Bokāro climate

Name: Bokāro
Address: IN

Bokāro is warmest in May, with average highs of 38 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 10.0 °C. July is the wettest month (296 mm) and November the driest (9.1 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Bokāro averages 1,233 mm of rain and 314 days above 25 °C.

India · population 564,319 · 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 38 °C
Coldest month January 10.0 °C
Driest month November 9 mm
Wettest month July 296 mm
Least cloud December 19 % cloud
Hottest on record June 45 °C
Coldest on record January 5.0 °C

What to expectBokāro through the year

Bokāro has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 24 °C in January to 38 °C in May, a swing of 15 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 314 days a year reach 25 °C, 192 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 45 °C, in June.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 296 mm against 9 mm in November — 32 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	23.7 °C	14 mm	21 %
February	27.8 °C	18 mm	19 %
March	33.2 °C	18 mm	20 %
April	37.6 °C	22 mm	23 %
May	37.9 °C	67 mm	32 %
June	34.6 °C	217 mm	73 %
July	30.9 °C	296 mm	93 %
August	30.4 °C	277 mm	92 %
September	30.2 °C	217 mm	77 %
October	29.6 °C	69 mm	37 %
November	27.4 °C	9 mm	21 %
December	24.4 °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	23.7 °C	10.0 °C	16.7 °C	31.2 °C	5.0 °C	8	0
February	27.8 °C	13.3 °C	20.5 °C	35.8 °C	6.0 °C	23	6
March	33.2 °C	17.8 °C	25.6 °C	41.4 °C	10.7 °C	31	26
April	37.6 °C	22.4 °C	30.0 °C	44.2 °C	16.0 °C	30	30
May	37.9 °C	25.3 °C	31.4 °C	44.5 °C	20.4 °C	31	30
June	34.6 °C	26.2 °C	29.9 °C	44.8 °C	22.2 °C	30	26
July	30.9 °C	25.1 °C	27.5 °C	38.4 °C	23.4 °C	31	21
August	30.4 °C	24.7 °C	27.0 °C	34.4 °C	22.7 °C	31	19
September	30.2 °C	23.8 °C	26.6 °C	33.7 °C	17.4 °C	29	19
October	29.6 °C	20.5 °C	24.9 °C	33.6 °C	13.0 °C	30	13
November	27.4 °C	15.4 °C	21.3 °C	32.2 °C	8.6 °C	28	2
December	24.4 °C	11.0 °C	17.5 °C	30.8 °C	6.2 °C	11	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	14 mm	2	11 h/day	21 %	67 %	11 km/h
February	18 mm	2	11 h/day	19 %	59 %	12 km/h
March	18 mm	2	12 h/day	20 %	47 %	14 km/h
April	22 mm	5	13 h/day	23 %	45 %	15 km/h
May	67 mm	10	13 h/day	32 %	56 %	15 km/h
June	217 mm	20	14 h/day	73 %	72 %	14 km/h
July	296 mm	27	13 h/day	93 %	84 %	14 km/h
August	277 mm	27	13 h/day	92 %	86 %	13 km/h
September	217 mm	21	12 h/day	77 %	85 %	12 km/h
October	69 mm	8	12 h/day	37 %	78 %	9.4 km/h
November	9 mm	1	11 h/day	21 %	69 %	9.4 km/h
December	9 mm	1	11 h/day	19 %	68 %	9.9 km/h

How Bokāro 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
Bokāro	38 °C	10.0 °C	1,233 mm	314
Dhanbad · India	37 °C	10 °C	1,237 mm	309
Kulti · India	37 °C	11 °C	1,278 mm	313
Āsansol · India	37 °C	11 °C	1,300 mm	317
Hazāribāgh · India	36 °C	9.1 °C	1,232 mm	262
Ranchi · India	36 °C	9.9 °C	1,325 mm	276
Jamshedpur · India	38 °C	12 °C	1,255 mm	329

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Bokāro’s climate

When is the best time to visit Bokāro?

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

How hot does Bokāro get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 38 °C. About 192 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 10.0 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Bokāro?

July, averaging 296 mm over 27 days with rain. The driest month is November with 9 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,233 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 Bokāro 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: 23.669°, 86.152° (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.