Bilāspur climate

Name: Bilāspur
Address: IN

Bilāspur is warmest in May, with average highs of 41 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 13 °C. August is the wettest month (397 mm) and December the driest (8.9 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Bilāspur averages 1,381 mm of rain and 346 days above 25 °C.

India · population 365,579 · 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 13 °C
Driest month December 9 mm
Wettest month August 397 mm
Least cloud February 17 % cloud
Hottest on record May 47 °C
Coldest on record January 7.0 °C

What to expectBilāspur through the year

Bilāspur has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 26 °C in January to 41 °C in May, a swing of 15 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 346 days a year reach 25 °C, 217 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 47 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 397 mm against 9 mm in December — 45 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	26.3 °C	19 mm	19 %
February	30.0 °C	14 mm	17 %
March	35.0 °C	17 mm	19 %
April	39.4 °C	12 mm	23 %
May	41.5 °C	13 mm	28 %
June	36.2 °C	215 mm	71 %
July	30.6 °C	388 mm	93 %
August	29.9 °C	397 mm	93 %
September	30.6 °C	226 mm	76 %
October	30.5 °C	61 mm	38 %
November	28.7 °C	10 mm	22 %
December	26.4 °C	9 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	26.3 °C	13.0 °C	19.6 °C	33.5 °C	7.0 °C	21	2
February	30.0 °C	16.0 °C	23.1 °C	37.8 °C	8.7 °C	27	15
March	35.0 °C	20.3 °C	27.9 °C	42.9 °C	12.2 °C	31	29
April	39.4 °C	24.5 °C	32.2 °C	45.3 °C	17.5 °C	30	30
May	41.5 °C	27.9 °C	34.9 °C	47.3 °C	22.3 °C	31	31
June	36.2 °C	27.1 °C	31.3 °C	47.0 °C	22.0 °C	30	27
July	30.6 °C	24.8 °C	27.2 °C	39.0 °C	22.9 °C	31	20
August	29.9 °C	24.3 °C	26.6 °C	34.6 °C	20.8 °C	31	17
September	30.6 °C	23.7 °C	26.8 °C	34.5 °C	19.1 °C	30	21
October	30.5 °C	20.8 °C	25.6 °C	34.7 °C	13.9 °C	31	20
November	28.7 °C	16.4 °C	22.6 °C	31.9 °C	10.6 °C	29	6
December	26.4 °C	13.0 °C	19.7 °C	30.9 °C	8.0 °C	25	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	19 mm	2	11 h/day	19 %	54 %	10 km/h
February	14 mm	2	11 h/day	17 %	46 %	11 km/h
March	17 mm	3	12 h/day	19 %	37 %	12 km/h
April	12 mm	3	13 h/day	23 %	31 %	14 km/h
May	13 mm	3	13 h/day	28 %	32 %	15 km/h
June	215 mm	17	13 h/day	71 %	61 %	15 km/h
July	388 mm	26	13 h/day	93 %	83 %	14 km/h
August	397 mm	26	13 h/day	93 %	85 %	13 km/h
September	226 mm	20	12 h/day	76 %	82 %	11 km/h
October	61 mm	7	12 h/day	38 %	71 %	9.5 km/h
November	10 mm	1	11 h/day	22 %	61 %	9.3 km/h
December	9 mm	1	11 h/day	19 %	57 %	9.7 km/h

How Bilāspur 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
Bilāspur	41 °C	13 °C	1,381 mm	346
Korba · India	41 °C	12 °C	1,454 mm	343
Raipur · India	41 °C	13 °C	1,365 mm	346
Raigarh · India	41 °C	13 °C	1,521 mm	350
Durg · India	41 °C	13 °C	1,293 mm	344
Rāj-Nāndgaon · India	41 °C	13 °C	1,248 mm	343

Where Bilāspur ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in Asia in May	11th of 50	41 °C
The warmest places in Asia in April	12th of 50	39 °C
The warmest places in the world in May	12th of 50	41 °C
The warmest places in the world in April	30th of 50	39 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Bilāspur’s climate

When is the best time to visit Bilāspur?

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

How hot does Bilāspur get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 41 °C. About 217 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 13 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Bilāspur?

August, averaging 397 mm over 26 days with rain. The driest month is December with 9 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,381 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 Bilāspur 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: 22.080°, 82.155° (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.