MAY · BUTWAL
27.70° N · 83.47° E
Destination brief
Lumbini Province, Nepal
Travel Score
76
out of 100
In short
A good time to go.
Explore
A balanced mix of sights, food and day trips.
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Weather forecast
Great weather and steady: Mon Nov 2 and Tue Nov 3
Average weather score 91 out of 100, the best of 3 two- and three-day runs in the forecast.
Weather forecast only: air quality, events and safety are shown separately.
Every component and the reason behind it. The full formula is on the Method page.
Average daily weather score 88/100 over the next 3 days; biggest concern: 29% chance of rain on Nov 1.
US EPA index 3: Unhealthy for sensitive groups.
WeatherAPI
ButwalUpdated 8:00 PM local time
25°C
Patchy rain nearby
Feels like 28°High 28° · Low 20°
Rain now
19%
Rain today
29% chance
Humidity
77%
Wind
4 km/h WSW
Festival calendar
Nothing on right now
No listed festivals or events are happening today.
Tihar
FestivalNepal · Nationwide
Oct–Nov 2026Approx.
Nepal's five-day festival of lights, a few weeks after Dashain: oil lamps and rangoli at homes, honouring crows, dogs, cows and brothers. Laxmi Puja is on 8 November in 2026.
Christmas Day
ReligiousWorldwide
Dec 25, 2026In 54 days
Global celebration marking the birth of Jesus Christ, celebrated with feasts, gift-giving, and decorations.
New Year's Day
National HolidayWorldwide
Jan 1, 2027In 61 days
Global celebrations to welcome the new year with joy and festivities.
Events marked “Approx.” are known by month, not a specific day. Exact dates are recorded for 2026; check locally before you plan around them.
US EPA index
3 / 6
Unhealthy for sensitive groupsChildren, older adults and people with heart or breathing conditions should reduce prolonged outdoor exertion.
GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Power is what the wall supplies, not what a device needs: most phone and laptop chargers take 100 to 240 V, so you usually need only a plug adapter. Check the label on your device.
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No Level 3 or 4 advisory in our data (not a guarantee of safety).
No storms or heavy rain in the next 3 days.
No listed events with confirmed dates in the next 14 days.
Seasonal data not available yet; neutral estimate used.
8:16 PM
Sunday, November 1
Visibility
10 km
UV index
Low (0)
Local time at destination
Today
Nov 1
28° 20°
Patchy rain nearby · 29% rain
Mon
Nov 2
29° 21°
Patchy rain nearby · 21% rain
Tue
Nov 3
30° 22°
Smoky haze · 8% rain
No known advisory
No Level 3 or 4 advisory found for this destination in our data. This is not a guarantee of safety. Check your government's official travel advice before you go.
Source: U.S. Department of State travel advisories (Level 3 and 4), retrieved 2026-10-22 from the State Department's public feed; a few records kept by hand carry their own source and date. Updated Oct 22, 2026.
Emergency numbers for this country aren't in our data yet. Look them up before you travel.
Nepali is one of this country’s main languages; local languages can differ by region. Only words that Wiktionary and Wikivoyage phrasebooks both give are shown (CC BY-SA 4.0, checked 2026-10-11). Some languages change a word with who is speaking or how formal you are: these are the common forms.
Visa and passport rules depend on your nationality: check your government’s travel advice before you book.
Butwal, officially Butwal Sub-Metropolitan City, previously known as Khasyauli, is a sub-metropolitan city and economic hub in Lumbini Province in West Nepal.
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GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Towns within a day trip, best conditions first. Pick one for its full brief.
Pokhara
80 km away · 600k people
80Good to travel
16°Partly Cloudy
Open briefWalin
43 km away · 22k people
79Good to travel
16°Partly Cloudy
Open briefBharatpur
96 km away · 369k people
79Good to travel
20°Partly Cloudy
Open briefBaglun
65 km away · 23k people
80Good to travel
16°Partly Cloudy
Open briefTulsipur
125 km away · 39k people
78Good to travel
18°Clear
Open briefTowns 25 to 150 km away, the larger ones first, each with its own live conditions. Ranked by conditions, nearness and size. Distances are straight-line, so check the travel time. Places under a travel advisory are left out.
Exchange rate
1 USD ≈ 152.08 NPR, as of 1 Nov 2026
A mid-market rate, not what a bank, card or exchange desk will give you. Rates By Exchange Rate API (opens in a new tab)
NASA POWER climatology (public domain)
Usually the most comfortable: November, February and March. Typical weather over 2001–2020, not a forecast.
Taller is more comfortable. The brighter bars are the best months; the filled label is this month.
Typical weather
32° 20°
Warm
About 78 mm of rain over the month
Festivals that month
None recorded in our calendar.
What to pack
Worked out from the typical weather of this month, not from a forecast: check the forecast in the days before you go. From our festival calendar. Dates marked approximate are only known by month and can move; an empty list means none is recorded, not that nothing is on.
| Month | Feels | High / low | Rain | Comfort |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | Pleasant | 17° / 7° | 20 mm | 92 |
| February | Pleasant | 20° / 9° | 27 mm | 100 |
| March | Pleasant | 25° / 12° | 23 mm | 100 |
| April | Warm | 30° / 17° | 26 mm | 90 |
| May | Warm | 32° / 20° | 78 mm | 75 |
| June | Wet | 31° / 21° | 230 mm | 57 |
| July | Very wet | 27° / 21° |
Comfort uses the typical daytime high (most comfortable at 20 to 28°C) and the typical rainfall (most comfortable under 1 mm a day), averaged over 2001–2020. Highs and lows are worked out from the monthly average temperature and the average daily swing, so they are close, not exact. It is not a forecast. Humidity, crowds, prices and festivals are not included, and a mountain or coast can differ from its half-degree grid cell.
| 430 mm |
| 60 |
| August | Very wet | 26° / 20° | 311 mm | 60 |
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| September | Wet | 25° / 19° | 199 mm | 75 |
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| October | Pleasant | 24° / 16° | 57 mm | 96 |
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| November | Pleasant | 21° / 12° | 3 mm | 100 |
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| December | Pleasant | 18° / 8° | 7 mm | 94 |
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