Karnāl climate

Name: Karnāl
Address: IN

Karnāl is warmest in May, with average highs of 39 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 7.3 °C. July is the wettest month (214 mm) and November the driest (6.0 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Karnāl averages 800 mm of rain and 265 days above 25 °C.

India · population 302,140 · 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 39 °C
Coldest month January 7.3 °C
Driest month November 6 mm
Wettest month July 214 mm
Least cloud October 9 % cloud
Hottest on record May 46 °C
Coldest on record January 2.3 °C

What to expectKarnāl through the year

Karnāl has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 19 °C in January to 39 °C in May, a swing of 20 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 265 days a year reach 25 °C, 196 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 46 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 214 mm against 6 mm in November — 36 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	18.6 °C	39 mm	35 %
February	21.9 °C	48 mm	34 %
March	27.8 °C	36 mm	31 %
April	35.0 °C	23 mm	29 %
May	38.7 °C	23 mm	23 %
June	37.5 °C	77 mm	29 %
July	33.1 °C	214 mm	65 %
August	31.8 °C	194 mm	66 %
September	31.5 °C	114 mm	31 %
October	30.8 °C	13 mm	9 %
November	26.3 °C	6 mm	14 %
December	21.2 °C	13 mm	23 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	18.6 °C	7.3 °C	12.5 °C	26.9 °C	2.3 °C	0	0
February	21.9 °C	10.0 °C	15.7 °C	30.7 °C	4.4 °C	5	0
March	27.8 °C	14.5 °C	21.0 °C	36.8 °C	6.7 °C	24	9
April	35.0 °C	19.9 °C	27.6 °C	43.4 °C	10.6 °C	30	27
May	38.7 °C	24.2 °C	31.7 °C	46.0 °C	15.9 °C	31	31
June	37.5 °C	26.4 °C	32.1 °C	45.8 °C	20.4 °C	30	29
July	33.1 °C	25.9 °C	29.2 °C	41.3 °C	22.4 °C	31	27
August	31.8 °C	25.2 °C	28.2 °C	38.2 °C	22.4 °C	31	26
September	31.5 °C	23.2 °C	27.2 °C	36.0 °C	17.2 °C	30	25
October	30.8 °C	18.1 °C	24.3 °C	36.5 °C	12.0 °C	31	20
November	26.3 °C	13.2 °C	19.4 °C	33.5 °C	6.6 °C	22	1
December	21.2 °C	8.8 °C	14.4 °C	26.8 °C	2.5 °C	1	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	39 mm	4	10 h/day	35 %	75 %	13 km/h
February	48 mm	5	11 h/day	34 %	70 %	15 km/h
March	36 mm	5	12 h/day	31 %	57 %	16 km/h
April	23 mm	4	13 h/day	29 %	38 %	17 km/h
May	23 mm	6	14 h/day	23 %	36 %	18 km/h
June	77 mm	10	14 h/day	29 %	54 %	17 km/h
July	214 mm	21	14 h/day	65 %	78 %	14 km/h
August	194 mm	21	13 h/day	66 %	83 %	13 km/h
September	114 mm	10	12 h/day	31 %	78 %	13 km/h
October	13 mm	2	11 h/day	9 %	62 %	12 km/h
November	6 mm	1	11 h/day	14 %	61 %	12 km/h
December	13 mm	2	10 h/day	23 %	69 %	13 km/h

How Karnāl 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
Karnāl	39 °C	7.3 °C	800 mm	265
Panipat · India	39 °C	7.1 °C	747 mm	269
Yamuna Nagar · India	38 °C	6.5 °C	1,178 mm	264
Sahāranpur · India	38 °C	6.6 °C	1,158 mm	265
Muzaffarnagar · India	39 °C	7.5 °C	996 mm	270
Ambāla · India	39 °C	7.2 °C	984 mm	265
Jīnd · India	40 °C	7.0 °C	566 mm	275

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Karnāl’s climate

When is the best time to visit Karnāl?

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 Karnāl get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 39 °C. About 196 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 7.3 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Karnāl?

July, averaging 214 mm over 21 days with rain. The driest month is November with 6 mm. The year as a whole averages 800 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 Karnāl 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: 29.692°, 76.984° (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.