Durg climate

Name: Durg
Address: IN

Durg is warmest in May, with average highs of 41 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 13 °C. July is the wettest month (379 mm) and December the driest (7.4 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Durg averages 1,293 mm of rain and 344 days above 25 °C.

India · population 268,806 · 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 7 mm
Wettest month July 379 mm
Least cloud February 16 % cloud
Hottest on record May 46 °C
Coldest on record January 6.4 °C

What to expectDurg through the year

Durg 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, 344 days a year reach 25 °C, 201 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 46 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 379 mm against 7 mm in December — 51 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	26.4 °C	15 mm	20 %
February	30.0 °C	11 mm	16 %
March	34.7 °C	13 mm	18 %
April	38.9 °C	12 mm	23 %
May	41.1 °C	15 mm	29 %
June	35.7 °C	192 mm	73 %
July	29.9 °C	379 mm	94 %
August	29.1 °C	369 mm	94 %
September	30.3 °C	212 mm	77 %
October	30.3 °C	59 mm	41 %
November	28.3 °C	9 mm	24 %
December	26.3 °C	7 mm	20 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	26.4 °C	13.2 °C	19.8 °C	33.6 °C	6.4 °C	23	1
February	30.0 °C	16.1 °C	23.1 °C	37.3 °C	8.4 °C	27	15
March	34.7 °C	20.4 °C	27.7 °C	41.6 °C	13.0 °C	31	29
April	38.9 °C	25.0 °C	32.1 °C	45.0 °C	18.2 °C	30	30
May	41.1 °C	28.4 °C	34.9 °C	46.3 °C	22.1 °C	31	31
June	35.7 °C	27.1 °C	31.1 °C	46.0 °C	22.0 °C	30	26
July	29.9 °C	24.5 °C	26.8 °C	39.0 °C	20.5 °C	30	16
August	29.1 °C	24.0 °C	26.1 °C	34.5 °C	20.8 °C	30	13
September	30.3 °C	23.5 °C	26.5 °C	35.3 °C	20.1 °C	30	19
October	30.3 °C	20.9 °C	25.4 °C	34.3 °C	14.5 °C	31	18
November	28.3 °C	16.7 °C	22.5 °C	31.8 °C	11.1 °C	29	3
December	26.3 °C	13.3 °C	19.7 °C	30.6 °C	7.0 °C	25	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	15 mm	2	11 h/day	20 %	58 %	9.6 km/h
February	11 mm	2	11 h/day	16 %	50 %	11 km/h
March	13 mm	3	12 h/day	18 %	40 %	12 km/h
April	12 mm	3	13 h/day	23 %	33 %	14 km/h
May	15 mm	3	13 h/day	29 %	32 %	15 km/h
June	192 mm	16	13 h/day	73 %	60 %	17 km/h
July	379 mm	25	13 h/day	94 %	82 %	16 km/h
August	369 mm	25	13 h/day	94 %	84 %	15 km/h
September	212 mm	19	12 h/day	77 %	82 %	11 km/h
October	59 mm	7	12 h/day	41 %	73 %	9.6 km/h
November	9 mm	1	11 h/day	24 %	65 %	9.2 km/h
December	7 mm	1	11 h/day	20 %	61 %	9.2 km/h

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

Where Durg ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in Asia in May	19thof 50	41 °C
The warmest places in the world in May	20thof 50	41 °C
The warmest places in Asia in April	22ndof 50	39 °C
The warmest places in the world in April	45thof 50	39 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Durg’s climate

When is the best time to visit Durg?

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 Durg get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 41 °C. About 201 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 46 °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 Durg?

July, averaging 379 mm over 25 days with rain. The driest month is December with 7 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,293 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 Durg 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
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.