Pithoragarh district 1,645 m
Pithoragarh Weather Today: Temperature and by Month
Pithoragarh is the district town of Pithoragarh, the last big town before the high valleys, at 1,645 m in Pithoragarh district. The forecast below is for that height, refreshed every hour; under it, each month on 30 years of data.
Pithoragarh in numbers
- Height
- 1,645 m (5,400 ft)
- District
- Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand
- From Delhi
- 480 km by road
- From Haldwani
- 185 km by road
- Coldest month, January
- 3 to 14 °C
- Warmest month, May
- 15 to 26 °C
- Nights below freezing
- 2 a year
- Snow
- Rare
- Wettest month, July
- 716 mm of rain
Weather in Pithoragarh now
For 1,645 m, Pithoragarh's own height, refreshed every hour. Temperatures in °C, times in IST.
14°C
Clear
Pithoragarh, 1,645 m. Now, 18:59 IST
- Wind
- 5 km/h
- Humidity
- 87%
- Tonight
- down to 9°
- Tomorrow
- 20° / 9°, 0.6 mm
- Sunrise, sunset
- 06:27, 17:20
What to wear tomorrow: a fleece or a light jacket for the evening.
The next 24 hours
- 14°Clear
- 13°Clear
- 12°Clear
- 12°Clear
- 11°Fair
- 11°Fog
- 11°Fog
- 11°Clear
- 11°Clear
- 11°Clear
- 10°Fair
- 10°Fog
- 9°Fog
- 11°Fog
- 13°Clear
- 16°Clear
- 18°Clear
- 19°Fair
- 20°Fair
- 20°Showers0.1 mm
- 18°Showers0.2 mm
- 17°Some cloud
- 15°Rain0.1 mm
- 13°Some cloud
The next 10 days
| Day | Sky | High / low | Rain | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mostly clear | 14° 11° | Dry | 5 km/h | |
| Light rain showers | 20° 9° | 0.6 mm | 7 km/h | |
| Mostly clear | 20° 9° | Dry | 5 km/h | |
| Clear | 20° 7° | Dry | 5 km/h | |
| Clear | 20° 8° | Dry | 3 km/h | |
| Clear | 20° 8° | Dry | 5 km/h | |
| Clear | 20° 8° | Dry | 5 km/h | |
| Mostly clear | 20° 9° | Dry | 5 km/h | |
| Mostly clear | 20° 10° | Dry | 4 km/h | |
| Clear | 20° 8° | Dry | 4 km/h |
Forecast for 1,645 m, updated . Data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0); the daily figures are worked out by us.
Weather in Pithoragarh by month
Pithoragarh is coldest in January, when days reach 14 °C and nights fall to 3 °C on average; May is the warmest month, 26 °C by day and 15 °C at night. A frost is rare: about 2 nights a year fall below freezing. The monsoon brings 716 mm of rain in July; November and December are the driest months, with 12 and 21 mm.
| Month | Day °C | Night °C | Rain mm | Rainy days | Snow days | Frost nights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14 | 3 | 64 | 7 | 0 | 2 |
| February | 15 | 5 | 79 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| March | 19 | 7 | 76 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| April | 24 | 11 | 83 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| May | 26 | 15 | 149 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| June | 26 | 18 | 526 | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| July | 24 | 19 | 716 | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| August | 24 | 18 | 563 | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| September | 23 | 16 | 313 | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| October | 22 | 12 | 54 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| November | 19 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| December | 16 | 5 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
When the sky is clear
The clearest skies come in January, November and December, with 3 to 7 rainy days a month on the 30-year averages; July and August are the wettest, with about 30 rainy days. Days run between 15 and 27 °C with little rain in November and December.
Weather near Pithoragarh 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).
- Patal Bhuvaneshwar15°Mostly cleartomorrow 20° / 7°
- Gangolihat14°Cleartomorrow 19° / 7°
- Lohaghat11°Cleartomorrow 20° / 8°
- Jauljibi21°Cleartomorrow 26° / 16°
- Didihat14°Cleartomorrow 20° / 8°
- Berinag13°Cleartomorrow 19° / 5°
Where to stay in Pithoragarh: 38 hotels and homestays, mapped, with the snow peaks each one sees.
The road to Pithoragarh, town by town, with the trains and flights: from Champawat, from Almora, from Tanakpur, from Nainital, from Kathgodam, from Haldwani, from Rudrapur, from Bareilly, from Haridwar, from Delhi, from Dehradun, from Lucknow.
More about Pithoragarh: its height, the road and where to stay.
Questions travellers ask about Pithoragarh's weather
The forecast at the top of this page gives it hour by hour for 1,645 m, Pithoragarh's own height, from MET Norway's forecast, refreshed every hour. On the 30-year averages, a November day in Pithoragarh reaches 19 °C and the night falls to 8 °C.
Pithoragarh is coldest in January, when days reach 14 °C and nights fall to 3 °C on average; May is the warmest month, 26 °C by day and 15 °C at night. A frost is rare: about 2 nights a year fall below freezing.
Rarely, if ever: on the 1991 to 2020 averages Pithoragarh has no snow days and only about 2 nights a year below freezing. The higher hills around it see snow most winters.
The clearest skies come in January, November and December, with 3 to 7 rainy days a month on the 30-year averages; July and August are the wettest, with about 30 rainy days. Days run between 15 and 27 °C with little rain in November and December.
480 km by road, measured on OpenStreetMap; from Haldwani, the railhead, it is 185 km.
How we made this page
The forecast is MET Norway's (CC BY 4.0) for Pithoragarh'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 docs/research/distances.json places.pithoragarh (Wikidata Q2249870); the height from the site's published figure (stop-altitudes.mjs precedence; 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.
About Adi Kailash Explore
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