Climate and average weather in Tsirang

In Tsirang, the summers are humid, warm, wet, and mostly cloudy and the winters are cool, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: mid October to early December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Tsirang typically varies from 6°C to 24°C, and is rarely below 3°C or above 27°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Tsirang for warm-weather activities is from mid October to early December.

Hottest
Aug
24°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jul
1040 mm
Driest
Nov
132 mm
Rain / yr
5179 mm
302 wet days
Daylight
10.3–13.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,410 m
27.0°N
Clearest
Nov
51% cloud

Tsirang 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 mid October to early December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 5.7 months, from April 30 to October 20, with daily high temperatures above 22°C. The hottest month of the year in Tsirang is August, with an average high of 24°C and low of 19°C.

The cool season lasts 2.1 months, from December 16 to February 17, with daily high temperatures below 16°C. The coldest month of the year in Tsirang is January, with an average low of 6°C and high of 14°C.

Days typically run about 7°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 9°C) in November.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan146
Feb168
Mar1911
Apr2113
May2316
Jun2419
Jul2419
Aug2419
Sep2418
Oct2214
Nov1910
Dec167

Average hourly temperature in Tsirang

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 August afternoons, near 24°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Tsirang weather by month

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

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan14° / 22521.51.810.53.0
Feb16° / 25523.10.7113.1
Mar19° / 11°29026.6011.83.8
Apr21° / 13°34627.8012.63.7
May23° / 16°47130.1013.33.6
Jun24° / 19°79929.8013.73.5
Jul24° / 19°104030.8013.53.4
Aug24° / 19°67730.50133.5
Sep24° / 18°54228.1012.23.8
Oct22° / 14°26022.3011.44.9
Nov19° / 10°13214.8010.75.5
Dec16° / 14116.40.210.34.3

Chance of rain

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

Tsirang gets about 5179 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 7.8 months, from around Feb 14 to Oct 8, peaking in June at about 100% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Nov 5.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 1040 mm over about 31 wet days; November is the driest, with 132 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 29 · 100%Nov 5 · 48%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan6922
Feb8223
Mar8627
Apr9328
May9730
Jun9930
Jul9931
Aug9831
Sep9428
Oct7122
Nov5015
Dec5316

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Tsirang collects about 5179 mm of rain across 302 wet days — roughly 432 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 1040 mm, while November is the driest at just 132 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 49% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

05010015020025030035040045050055060065070075080085090095010001050110011501200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2252552903464717991040677542260132141
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan225222
Feb255231
Mar290270
Apr346280
May471300
Jun799300
Jul1040310
Aug677310
Sep542280
Oct260220
Nov132150
Dec141160

Snow in Tsirang

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Tsirang averages about 3 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Dec 26 to Feb 18 — about 1.8 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 1.7 days of snow and an estimated 11 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 15 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonJan 22
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan211
Feb14
Mar00
Apr00
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Tsirang, 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 2 and lasts for 6.3 months, ending around April 10. The clearest month is November, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 59% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 11 and lasts for 5.7 months, ending around October 1. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 98% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNov 1 · 68%Jul 1 · 1%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4060
Feb3367
Mar3763
Apr2575
May1585
Jun595
Jul298
Aug397
Sep1387
Oct5050
Nov5941
Dec5149

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 9, brings about 13 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 10 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 3 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.56:555:23
Feb11.06:435:46
Mar11.86:156:03
Apr12.65:416:19
May13.35:166:36
Jun13.75:096:50
Jul13.55:196:52
Aug13.05:356:33
Sep12.25:495:59
Oct11.46:045:25
Nov10.76:255:04
Dec10.36:465:05

Sunny days

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

Tsirang averages about 4 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 14 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.2 months, from around Oct 2 to Feb 7. The sunniest month is November, with roughly 11 sunny days (mixed).

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

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightNov 114 daysJun 250 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan6Gloomy
Feb3Gloomy
Mar4Gloomy
Apr2Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct9Mixed
Nov11Mixed
Dec9Mixed

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 Tsirang, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.6 months, from around April 30 to October 17. The muggiest month is June, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 18 to April 29, and February is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 15 · 100%Jun 15 · 0%muggyhumiddrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1000000
Feb973000
Mar7424200
Apr23532310
May12156220
Jun0019800
Jul002971
Aug005941
Sep0233650
Oct18324280
Nov8019100
Dec1000000

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.

Wind in Tsirang is steady company: average speeds sit near 3 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmMar 18 · 4 km/hAug 16 · 3 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan3calm
Feb3calm
Mar4calm
Apr4calm
May3calm
Jun3calm
Jul3calm
Aug3calm
Sep3calm
Oct3calm
Nov3calm
Dec3calm

Hazard calendar for Tsirang

In seasonPeak

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

Tsirang's rainy season runs May–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

Best time to visit Tsirang

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late November, Tsirang 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 Tsirang for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid October to early December, with a peak score in the first week of November.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 3 · 5.9

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
Jan3.1poor
Feb3.1poor
Mar3.8fair
Apr3.7fair
May3.7fair
Jun3.5fair
Jul3.4poor
Aug3.5fair
Sep3.8fair
Oct4.9fair
Nov5.5fair
Dec4.3fair

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 Tsirang for hot-weather activities is from mid May to mid November, with a peak score in the last week of October.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 25 · 3.5

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 Tsirang, 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 August (highs near 24°C), the essentials are light clothes and rain gear. In the cold season around January (highs near 14°C), pack a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Tsirang sees daytime highs around 24°C and nights near 19°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: light clothes. About 31 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Tsirang 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 Tsirang peaks around July 12 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 1 at about 5 (moderate).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highExtremeVery highHighJul 12UV 14Jan 1UV 5
UV index (midday)Level
Jan5Moderate
Feb6High
Mar9Very high
Apr10Very high
May11Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul14Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct7Very high
Nov6High
Dec5Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Tsirang

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 9 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 7 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)
Jan4.50
Feb5.50
Mar74.5
Apr85.5
May8.56
Jun97
Jul97
Aug8.56
Sep7.55.5
Oct6.53.5
Nov5.51
Dec4.50

Air quality in Tsirang 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 Tsirang is worst in February — around 59 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.0× the cleanest month (July, 15 µg/m³).

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorUnhealthyPoorModerateFeb 2158 µg/m³Jul 1915 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan44Poor
Feb59Unhealthy
Mar57Unhealthy
Apr48Poor
May30Moderate
Jun22Moderate
Jul15Moderate
Aug18Moderate
Sep19Moderate
Oct25Moderate
Nov31Moderate
Dec34Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Tsirang 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. Tsirang banks about 2,511 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

01,0002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan2
Feb49
Mar142
Apr216
May294
Jun337
Jul358
Aug362
Sep323
Oct249
Nov133
Dec46

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.

Tsirang receives about 3.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.6 and 4.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 3.5 months, from around Mar 3 to Jun 17. The brightest month is April, averaging about 4.3 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is January, down near 2.6 kWh/m² — roughly 39% less than the April peak.

012345JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightApr 174.4 kWhJan 182.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.6Moderate
Feb3.0Moderate
Mar3.9Moderate
Apr4.4Bright
May4.2Bright
Jun3.5Moderate
Jul3.2Moderate
Aug3.5Moderate
Sep3.4Moderate
Oct3.6Moderate
Nov3.1Moderate
Dec2.6Moderate

Where is Tsirang?

Tsirang sits at 27.0°N, 90.1°E, 1,410 m above sea level, in Bhutan. The nearest listed city is Trongsa, 66 km away.

TrongsaPunakhaThimphuPhuentsholingParoJakarMongarSamdrup Jongkhar

Topography around Tsirang

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Tsirang has very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,207 m around an average of 1,133 m above sea level; within 16 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,730 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 5,038 m.

The land around Tsirang is covered by trees (81%) within 3 km, trees (96%) within 16 km, and trees (83%) within 80 km.

3 km
1,207 m
16 km
2,730 m
80 km
5,038 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Trongsa 66 km · Punakha 68 km · Thimphu 69 km · Phuentsholing 75 km · Paro 84 km · Jakar 85 km · Mongar 114 km · Samdrup Jongkhar 139 km

Bhutan travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type C / D / F / G / M
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 23% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$4,493
2025
Happiness
5.1 / 10
World Happiness, 2018
Safe drinking water
66%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
2.5
per 100k, 2020
Road deaths
16.2
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 473
Religion
Lamaistic Buddhist 75%Indian- and Nepali-influenced Hinduism 22%other 3%

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 Tsirang (27.0219°, 90.1229°, elevation 1,410 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).