Safety & Advisories
Pokhara and Kaski were not hit by the 26 August 2026 flood, which came down a different river system. The road in from Kathmandu reopened on 17…
By Bishnu Adhikari · Aug 31, 2026
Yes. Pokhara was not hit by the 2026 floods, and it is not downstream of them. The flash flood of 26 August came down the Bhote Koshi into Rasuwa district, about 150 km east of here, and travelled south down the Trishuli into Chitwan and Nawalparasi. Pokhara…
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Nepal is often pictured as one small country where a disaster in the north is a disaster everywhere. Hydrologically it is nothing of the kind. It is a set of parallel river systems running south off the Himalaya, and a flood in one of them has no route into…
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Nothing. Pokhara is not mentioned in the do-not-travel zone. On 31 August the United States kept Nepal at Level 2 nationwide and added a single Level 4 area covering the Rasuwagadhi—Timure—Syabrubesi corridor, the Nepal—China border crossing, and settlements…
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It would be easy to stop at "you are fine", and it would be a slightly dishonest place to stop. Pokhara has had its own disaster, and it came from the same mountains the city is famous for looking at. On 5 May 2012 a slurry of rock, sediment and water surged…
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This was the part worth planning around, and it was never a safety question. Close to 200 metres of the Prithvi Highway subsided or cracked at Krishnabhir in Dhading on 30 August, closing the Kathmandu—Muglin road in both directions. Police put the repair at…
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What this means for you If your trip is Pokhara-based — Annapurna Base Camp, Poon Hill, Mardi Himal, Lakeside and paragliding — go. Nothing on the ground has changed and the trailheads are open. Change one thing only: book the flight from Kathmandu rather…
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No. There was no flooding in Pokhara or anywhere in Kaski district from the 26 August event. Kaski does not appear in the NDRRMA district death toll.
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No. Phewa is a fed lake in the Pokhara valley, not on the flood's river system. Boating and Lakeside are operating normally.
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Yes. Annapurna Base Camp, Ghorepani Poon Hill, Mardi Himal and the Annapurna Circuit are all open and running. The Annapurna region is on the Kali Gandaki and Marsyangdi drainages, west of the flood corridor.
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By air, yes, normally — 25 minutes, several flights daily. By road, yes again: the Prithvi Highway reopened fully at Krishnabhir on 17 September after an 18-day closure.
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We would not, and we tell clients not to. That is a permanent piece of advice about Himalayan rivers rather than anything to do with 2026 — the 2012 Seti flash flood killed 72 people on a clear day with no rain.
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