Alīgarh climate

Name: Alīgarh
Address: IN

Alīgarh is warmest in May, with average highs of 40 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 7.8 °C. July is the wettest month (232 mm) and November the driest (5.5 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Alīgarh averages 772 mm of rain and 281 days above 25 °C.

India · population 753,207 · 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 7.8 °C
Driest month November 5 mm
Wettest month July 232 mm
Least cloud October 11 % cloud
Hottest on record June 47 °C
Coldest on record December 0.9 °C

What to expectAlīgarh through the year

Alīgarh has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 20 °C in January to 40 °C in May, a swing of 19 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 281 days a year reach 25 °C, 211 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 47 °C, in June.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 232 mm against 5 mm in November — 42 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	20.2 °C	19 mm	27 %
February	23.7 °C	29 mm	26 %
March	29.8 °C	17 mm	26 %
April	36.6 °C	10 mm	24 %
May	39.7 °C	17 mm	19 %
June	38.2 °C	82 mm	35 %
July	33.4 °C	232 mm	76 %
August	31.8 °C	221 mm	76 %
September	31.9 °C	119 mm	39 %
October	31.5 °C	14 mm	11 %
November	27.2 °C	5 mm	13 %
December	22.3 °C	6 mm	19 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	20.2 °C	7.8 °C	13.7 °C	29.8 °C	2.3 °C	1	0
February	23.7 °C	10.6 °C	17.0 °C	32.2 °C	3.5 °C	9	1
March	29.8 °C	15.4 °C	22.6 °C	38.8 °C	7.8 °C	28	15
April	36.6 °C	21.1 °C	29.1 °C	44.4 °C	13.3 °C	30	29
May	39.7 °C	25.6 °C	32.8 °C	46.0 °C	18.1 °C	31	31
June	38.2 °C	27.7 °C	33.0 °C	46.5 °C	22.1 °C	30	30
July	33.4 °C	26.5 °C	29.7 °C	42.1 °C	23.8 °C	31	28
August	31.8 °C	25.7 °C	28.4 °C	39.7 °C	22.4 °C	31	26
September	31.9 °C	24.0 °C	27.7 °C	37.9 °C	17.9 °C	30	25
October	31.5 °C	19.0 °C	25.1 °C	36.6 °C	13.6 °C	31	24
November	27.2 °C	14.0 °C	20.3 °C	34.5 °C	7.0 °C	25	2
December	22.3 °C	9.3 °C	15.5 °C	28.3 °C	0.9 °C	4	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	19 mm	2	11 h/day	27 %	71 %	12 km/h
February	29 mm	3	11 h/day	26 %	65 %	14 km/h
March	17 mm	3	12 h/day	26 %	52 %	15 km/h
April	10 mm	2	13 h/day	24 %	35 %	16 km/h
May	17 mm	4	14 h/day	19 %	36 %	17 km/h
June	82 mm	9	14 h/day	35 %	52 %	17 km/h
July	232 mm	21	14 h/day	76 %	76 %	15 km/h
August	221 mm	22	13 h/day	76 %	81 %	14 km/h
September	119 mm	11	12 h/day	39 %	77 %	13 km/h
October	14 mm	2	12 h/day	11 %	62 %	11 km/h
November	5 mm	1	11 h/day	13 %	60 %	11 km/h
December	6 mm	1	10 h/day	19 %	66 %	11 km/h

How Alīgarh 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
Alīgarh	40 °C	7.8 °C	772 mm	281
Mathura · India	40 °C	7.8 °C	712 mm	286
Bulandshahr · India	39 °C	7.6 °C	751 mm	279
Agra · India	40 °C	7.9 °C	716 mm	287
Sambhal · India	39 °C	8.1 °C	879 mm	276
Bharatpur · India	41 °C	7.7 °C	669 mm	290

Where Alīgarh ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Asia in February	28th of 50	95/100
Places with the best weather in the world in February	42nd of 50	95/100

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Alīgarh’s climate

When is the best time to visit Alīgarh?

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

How hot does Alīgarh get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 40 °C. About 211 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 47 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 7.8 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Alīgarh?

July, averaging 232 mm over 21 days with rain. The driest month is November with 5 mm. The year as a whole averages 772 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 Alīgarh 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: 27.881°, 78.075° (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.