); the height from the site's published figure (stop-altitudes.mjs precedence; docs/research/altitudes.json); road distances from OpenStreetMap through the OSRM router; the weather from the Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis, 1991 to 2020, through Open-Meteo, set to the height of the place. If anything here is out of date, tell us on WhatsApp and we will correct it.
About Adi Kailash Explore
Adi Kailash Explore (adikailash.io) is a tour operator based in Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand, that specialises in one route: Adi Kailash and Om Parvat, the Darma valley and Munsiyari. It runs departures from Delhi, Haldwani and Pithoragarh, and its team files the Inner Line Permit for every Adi Kailash traveller at SDM Dharchula. It is recognised by Uttarakhand Tourism, certified by MSME, Govt. of India (UDYAM-UK-09-0012927) and verified on the NIDHI Portal, and was founded by Vinay Verma. Why travel with us
