Being located a height of 6710 ft. above sea level provides it one of the most pleasant weathers in the hot country of India. However it is not only the altitude that plays a role in the terrific Darjeeling weather, the mountain ranges, adjoining hills and the forest cover too play a major role in it.
The weather here is a highly unpredictable one and can change anytime. At one instance you may be enjoying a bright sunny day with all the scenic beauty on the horizon at display and in the next a dense fog may come sweeping in blotting out the sunshine. The showers of rain too are also very uncanny here, the sky may be dense with dark clouds that are pregnant with moisture and you expect a heavy shower later in the day but it might not even rain for days. Fog however is almost a signature for the “Queen of Hills”, the way it settles in is a mesmerizing sight and one ought too take notice of this in Darjeeling. The valleys of the hills are humid are give rise to the fog that blankets the hill station in a shade of gray. This particular phenomenon is a grand one and will surely mesmerize the one who takes notice of it from its origins. The fog rises from the valleys below thick and fluffy as if it were cotton candy being made. Slowly it appears to move uphill swallowing everything it comes across, bit by bit the valleys beign to disappear and in just minutes one can feel moisture laden breeze blowing by slowly engulfing the place that one has been witnessing the conjuring of the fog from the valleys deep below. Rain too is a common a phenomenon that occurs in Darjeeling and it is usually accompanied by thunder. It is this thunder that is so profound and loud that gave the hill station its original name “Dorjeeling” meaning the land of thunder.One of the best sights that you get to see when here are the clouds, one can see them both in the sky and the valleys below. This kind of phenomenon is seen only in a few places on earth and is one of the most pensive sights that will remain vivid in your memories. The climatic seasons has been broken down in the hills into spring, summer, monsoon, autumn and winter but the weather hardly follows this classification.