The least cloud anywhere that also feels warm at midday in February. All 204 towns and cities that draw visitors in South Asia were compared in February; these ten lead.
The shortlist
- 17% cloudDiuIndia
The sky is typically 7% covered at midday in February, and it feels like 29°C. For simply being outside it rates 33, Poor. See mid February on the map.
- 27% cloudSoyāgaonIndia
Midday in February feels like 31°C with only 7% cloud cover on a typical day. For simply being outside it rates 27, Poor. See mid February on the map.
- 37% cloudAhmedabadIndia
The sky is typically 7% covered at midday in February, and it feels like 27°C. For simply being outside it rates 52, Fair. See mid February on the map.
- 416% cloudFyzābādIndia
Midday in February feels like 22°C with only 16% cloud cover on a typical day. For simply being outside it rates 85, Ideal. See mid February on the map.
- 517% cloudCox’s BāzārBangladesh
The sky is typically 17% covered at midday in February, and it feels like 29°C. For simply being outside it rates 32, Poor. See mid February on the map.
- 626% cloudButwālNepal
Midday in February feels like 21°C with only 26% cloud cover on a typical day. For simply being outside it rates 83, Ideal. See mid February on the map.
- 726% cloudBangaloreIndia
The sky is typically 26% covered at midday in February, and it feels like 26°C. For simply being outside it rates 66, Good. See mid February on the map.
- 827% cloudCoimbatoreIndia
Midday in February feels like 30°C with only 27% cloud cover on a typical day. For simply being outside it rates 24, Poor. See mid February on the map.
- 927% cloudDhakaBangladesh
The sky is typically 27% covered at midday in February, and it feels like 28°C. For simply being outside it rates 51, Fair. See mid February on the map.
- 1048% cloudMawanellaSri Lanka
Midday in February feels like 31°C with only 48% cloud cover on a typical day. For simply being outside it rates 19, Poor. See mid February on the map.
How this list is worked out
The data
Every figure comes from a decade of weather-station observations, blended into one typical year and read at midday, local solar time. Scores here are averaged in February; a city missing a reading for any part of that stretch is left out rather than scored on part of it.
The reading
Cloud cover is the share of the sky covered at midday. It is not hours of sunshine, which the observations do not record. Only places that feel between 20°C and 32°C at midday are compared.
The spread
To keep one warm corner from filling the list, entries are at least 150 km apart, no more than three sit within 1,000 km of each other, and no more than three come from one country unless the list would otherwise run short.
Only places that draw visitors
Towns and cities with plenty of hotels, guest houses and holiday lets nearby for their size, or a great many of them in all, counted from Overture Maps Places, an open dataset. That keeps out places the weather favours but nobody travels to. Where two places share one resort or city, the one a visitor would name is kept.
The dotted links open the map at that place and time of year, on the same layer. The map remembers the time of day you last chose there; set it to midday to see these exact numbers.