Bikaner climate

Name: Bikaner
Address: IN

Bikaner is warmest in May, with average highs of 41 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 7.9 °C. July is the wettest month (59 mm) and December the driest (2.6 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Bikaner averages 216 mm of rain and 296 days above 25 °C.

India · population 644,406 · 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 41 °C
Coldest month January 7.9 °C
Driest month December 3 mm
Wettest month July 59 mm
Least cloud October 9 % cloud
Hottest on record May 47 °C
Coldest on record January 1.9 °C

What to expectBikaner through the year

Bikaner has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 21 °C in January to 41 °C in May, a swing of 20 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 296 days a year reach 25 °C, 243 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 47 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 59 mm against 3 mm in December — 22 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	21.2 °C	4 mm	22 %
February	25.3 °C	8 mm	23 %
March	31.4 °C	6 mm	26 %
April	37.4 °C	6 mm	23 %
May	41.1 °C	11 mm	16 %
June	40.3 °C	30 mm	22 %
July	36.8 °C	59 mm	55 %
August	35.3 °C	58 mm	54 %
September	36.1 °C	21 mm	23 %
October	34.7 °C	8 mm	9 %
November	28.9 °C	3 mm	12 %
December	23.3 °C	3 mm	17 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	21.2 °C	7.9 °C	14.7 °C	30.4 °C	1.9 °C	3	0
February	25.3 °C	11.0 °C	18.5 °C	34.3 °C	2.7 °C	14	4
March	31.4 °C	16.8 °C	24.6 °C	40.8 °C	7.3 °C	29	20
April	37.4 °C	22.3 °C	30.6 °C	44.4 °C	12.4 °C	30	29
May	41.1 °C	27.2 °C	34.7 °C	47.2 °C	16.8 °C	31	31
June	40.3 °C	29.3 °C	35.1 °C	46.5 °C	21.6 °C	30	30
July	36.8 °C	28.2 °C	32.4 °C	45.0 °C	23.1 °C	31	30
August	35.3 °C	26.8 °C	30.9 °C	41.6 °C	23.8 °C	31	30
September	36.1 °C	26.1 °C	31.2 °C	42.7 °C	20.5 °C	30	29
October	34.7 °C	21.7 °C	28.4 °C	41.0 °C	14.0 °C	31	29
November	28.9 °C	15.1 °C	22.2 °C	36.9 °C	7.3 °C	27	11
December	23.3 °C	9.7 °C	16.5 °C	31.4 °C	2.7 °C	10	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	4 mm	1	11 h/day	22 %	55 %	14 km/h
February	8 mm	1	11 h/day	23 %	43 %	17 km/h
March	6 mm	1	12 h/day	26 %	34 %	19 km/h
April	6 mm	1	13 h/day	23 %	25 %	21 km/h
May	11 mm	2	14 h/day	16 %	26 %	24 km/h
June	30 mm	4	14 h/day	22 %	40 %	26 km/h
July	59 mm	9	14 h/day	55 %	58 %	24 km/h
August	58 mm	8	13 h/day	54 %	63 %	22 km/h
September	21 mm	4	12 h/day	23 %	50 %	20 km/h
October	8 mm	1	12 h/day	9 %	34 %	16 km/h
November	3 mm	0	11 h/day	12 %	40 %	14 km/h
December	3 mm	1	10 h/day	17 %	50 %	13 km/h

How Bikaner 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
Bikaner	41 °C	7.9 °C	216 mm	296
Sūjāngarh · India	41 °C	7.2 °C	337 mm	296
Sīkar · India	40 °C	6.9 °C	434 mm	290
Jodhpur · India	40 °C	9.8 °C	306 mm	322

Where Bikaner ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in Asia in May	18th of 50	41 °C
The warmest places in the world in May	19th of 50	41 °C
Places with the best weather in Asia in December	20th of 50	96/100
Places with the best weather in the world in December	32nd of 50	96/100
The warmest places in Asia in October	32nd of 50	35 °C
The driest places in Asia in November	40th of 50	3.2 mm

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Bikaner’s climate

When is the best time to visit Bikaner?

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, May is the warmest month and December the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Bikaner get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 41 °C. About 243 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 7.9 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Bikaner?

July, averaging 59 mm over 9 days with rain. The driest month is December with 3 mm. The year as a whole averages 216 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 Bikaner 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: 28.018°, 73.315° (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.