Chandigarh climate

Name: Chandigarh
Address: IN

Chandigarh is warmest in May, with average highs of 38 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 6.2 °C. July is the wettest month (189 mm) and November the driest (7.4 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Chandigarh averages 764 mm of rain and 257 days above 25 °C.

India · population 970,602 · 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 6.2 °C
Driest month November 7 mm
Wettest month July 189 mm
Least cloud October 10 % cloud
Hottest on record June 45 °C
Coldest on record January 0.5 °C

What to expectChandigarh through the year

Chandigarh has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 18 °C in January to 38 °C in May, a swing of 20 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 257 days a year reach 25 °C, 177 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 45 °C, in June.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 189 mm against 7 mm in November — 26 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	18.1 °C	43 mm	37 %
February	21.4 °C	48 mm	38 %
March	27.1 °C	40 mm	36 %
April	34.1 °C	24 mm	34 %
May	37.9 °C	25 mm	27 %
June	36.7 °C	90 mm	29 %
July	32.1 °C	189 mm	60 %
August	30.8 °C	179 mm	61 %
September	30.9 °C	93 mm	28 %
October	30.2 °C	14 mm	10 %
November	25.4 °C	7 mm	17 %
December	20.4 °C	11 mm	24 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	18.1 °C	6.2 °C	11.8 °C	28.2 °C	0.5 °C	0	0
February	21.4 °C	8.6 °C	14.9 °C	31.0 °C	1.9 °C	4	0
March	27.1 °C	12.8 °C	20.1 °C	37.0 °C	5.5 °C	22	7
April	34.1 °C	18.1 °C	26.6 °C	42.6 °C	8.1 °C	30	25
May	37.9 °C	22.8 °C	30.9 °C	44.7 °C	15.3 °C	31	31
June	36.7 °C	25.5 °C	31.4 °C	45.2 °C	19.5 °C	30	29
July	32.1 °C	25.3 °C	28.5 °C	41.0 °C	22.0 °C	31	26
August	30.8 °C	24.5 °C	27.4 °C	36.3 °C	21.0 °C	31	23
September	30.9 °C	22.1 °C	26.4 °C	36.6 °C	15.2 °C	30	21
October	30.2 °C	16.6 °C	23.4 °C	35.6 °C	11.2 °C	31	15
November	25.4 °C	11.9 °C	18.3 °C	32.6 °C	5.9 °C	17	0
December	20.4 °C	7.7 °C	13.6 °C	26.8 °C	1.9 °C	1	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	43 mm	4	10 h/day	37 %	73 %	13 km/h
February	48 mm	6	11 h/day	38 %	66 %	15 km/h
March	40 mm	5	12 h/day	36 %	54 %	16 km/h
April	24 mm	5	13 h/day	34 %	37 %	17 km/h
May	25 mm	6	14 h/day	27 %	33 %	18 km/h
June	90 mm	10	14 h/day	29 %	50 %	16 km/h
July	189 mm	20	14 h/day	60 %	76 %	13 km/h
August	179 mm	20	13 h/day	61 %	81 %	12 km/h
September	93 mm	11	12 h/day	28 %	76 %	12 km/h
October	14 mm	2	11 h/day	10 %	57 %	12 km/h
November	7 mm	1	11 h/day	17 %	60 %	12 km/h
December	11 mm	2	10 h/day	24 %	68 %	12 km/h

How Chandigarh 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
Chandigarh	38 °C	6.2 °C	764 mm	257
Ambāla · India	39 °C	7.2 °C	984 mm	265
Shimla · India	23 °C	-4.0 °C	1,596 mm	14
Patiāla · India	39 °C	6.8 °C	883 mm	262
Yamuna Nagar · India	38 °C	6.5 °C	1,178 mm	264
Ludhiana · India	39 °C	6.2 °C	830 mm	258

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Chandigarh’s climate

When is the best time to visit Chandigarh?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. March, October, November 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 Chandigarh get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 38 °C. About 177 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 6.2 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Chandigarh?

July, averaging 189 mm over 20 days with rain. The driest month is November with 7 mm. The year as a whole averages 764 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 Chandigarh 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: 30.736°, 76.788° (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.