Climate and average weather in Paharpur

In Paharpur, the summers are humid, sweltering, showery, and mostly clear and the winters are warm and clear.

Best: early January to late February

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Paharpur typically varies from 12°C to 34°C, and is rarely below 9°C or above 40°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Paharpur for warm-weather activities are from early January to late February and mid November to late December.

Hottest
Apr
34°
Coldest
Jan
12°
Wettest
Jun
381 mm
Driest
Dec
5 mm
Rain / yr
1907 mm
165 wet days
Daylight
10.4–13.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
0 m
25.0°N
Clearest
Nov
23% cloud

Paharpur is Buddhist Monastery.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Paharpur weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early January to late February.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Paharpur, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 7.2 months, from March 12 to October 15, with daily high temperatures above 31°C. The hottest month of the year in Paharpur is April, with an average high of 34°C and low of 23°C.

The cool season lasts 1.7 months, from December 14 to February 3, with daily high temperatures below 26°C. The coldest month of the year in Paharpur is January, with an average low of 12°C and high of 24°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in February.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2412
Feb2815
Mar3219
Apr3423
May3425
Jun3326
Jul3227
Aug3227
Sep3226
Oct3123
Nov2918
Dec2614

How hot and cold Paharpur really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Paharpur feels like about 42°C (around June 9). About 234 days a year carry some heat stress, and 155 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in June.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan24241212
Feb27281515
Mar32321919
Apr37342323
May40342525
Jun42332626
Jul41322727
Aug41322727
Sep40322626
Oct37312323
Nov30291818
Dec26261414

Average hourly temperature in Paharpur

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on April afternoons, near 34°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 12°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Paharpur weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan24° / 12°121.910.69.1
Feb28° / 15°202.511.17.9
Mar32° / 19°314.711.85.0
Apr34° / 23°11513.312.63.0
May34° / 25°27621.813.22.4
Jun33° / 26°38125.913.52.1
Jul32° / 27°35628.413.42.1
Aug32° / 27°29028.212.92.1
Sep32° / 26°27124.512.22.5
Oct31° / 23°13811.711.44.5
Nov29° / 18°13110.87.2
Dec26° / 14°50.710.58.9

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Paharpur gets about 1907 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.8 months, from around Apr 18 to Oct 11, peaking in July at about 92% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Nov 26.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 381 mm over about 26 wet days; December is the driest, with 5 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 8 · 92%Nov 26 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan62
Feb93
Mar165
Apr4413
May7022
Jun8626
Jul9128
Aug9128
Sep8125
Oct3712
Nov41
Dec21

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Paharpur collects about 1907 mm of rain across 165 wet days — roughly 159 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 381 mm, while December is the driest at just 5 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 54% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec122031115276381356290271138135
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan122
Feb203
Mar315
Apr11513
May27622
Jun38126
Jul35628
Aug29028
Sep27125
Oct13812
Nov131
Dec51

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Paharpur, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around October 5 and lasts for 7.3 months, ending around May 15. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 88% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 16 and lasts for 4.7 months, ending around October 4. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 97% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 23 · 90%Jul 31 · 2%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8713
Feb8812
Mar8515
Apr7030
May5545
Jun2179
Jul397
Aug694
Sep2575
Oct7228
Nov8812
Dec8713

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 18, brings about 13 h 36 min of light; the shortest, around December 17, only 10 h 24 min — a swing of roughly 3 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.66:555:31
Feb11.16:455:53
Mar11.86:196:08
Apr12.65:476:22
May13.25:246:37
Jun13.55:186:51
Jul13.45:276:52
Aug12.95:426:35
Sep12.25:546:03
Oct11.46:075:31
Nov10.86:275:12
Dec10.56:475:14

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Paharpur averages about 14 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 25 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.4 months, from around Oct 8 to Apr 20. The sunniest month is November, with roughly 24 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is July, down near 0 sunny days — about 99% fewer than the November peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantNov 2225 daysJul 270 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan24Brilliant
Feb22Brilliant
Mar23Bright
Apr15Mixed
May10Mixed
Jun3Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep4Gloomy
Oct18Bright
Nov24Brilliant
Dec24Brilliant

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Paharpur, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.9 months, from around March 27 to November 21. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 22 to March 26, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 96% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 10 · 98%May 29 · 0%humidmiserablemuggyoppressivecomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan63334000
Feb384017400
Mar2022262190
Apr568254512
May01143856
Jun0000397
Jul00000100
Aug00000100
Sep0000496
Oct002173546
Nov3163534121
Dec324521200

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Paharpur is typically calm, near 8 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Mar 16 to Sep 10. The windiest month is July, averaging about 10 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 11 to Mar 15, with October the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJul 16 · 11 km/hOct 11 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar8calm
Apr9calm
May9calm
Jun10calm
Jul10calm
Aug9calm
Sep8calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Paharpur

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Paharpur's monsoon runs May–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

Monsoon
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Paharpur

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Paharpur throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around mid February, Paharpur is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Paharpur for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid November to late February, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 1 · 9.2

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan9.1ideal
Feb7.9ideal
Mar5.0fair
Apr3.1poor
May2.4poor
Jun2.1poor
Jul2.1poor
Aug2.1poor
Sep2.5poor
Oct4.5fair
Nov7.2good
Dec8.9ideal

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Paharpur for hot-weather activities is from late October to late March, with a peak score in the third week of November.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 20 · 9.1

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Paharpur, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around April (highs near 34°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 24°C), pack light clothes.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Paharpur sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 13 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Paharpur by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Paharpur peaks around July 21 at about 11 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near November 20 at about 4 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateVery highHighVery highExtremeVery highModerateJul 21UV 11Nov 20UV 4
UV index (midday)Level
Jan4Moderate
Feb5Moderate
Mar8Very high
Apr6High
May8Very high
Jun7High
Jul11Extreme
Aug10Extreme
Sep10Very high
Oct6High
Nov4Moderate
Dec4Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Paharpur

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in July the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan3.50
Feb4.50
Mar74
Apr6.52
May74
Jun73
Jul8.56
Aug85.5
Sep7.55
Oct5.50
Nov30
Dec40

Air quality in Paharpur by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Paharpur is worst in January — around 184 µg/m³ PM2.5 (very unhealthy), about 4.7× the cleanest month (July, 39 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0306090120150180210JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery unhealthyUnhealthyPoorUnhealthyVery unhealthyJan 16181 µg/m³Jul 1841 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan184Very unhealthy
Feb162Very unhealthy
Mar113Unhealthy
Apr82Unhealthy
May69Unhealthy
Jun55Poor
Jul39Poor
Aug50Poor
Sep59Unhealthy
Oct90Unhealthy
Nov133Unhealthy
Dec162Very unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Paharpur is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Paharpur banks about 5,779 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around June.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan247
Feb310
Mar478
Apr546
May593
Jun586
Jul605
Aug604
Sep568
Oct533
Nov407
Dec302

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Paharpur receives about 4.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.8 and 6.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.1 months, from around Jan 27 to May 30. The brightest month is March, averaging about 5.8 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is July, down near 3.9 kWh/m² — roughly 33% less than the March peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 186.0 kWhJul 33.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.3Bright
Feb5.0Bright
Mar5.9Bright
Apr5.7Bright
May4.9Bright
Jun4.1Bright
Jul3.9Moderate
Aug4.0Moderate
Sep3.9Moderate
Oct4.3Bright
Nov4.3Bright
Dec3.9Moderate

Where is Paharpur?

Paharpur sits at 25.0°N, 89.0°E, 0 m above sea level, in Bangladesh. The nearest listed city is Rajshahi, 82 km away.

RajshahiRangpurMymensinghBhadrapurDhakaPhuentsholingJessore

Topography around Paharpur

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Paharpur.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Paharpur has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 12 m around an average of 20 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 24 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 48 m.

The land around Paharpur is covered by cropland (62%) and trees (34%) within 3 km, cropland (71%) and trees (26%) within 16 km, and cropland (74%) and trees (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
12 m
16 km
24 m
80 km
48 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Rajshahi 82 km · Rangpur 85 km · Mymensingh 147 km · Bhadrapur 190 km · Dhaka 206 km · Phuentsholing 207 km · Jessore 208 km · Biratnagar 233 km

Bangladesh travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 3
Reconsider Travel
Power plugs
Type A / C / D / G
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 25% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$2,597
2025
Happiness
4.3 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
59%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
2.3
per 100k, 2018
Road deaths
15.3
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 506
Religion
Muslim 91%Hindu 8%other 1%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Paharpur (25.0269°, 88.9759°, elevation 0 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).