Bhubaneswar climate

Name: Bhubaneswar
Address: IN

Bhubaneswar is warmest in May, with average highs of 37 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 15 °C. July is the wettest month (390 mm) and January the driest (11 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Bhubaneswar averages 1,596 mm of rain and 356 days above 25 °C.

India · population 885,363 · 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 37 °C
Coldest month January 15 °C
Driest month January 11 mm
Wettest month July 390 mm
Least cloud February 23 % cloud
Hottest on record May 45 °C
Coldest on record January 9.4 °C

What to expectBhubaneswar through the year

Bhubaneswar has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 27 °C in January to 37 °C in May, a swing of 10 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 356 days a year reach 25 °C, 223 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 45 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 390 mm against 11 mm in January — 36 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	27.2 °C	11 mm	24 %
February	30.8 °C	17 mm	23 %
March	34.7 °C	20 mm	25 %
April	36.5 °C	27 mm	31 %
May	36.9 °C	57 mm	42 %
June	33.7 °C	230 mm	81 %
July	30.9 °C	390 mm	92 %
August	30.5 °C	382 mm	92 %
September	30.7 °C	261 mm	81 %
October	30.2 °C	148 mm	55 %
November	28.5 °C	36 mm	36 %
December	26.7 °C	16 mm	27 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	27.2 °C	15.3 °C	21.0 °C	34.0 °C	9.4 °C	27	2
February	30.8 °C	18.7 °C	24.4 °C	38.5 °C	11.3 °C	28	18
March	34.7 °C	22.8 °C	28.1 °C	40.3 °C	17.0 °C	31	30
April	36.5 °C	25.6 °C	30.2 °C	42.7 °C	20.4 °C	30	30
May	36.9 °C	27.3 °C	31.3 °C	44.9 °C	22.1 °C	31	30
June	33.7 °C	27.1 °C	29.9 °C	43.6 °C	22.8 °C	30	27
July	30.9 °C	25.9 °C	28.0 °C	36.0 °C	23.6 °C	31	22
August	30.5 °C	25.5 °C	27.5 °C	34.3 °C	24.0 °C	31	21
September	30.7 °C	25.0 °C	27.4 °C	34.2 °C	22.8 °C	30	21
October	30.2 °C	23.1 °C	26.3 °C	34.3 °C	16.9 °C	31	18
November	28.5 °C	19.1 °C	23.6 °C	32.7 °C	13.1 °C	29	4
December	26.7 °C	15.4 °C	20.9 °C	31.4 °C	11.0 °C	28	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	11 mm	2	11 h/day	24 %	70 %	11 km/h
February	17 mm	2	11 h/day	23 %	68 %	13 km/h
March	20 mm	4	12 h/day	25 %	68 %	15 km/h
April	27 mm	5	13 h/day	31 %	69 %	18 km/h
May	57 mm	6	13 h/day	42 %	72 %	18 km/h
June	230 mm	19	13 h/day	81 %	78 %	16 km/h
July	390 mm	27	13 h/day	92 %	85 %	14 km/h
August	382 mm	28	13 h/day	92 %	86 %	14 km/h
September	261 mm	25	12 h/day	81 %	86 %	12 km/h
October	148 mm	15	12 h/day	55 %	83 %	11 km/h
November	36 mm	3	11 h/day	36 %	76 %	10 km/h
December	16 mm	2	11 h/day	27 %	71 %	10 km/h

How Bhubaneswar 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
Bhubaneswar	37 °C	15 °C	1,596 mm	356
Cuttack · India	37 °C	15 °C	1,627 mm	356
Puri · India	34 °C	17 °C	1,568 mm	360
Brahmapur · India	35 °C	17 °C	1,308 mm	350
Sambalpur · India	40 °C	14 °C	1,478 mm	353
Rourkela · India	39 °C	13 °C	1,389 mm	341

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Bhubaneswar’s climate

When is the best time to visit Bhubaneswar?

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

How hot does Bhubaneswar get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 37 °C. About 223 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 15 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Bhubaneswar?

July, averaging 390 mm over 27 days with rain. The driest month is January with 11 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,596 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 Bhubaneswar 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: 20.272°, 85.834° (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.