Gorakhpur climate

Name: Gorakhpur
Address: IN

Gorakhpur is warmest in May, with average highs of 37 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 9.5 °C. July is the wettest month (344 mm) and November the driest (3.1 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Gorakhpur averages 1,151 mm of rain and 291 days above 25 °C.

India · population 674,246 · 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 9.5 °C
Driest month November 3 mm
Wettest month July 344 mm
Least cloud November 13 % cloud
Hottest on record June 45 °C
Coldest on record December 3.5 °C

What to expectGorakhpur through the year

Gorakhpur has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 21 °C in January to 37 °C in May, a swing of 16 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 291 days a year reach 25 °C, 203 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 45 °C, in June.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 344 mm against 3 mm in November — 110 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	21.2 °C	19 mm	24 %
February	24.9 °C	25 mm	21 %
March	31.2 °C	16 mm	21 %
April	36.6 °C	12 mm	21 %
May	37.5 °C	33 mm	21 %
June	35.4 °C	186 mm	54 %
July	31.7 °C	344 mm	87 %
August	31.4 °C	272 mm	86 %
September	30.9 °C	194 mm	60 %
October	30.3 °C	40 mm	20 %
November	27.5 °C	3 mm	13 %
December	23.2 °C	7 mm	18 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	21.2 °C	9.5 °C	15.2 °C	27.3 °C	4.6 °C	1	0
February	24.9 °C	12.5 °C	18.6 °C	34.9 °C	5.9 °C	13	1
March	31.2 °C	17.4 °C	24.3 °C	39.7 °C	10.2 °C	30	20
April	36.6 °C	22.5 °C	29.6 °C	43.0 °C	15.3 °C	30	29
May	37.5 °C	25.6 °C	31.6 °C	44.2 °C	19.6 °C	31	31
June	35.4 °C	26.7 °C	30.9 °C	44.6 °C	22.6 °C	30	28
July	31.7 °C	26.0 °C	28.5 °C	39.3 °C	23.7 °C	31	25
August	31.4 °C	25.8 °C	28.2 °C	35.2 °C	23.4 °C	31	26
September	30.9 °C	24.7 °C	27.4 °C	34.6 °C	18.1 °C	30	22
October	30.3 °C	20.6 °C	25.3 °C	34.1 °C	14.6 °C	31	19
November	27.5 °C	15.4 °C	21.3 °C	31.9 °C	9.4 °C	28	2
December	23.2 °C	11.1 °C	16.9 °C	29.2 °C	3.5 °C	6	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	19 mm	2	11 h/day	24 %	74 %	12 km/h
February	25 mm	3	11 h/day	21 %	66 %	14 km/h
March	16 mm	2	12 h/day	21 %	49 %	17 km/h
April	12 mm	3	13 h/day	21 %	40 %	19 km/h
May	33 mm	6	13 h/day	21 %	50 %	19 km/h
June	186 mm	16	14 h/day	54 %	68 %	18 km/h
July	344 mm	26	14 h/day	87 %	83 %	17 km/h
August	272 mm	27	13 h/day	86 %	85 %	16 km/h
September	194 mm	19	12 h/day	60 %	84 %	14 km/h
October	40 mm	4	12 h/day	20 %	75 %	10 km/h
November	3 mm	0	11 h/day	13 %	66 %	11 km/h
December	7 mm	1	10 h/day	18 %	70 %	11 km/h

How Gorakhpur 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
Gorakhpur	37 °C	9.5 °C	1,151 mm	291
Kushinagar · India	37 °C	9.6 °C	1,279 mm	294
Mau · India	39 °C	9.5 °C	1,162 mm	298
Butwāl · Nepal	34 °C	10 °C	1,984 mm	279
Fyzābād · India	38 °C	9.4 °C	1,116 mm	291
Jaunpur · India	40 °C	9.5 °C	1,059 mm	300

Where Gorakhpur ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in Asia in November	38th of 50	3.1 mm

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Gorakhpur’s climate

When is the best time to visit Gorakhpur?

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 Gorakhpur get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 37 °C. About 203 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 9.5 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Gorakhpur?

July, averaging 344 mm over 26 days with rain. The driest month is November with 3 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,151 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 Gorakhpur 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: 26.766°, 83.369° (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.