Gaya climate

Name: Gaya
Address: IN

Gaya is warmest in May, with average highs of 39 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 9.8 °C. July is the wettest month (283 mm) and November the driest (7.2 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Gaya averages 1,040 mm of rain and 303 days above 25 °C.

India · population 474,093 · 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 39 °C
Coldest month January 9.8 °C
Driest month November 7 mm
Wettest month July 283 mm
Least cloud November 16 % cloud
Hottest on record May 46 °C
Coldest on record December 3.7 °C

What to expectGaya through the year

Gaya has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 22 °C in January to 39 °C in May, a swing of 17 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 303 days a year reach 25 °C, 211 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 46 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 283 mm against 7 mm in November — 39 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	22.5 °C	17 mm	20 %
February	26.7 °C	15 mm	19 %
March	32.9 °C	11 mm	19 %
April	38.3 °C	10 mm	19 %
May	39.4 °C	25 mm	20 %
June	36.5 °C	168 mm	62 %
July	32.1 °C	283 mm	89 %
August	31.5 °C	253 mm	88 %
September	31.0 °C	189 mm	70 %
October	30.0 °C	55 mm	30 %
November	27.4 °C	7 mm	16 %
December	23.7 °C	7 mm	17 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	22.5 °C	9.8 °C	16.1 °C	29.6 °C	4.0 °C	4	0
February	26.7 °C	13.0 °C	19.9 °C	36.4 °C	6.1 °C	20	4
March	32.9 °C	18.1 °C	25.6 °C	41.3 °C	10.8 °C	31	25
April	38.3 °C	23.3 °C	31.0 °C	44.7 °C	17.4 °C	30	30
May	39.4 °C	26.6 °C	33.1 °C	45.9 °C	20.3 °C	31	31
June	36.5 °C	27.6 °C	31.8 °C	45.4 °C	23.5 °C	30	28
July	32.1 °C	26.2 °C	28.7 °C	40.3 °C	23.9 °C	31	27
August	31.5 °C	25.6 °C	28.1 °C	35.1 °C	24.0 °C	31	26
September	31.0 °C	24.7 °C	27.4 °C	34.6 °C	19.1 °C	30	23
October	30.0 °C	20.9 °C	25.3 °C	34.4 °C	14.5 °C	31	15
November	27.4 °C	15.4 °C	21.3 °C	32.4 °C	7.8 °C	27	2
December	23.7 °C	11.0 °C	17.3 °C	30.1 °C	3.7 °C	7	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	17 mm	2	11 h/day	20 %	68 %	11 km/h
February	15 mm	2	11 h/day	19 %	60 %	13 km/h
March	11 mm	2	12 h/day	19 %	43 %	15 km/h
April	10 mm	3	13 h/day	19 %	36 %	17 km/h
May	25 mm	5	13 h/day	20 %	45 %	16 km/h
June	168 mm	15	14 h/day	62 %	63 %	15 km/h
July	283 mm	25	14 h/day	89 %	80 %	14 km/h
August	253 mm	25	13 h/day	88 %	83 %	13 km/h
September	189 mm	19	12 h/day	70 %	83 %	12 km/h
October	55 mm	7	12 h/day	30 %	76 %	9.5 km/h
November	7 mm	1	11 h/day	16 %	67 %	9.6 km/h
December	7 mm	1	11 h/day	17 %	68 %	10 km/h

How Gaya 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
Gaya	39 °C	9.8 °C	1,040 mm	303
Bihār Sharīf · India	38 °C	9.9 °C	1,085 mm	301
Patna · India	38 °C	11 °C	1,116 mm	300
Arrah · India	38 °C	10 °C	1,136 mm	300

Where Gaya ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in Asia in April	48th of 50	38 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Gaya’s climate

When is the best time to visit Gaya?

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 Gaya get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 39 °C. About 211 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 9.8 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Gaya?

July, averaging 283 mm over 25 days with rain. The driest month is November with 7 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,040 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 Gaya 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: 24.797°, 85.004° (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.