Hyderabad climate

Name: Hyderabad
Address: IN

Hyderabad is warmest in May, with average highs of 38 °C, and coldest in December, when nights average 16 °C. July is the wettest month (171 mm) and December the driest (3.4 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Hyderabad averages 747 mm of rain and 356 days above 25 °C.

India · population 6,993,262 · 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 December 16 °C
Driest month December 3 mm
Wettest month July 171 mm
Least cloud February 20 % cloud
Hottest on record June 42 °C
Coldest on record December 9.8 °C

What to expectHyderabad through the year

Hyderabad has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 28 °C in December to 38 °C in May, a swing of 10 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 356 days a year reach 25 °C, 180 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 42 °C, in June.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 171 mm against 3 mm in December — 50 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	28.5 °C	6 mm	26 %
February	31.3 °C	4 mm	20 %
March	34.7 °C	9 mm	22 %
April	36.7 °C	16 mm	28 %
May	37.9 °C	20 mm	39 %
June	32.7 °C	105 mm	80 %
July	29.1 °C	171 mm	93 %
August	28.2 °C	168 mm	92 %
September	28.9 °C	130 mm	81 %
October	29.2 °C	95 mm	59 %
November	28.5 °C	19 mm	41 %
December	27.8 °C	3 mm	31 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	28.5 °C	16.2 °C	22.2 °C	33.6 °C	10.0 °C	30	6
February	31.3 °C	18.3 °C	24.8 °C	36.5 °C	12.0 °C	28	21
March	34.7 °C	21.5 °C	28.3 °C	39.2 °C	15.5 °C	31	30
April	36.7 °C	24.3 °C	30.5 °C	41.4 °C	18.9 °C	30	30
May	37.9 °C	26.6 °C	32.1 °C	41.8 °C	21.3 °C	31	31
June	32.7 °C	24.5 °C	28.2 °C	42.2 °C	20.3 °C	30	23
July	29.1 °C	23.0 °C	25.7 °C	36.1 °C	20.8 °C	29	12
August	28.2 °C	22.5 °C	25.0 °C	32.4 °C	21.1 °C	29	4
September	28.9 °C	22.1 °C	25.2 °C	33.4 °C	18.7 °C	29	8
October	29.2 °C	20.7 °C	24.7 °C	34.3 °C	15.4 °C	30	10
November	28.5 °C	18.0 °C	23.1 °C	32.4 °C	11.9 °C	29	5
December	27.8 °C	15.8 °C	21.6 °C	32.9 °C	9.8 °C	30	2

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	6 mm	1	11 h/day	26 %	56 %	13 km/h
February	4 mm	1	12 h/day	20 %	48 %	13 km/h
March	9 mm	2	12 h/day	22 %	42 %	13 km/h
April	16 mm	4	13 h/day	28 %	43 %	14 km/h
May	20 mm	5	13 h/day	39 %	41 %	17 km/h
June	105 mm	15	13 h/day	80 %	65 %	22 km/h
July	171 mm	18	13 h/day	93 %	75 %	24 km/h
August	168 mm	18	13 h/day	92 %	79 %	22 km/h
September	130 mm	15	12 h/day	81 %	78 %	16 km/h
October	95 mm	12	12 h/day	59 %	73 %	13 km/h
November	19 mm	3	11 h/day	41 %	65 %	13 km/h
December	3 mm	1	11 h/day	31 %	59 %	12 km/h

How Hyderabad 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
Hyderabad	38 °C	16 °C	747 mm	356
Lal Bahadur Nagar · India	38 °C	16 °C	707 mm	357
Kukatpally · India	38 °C	15 °C	748 mm	354
Serilingampalle · India	38 °C	15 °C	801 mm	354
Mahbūbnagar · India	38 °C	17 °C	789 mm	358
Nalgonda · India	40 °C	17 °C	818 mm	363
Bidar · India	38 °C	15 °C	873 mm	348

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Hyderabad’s climate

When is the best time to visit Hyderabad?

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 Hyderabad get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 38 °C. About 180 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 42 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 16 °C in December, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Hyderabad?

July, averaging 171 mm over 18 days with rain. The driest month is December with 3 mm. The year as a whole averages 747 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 Hyderabad 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: 17.384°, 78.456° (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.