Jabalpur climate

Name: Jabalpur
Address: IN

Jabalpur is warmest in May, with average highs of 41 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 11 °C. July is the wettest month (390 mm) and May the driest (4.2 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Jabalpur averages 1,192 mm of rain and 319 days above 25 °C.

India · population 1,081,677 · 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 11 °C
Driest month May 4 mm
Wettest month July 390 mm
Least cloud February 16 % cloud
Hottest on record May 46 °C
Coldest on record January 4.9 °C

What to expectJabalpur through the year

Jabalpur has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 24 °C in January to 41 °C in May, a swing of 17 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 319 days a year reach 25 °C, 177 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 46 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 390 mm against 4 mm in May — 94 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	24.2 °C	12 mm	19 %
February	28.0 °C	17 mm	16 %
March	33.2 °C	10 mm	17 %
April	38.3 °C	4 mm	18 %
May	40.6 °C	4 mm	20 %
June	35.9 °C	165 mm	61 %
July	29.4 °C	390 mm	92 %
August	28.4 °C	371 mm	92 %
September	29.6 °C	175 mm	67 %
October	30.6 °C	31 mm	27 %
November	28.2 °C	5 mm	18 %
December	25.1 °C	7 mm	19 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	24.2 °C	10.9 °C	17.5 °C	31.4 °C	4.9 °C	12	0
February	28.0 °C	13.9 °C	20.9 °C	36.0 °C	6.4 °C	23	7
March	33.2 °C	18.3 °C	26.0 °C	40.7 °C	10.9 °C	30	26
April	38.3 °C	23.2 °C	31.1 °C	43.5 °C	15.9 °C	30	30
May	40.6 °C	27.2 °C	34.2 °C	46.1 °C	21.0 °C	31	31
June	35.9 °C	26.8 °C	31.1 °C	45.1 °C	21.1 °C	30	26
July	29.4 °C	24.1 °C	26.4 °C	38.6 °C	21.5 °C	29	13
August	28.4 °C	23.3 °C	25.5 °C	33.0 °C	20.7 °C	28	7
September	29.6 °C	22.6 °C	25.8 °C	34.8 °C	17.9 °C	29	14
October	30.6 °C	19.6 °C	25.0 °C	34.9 °C	14.6 °C	31	20
November	28.2 °C	15.6 °C	21.8 °C	32.7 °C	9.8 °C	29	4
December	25.1 °C	11.7 °C	18.2 °C	30.0 °C	5.1 °C	16	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	12 mm	2	11 h/day	19 %	58 %	11 km/h
February	17 mm	2	11 h/day	16 %	49 %	12 km/h
March	10 mm	2	12 h/day	17 %	38 %	13 km/h
April	4 mm	1	13 h/day	18 %	27 %	15 km/h
May	4 mm	1	13 h/day	20 %	28 %	17 km/h
June	165 mm	14	14 h/day	61 %	57 %	17 km/h
July	390 mm	26	13 h/day	92 %	83 %	16 km/h
August	371 mm	26	13 h/day	92 %	87 %	15 km/h
September	175 mm	16	12 h/day	67 %	81 %	13 km/h
October	31 mm	4	12 h/day	27 %	64 %	11 km/h
November	5 mm	1	11 h/day	18 %	56 %	10.0 km/h
December	7 mm	1	11 h/day	19 %	57 %	10 km/h

How Jabalpur 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
Jabalpur	41 °C	11 °C	1,192 mm	319
Murwāra · India	41 °C	10 °C	1,091 mm	313
Saugor · India	40 °C	10 °C	1,113 mm	309
Chhindwāra · India	38 °C	12 °C	1,130 mm	312
Satna · India	41 °C	9.6 °C	972 mm	305

Where Jabalpur ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Asia in January	20th of 50	96/100
Places with the best weather in the world in January	31st of 50	96/100
The warmest places in Asia in May	42nd of 50	41 °C
The warmest places in Asia in April	46th of 50	38 °C
The warmest places in the world in May	46th of 50	41 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Jabalpur’s climate

When is the best time to visit Jabalpur?

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

How hot does Jabalpur get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 41 °C. About 177 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 11 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Jabalpur?

July, averaging 390 mm over 26 days with rain. The driest month is May with 4 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,192 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 Jabalpur 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: 23.167°, 79.950° (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.