Indore climate

Name: Indore
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Indore is warmest in May, with average highs of 39 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 12 °C. July is the wettest month (354 mm) and April the driest (2.8 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Indore averages 1,008 mm of rain and 333 days above 25 °C.

India · population 1,994,397 · 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 12 °C
Driest month April 3 mm
Wettest month July 354 mm
Least cloud February 13 % cloud
Hottest on record May 44 °C
Coldest on record January 6.2 °C

What to expectIndore through the year

Indore has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 26 °C in January to 39 °C in May, a swing of 14 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 333 days a year reach 25 °C, 171 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 44 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 354 mm against 3 mm in April — 126 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	25.6 °C	5 mm	17 %
February	28.7 °C	6 mm	13 %
March	33.5 °C	5 mm	15 %
April	37.8 °C	3 mm	17 %
May	39.3 °C	7 mm	16 %
June	34.6 °C	150 mm	59 %
July	28.5 °C	354 mm	91 %
August	27.3 °C	303 mm	91 %
September	28.9 °C	130 mm	63 %
October	31.0 °C	27 mm	27 %
November	29.0 °C	11 mm	20 %
December	26.4 °C	8 mm	20 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	25.6 °C	12.4 °C	18.9 °C	32.6 °C	6.2 °C	19	1
February	28.7 °C	14.8 °C	21.7 °C	36.0 °C	7.3 °C	26	9
March	33.5 °C	19.2 °C	26.4 °C	39.5 °C	12.1 °C	31	27
April	37.8 °C	23.8 °C	31.0 °C	42.7 °C	17.3 °C	30	30
May	39.3 °C	26.2 °C	32.8 °C	44.4 °C	21.2 °C	31	31
June	34.6 °C	25.2 °C	29.6 °C	44.0 °C	20.9 °C	30	26
July	28.5 °C	23.1 °C	25.4 °C	37.4 °C	19.9 °C	27	7
August	27.3 °C	22.5 °C	24.5 °C	31.8 °C	20.3 °C	27	1
September	28.9 °C	21.8 °C	25.0 °C	35.8 °C	17.0 °C	29	8
October	31.0 °C	19.9 °C	25.3 °C	36.8 °C	14.8 °C	31	23
November	29.0 °C	16.9 °C	22.8 °C	34.0 °C	10.3 °C	29	7
December	26.4 °C	13.4 °C	19.7 °C	31.8 °C	6.9 °C	24	1

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	5 mm	1	11 h/day	17 %	49 %	12 km/h
February	6 mm	1	11 h/day	13 %	41 %	14 km/h
March	5 mm	1	12 h/day	15 %	30 %	15 km/h
April	3 mm	1	13 h/day	17 %	24 %	17 km/h
May	7 mm	2	13 h/day	16 %	32 %	20 km/h
June	150 mm	13	14 h/day	59 %	61 %	20 km/h
July	354 mm	22	13 h/day	91 %	83 %	20 km/h
August	303 mm	23	13 h/day	91 %	87 %	19 km/h
September	130 mm	13	12 h/day	63 %	80 %	15 km/h
October	27 mm	4	12 h/day	27 %	56 %	12 km/h
November	11 mm	2	11 h/day	20 %	48 %	11 km/h
December	8 mm	1	11 h/day	20 %	49 %	11 km/h

How Indore 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
Indore	39 °C	12 °C	1,008 mm	333
Dewas · India	39 °C	11 °C	976 mm	327
Ujjain · India	39 °C	11 °C	933 mm	329
Punāsa · India	41 °C	13 °C	1,073 mm	349
Ratlām · India	39 °C	12 °C	984 mm	332
Khandwa · India	41 °C	14 °C	993 mm	353
Burhānpur · India	41 °C	15 °C	959 mm	356

Where Indore ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in Asia in April	43rdof 50	2.8 mm

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Indore’s climate

When is the best time to visit Indore?

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

How hot does Indore get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 39 °C. About 171 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 12 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Indore?

July, averaging 354 mm over 22 days with rain. The driest month is April with 3 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,008 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 Indore 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
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.