Kanayannur climate

Name: Kanayannur
Address: IN

Kanayannur is warmest in March, with average highs of 31 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 23 °C. June is the wettest month (523 mm) and January the driest (9.1 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Kanayannur averages 2,596 mm of rain and 364 days above 25 °C.

India · population 851,406 · 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 March 31 °C
Coldest month January 23 °C
Driest month January 9 mm
Wettest month June 523 mm
Least cloud February 35 % cloud
Hottest on record March 34 °C
Coldest on record December 19 °C
Warmest sea April 30 °C

What to expectKanayannur through the year

Kanayannur changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 30 and 31 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 364 days a year reach 25 °C, 111 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 34 °C, in March.

Rain is strongly seasonal. June averages 523 mm against 9 mm in January — 57 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Kanayannur is warmest in April at 30 °C and coldest in August at 27 °C. Sea temperature lags the air by a month or two, which is why late summer swims warmer than early summer at the same air temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	29.9 °C	9 mm	40 %
February	30.7 °C	14 mm	35 %
March	31.4 °C	41 mm	40 %
April	30.9 °C	121 mm	63 %
May	29.8 °C	294 mm	82 %
June	27.8 °C	523 mm	93 %
July	27.2 °C	468 mm	94 %
August	27.3 °C	356 mm	91 %
September	27.8 °C	271 mm	84 %
October	28.2 °C	288 mm	82 %
November	28.7 °C	161 mm	71 %
December	29.2 °C	49 mm	52 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	29.9 °C	23.1 °C	26.4 °C	33.1 °C	19.8 °C	31	13
February	30.7 °C	24.0 °C	27.2 °C	34.0 °C	19.9 °C	28	21
March	31.4 °C	25.2 °C	28.1 °C	34.2 °C	22.2 °C	31	28
April	30.9 °C	25.7 °C	28.1 °C	34.0 °C	23.2 °C	30	25
May	29.8 °C	25.5 °C	27.4 °C	33.2 °C	23.8 °C	31	15
June	27.8 °C	24.7 °C	26.0 °C	31.1 °C	22.8 °C	30	1
July	27.2 °C	24.2 °C	25.4 °C	29.8 °C	22.6 °C	31	0
August	27.3 °C	24.1 °C	25.4 °C	29.5 °C	22.7 °C	30	0
September	27.8 °C	24.1 °C	25.7 °C	29.8 °C	22.4 °C	30	0
October	28.2 °C	24.0 °C	25.9 °C	31.1 °C	21.7 °C	31	0
November	28.7 °C	23.9 °C	26.1 °C	31.9 °C	21.2 °C	30	2
December	29.2 °C	23.2 °C	26.1 °C	32.0 °C	18.6 °C	31	6

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	9 mm	2	12 h/day	40 %	76 %	12 km/h	28.5 °C
February	14 mm	3	12 h/day	35 %	75 %	13 km/h	28.7 °C
March	41 mm	8	12 h/day	40 %	76 %	13 km/h	29.4 °C
April	121 mm	19	12 h/day	63 %	81 %	9.7 km/h	30.0 °C
May	294 mm	26	13 h/day	82 %	85 %	9.9 km/h	29.8 °C
June	523 mm	30	13 h/day	93 %	89 %	12 km/h	28.4 °C
July	468 mm	30	13 h/day	94 %	90 %	13 km/h	27.1 °C
August	356 mm	29	12 h/day	91 %	89 %	12 km/h	26.7 °C
September	271 mm	25	12 h/day	84 %	88 %	11 km/h	27.5 °C
October	288 mm	26	12 h/day	82 %	87 %	8.6 km/h	28.5 °C
November	161 mm	17	12 h/day	71 %	85 %	7.9 km/h	28.9 °C
December	49 mm	6	12 h/day	52 %	80 %	9.0 km/h	28.7 °C

Where Kanayannur ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Warmest sea temperatures in Asia in March	21stof 50	29 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in Asia in April	24thof 50	30 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in the world in April	24thof 50	30 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in the world in March	25thof 50	29 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in Asia in February	35thof 50	29 °C
Best beach destinations in Asia in January	49thof 50	93/100

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Kanayannur’s climate

When is the best time to visit Kanayannur?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. July, August, September sit closest to 20 °C on average, March is the warmest month and January the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Kanayannur get?

In March, the warmest month, daily highs average 31 °C. About 111 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 34 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 23 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Kanayannur?

June, averaging 523 mm over 30 days with rain. The driest month is January with 9 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,596 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 Kanayannur 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.