Bhāgalpur climate

Name: Bhāgalpur
Address: IN

Bhāgalpur is warmest in April, with average highs of 36 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 11 °C. July is the wettest month (311 mm) and November the driest (6.0 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Bhāgalpur averages 1,292 mm of rain and 299 days above 25 °C.

India · population 400,146 · 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 36 °C
Coldest month January 11 °C
Driest month November 6 mm
Wettest month July 311 mm
Least cloud November 18 % cloud
Hottest on record June 44 °C
Coldest on record January 5.2 °C

What to expectBhāgalpur through the year

Bhāgalpur has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 22 °C in January to 36 °C in April, a swing of 14 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 299 days a year reach 25 °C, 199 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 44 °C, in June.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 311 mm against 6 mm in November — 52 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	22.2 °C	18 mm	21 %
February	25.9 °C	15 mm	19 %
March	31.7 °C	21 mm	20 %
April	35.6 °C	26 mm	27 %
May	35.5 °C	86 mm	39 %
June	33.6 °C	220 mm	71 %
July	31.5 °C	311 mm	91 %
August	31.4 °C	268 mm	89 %
September	30.9 °C	240 mm	73 %
October	29.9 °C	73 mm	33 %
November	27.4 °C	6 mm	18 %
December	23.8 °C	7 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	22.2 °C	10.7 °C	16.4 °C	28.7 °C	5.2 °C	2	0
February	25.9 °C	13.5 °C	19.8 °C	35.5 °C	6.9 °C	18	2
March	31.7 °C	18.3 °C	25.1 °C	40.2 °C	11.1 °C	31	22
April	35.6 °C	22.6 °C	29.1 °C	42.3 °C	15.2 °C	30	28
May	35.5 °C	24.9 °C	30.0 °C	43.5 °C	20.1 °C	31	29
June	33.6 °C	26.1 °C	29.6 °C	44.1 °C	22.3 °C	30	27
July	31.5 °C	25.9 °C	28.3 °C	37.2 °C	24.1 °C	31	26
August	31.4 °C	25.8 °C	28.2 °C	36.0 °C	24.0 °C	31	26
September	30.9 °C	24.9 °C	27.5 °C	35.1 °C	19.8 °C	30	22
October	29.9 °C	21.8 °C	25.7 °C	33.4 °C	15.6 °C	30	15
November	27.4 °C	16.6 °C	21.9 °C	31.8 °C	11.0 °C	28	1
December	23.8 °C	12.3 °C	17.9 °C	29.1 °C	7.2 °C	8	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	18 mm	2	11 h/day	21 %	72 %	11 km/h
February	15 mm	2	11 h/day	19 %	65 %	12 km/h
March	21 mm	2	12 h/day	20 %	51 %	15 km/h
April	26 mm	4	13 h/day	27 %	52 %	17 km/h
May	86 mm	11	13 h/day	39 %	66 %	17 km/h
June	220 mm	20	14 h/day	71 %	78 %	15 km/h
July	311 mm	27	14 h/day	91 %	84 %	15 km/h
August	268 mm	27	13 h/day	89 %	85 %	14 km/h
September	240 mm	22	12 h/day	73 %	85 %	13 km/h
October	73 mm	8	12 h/day	33 %	79 %	9.1 km/h
November	6 mm	1	11 h/day	18 %	70 %	9.3 km/h
December	7 mm	1	11 h/day	19 %	71 %	9.8 km/h

How Bhāgalpur 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
Bhāgalpur	36 °C	11 °C	1,292 mm	299
Munger · India	36 °C	11 °C	1,256 mm	299
Katihar · India	35 °C	11 °C	1,497 mm	305
Purnia · India	35 °C	11 °C	1,696 mm	308
Saharsa · India	36 °C	11 °C	1,369 mm	304
Begusarai · India	37 °C	11 °C	1,260 mm	299
Deoghar · India	36 °C	10 °C	1,235 mm	291

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Bhāgalpur’s climate

When is the best time to visit Bhāgalpur?

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 November the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Bhāgalpur get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 36 °C. About 199 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 44 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 11 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Bhāgalpur?

July, averaging 311 mm over 27 days with rain. The driest month is November with 6 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,292 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 Bhāgalpur 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: 25.244°, 86.972° (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.