Sikkim
When to go?
Mean −1 °C, 7 rain days in the month (116 mm).
Against
- Freezinglows of −8 °C
Mean 0 °C, 8 rain days in the month (130 mm).
Against
- Freezinglows of −6 °C
Mean 3 °C, 11 rain days in the month (162 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 6 °C, 12 rain days in the month (153 mm).
Good for
- Ideal to visitTemperature and rain in the ideal range.
Mean 9 °C, 17 rain days in the month (192 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 12 °C, 24 rain days in the month (283 mm).
Against
- Often rainyrain on 8 days in 10
Mean 12 °C, 30 rain days in the month (438 mm).
Against
- Often rainyrain almost every day
- Torrential rain15 mm per rain day
Mean 12 °C, 27 rain days in the month (382 mm).
Against
- Often rainyrain on 9 days in 10
- Torrential rain14 mm per rain day
Mean 11 °C, 17 rain days in the month (227 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 7 °C, 10 rain days in the month (120 mm).
Good for
- Ideal to visitTemperature and rain in the ideal range.
Mean 3 °C, 6 rain days in the month (92 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 1 °C, 6 rain days in the month (90 mm).
Nothing against it.
The best months are April, October.
Very varied climate The climate changes a lot from one part to another: look at the cities below for the details.
Climate zones
- Freezing, dry
- Freezing
- Freezing, wet
- Cold, dry
- Cold
- Cold, wet
- Mild, dry
- Mild
- Mild, wet
- Hot, arid
- Hot
- Hot, wet
- Torrid, arid
- Torrid
- Torrid, wet
Mean maximum and minimum temperature and mean monthly precipitation of the season (the mean of its three months), ERA5-Land 1996–2025, at about 9 km resolution: colours are in levels (the same as the city scale) and smaller details are not real.
What is the climate like?
Area mean indicative, over the whole territory
Temperature and rain
Monthly min and max temperature (°C)
Monthly min and max temperature (°C)
How much it rains
Rain days and how much water
Rain days and how much water
Bars: length = rain days, thickness = mm on a rain day, area = the month's rain. 3 mm a day7 mm a day15 mm a day
Colour = the month's rain: 103060100160250400mm
Daylight hours
Mean daylight hours over the whole territory.
Snow on the ground
Mean snow depth on the ground (cm)
Mean snow depth on the ground (cm)
Spatial mean over the whole area, weighted by area (cosine of the latitude), not by population: indicative only, since the climate varies a lot within an area (coasts, plains, mountains). Look at the cities for the weather you will find.