Gāndhīdhām climate

Name: Gāndhīdhām
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Gāndhīdhām is warmest in May, with average highs of 38 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 14 °C. July is the wettest month (187 mm) and December the driest (0.3 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Gāndhīdhām averages 511 mm of rain and 353 days above 25 °C.

India · population 247,992 · 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 14 °C
Driest month December 0 mm
Wettest month July 187 mm
Least cloud February 11 % cloud
Hottest on record May 44 °C
Coldest on record February 7.8 °C
Warmest sea June 30 °C

What to expectGāndhīdhām through the year

Gāndhīdhām has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 27 °C in January to 38 °C in May, a swing of 11 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 353 days a year reach 25 °C, 269 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 44 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 187 mm against 0 mm in December — 596 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Gāndhīdhām is warmest in June at 30 °C and coldest in January at 22 °C. Sea temperature lags the air by a month or two, which is why late summer swims warmer than early summer at the same air temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	26.7 °C	1 mm	13 %
February	29.8 °C	1 mm	11 %
March	34.5 °C	under 1 mm	14 %
April	37.6 °C	1 mm	15 %
May	37.9 °C	2 mm	13 %
June	35.6 °C	52 mm	44 %
July	32.1 °C	187 mm	79 %
August	31.0 °C	165 mm	76 %
September	32.6 °C	89 mm	45 %
October	35.3 °C	12 mm	15 %
November	32.0 °C	3 mm	14 %
December	28.0 °C	under 1 mm	15 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	26.7 °C	14.3 °C	20.5 °C	34.2 °C	7.9 °C	23	2
February	29.8 °C	16.6 °C	23.2 °C	37.1 °C	7.8 °C	27	13
March	34.5 °C	20.7 °C	27.5 °C	41.4 °C	13.2 °C	31	29
April	37.6 °C	23.7 °C	30.3 °C	44.0 °C	18.5 °C	30	30
May	37.9 °C	26.1 °C	31.3 °C	44.2 °C	20.4 °C	31	31
June	35.6 °C	27.6 °C	31.0 °C	44.2 °C	24.1 °C	30	29
July	32.1 °C	26.9 °C	29.0 °C	37.7 °C	25.0 °C	31	26
August	31.0 °C	25.9 °C	28.0 °C	39.3 °C	23.6 °C	31	23
September	32.6 °C	25.1 °C	28.4 °C	40.8 °C	20.7 °C	30	26
October	35.3 °C	24.0 °C	29.5 °C	41.3 °C	19.3 °C	31	30
November	32.0 °C	20.1 °C	26.1 °C	36.8 °C	14.7 °C	30	24
December	28.0 °C	15.7 °C	21.8 °C	33.3 °C	8.8 °C	28	6

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	1 mm	0	11 h/day	13 %	44 %	17 km/h	21.7 °C
February	1 mm	0	11 h/day	11 %	41 %	19 km/h	21.9 °C
March	under 1 mm	0	12 h/day	14 %	40 %	22 km/h	24.2 °C
April	1 mm	0	13 h/day	15 %	48 %	27 km/h	27.1 °C
May	2 mm	0	13 h/day	13 %	60 %	32 km/h	29.0 °C
June	52 mm	4	14 h/day	44 %	68 %	31 km/h	29.7 °C
July	187 mm	12	13 h/day	79 %	77 %	30 km/h	29.2 °C
August	165 mm	10	13 h/day	76 %	80 %	28 km/h	28.3 °C
September	89 mm	5	12 h/day	45 %	73 %	23 km/h	28.6 °C
October	12 mm	2	12 h/day	15 %	52 %	18 km/h	29.0 °C
November	3 mm	0	11 h/day	14 %	44 %	15 km/h	27.1 °C
December	under 1 mm	0	11 h/day	15 %	44 %	16 km/h	24.0 °C

How Gāndhīdhām 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
Gāndhīdhām	38 °C	14 °C	511 mm	353
Jamnagar · India	36 °C	15 °C	645 mm	354
Morvi · India	39 °C	13 °C	606 mm	357
Rājkot · India	40 °C	14 °C	655 mm	357
Surendranagar · India	41 °C	14 °C	648 mm	359
Porbandar · India	32 °C	17 °C	684 mm	358
Jūnāgadh · India	38 °C	14 °C	715 mm	360

Where Gāndhīdhām ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in Asia in March	2nd of 50	0.3 mm
The driest places in Asia in December	3rd of 50	0.3 mm
The driest places in Asia in January	6th of 50	0.7 mm
Best beach destinations in Asia in December	14th of 50	99/100
The driest places in Asia in April	14th of 50	0.8 mm
The warmest places in Asia in November	15th of 50	32 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Gāndhīdhām’s climate

When is the best time to visit Gāndhīdhām?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. January, February, 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 Gāndhīdhām get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 38 °C. About 269 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 44 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 14 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Gāndhīdhām?

July, averaging 187 mm over 12 days with rain. The driest month is December with 0 mm. The year as a whole averages 511 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 Gāndhīdhām 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: 23.083°, 70.133° (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.