Khandwa climate

Name: Khandwa
Address: IN

Khandwa is warmest in May, with average highs of 41 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 14 °C. July is the wettest month (347 mm) and April the driest (3.0 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Khandwa averages 993 mm of rain and 353 days above 25 °C.

India · population 200,738 · 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 41 °C
Coldest month January 14 °C
Driest month April 3 mm
Wettest month July 347 mm
Least cloud February 13 % cloud
Hottest on record May 45 °C
Coldest on record December 6.6 °C

What to expectKhandwa through the year

Khandwa has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 27 °C in January to 41 °C in May, a swing of 14 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 353 days a year reach 25 °C, 226 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 45 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 347 mm against 3 mm in April — 118 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	27.5 °C	7 mm	17 %
February	30.6 °C	8 mm	13 %
March	35.2 °C	9 mm	14 %
April	39.4 °C	3 mm	15 %
May	40.9 °C	5 mm	15 %
June	36.0 °C	132 mm	61 %
July	30.1 °C	347 mm	91 %
August	28.7 °C	270 mm	90 %
September	30.2 °C	145 mm	67 %
October	32.1 °C	40 mm	30 %
November	30.3 °C	16 mm	21 %
December	27.9 °C	9 mm	21 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	27.5 °C	13.7 °C	20.5 °C	34.1 °C	7.2 °C	26	5
February	30.6 °C	16.2 °C	23.4 °C	37.3 °C	9.3 °C	28	17
March	35.2 °C	20.4 °C	27.9 °C	41.3 °C	12.5 °C	31	29
April	39.4 °C	25.1 °C	32.5 °C	43.8 °C	18.0 °C	30	30
May	40.9 °C	28.0 °C	34.5 °C	45.3 °C	23.0 °C	31	31
June	36.0 °C	26.8 °C	31.1 °C	44.4 °C	22.8 °C	30	28
July	30.1 °C	24.5 °C	26.9 °C	38.6 °C	21.9 °C	30	17
August	28.7 °C	23.7 °C	25.9 °C	33.7 °C	21.4 °C	30	7
September	30.2 °C	23.2 °C	26.4 °C	36.9 °C	19.0 °C	30	14
October	32.1 °C	21.0 °C	26.4 °C	37.7 °C	15.1 °C	31	27
November	30.3 °C	17.8 °C	24.0 °C	35.1 °C	11.7 °C	30	18
December	27.9 °C	14.4 °C	21.0 °C	32.9 °C	6.6 °C	28	5

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	7 mm	1	11 h/day	17 %	51 %	11 km/h
February	8 mm	1	11 h/day	13 %	42 %	12 km/h
March	9 mm	2	12 h/day	14 %	31 %	14 km/h
April	3 mm	1	13 h/day	15 %	24 %	16 km/h
May	5 mm	1	13 h/day	15 %	30 %	20 km/h
June	132 mm	12	13 h/day	61 %	58 %	20 km/h
July	347 mm	22	13 h/day	91 %	78 %	20 km/h
August	270 mm	22	13 h/day	90 %	82 %	19 km/h
September	145 mm	13	12 h/day	67 %	78 %	15 km/h
October	40 mm	5	12 h/day	30 %	59 %	11 km/h
November	16 mm	2	11 h/day	21 %	52 %	10 km/h
December	9 mm	1	11 h/day	21 %	51 %	11 km/h

How Khandwa 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
Khandwa	41 °C	14 °C	993 mm	353
Punāsa · India	41 °C	13 °C	1,073 mm	349
Burhānpur · India	41 °C	15 °C	959 mm	356
Bhusawal · India	41 °C	15 °C	789 mm	359
Indore · India	39 °C	12 °C	1,008 mm	333
Jalgaon · India	41 °C	15 °C	814 mm	359
Dewas · India	39 °C	11 °C	976 mm	327

Where Khandwa ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in Asia in April	11th of 50	39 °C
The warmest places in Asia in May	27th of 50	41 °C
The warmest places in the world in April	28th of 50	39 °C
The warmest places in the world in May	29th of 50	41 °C
The driest places in Asia in April	45th of 50	3.0 mm

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Khandwa’s climate

When is the best time to visit Khandwa?

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

How hot does Khandwa get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 41 °C. About 226 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 14 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Khandwa?

July, averaging 347 mm over 22 days with rain. The driest month is April with 3 mm. The year as a whole averages 993 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 Khandwa 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: 21.824°, 76.351° (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.