Nainital district about 1,350 m
Bhimtal Weather Today: Temperature, 10 Days and by Month
Bhimtal is the lake town on the road up from Kathgodam, at about 1,350 m in Nainital district. The forecast below is for that height, refreshed every hour; under it, each month on 30 years of data.
Bhimtal in numbers
- Height
- about 1,350 m (4,430 ft)
- District
- Nainital, Uttarakhand
- From Delhi
- 305 km by road
- From Haldwani
- 28 km by road
- Coldest month, January
- 4 to 15 °C
- Warmest month, May
- 17 to 29 °C
- Nights below freezing
- None, on average
- Snow
- Rare
- Wettest month, July
- 491 mm of rain
Weather in Bhimtal now
For about 1,350 m, Bhimtal's own height, refreshed every hour. Temperatures in °C, times in IST.
14°C
Fog
Bhimtal, about 1,350 m. Now, 18:59 IST
- Wind
- 3 km/h
- Humidity
- 100%
- Tonight
- down to 10°
- Tomorrow
- 21° / 10°, 0.7 mm
- Sunrise, sunset
- 06:30, 17:23
What to wear tomorrow: a fleece or a light jacket for the evening.
The next 24 hours
- 14°Fog
- 14°Fog
- 14°Fog
- 13°Fog
- 12°Fog
- 12°Fog
- 11°Fog
- 11°Fog
- 10°Fog
- 10°Fog
- 10°Fog
- 11°Fair
- 11°Clear
- 14°Clear
- 17°Clear
- 19°Clear
- 20°Clear
- 21°Showers0.1 mm
- 21°Showers0.2 mm
- 20°Some cloud
- 20°Showers0.1 mm
- 19°Fair
- 18°Some cloud
- 15°Fair
The next 10 days
| Day | Sky | High / low | Rain | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fog | 15° 12° | Dry | 4 km/h | |
| Light rain showers | 21° 10° | 0.7 mm | 9 km/h | |
| Mostly clear | 22° 12° | Dry | 9 km/h | |
| Mostly clear | 22° 12° | Dry | 6 km/h | |
| Clear | 22° 12° | Dry | 6 km/h | |
| Clear | 21° 10° | Dry | 6 km/h | |
| Clear | 21° 10° | Dry | 6 km/h | |
| Partly cloudy | 21° 9° | Dry | 7 km/h | |
| Clear | 22° 9° | Dry | 10 km/h | |
| Clear | 21° 11° | Dry | 9 km/h |
Forecast for about 1,350 m, updated . Data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0); the daily figures are worked out by us.
Weather in Bhimtal by month
Bhimtal is coldest in January, when days reach 15 °C and nights fall to 4 °C on average; May is the warmest month, 29 °C by day and 17 °C at night. Nights do not fall below freezing on the 30-year average. The monsoon brings 491 mm of rain in July; November and December are the driest months, with 3 and 13 mm.
| Month | Day °C | Night °C | Rain mm | Rainy days | Snow days | Frost nights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15 | 4 | 32 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| February | 18 | 6 | 40 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| March | 22 | 9 | 29 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| April | 27 | 14 | 23 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| May | 29 | 17 | 48 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| June | 28 | 20 | 222 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| July | 25 | 20 | 491 | 29 | 0 | 0 |
| August | 25 | 20 | 428 | 29 | 0 | 0 |
| September | 25 | 18 | 222 | 22 | 0 | 0 |
| October | 23 | 13 | 40 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| November | 20 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| December | 17 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
When the sky is clear
The clearest skies come in January, November and December, with 1 to 4 rainy days a month on the 30-year averages; July and August are the wettest, with about 29 rainy days. Days run between 15 and 27 °C with little rain in January, February, March, October, November and December.
Weather near Bhimtal now
The nearest towns on the road, as the crow flies, with their temperature now and the day's high and low (tomorrow's, in the evening).
Questions travellers ask about Bhimtal's weather
The forecast at the top of this page gives it hour by hour for about 1,350 m, Bhimtal's own height, from MET Norway's forecast, refreshed every hour. On the 30-year averages, a November day in Bhimtal reaches 20 °C and the night falls to 9 °C.
Bhimtal is coldest in January, when days reach 15 °C and nights fall to 4 °C on average; May is the warmest month, 29 °C by day and 17 °C at night. Nights do not fall below freezing on the 30-year average.
Rarely, if ever: on the 1991 to 2020 averages Bhimtal has no snow days and no nights below freezing. The higher hills around it see snow most winters.
The clearest skies come in January, November and December, with 1 to 4 rainy days a month on the 30-year averages; July and August are the wettest, with about 29 rainy days. Days run between 15 and 27 °C with little rain in January, February, March, October, November and December.
305 km by road, measured on OpenStreetMap; from Haldwani, the railhead, it is 28 km.
How we made this page
The forecast is MET Norway's (CC BY 4.0) for Bhimtal's map point at its own height, fetched every hour; the daily highs, lows and rain, the feel of the wind and the times of sunrise and sunset are worked out from it by us. The month-by-month figures are the Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis, 1991 to 2020, through Open-Meteo, set to the height of the town. The map point is from OpenStreetMap node/7894072546 ('Bhimtal'); the height from the site's published figure (docs/research/altitudes.json); road distances from OpenStreetMap through the OSRM router. If anything here looks wrong, tell us on WhatsApp and we will correct it.
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