Kanpur climate

Name: Kanpur
Address: IN

Kanpur is warmest in May, with average highs of 40 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 9.0 °C. July is the wettest month (284 mm) and November the driest (3.8 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Kanpur averages 901 mm of rain and 293 days above 25 °C.

India · population 2,823,249 · 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 40 °C
Coldest month January 9.0 °C
Driest month November 4 mm
Wettest month July 284 mm
Least cloud November 13 % cloud
Hottest on record June 46 °C
Coldest on record December 3.2 °C

What to expectKanpur through the year

Kanpur has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 21 °C in January to 40 °C in May, a swing of 18 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 293 days a year reach 25 °C, 215 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 46 °C, in June.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 284 mm against 4 mm in November — 74 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	21.3 °C	17 mm	24 %
February	25.1 °C	21 mm	21 %
March	31.3 °C	11 mm	22 %
April	37.5 °C	8 mm	21 %
May	39.9 °C	12 mm	16 %
June	37.8 °C	103 mm	44 %
July	32.7 °C	284 mm	85 %
August	31.5 °C	246 mm	84 %
September	31.5 °C	157 mm	52 %
October	31.4 °C	30 mm	15 %
November	27.7 °C	4 mm	13 %
December	23.1 °C	9 mm	18 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	21.3 °C	9.0 °C	14.9 °C	29.3 °C	3.7 °C	3	0
February	25.1 °C	12.0 °C	18.4 °C	34.6 °C	5.9 °C	13	2
March	31.3 °C	16.7 °C	24.0 °C	40.0 °C	9.3 °C	30	21
April	37.5 °C	22.2 °C	30.0 °C	43.9 °C	15.1 °C	30	30
May	39.9 °C	26.3 °C	33.2 °C	45.6 °C	19.1 °C	31	31
June	37.8 °C	28.0 °C	32.9 °C	46.4 °C	21.6 °C	30	29
July	32.7 °C	26.4 °C	29.3 °C	42.3 °C	24.4 °C	31	27
August	31.5 °C	25.7 °C	28.3 °C	36.9 °C	23.7 °C	31	26
September	31.5 °C	24.5 °C	27.7 °C	36.4 °C	18.5 °C	30	23
October	31.4 °C	20.1 °C	25.6 °C	37.4 °C	13.9 °C	31	23
November	27.7 °C	14.9 °C	21.1 °C	32.8 °C	8.3 °C	28	3
December	23.1 °C	10.3 °C	16.4 °C	29.3 °C	3.2 °C	6	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	17 mm	2	11 h/day	24 %	70 %	12 km/h
February	21 mm	3	11 h/day	21 %	63 %	14 km/h
March	11 mm	2	12 h/day	22 %	49 %	15 km/h
April	8 mm	2	13 h/day	21 %	34 %	17 km/h
May	12 mm	3	13 h/day	16 %	38 %	17 km/h
June	103 mm	11	14 h/day	44 %	55 %	17 km/h
July	284 mm	24	14 h/day	85 %	78 %	15 km/h
August	246 mm	23	13 h/day	84 %	83 %	14 km/h
September	157 mm	15	12 h/day	52 %	80 %	13 km/h
October	30 mm	2	12 h/day	15 %	66 %	11 km/h
November	4 mm	1	11 h/day	13 %	62 %	11 km/h
December	9 mm	1	10 h/day	18 %	67 %	11 km/h

How Kanpur 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
Kanpur	40 °C	9.0 °C	901 mm	293
Lucknow · India	39 °C	8.9 °C	975 mm	292
Orai · India	41 °C	9.1 °C	853 mm	300
Bānda · India	41 °C	9.4 °C	942 mm	305
Sītāpur · India	38 °C	8.7 °C	1,024 mm	284
Farrukhābād · India	39 °C	8.5 °C	875 mm	286
Etāwah · India	40 °C	8.7 °C	796 mm	290

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Kanpur’s climate

When is the best time to visit Kanpur?

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

How hot does Kanpur get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 40 °C. About 215 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 9.0 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Kanpur?

July, averaging 284 mm over 24 days with rain. The driest month is November with 4 mm. The year as a whole averages 901 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 Kanpur 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: 26.465°, 80.350° (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.