Climate and average weather in Gulariyā

In Gulariyā, the summers are humid, sweltering, fairly dry, and clear and the winters are mild and mostly clear.

Best: early January to early March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Gulariyā typically varies from 9°C to 37°C, and is rarely below 6°C or above 42°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

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

Hottest
May
37°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jul
375 mm
Driest
Nov
4 mm
Rain / yr
1184 mm
106 wet days
Daylight
10.2–13.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
147 m
28.2°N
Clearest
Nov
14% cloud

Gulariyā is municipality in Bardiya District, Nepal.

Founded
1997

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

Gulariyā 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 early March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.3 months, from March 29 to July 5, with daily high temperatures above 33°C. The hottest month of the year in Gulariyā is May, with an average high of 37°C and low of 24°C.

The cool season lasts 2.0 months, from December 10 to February 7, with daily high temperatures below 24°C. The coldest month of the year in Gulariyā is January, with an average low of 9°C and high of 21°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 16°C) in April.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan219
Feb2511
Mar3015
Apr3620
May3724
Jun3627
Jul3327
Aug3227
Sep3225
Oct3120
Nov2715
Dec2310

How hot and cold Gulariyā 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, Gulariyā feels like about 44°C (around June 16). About 214 days a year carry some heat stress, and 142 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)
Jan212189
Feb25251111
Mar30301515
Apr36362020
May40372424
Jun43362727
Jul42332727
Aug41322727
Sep40322525
Oct34312020
Nov28271515
Dec23231010

Average hourly temperature in Gulariyā

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 May afternoons, near 37°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Gulariyā 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
Jan21° / 283.210.48.0
Feb25° / 11°343.5118.4
Mar30° / 15°202.611.86.1
Apr36° / 20°153.712.72.7
May37° / 24°37713.41.6
Jun36° / 27°18614.713.81.9
Jul33° / 27°37524.813.62.3
Aug32° / 27°28324.8132.4
Sep32° / 25°16417.312.23.3
Oct31° / 20°252.811.35.8
Nov27° / 15°40.610.68.4
Dec23° / 10°12110.28.9

Chance of rain

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

Gulariyā gets about 1184 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.1 months, from around May 29 to Oct 1, peaking in August at about 82% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Nov 2.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 375 mm over about 25 wet days; November is the driest, with 4 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 15 · 82%Nov 2 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan103
Feb124
Mar93
Apr124
May237
Jun5015
Jul7925
Aug7925
Sep5717
Oct103
Nov21
Dec41

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Gulariyā collects about 1184 mm of rain across 106 wet days — roughly 99 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 375 mm, while November is the driest at just 4 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 71% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec283420153718637528316425412
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan283
Feb344
Mar203
Apr154
May377
Jun18615
Jul37525
Aug28325
Sep16417
Oct253
Nov41
Dec121

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Gulariyā, 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 September 22 and lasts for 8.7 months, ending around June 14. The clearest month is November, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 93% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 15 and lasts for 3.3 months, ending around September 21. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 82% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecOct 28 · 95%Aug 5 · 13%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7921
Feb8218
Mar8515
Apr8713
May928
Jun6634
Jul1882
Aug2080
Sep6139
Oct937
Nov937
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 11, brings about 13 h 48 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 10 h 12 min — a swing of roughly 3 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.47:175:41
Feb11.07:046:04
Mar11.86:366:23
Apr12.76:006:40
May13.45:346:58
Jun13.85:267:13
Jul13.65:367:14
Aug13.05:536:54
Sep12.26:096:19
Oct11.36:255:44
Nov10.66:485:22
Dec10.27:095:22

Sunny days

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

Gulariyā averages about 18 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 28 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 8.6 months, from around Sep 24 to Jun 12. The sunniest month is October, with roughly 27 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is July, down near 2 sunny days — about 92% fewer than the October peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantOct 2828 daysJul 291 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan20Bright
Feb19Bright
Mar22Bright
Apr21Bright
May24Brilliant
Jun16Bright
Jul2Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
Sep14Mixed
Oct27Brilliant
Nov26Brilliant
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 Gulariyā, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.6 months, from around April 25 to November 12. The muggiest month is June, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 13 to April 24, and January 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 6 · 100%Jun 19 · 0%muggycomfortablehumidoppressivemiserabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan89110000
Feb56387000
Mar324221500
Apr2229281930
May6101629327
Jun01592263
Jul00000100
Aug00000100
Sep00011089
Oct0317323215
Nov941381200
Dec66313000

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 Gulariyā is typically calm, near 6 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.3 months, from around Feb 5 to Jul 16. The windiest month is April, averaging about 8 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jul 17 to Feb 4, with October the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeApr 29 · 8 km/hOct 3 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb7calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May8calm
Jun7calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Gulariyā

In seasonPeak

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

Gulariyā's monsoon runs June–August, when most of the year's rain falls.

Gulariyā sees seasonal dust haze (June), heaviest in June.

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

Best time to visit Gulariyā

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 5 · 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
Jan8.0ideal
Feb8.3ideal
Mar6.1good
Apr2.7poor
May1.6poor
Jun1.9poor
Jul2.3poor
Aug2.5poor
Sep3.3poor
Oct5.8good
Nov8.4ideal
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 times of year to visit Gulariyā for hot-weather activities run from mid February to early April and again from early October to mid December, with a peak score in the first week of November.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 4 · 9.4

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 Gulariyā, 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 May (highs near 37°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 21°C), pack a light layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In May, Gulariyā sees daytime highs around 37°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 7 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Gulariyā 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 Gulariyā peaks around August 18 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 20 at about 3 (moderate).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateVery highHighModerateAug 18UV 9Dec 20UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan4Moderate
Feb4Moderate
Mar8Very high
Apr8Very high
May9Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug10Very high
Sep9Very high
Oct6High
Nov4Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Gulariyā

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 August the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 7.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 5 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)
Jan30
Feb40
Mar6.53.5
Apr74
May85
Jun85.5
Jul7.54.5
Aug7.55
Sep74.5
Oct5.51.5
Nov40
Dec20

Air quality in Gulariyā 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 Gulariyā is worst in January — around 119 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 2.8× the cleanest month (July, 42 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorUnhealthyJan 15118 µg/m³Jul 2243 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan119Unhealthy
Feb108Unhealthy
Mar83Unhealthy
Apr87Unhealthy
May68Unhealthy
Jun64Unhealthy
Jul42Poor
Aug45Poor
Sep51Poor
Oct75Unhealthy
Nov100Unhealthy
Dec112Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Gulariyā 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. Gulariyā banks about 5,379 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around June.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan149
Feb225
Mar395
Apr536
May644
Jun634
Jul612
Aug604
Sep563
Oct487
Nov329
Dec201

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.

Gulariyā receives about 5.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.7 and 7.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.1 months, from around Feb 21 to Jun 26. The brightest month is May, averaging about 7.0 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 3.7 kWh/m² — roughly 47% less than the May peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMay 57.1 kWhDec 283.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.9Moderate
Feb4.8Bright
Mar6.0Intense
Apr6.9Intense
May7.0Intense
Jun5.9Bright
Jul4.2Bright
Aug4.1Bright
Sep4.5Bright
Oct4.9Bright
Nov4.3Bright
Dec3.7Moderate

Where is Gulariyā?

Gulariyā sits at 28.2°N, 81.3°E, 147 m above sea level, in Nepal. The nearest listed city is Nepalgunj, 32 km away.

BirendranagarDailekhDhangaḍhi̇̄Tulsi̇̄purDipayalBhimdatta

Topography around Gulariyā

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Gulariyā has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 31 m around an average of 144 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 64 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,631 m.

The land around Gulariyā is covered by cropland (60%) and trees (26%) within 3 km, cropland (49%) and trees (45%) within 16 km, and trees (48%) and cropland (47%) within 80 km.

3 km
31 m
16 km
64 m
80 km
2,631 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Nepalgunj 32 km · Ṭikāpur 42 km · Birendranagar 51 km · Dailekh 79 km · Dhangaḍhi̇̄ 92 km · Tulsi̇̄pur 94 km · Dipayal 124 km · Bhimdatta 142 km

Nepal travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / D / M
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 24% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$1,536
2025
Happiness
5.1 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
16%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
2.1
per 100k, 2020
Road deaths
16.3
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 514
Religion
Hindu 81%Buddhist 8%Muslim 5%Kirat 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 Gulariyā (28.2058°, 81.3453°, elevation 147 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).