Lumle

Place in Gandaki Zone, Nepal

Lumle लुम्ले
VDC Hill station
Bridge over Dhoti Khola
28°21′N 83°50′E / 28.35°N 83.83°E / 28.35; 83.83
Country	Nepal
Zone	Gandaki Zone
District	Kaski District
Population (1991)
• Total	4,685
Time zone	UTC+5:45 (NST)
Area code	061

Lumle is a town and Annapurna Rural Municipality, Kaski Kaski District in the Gandaki Zone of northern-central Nepal.^{[clarification needed]} At the 1991 Nepal census, it had a population of 4,685 persons in 955 individual households.^[1]

Lumle is well known for its agricultural centre on a hillside above the village founded in 1968 to train British Gurkha ex-servicemen farmers. Its role was expanded in 1975 to benefit the communities from which Gurkhas were recruited in Mid-West Hills. It is now part of Nepal Agricultural Research Council.^[2]

Localities

Tanchowk

Educational institutions in Lumle

Balmandir Community School (community)
Future Star English Boarding School (private)
Shree Siddha Lower Secondary School (government)
Shree Sangam Secondary School (government)
Srijana Secondary School (government)
Shree Paudurkot Lower Secondary School (government)

Climate

Climate data for Lumle, elevation 1,738 m (5,702 ft), (1991–2020)
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	13.9 (57.0)	15.8 (60.4)	19.8 (67.6)	22.8 (73.0)	23.5 (74.3)	24.0 (75.2)	23.8 (74.8)	23.9 (75.0)	23.3 (73.9)	21.6 (70.9)	18.4 (65.1)	15.2 (59.4)	20.5 (68.9)
Daily mean °C (°F)	9.3 (48.7)	11.2 (52.2)	14.7 (58.5)	17.6 (63.7)	18.9 (66.0)	20.4 (68.7)	20.8 (69.4)	20.8 (69.4)	19.9 (67.8)	17.3 (63.1)	13.9 (57.0)	10.7 (51.3)	16.3 (61.3)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	4.7 (40.5)	6.5 (43.7)	9.5 (49.1)	12.4 (54.3)	14.3 (57.7)	16.7 (62.1)	17.8 (64.0)	17.6 (63.7)	16.5 (61.7)	12.9 (55.2)	9.3 (48.7)	6.1 (43.0)	12.0 (53.6)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	34.9 (1.37)	51.4 (2.02)	68.5 (2.70)	122.8 (4.83)	309.4 (12.18)	866.0 (34.09)	1,473.2 (58.00)	1,419.4 (55.88)	903.2 (35.56)	208.0 (8.19)	19.7 (0.78)	15.5 (0.61)	5,492 (216.22)
Source: Department of Hydrology and Meteorology^[3]

References

^ "Nepal Census 2001". Nepal's Village Development Committees. Digital Himalaya. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008. Retrieved 30 September 2008.
^ "Welcome | NARC Nepal". narcnepal.org. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
^ "PRECIPITATION NORMAL (MM) (1991-2020)" (PDF). Department of Hydrology and Meteorology. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 October 2023. Retrieved 14 October 2023.