Chittoor climate

Name: Chittoor
Address: IN

Chittoor is warmest in May, with average highs of 37 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 17 °C. October is the wettest month (153 mm) and February the driest (5.0 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Chittoor averages 809 mm of rain and 359 days above 25 °C.

India · population 160,722 · 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 17 °C
Driest month February 5 mm
Wettest month October 153 mm
Least cloud March 31 % cloud
Hottest on record May 42 °C
Coldest on record December 11 °C

What to expectChittoor through the year

Chittoor has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 28 °C in January to 37 °C in May, a swing of 9.0 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 359 days a year reach 25 °C, 250 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 42 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. October averages 153 mm against 5 mm in February — 31 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	28.3 °C	8 mm	45 %
February	31.3 °C	5 mm	35 %
March	34.5 °C	14 mm	31 %
April	36.4 °C	21 mm	42 %
May	37.2 °C	56 mm	57 %
June	34.6 °C	82 mm	84 %
July	33.2 °C	86 mm	91 %
August	32.6 °C	94 mm	88 %
September	32.1 °C	124 mm	80 %
October	30.1 °C	153 mm	74 %
November	27.9 °C	113 mm	68 %
December	26.9 °C	54 mm	57 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	28.3 °C	16.6 °C	22.3 °C	32.9 °C	10.7 °C	30	4
February	31.3 °C	17.9 °C	24.5 °C	37.2 °C	11.4 °C	28	21
March	34.5 °C	20.4 °C	27.3 °C	39.2 °C	13.2 °C	31	30
April	36.4 °C	23.6 °C	29.6 °C	41.5 °C	17.4 °C	30	30
May	37.2 °C	25.9 °C	31.0 °C	42.0 °C	22.3 °C	31	31
June	34.6 °C	25.5 °C	29.4 °C	41.3 °C	22.7 °C	30	29
July	33.2 °C	24.9 °C	28.5 °C	38.2 °C	22.5 °C	31	29
August	32.6 °C	24.3 °C	27.9 °C	37.1 °C	21.8 °C	31	29
September	32.1 °C	23.6 °C	27.3 °C	36.6 °C	20.4 °C	30	26
October	30.1 °C	22.0 °C	25.6 °C	35.9 °C	16.3 °C	30	16
November	27.9 °C	19.7 °C	23.6 °C	35.0 °C	12.0 °C	28	4
December	26.9 °C	17.3 °C	22.1 °C	33.4 °C	10.5 °C	28	1

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	8 mm	2	11 h/day	45 %	72 %	13 km/h
February	5 mm	1	12 h/day	35 %	64 %	14 km/h
March	14 mm	2	12 h/day	31 %	59 %	14 km/h
April	21 mm	4	12 h/day	42 %	60 %	14 km/h
May	56 mm	9	13 h/day	57 %	55 %	16 km/h
June	82 mm	13	13 h/day	84 %	59 %	20 km/h
July	86 mm	13	13 h/day	91 %	61 %	21 km/h
August	94 mm	13	13 h/day	88 %	64 %	20 km/h
September	124 mm	16	12 h/day	80 %	69 %	15 km/h
October	153 mm	17	12 h/day	74 %	77 %	13 km/h
November	113 mm	13	12 h/day	68 %	80 %	14 km/h
December	54 mm	7	11 h/day	57 %	77 %	14 km/h

How Chittoor 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
Chittoor	37 °C	17 °C	809 mm	359
Vellore · India	38 °C	17 °C	931 mm	361
Rānipet · India	38 °C	18 °C	937 mm	362
Tirupati · India	38 °C	18 °C	864 mm	361
Madanapalle · India	35 °C	15 °C	815 mm	344
Kanchipuram · India	38 °C	19 °C	956 mm	363
Robertsonpet · India	33 °C	15 °C	797 mm	328

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Chittoor’s climate

When is the best time to visit Chittoor?

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

How hot does Chittoor get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 37 °C. About 250 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 42 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 17 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Chittoor?

October, averaging 153 mm over 17 days with rain. The driest month is February with 5 mm. The year as a whole averages 809 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 Chittoor 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: 13.211°, 79.096° (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.