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Best time to visit Leh

India · 34.15°N 77.58°E · monthly climate normals, judged against the Warm preset (mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F, dry or showers)

The best time to visit Leh is July, when mean temperatures sit around 14 °C57 °F.

Leh is dry all year: no month averages more than 16 mm0.6 in (July), and November sees under 8 mm0.3 in. July is the hottest month at 14 °C57 °F and January the coldest at -12 °C10 °F; the mean stays below freezing from November to March.

Figures are 30-year monthly averages (WorldClim 2.1 monthly normals 1970–2000) for the 0.25° grid cell at 34.15, 77.58 — a climate guide, not a forecast.

Leh weather by month

Pick the weather you like and every month is judged against it — temperature above the month names, rain below.

Weather you like

mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F, dry or showers

Good time to go for a Warm holiday: July.

Open Leh on the interactive map ↗ the same verdict for every place on Earth, any month

▲ Temperature mean , coldest to warmest month
-12°10°JAN80.3-10°14°FEB80.3-4°24°MAR80.335°APR80.344°MAY80.311°51°JUN80.314°57°JUL160.614°56°AUG160.610°50°SEP80.337°OCT80.3-3°27°NOV00-8°17°DEC80.3
▼ Rainfall per month, driest to wettest

Reading the chart. Gold is good: the month fits what you picked. Any other colour names the reason it doesn't — the temperature bar can be too cold or too hot, the rain bar too dry, too rainy or monsoon. A faded gold bar is a half that fits while the other half fails; a gold month name means both fit.

What the verdicts mean. Temperature is the monthly mean, judged against the preset's band (mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F for Warm). Rain is judged by each month's class within Leh's own year rather than raw millimetres: dry under 60 mm2.4 in, showers 60–100 mm2.4–3.9 in, rainy from 100 mm3.9 in and 35 % of the wettest month. Too rainy is a rainy-season month the preset doesn't allow. Monsoon is the heaviest kind of rainy season — 180 mm7.1 in or more (120 mm4.7 in near the yearly peak) in a climate whose wettest month is at least three times its driest — so every monsoon month is rainy season too; the label says which kind. Full rules on the method page.

MonthRain Mean SeasonWarm verdict
January80.3-1210drytoo cold
February80.3-1014drytoo cold
March80.3-424drytoo cold
April80.3235drytoo cold
May80.3744drytoo cold
June80.31151drytoo cold
July160.61457drygood
August160.61456drytoo cold
September80.31050drytoo cold
October80.3337drytoo cold
November00-327drytoo cold
December80.3-817drytoo cold

When to go to Leh, by holiday type

Looking forRuleMonths that fit
Warmmean 14–24 °C57–75 °F, dry or showersJuly
Tropicalmean 24–33 °C75–91 °F, anything but the monsoonno month
Beachmean 24–33 °C75–91 °F, dry or showersno month
Coolmean 0–14 °C32–57 °F, anything but the monsoonApril to June and August to October
Snowmean below 0 °C32 °F, any rainNovember to March

Is there a rainy season in Leh?

No. Leh is dry all year: no month averages more than 16 mm0.6 in (July), and November sees under 8 mm0.3 in.

July is the hottest month at 14 °C57 °F and January the coldest at -12 °C10 °F; the mean stays below freezing from November to March. Annual rainfall totals about 104 mm4.1 in.

Where to go instead when Leh doesn't fit

The nearest destinations that do fit the Warm preset in the months Leh doesn't:

Nearby destinations

distances in — tap a unit to switch.

The interactive map colours the whole world by how it fits your picks in any month, and shows this chart for any place you tap.