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Nepal's Monsoon Arrivals Rose Again in July 2026 — Here's Where the Rain Never Reaches

New Tourism Board figures show foreigners still landing in Kathmandu through the wettest months of the year — because a quirk of Himalayan geography…

By Laxman Rawal · Aug 3, 2026

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Nepal's tourism authorities logged 71,775 foreign arrivals in July 2026 , up 2.3 percent on the same month last year — squarely inside the months the industry has always written off as dead season. June had already jumped 19.5 percent to roughly 91,000…

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Why the rain doesn't reach every trail

The answer is a rain shadow. Annapurna (8,091m) and Dhaulagiri (8,167m) form a near-continuous wall along the southern edge of the Manang and Mustang valleys. When monsoon air blows north off the Bay of Bengal, it slams into that wall and is forced upward…

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