Jalandhar climate

Name: Jalandhar
Address: IN

Jalandhar is warmest in May, with average highs of 38 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 5.7 °C. July is the wettest month (225 mm) and November the driest (11 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Jalandhar averages 892 mm of rain and 253 days above 25 °C.

India · population 868,929 · 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 January 5.7 °C
Driest month November 11 mm
Wettest month July 225 mm
Least cloud October 11 % cloud
Hottest on record June 46 °C
Coldest on record January 0.8 °C

What to expectJalandhar through the year

Jalandhar has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 18 °C in January to 38 °C in May, a swing of 21 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 253 days a year reach 25 °C, 193 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 46 °C, in June.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 225 mm against 11 mm in November — 20 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	17.6 °C	45 mm	43 %
February	20.7 °C	67 mm	40 %
March	26.3 °C	58 mm	38 %
April	33.3 °C	37 mm	35 %
May	38.2 °C	28 mm	28 %
June	37.7 °C	90 mm	27 %
July	33.4 °C	225 mm	52 %
August	32.2 °C	205 mm	53 %
September	32.1 °C	89 mm	25 %
October	30.7 °C	18 mm	11 %
November	25.6 °C	11 mm	19 %
December	20.2 °C	18 mm	30 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	17.6 °C	5.7 °C	11.3 °C	25.7 °C	0.8 °C	0	0
February	20.7 °C	8.2 °C	14.3 °C	29.5 °C	2.2 °C	3	0
March	26.3 °C	12.4 °C	19.3 °C	37.0 °C	4.2 °C	19	6
April	33.3 °C	17.7 °C	25.7 °C	42.7 °C	9.2 °C	30	24
May	38.2 °C	22.7 °C	30.7 °C	44.6 °C	15.3 °C	31	31
June	37.7 °C	25.8 °C	31.9 °C	45.5 °C	19.4 °C	30	30
July	33.4 °C	25.9 °C	29.5 °C	41.4 °C	22.3 °C	31	29
August	32.2 °C	25.3 °C	28.4 °C	36.4 °C	21.8 °C	31	28
September	32.1 °C	23.1 °C	27.3 °C	36.7 °C	15.3 °C	30	27
October	30.7 °C	17.7 °C	23.9 °C	35.5 °C	11.2 °C	30	19
November	25.6 °C	11.9 °C	18.2 °C	32.9 °C	5.6 °C	18	0
December	20.2 °C	7.1 °C	13.1 °C	26.3 °C	0.9 °C	1	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	45 mm	4	10 h/day	43 %	79 %	11 km/h
February	67 mm	6	11 h/day	40 %	75 %	12 km/h
March	58 mm	6	12 h/day	38 %	66 %	13 km/h
April	37 mm	6	13 h/day	35 %	48 %	14 km/h
May	28 mm	7	14 h/day	28 %	39 %	15 km/h
June	90 mm	11	14 h/day	27 %	53 %	14 km/h
July	225 mm	22	14 h/day	52 %	78 %	12 km/h
August	205 mm	22	13 h/day	53 %	83 %	10 km/h
September	89 mm	11	12 h/day	25 %	78 %	9.9 km/h
October	18 mm	2	11 h/day	11 %	64 %	10 km/h
November	11 mm	1	11 h/day	19 %	67 %	10 km/h
December	18 mm	2	10 h/day	30 %	75 %	10 km/h

How Jalandhar 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
Jalandhar	38 °C	5.7 °C	892 mm	253
Hoshiārpur · India	38 °C	6.1 °C	1,026 mm	250
Ludhiana · India	39 °C	6.2 °C	830 mm	258
Batāla · India	38 °C	5.5 °C	938 mm	246
Moga · India	39 °C	5.9 °C	666 mm	263
Amritsar · India	39 °C	5.7 °C	767 mm	251
Pathānkot · India	36 °C	5.4 °C	1,113 mm	232

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Jalandhar’s climate

When is the best time to visit Jalandhar?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. March, October, November 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 Jalandhar get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 38 °C. About 193 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 5.7 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Jalandhar?

July, averaging 225 mm over 22 days with rain. The driest month is November with 11 mm. The year as a whole averages 892 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 Jalandhar 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: 31.326°, 75.579° (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.