Bālurghāt climate

Name: Bālurghāt
Address: IN

Bālurghāt is warmest in April, with average highs of 33 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 12 °C. June is the wettest month (394 mm) and December the driest (6.3 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Bālurghāt averages 1,935 mm of rain and 309 days above 25 °C.

India · population 153,279 · 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 April 33 °C
Coldest month January 12 °C
Driest month December 6 mm
Wettest month June 394 mm
Least cloud November 20 % cloud
Hottest on record April 41 °C
Coldest on record January 6.0 °C

What to expectBālurghāt through the year

Bālurghāt has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 23 °C in January to 33 °C in April, a swing of 11 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 309 days a year reach 25 °C, 181 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 41 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. June averages 394 mm against 6 mm in December — 62 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	23.0 °C	14 mm	22 %
February	26.3 °C	16 mm	21 %
March	31.1 °C	26 mm	23 %
April	33.1 °C	93 mm	38 %
May	32.3 °C	267 mm	56 %
June	31.7 °C	394 mm	82 %
July	31.2 °C	371 mm	93 %
August	31.3 °C	309 mm	91 %
September	30.8 °C	292 mm	78 %
October	29.9 °C	135 mm	39 %
November	27.7 °C	11 mm	20 %
December	24.5 °C	6 mm	21 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	23.0 °C	11.7 °C	17.3 °C	27.9 °C	6.0 °C	4	0
February	26.3 °C	14.1 °C	20.3 °C	35.2 °C	7.9 °C	20	2
March	31.1 °C	18.6 °C	25.0 °C	39.7 °C	10.4 °C	30	20
April	33.1 °C	22.1 °C	27.4 °C	41.4 °C	16.6 °C	30	23
May	32.3 °C	23.9 °C	27.7 °C	41.3 °C	19.4 °C	31	24
June	31.7 °C	25.3 °C	28.1 °C	41.3 °C	22.3 °C	30	24
July	31.2 °C	25.6 °C	27.9 °C	37.2 °C	24.0 °C	31	25
August	31.3 °C	25.5 °C	27.9 °C	37.1 °C	23.8 °C	31	25
September	30.8 °C	24.7 °C	27.3 °C	36.1 °C	20.5 °C	30	21
October	29.9 °C	22.0 °C	25.8 °C	33.9 °C	17.0 °C	30	16
November	27.7 °C	17.2 °C	22.3 °C	32.0 °C	11.7 °C	29	2
December	24.5 °C	13.3 °C	18.8 °C	27.9 °C	7.8 °C	13	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	14 mm	2	11 h/day	22 %	70 %	9.4 km/h
February	16 mm	2	11 h/day	21 %	64 %	11 km/h
March	26 mm	4	12 h/day	23 %	56 %	13 km/h
April	93 mm	11	13 h/day	38 %	66 %	14 km/h
May	267 mm	21	13 h/day	56 %	79 %	14 km/h
June	394 mm	26	14 h/day	82 %	86 %	14 km/h
July	371 mm	29	14 h/day	93 %	86 %	14 km/h
August	309 mm	28	13 h/day	91 %	86 %	13 km/h
September	292 mm	25	12 h/day	78 %	86 %	11 km/h
October	135 mm	11	12 h/day	39 %	81 %	8.4 km/h
November	11 mm	1	11 h/day	20 %	72 %	8.3 km/h
December	6 mm	1	11 h/day	21 %	70 %	8.4 km/h

How Bālurghāt 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
Bālurghāt	33 °C	12 °C	1,935 mm	309
Mohammadpur · Bangladesh	34 °C	12 °C	1,765 mm	310
Dinajpur · Bangladesh	33 °C	11 °C	2,238 mm	309
Pār Naogaon · Bangladesh	34 °C	12 °C	1,880 mm	320
Shibganj · Bangladesh	33 °C	12 °C	2,050 mm	316
Saidpur · Bangladesh	32 °C	11 °C	2,361 mm	312
Malda · India	35 °C	12 °C	1,653 mm	309

Where Bālurghāt ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Asia in January	28thof 50	95/100
Places with the best weather in the world in January	42ndof 50	95/100

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Bālurghāt’s climate

When is the best time to visit Bālurghāt?

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

How hot does Bālurghāt get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 33 °C. About 181 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 41 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 12 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Bālurghāt?

June, averaging 394 mm over 26 days with rain. The driest month is December with 6 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,935 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 Bālurghāt 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.