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Punakha in January

Mild and wet, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

January in Punakha is mild: highs near 61°F, lows near 38°F. Rain falls on about five days a week, more often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 17 minutes from the first week to the last.January in Punakha is mild: highs near 16°C, lows near 3°C. Rain falls on about five days a week, more often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 17 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
61°F16°Caverage
Low
38°F3°Caverage
Wet days
5a week · 77% of days
Daylight
10h 36mon average

Is January a good time to visit Punakha?

January sits outside Punakha's best months, which run from July to October. Expect mild days and rain on about five days a week.

How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 70°F to 80°F, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 21°C to 27°C, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.

How January sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Highs near 61°F in January, against 61°F to 81°F through the year.Highs near 16°C in January, against 16°C to 27°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

77% of days in January, against 77% to 100% through the year.

Cloud cover

23% cover in January, against 19% to 82% through the year.

Daylight

10h 36m in January, against 10h 25m to 13h 51m through the year.

Week by week, lightly smoothed, with January shaded. The olive line marks the best months. Hover or tap a week for its figures.

Either side

  1. December64°18°low 43°low 6°5 wet days a weekRain on about five days a week.
  2. January61°16°low 38°low 3°5 wet days a weekRain on about five days a week.
  3. February62°17°low 40°low 4°6 wet days a weekRain on about six days a week.

Where Punakha sits, in January

Asia/Thimphu
this place
typical high in January 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-January
6:52 AMsets 5:26 PM
Above the sea
1,240 mupland
Latitude
27.6°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Thimphu26 km south-west

The land around Punakha, shaded by its typical high in January, the planning map's own layer. Hover the map for the figure at that spot; tap it on a phone. Clock times are local, for the 15th.

Elsewhere in Bhutan in January

high · low · wet days
See January on the planning mapThe whole year in Punakha

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Punakha. Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 3.1°F cold in the source data and are raised to match, and both highs and lows are adjusted for the town's height (1,240 m) against the climate model's (1,872 m).Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 1.7°C cold in the source data and are raised to match, and both highs and lows are adjusted for the town's height (1,240 m) against the climate model's (1,872 m). Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not. Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.

Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not.

Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.