Jamshedpur climate

Name: Jamshedpur
Address: IN

Jamshedpur is warmest in May, with average highs of 38 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 12 °C. July is the wettest month (292 mm) and November the driest (8.4 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Jamshedpur averages 1,255 mm of rain and 329 days above 25 °C.

India · population 1,339,438 · 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 12 °C
Driest month November 8 mm
Wettest month July 292 mm
Least cloud February 18 % cloud
Hottest on record April 45 °C
Coldest on record January 6.1 °C

What to expectJamshedpur through the year

Jamshedpur has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 25 °C in January to 38 °C in May, a swing of 13 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 329 days a year reach 25 °C, 208 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 45 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 292 mm against 8 mm in November — 35 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	24.9 °C	12 mm	20 %
February	28.9 °C	12 mm	18 %
March	34.1 °C	15 mm	19 %
April	38.0 °C	27 mm	24 %
May	38.2 °C	75 mm	34 %
June	34.5 °C	240 mm	76 %
July	30.9 °C	292 mm	93 %
August	30.5 °C	290 mm	92 %
September	30.5 °C	195 mm	79 %
October	30.1 °C	80 mm	42 %
November	28.1 °C	8 mm	25 %
December	25.1 °C	9 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	24.9 °C	11.9 °C	18.3 °C	32.4 °C	6.1 °C	14	0
February	28.9 °C	15.3 °C	22.1 °C	36.4 °C	9.3 °C	25	10
March	34.1 °C	19.5 °C	26.9 °C	42.8 °C	12.9 °C	31	28
April	38.0 °C	23.7 °C	30.8 °C	44.8 °C	18.1 °C	30	30
May	38.2 °C	26.1 °C	31.8 °C	44.8 °C	20.6 °C	31	30
June	34.5 °C	26.5 °C	30.0 °C	44.0 °C	22.9 °C	30	26
July	30.9 °C	25.3 °C	27.6 °C	36.8 °C	23.2 °C	31	22
August	30.5 °C	24.8 °C	27.2 °C	34.5 °C	23.1 °C	31	20
September	30.5 °C	24.2 °C	27.0 °C	34.0 °C	19.7 °C	30	20
October	30.1 °C	21.5 °C	25.6 °C	33.9 °C	15.3 °C	31	17
November	28.1 °C	17.0 °C	22.4 °C	32.6 °C	10.7 °C	29	4
December	25.1 °C	12.6 °C	18.7 °C	31.4 °C	7.0 °C	17	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	12 mm	2	11 h/day	20 %	64 %	9.1 km/h
February	12 mm	2	11 h/day	18 %	56 %	9.9 km/h
March	15 mm	3	12 h/day	19 %	47 %	11 km/h
April	27 mm	6	13 h/day	24 %	47 %	13 km/h
May	75 mm	11	13 h/day	34 %	58 %	13 km/h
June	240 mm	20	14 h/day	76 %	73 %	14 km/h
July	292 mm	26	13 h/day	93 %	84 %	13 km/h
August	290 mm	27	13 h/day	92 %	86 %	13 km/h
September	195 mm	21	12 h/day	79 %	85 %	11 km/h
October	80 mm	9	12 h/day	42 %	78 %	9.0 km/h
November	8 mm	1	11 h/day	25 %	68 %	8.4 km/h
December	9 mm	1	11 h/day	20 %	66 %	8.4 km/h

How Jamshedpur 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
Jamshedpur	38 °C	12 °C	1,255 mm	329
Bokāro · India	38 °C	10.0 °C	1,233 mm	314
Ranchi · India	36 °C	9.9 °C	1,325 mm	276
Dhanbad · India	37 °C	10 °C	1,237 mm	309
Kulti · India	37 °C	11 °C	1,278 mm	313

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Jamshedpur’s climate

When is the best time to visit Jamshedpur?

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

How hot does Jamshedpur get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 38 °C. About 208 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 45 °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 Jamshedpur?

July, averaging 292 mm over 26 days with rain. The driest month is November with 8 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,255 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 Jamshedpur 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: 22.803°, 86.185° (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.