Kharagpur climate

Name: Kharagpur
Address: IN

Kharagpur is warmest in April, with average highs of 37 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 13 °C. July is the wettest month (319 mm) and December the driest (11 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Kharagpur averages 1,470 mm of rain and 337 days above 25 °C.

India · population 219,665 · 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 April 37 °C
Coldest month January 13 °C
Driest month December 11 mm
Wettest month July 319 mm
Least cloud February 20 % cloud
Hottest on record April 44 °C
Coldest on record January 7.7 °C

What to expectKharagpur through the year

Kharagpur has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 25 °C in January to 37 °C in April, a swing of 12 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 337 days a year reach 25 °C, 221 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 44 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 319 mm against 11 mm in December — 30 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	25.2 °C	14 mm	20 %
February	29.1 °C	19 mm	20 %
March	34.1 °C	23 mm	21 %
April	36.9 °C	47 mm	27 %
May	36.7 °C	111 mm	40 %
June	33.9 °C	246 mm	79 %
July	31.3 °C	319 mm	93 %
August	31.0 °C	307 mm	93 %
September	30.9 °C	228 mm	82 %
October	30.2 °C	118 mm	47 %
November	28.4 °C	26 mm	28 %
December	25.7 °C	11 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	25.2 °C	12.6 °C	18.8 °C	32.4 °C	7.7 °C	16	0
February	29.1 °C	16.1 °C	22.6 °C	37.2 °C	8.6 °C	26	11
March	34.1 °C	21.0 °C	27.3 °C	41.4 °C	13.2 °C	31	29
April	36.9 °C	24.9 °C	30.3 °C	44.4 °C	17.4 °C	30	30
May	36.7 °C	26.8 °C	31.1 °C	43.8 °C	22.3 °C	31	30
June	33.9 °C	26.9 °C	29.9 °C	42.8 °C	22.6 °C	30	27
July	31.3 °C	25.9 °C	28.1 °C	36.4 °C	23.7 °C	31	25
August	31.0 °C	25.5 °C	27.7 °C	34.5 °C	23.9 °C	31	24
September	30.9 °C	24.9 °C	27.4 °C	34.3 °C	21.2 °C	30	22
October	30.2 °C	22.4 °C	26.0 °C	34.2 °C	16.3 °C	31	19
November	28.4 °C	17.8 °C	22.9 °C	33.1 °C	11.3 °C	29	4
December	25.7 °C	13.5 °C	19.5 °C	30.8 °C	7.7 °C	21	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	14 mm	2	11 h/day	20 %	65 %	11 km/h
February	19 mm	2	11 h/day	20 %	63 %	11 km/h
March	23 mm	4	12 h/day	21 %	60 %	13 km/h
April	47 mm	9	13 h/day	27 %	64 %	16 km/h
May	111 mm	11	13 h/day	40 %	71 %	16 km/h
June	246 mm	21	13 h/day	79 %	79 %	15 km/h
July	319 mm	28	13 h/day	93 %	85 %	14 km/h
August	307 mm	28	13 h/day	93 %	86 %	13 km/h
September	228 mm	24	12 h/day	82 %	86 %	12 km/h
October	118 mm	12	12 h/day	47 %	81 %	9.9 km/h
November	26 mm	2	11 h/day	28 %	71 %	9.7 km/h
December	11 mm	1	11 h/day	21 %	66 %	10 km/h

How Kharagpur 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
Kharagpur	37 °C	13 °C	1,470 mm	337
Medinīpur · India	37 °C	13 °C	1,435 mm	335
Uluberiya · India	36 °C	13 °C	1,542 mm	340
Haldia · India	34 °C	14 °C	1,610 mm	339
Kolkata · India	35 °C	13 °C	1,616 mm	337
Rajpur Sonarpur · India	35 °C	13 °C	1,665 mm	340
Barddhamān · India	36 °C	12 °C	1,440 mm	327

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Kharagpur’s climate

When is the best time to visit Kharagpur?

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, April is the warmest month and December the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Kharagpur get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 37 °C. About 221 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 44 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 13 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Kharagpur?

July, averaging 319 mm over 28 days with rain. The driest month is December with 11 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,470 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 Kharagpur 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.