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Bhutan weather forecast
Bhutan’s live forecast on this page covers six towns — Thimphu, Paro, Punakha, Phobjikha, Bumthang and Phuentsholing — with current conditions and a 7-day outlook, each requested at its true valley elevation. These are model forecasts rather than station readings, and they run a few degrees cooler than Bhutan’s long-term station normals.
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Thimphu 2,321 m
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Paro 2,266 m
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Punakha 1,242 m
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Phobjikha 2,900 m
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Bumthang 2,587 m
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Phuentsholing 293 m
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Open-Meteo model forecast · updated
- Long-term average for Thimphu (2,321 m): warmest in August at 27 °C by day, coldest in January at −2 °C at night, wettest in July with 153 mm of rain. About 609 mm falls over the year. Thimphu weather month by month →
- Long-term average for Paro (2,266 m): warmest in July at 25 °C by day, coldest in January at −1 °C at night, wettest in July with 161 mm of rain. About 631 mm falls over the year. Paro weather month by month →
- Long-term average for Punakha (1,242 m): warmest in July at 31 °C by day, coldest in January at 6 °C at night, wettest in July with 158 mm of rain. About 786 mm falls over the year. Punakha weather month by month →
- Long-term average for Phobjikha (2,900 m): warmest in August at 20 °C by day, coldest in December at −4 °C at night, wettest in August with 530 mm of rain. About 2,228 mm falls over the year. Phobjikha weather month by month →
- Long-term average for Bumthang (2,587 m): warmest in July at 23 °C by day, coldest in January at −4 °C at night, wettest in July with 156 mm of rain. About 760 mm falls over the year. Bumthang weather month by month →
- Long-term average for Phuentsholing (293 m): warmest in May at 32 °C by day, coldest in January at 13 °C at night, wettest in July with 963 mm of rain. About 3,953 mm falls over the year. Phuentsholing weather month by month →
| Month | Thimphu 2,321 m | Paro 2,266 m | Punakha 1,242 m | Phobjikha 2,900 m | Bumthang 2,587 m | Phuentsholing 293 m |
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| Jan | 15° / -2° 6 mm | 13° / -1° 7 mm | 19° / 6° 14 mm | 9° / -3° 4 mm | 11° / -4° 6 mm | 24° / 13° 17 mm |
| Feb | 17° / 0° 9 mm | 15° / 1° 13 mm | 21° / 8° 22 mm | 11° / -3° 11 mm | 13° / -1° 11 mm | 27° / 16° 31 mm |
| Mar | 19° / 4° 20 mm | 18° / 4° 22 mm | 24° / 11° 17 mm | 13° / 1° 90 mm | 15° / 2° 34 mm | 30° / 19° 80 mm |
| Apr | 22° / 8° 30 mm | 21° / 8° 34 mm | 27° / 14° 44 mm | 16° / 3° 189 mm | 18° / 6° 67 mm | 31° / 20° 217 mm |
| May | 25° / 12° 50 mm | 23° / 11° 59 mm | 29° / 17° 85 mm | 18° / 7° 274 mm | 20° / 10° 94 mm | 32° / 22° 380 mm |
| Jun | 27° / 15° 98 mm | 25° / 15° 81 mm | 31° / 20° 143 mm | 20° / 10° 268 mm | 22° / 13° 98 mm | 32° / 23° 807 mm |
| Jul | 27° / 17° 153 mm | 25° / 16° 161 mm | 31° / 21° 158 mm | 20° / 11° 516 mm | 23° / 14° 156 mm | 32° / 24° 963 mm |
| Aug | 27° / 16° 121 mm | 25° / 16° 113 mm | 30° / 21° 148 mm | 20° / 11° 530 mm | 23° / 14° 139 mm | 32° / 24° 779 mm |
| Sep | 26° / 15° 74 mm | 23° / 14° 88 mm | 29° / 19° 101 mm | 19° / 10° 211 mm | 22° / 13° 89 mm | 32° / 23° 493 mm |
| Oct | 24° / 9° 43 mm | 21° / 9° 49 mm | 27° / 17° 46 mm | 17° / 6° 97 mm | 19° / 7° 57 mm | 31° / 21° 163 mm |
| Nov | 20° / 3° 1 mm | 17° / 5° 2 mm | 24° / 11° 5 mm | 13° / 0° 37 mm | 16° / 1° 7 mm | 29° / 18° 13 mm |
| Dec | 17° / -1° 4 mm | 15° / 1° 3 mm | 20° / 7° 4 mm | 11° / -4° 1 mm | 13° / -3° 2 mm | 25° / 15° 10 mm |
How to read a Himalayan forecast
Three things worth knowing before you plan around the numbers above:
- These are model forecasts, not station readings. Weather models average each grid cell over terrain that can rise or fall thousands of metres within a few kilometres. We request every town at its real valley-floor elevation, which corrects the worst of it, but mountain forecasts stay inherently less certain than lowland ones — treat day 5–7 as a trend, not a promise.
- Don't compare forecast highs with climate averages. The same models run systematically cool on Himalayan valley floors: daytime highs can read a few degrees below what the NCHM weather stations actually record. A forecast reading below the monthly normal usually says more about the model than about an unusual day.
- Local pattern beats the headline icon. In the monsoon, western-valley rain falls mostly late afternoon and overnight — a rainy-day icon often still means a usable morning. In winter, sunny days and freezing nights are the same day.
For what's typical rather than what's coming, use the long-term station normals: the full 12-month × 6-town table is on this page, the season-by-season reading of it is on best time to visit Bhutan, and the mechanics behind the patterns — elevation belts, monsoon, winter westerlies — are on climate & geography. Where those numbers come from and how they were checked is on sources & method.
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