Alappuzha climate

Name: Alappuzha
Address: IN

Alappuzha is warmest in March, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 23 °C. June is the wettest month (504 mm) and January the driest (18 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Alappuzha averages 2,856 mm of rain and 364 days above 25 °C.

India · population 240,991 · 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 March 32 °C
Coldest month January 23 °C
Driest month January 18 mm
Wettest month June 504 mm
Least cloud February 39 % cloud
Hottest on record February 36 °C
Coldest on record January 19 °C
Warmest sea April 30 °C

What to expectAlappuzha through the year

Alappuzha changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 31 and 32 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 364 days a year reach 25 °C, 133 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °C, in February.

Rain is strongly seasonal. June averages 504 mm against 18 mm in January — 29 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Alappuzha is warmest in April at 30 °C and coldest in August at 27 °C. Sea temperature lags the air by a month or two, which is why late summer swims warmer than early summer at the same air temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	30.5 °C	18 mm	43 %
February	31.7 °C	23 mm	39 %
March	32.4 °C	67 mm	44 %
April	31.5 °C	162 mm	65 %
May	30.1 °C	339 mm	82 %
June	28.2 °C	504 mm	93 %
July	27.6 °C	474 mm	94 %
August	27.7 °C	381 mm	91 %
September	28.2 °C	296 mm	84 %
October	28.5 °C	313 mm	83 %
November	28.7 °C	211 mm	75 %
December	29.3 °C	69 mm	55 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	30.5 °C	23.2 °C	26.7 °C	34.4 °C	18.9 °C	31	21
February	31.7 °C	24.1 °C	27.6 °C	35.6 °C	19.9 °C	28	26
March	32.4 °C	25.2 °C	28.4 °C	35.6 °C	22.3 °C	31	30
April	31.5 °C	25.5 °C	28.1 °C	35.5 °C	23.3 °C	30	27
May	30.1 °C	25.4 °C	27.4 °C	34.4 °C	23.7 °C	31	18
June	28.2 °C	24.6 °C	26.0 °C	31.5 °C	23.0 °C	30	2
July	27.6 °C	24.1 °C	25.4 °C	30.1 °C	22.5 °C	31	0
August	27.7 °C	24.0 °C	25.4 °C	29.7 °C	22.5 °C	31	0
September	28.2 °C	24.1 °C	25.8 °C	30.9 °C	22.8 °C	30	1
October	28.5 °C	23.9 °C	25.9 °C	30.9 °C	21.6 °C	31	1
November	28.7 °C	23.8 °C	26.0 °C	32.8 °C	21.6 °C	30	2
December	29.3 °C	23.2 °C	26.2 °C	32.8 °C	19.6 °C	31	8

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	18 mm	4	12 h/day	43 %	75 %	12 km/h	28.3 °C
February	23 mm	5	12 h/day	39 %	72 %	14 km/h	28.7 °C
March	67 mm	13	12 h/day	44 %	74 %	14 km/h	29.4 °C
April	162 mm	25	12 h/day	65 %	81 %	12 km/h	30.0 °C
May	339 mm	28	13 h/day	82 %	86 %	13 km/h	29.5 °C
June	504 mm	30	13 h/day	93 %	90 %	15 km/h	28.1 °C
July	474 mm	30	13 h/day	94 %	90 %	15 km/h	26.7 °C
August	381 mm	30	12 h/day	91 %	90 %	15 km/h	26.5 °C
September	296 mm	27	12 h/day	84 %	89 %	13 km/h	27.3 °C
October	313 mm	27	12 h/day	83 %	88 %	10 km/h	28.3 °C
November	211 mm	20	12 h/day	75 %	87 %	8.4 km/h	28.8 °C
December	69 mm	9	12 h/day	55 %	81 %	8.9 km/h	28.6 °C

Where Alappuzha ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Warmest sea temperatures in Asia in March	23rdof 50	29 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in Asia in April	25thof 50	30 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in the world in April	25thof 50	30 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in the world in March	29thof 50	29 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in Asia in February	36thof 50	29 °C
The warmest places in Asia in January	44thof 50	31 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Alappuzha’s climate

When is the best time to visit Alappuzha?

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

How hot does Alappuzha get?

In March, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 133 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 23 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Alappuzha?

June, averaging 504 mm over 30 days with rain. The driest month is January with 18 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,856 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 Alappuzha 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
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.