Ahmedabad climate

Name: Ahmedabad
Address: IN

Ahmedabad is warmest in May, with average highs of 40 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 14 °C. July is the wettest month (312 mm) and February the driest (0.9 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Ahmedabad averages 757 mm of rain and 358 days above 25 °C.

India · population 6,357,693 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month May 40 °C
Coldest month January 14 °C
Driest month February 1 mm
Wettest month July 312 mm
Least cloud May 9 % cloud
Hottest on record May 45 °C
Coldest on record February 7.0 °C

What to expectAhmedabad through the year

Ahmedabad has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 27 °C in January to 40 °C in May, a swing of 13 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 358 days a year reach 25 °C, 269 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 45 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 312 mm against 1 mm in February — 343 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	27.4 °C	1 mm	13 %
February	30.0 °C	1 mm	11 %
March	34.6 °C	2 mm	13 %
April	38.6 °C	1 mm	14 %
May	40.3 °C	1 mm	9 %
June	37.3 °C	73 mm	49 %
July	32.0 °C	312 mm	86 %
August	30.5 °C	240 mm	84 %
September	31.8 °C	104 mm	54 %
October	34.0 °C	17 mm	18 %
November	31.7 °C	3 mm	15 %
December	28.6 °C	1 mm	16 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	27.4 °C	13.7 °C	20.2 °C	33.0 °C	7.1 °C	27	3
February	30.0 °C	15.4 °C	22.6 °C	36.3 °C	7.0 °C	27	14
March	34.6 °C	19.6 °C	27.1 °C	41.3 °C	10.9 °C	31	29
April	38.6 °C	23.4 °C	31.0 °C	43.7 °C	17.6 °C	30	30
May	40.3 °C	26.4 °C	33.1 °C	45.4 °C	21.5 °C	31	31
June	37.3 °C	27.5 °C	32.0 °C	43.9 °C	23.7 °C	30	29
July	32.0 °C	26.0 °C	28.6 °C	40.5 °C	23.0 °C	31	24
August	30.5 °C	25.0 °C	27.5 °C	36.0 °C	22.6 °C	31	21
September	31.8 °C	24.4 °C	27.9 °C	38.9 °C	19.6 °C	30	24
October	34.0 °C	22.1 °C	27.8 °C	39.8 °C	16.2 °C	31	30
November	31.7 °C	18.6 °C	24.8 °C	36.1 °C	12.7 °C	30	25
December	28.6 °C	15.1 °C	21.4 °C	33.9 °C	10.0 °C	30	7

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	1 mm	0	11 h/day	13 %	47 %	13 km/h
February	1 mm	0	11 h/day	11 %	42 %	13 km/h
March	2 mm	0	12 h/day	13 %	35 %	13 km/h
April	1 mm	0	13 h/day	14 %	35 %	14 km/h
May	1 mm	0	13 h/day	9 %	45 %	17 km/h
June	73 mm	7	14 h/day	49 %	60 %	18 km/h
July	312 mm	18	13 h/day	86 %	77 %	17 km/h
August	240 mm	17	13 h/day	84 %	81 %	16 km/h
September	104 mm	8	12 h/day	54 %	76 %	13 km/h
October	17 mm	2	12 h/day	18 %	56 %	10 km/h
November	3 mm	1	11 h/day	15 %	48 %	11 km/h
December	1 mm	0	11 h/day	16 %	49 %	13 km/h

How Ahmedabad compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Ahmedabad	40 °C	14 °C	757 mm	358
Nadiād · India	40 °C	14 °C	772 mm	361
Anand · India	40 °C	14 °C	820 mm	361
Mahesāna · India	40 °C	13 °C	696 mm	352
Surendranagar · India	41 °C	14 °C	648 mm	359
Vadodara · India	40 °C	15 °C	860 mm	363

Where Ahmedabad ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in Asia in December	16th of 50	1.0 mm
The driest places in Asia in April	19th of 50	1.0 mm
The driest places in Asia in May	21st of 50	1.2 mm
The warmest places in Asia in November	23rd of 50	32 °C
The driest places in Asia in March	30th of 50	2.0 mm
The driest places in Asia in February	31st of 50	0.9 mm

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Ahmedabad.

QuestionsCommon questions about Ahmedabad’s climate

When is the best time to visit Ahmedabad?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. January, February, December sit closest to 20 °C on average, May is the warmest month and February the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Ahmedabad get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 40 °C. About 269 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 45 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 14 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Ahmedabad?

July, averaging 312 mm over 18 days with rain. The driest month is February with 1 mm. The year as a whole averages 757 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Ahmedabad rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: 23.026°, 72.587° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.