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Bhutan

Plan a visit or move to Bhutan with current conditions, practical signals, maps, local people, and sourced context.

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Climate normals · 2016–2025

When to go: Bhutan month by month

Judged purely on 2016–2025 weather records, the friendliest months in Bhutan are typically April, October and November, with average daytime highs around 15–18°C. August is usually the warmest month (average high 22°C), January the coldest (average low -1°C), and July the wettest (about 651 mm). These are long-run averages, not a forecast.

Monthly averages computed from 2016–2025 Open-Meteo historical weather records for this location. Long-run averages, not a forecast.
Month	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)	Rain (mm)	Sunshine (h/day)
January	9.6	-1.0	84	9.2
February	10.7	1.0	137	8.9
March	14.2	3.8	201	9.9
April	17.4	7.2	217	10.3
May	18.8	10.2	345	9.9
June	21.2	13.6	522	9.0
July	21.8	15.1	651	7.4
August	22.1	14.7	512	8.2
September	20.9	13.3	398	8.8
October	18.0	9.2	224	9.4
November	15.1	5.3	107	9.5
December	12.5	1.8	77	9.1

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Past and future events in Bhutan

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Past · documented context

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Documented history · 2000
Stone tools, weapons, elephants, and remnants of large stone structures provide evidence that Bhutan was inhabited as early as 2000 BCE, although there are no existing records from that time.
Documented history · 1627
The earliest Western record of Bhutan, the 1627 Relação of the Portuguese Jesuits Estêvão Cacella and João Cabral, records its name variously as Cambirasi (among the Koch Biharis), Potente, and Mon (an endonym for southern Tibet).
Documented history · 1651
When Ngawang Namgyal died in 1651, his death was kept secret for 54 years.
Documented history · 1711
In 1711, Bhutan went to war against the Raja of the kingdom of Koch Bihar in the south.

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Bhutan, in brief

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02 · History