# Soe Gewog Gewog, Thimphu Dzongkhag – Villages & Map

> Source: https://wherepedia.org/bhutan/thimphu/soe/

Gewog · Thimphu Dzongkhag 

# Soe Gewog

Soe Gewog is a gewog (block of villages) of Bhutan in Thimphu Dzongkhag. It covers **177.9 km²**. Open map data shows 1 mapped services such as hospitals, banks and schools.

- 178km²
- 1mapped services

## Where is Soe Gewog?

Soe Gewog lies in [Thimphu Dzongkhag](https://wherepedia.org/bhutan/thimphu/), [Bhutan](https://wherepedia.org/bhutan/). It borders 2 other gewogs: [Lingzhi Gewog](https://wherepedia.org/bhutan/thimphu/lingzhi/) and [Tsento Gewog](https://wherepedia.org/bhutan/paro/tsento/). By area it is the 65th largest of 205 gewogs in Bhutan. It covers 9.9% of [Thimphu Dzongkhag](https://wherepedia.org/bhutan/thimphu/). The centre of Soe Gewog is about 48 km in a straight line from Thimphu, the capital. The centre point is at 27.7858° N, 89.3176° E.

Source: [OCHA ROAP via HDX, Bhutan administrative boundaries (COD-AB, CC BY-IGO)](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ab-btn).

## Landscape and landmarks of Soe Gewog

Named natural and historic features inside Soe Gewog, from the GeoNames gazetteer.

### Hills and mountains

2 mountains.

- Cho-mo-la-li Shan · 7,079 m
- Jichu Drake · 6,449 m

Source: [GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) — settlements, natural and historic features](https://www.geonames.org/).

Places of worship are not listed. Elevations are from the GeoNames terrain model and are approximate.

## Weather in Soe Gewog and the best time to visit

In Soe Gewog, the warmest month is Jul (average 8 °C) and the coolest is Jan (-8 °C). About 617 mm of rain falls in a year; the wettest month is Jul (164 mm) and the driest Nov (2 mm). No month is both mild and dry, so plan around the rains.

- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec

Month Average °C Rain mm 

Jan -8 3 

Feb -7 8 

Mar -4 22 

Apr -0 34 

May 3 62 

Jun 7 83 

Jul 8 164 

Aug 8 139 

Sep 6 72 

Oct 1 26 

Nov -3 2 

Dec -6 2 

Source: [NASA POWER climatology, retrieved 2026-10-29](https://power.larc.nasa.gov/).

## Nearest hospital, bank and fuel from Soe Gewog

Need Nearest mapped Distance 

Hospital Soe BHU · Soe 2.7 km [Map](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=27.76693&mlon=89.33524#map=17/27.76693/89.33524) 

Hotel The Tigers Nest Camp · Tsento 32 km [Map](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=27.49944&mlon=89.32177#map=17/27.49944/89.32177) 

School Drugyel ECCD · Tsento 33 km [Map](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=27.48528&mlon=89.33043#map=17/27.48528/89.33043) 

College Norbuling Rigter College · Doteng 34 km [Map](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=27.49512&mlon=89.43523#map=17/27.49512/89.43523) 

Police station Royal Bhutan Police · Wangchang 40 km [Map](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=27.43675&mlon=89.40284#map=17/27.43675/89.40284) 

Source: [Overture Maps places (CDLA-Permissive-2.0) and © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)](https://overturemaps.org/).

Straight-line distance from the centre of the division, within 40 km.

## Hospitals, banks and other services in Soe Gewog

Places mapped inside Soe Gewog in open map data, by type.

- Hospitals1

Source: [Overture Maps places (CDLA-Permissive-2.0) and © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)](https://overturemaps.org/).

Coverage depends on what has been mapped; contact details are not shown.

## Other gewogs in Thimphu Dzongkhag

- Chang
- Dagala
- Genye
- Kawang
- Lingzhi
- Mewang
- Naro

## Quick answers

- Where is Soe Gewog?In Thimphu Dzongkhag, Bhutan
- What borders Soe Gewog?Lingzhi Gewog and Tsento Gewog
- What is the highest point in Soe Gewog?Cho-mo-la-li Shan (7,079 m, GeoNames elevation model)
- Where is the nearest hospital to Soe Gewog?Soe BHU, about 2.7 km from the centre
- How many hospitals are in Soe Gewog?1 mapped
- What is the P-code of Soe Gewog?BT01408 (OCHA common operational dataset)