Gwalior climate

Name: Gwalior
Address: IN

Gwalior is warmest in May, with average highs of 41 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 9.0 °C. July is the wettest month (259 mm) and April the driest (6.1 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Gwalior averages 765 mm of rain and 299 days above 25 °C.

India · population 1,054,420 · 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 9.0 °C
Driest month April 6 mm
Wettest month July 259 mm
Least cloud November 14 % cloud
Hottest on record May 47 °C
Coldest on record December 1.7 °C

What to expectGwalior through the year

Gwalior has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 22 °C in January to 41 °C in May, a swing of 19 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 299 days a year reach 25 °C, 223 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 47 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 259 mm against 6 mm in April — 43 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	21.7 °C	15 mm	22 %
February	25.9 °C	15 mm	20 %
March	31.9 °C	9 mm	22 %
April	37.9 °C	6 mm	21 %
May	41.0 °C	9 mm	16 %
June	39.0 °C	69 mm	41 %
July	33.1 °C	259 mm	83 %
August	31.2 °C	237 mm	82 %
September	32.0 °C	104 mm	46 %
October	32.4 °C	22 mm	14 %
November	28.1 °C	8 mm	14 %
December	23.3 °C	11 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	21.7 °C	9.0 °C	15.2 °C	30.7 °C	3.6 °C	4	0
February	25.9 °C	12.1 °C	18.9 °C	35.2 °C	5.0 °C	16	3
March	31.9 °C	17.1 °C	24.6 °C	40.8 °C	9.3 °C	30	22
April	37.9 °C	22.6 °C	30.5 °C	44.7 °C	14.4 °C	30	30
May	41.0 °C	27.3 °C	34.3 °C	46.9 °C	20.9 °C	31	31
June	39.0 °C	29.0 °C	33.9 °C	46.3 °C	22.3 °C	30	29
July	33.1 °C	26.6 °C	29.5 °C	42.1 °C	23.4 °C	31	27
August	31.2 °C	25.5 °C	28.0 °C	38.2 °C	23.0 °C	31	23
September	32.0 °C	24.4 °C	27.9 °C	38.3 °C	19.9 °C	30	24
October	32.4 °C	20.4 °C	26.3 °C	39.1 °C	14.5 °C	31	26
November	28.1 °C	15.2 °C	21.5 °C	35.4 °C	8.8 °C	27	7
December	23.3 °C	10.6 °C	16.7 °C	29.4 °C	1.7 °C	8	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	15 mm	2	11 h/day	22 %	66 %	11 km/h
February	15 mm	2	11 h/day	20 %	56 %	13 km/h
March	9 mm	2	12 h/day	22 %	42 %	14 km/h
April	6 mm	2	13 h/day	21 %	29 %	16 km/h
May	9 mm	3	13 h/day	16 %	30 %	18 km/h
June	69 mm	8	14 h/day	41 %	47 %	18 km/h
July	259 mm	22	14 h/day	83 %	74 %	16 km/h
August	237 mm	22	13 h/day	82 %	81 %	15 km/h
September	104 mm	11	12 h/day	46 %	74 %	14 km/h
October	22 mm	2	12 h/day	14 %	56 %	11 km/h
November	8 mm	1	11 h/day	14 %	56 %	11 km/h
December	11 mm	1	11 h/day	18 %	63 %	11 km/h

How Gwalior 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
Gwalior	41 °C	9.0 °C	765 mm	299
Morena · India	41 °C	8.4 °C	716 mm	295
Jhānsi · India	41 °C	9.1 °C	852 mm	303
Shivpuri · India	40 °C	9.2 °C	790 mm	296
Etāwah · India	40 °C	8.7 °C	796 mm	290
Agra · India	40 °C	7.9 °C	716 mm	287

Where Gwalior ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Asia in December	16th of 50	96/100
The warmest places in Asia in May	22nd of 50	41 °C
The warmest places in the world in May	24th of 50	41 °C
Places with the best weather in the world in December	27th of 50	96/100

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Gwalior’s climate

When is the best time to visit Gwalior?

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

How hot does Gwalior get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 41 °C. About 223 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 47 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 9.0 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Gwalior?

July, averaging 259 mm over 22 days with rain. The driest month is April with 6 mm. The year as a whole averages 765 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 Gwalior 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: 26.230°, 78.173° (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.