Kolhāpur climate

Name: Kolhāpur
Address: IN

Kolhāpur is warmest in April, with average highs of 36 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 17 °C. July is the wettest month (256 mm) and February the driest (0.4 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Kolhāpur averages 912 mm of rain and 335 days above 25 °C.

India · population 549,236 · 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 36 °C
Coldest month January 17 °C
Driest month February 0 mm
Wettest month July 256 mm
Least cloud February 15 % cloud
Hottest on record April 41 °C
Coldest on record January 12 °C

What to expectKolhāpur through the year

Kolhāpur has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 30 °C in January to 36 °C in April, a swing of 5.5 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 335 days a year reach 25 °C, 172 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 41 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 256 mm against 0 mm in February — 674 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	29.9 °C	2 mm	21 %
February	32.3 °C	under 1 mm	15 %
March	35.1 °C	5 mm	18 %
April	36.2 °C	16 mm	24 %
May	34.7 °C	30 mm	40 %
June	28.2 °C	193 mm	85 %
July	25.5 °C	256 mm	95 %
August	25.6 °C	176 mm	93 %
September	27.2 °C	118 mm	81 %
October	29.1 °C	88 mm	58 %
November	29.7 °C	21 mm	40 %
December	29.4 °C	6 mm	30 %

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	17.2 °C	23.4 °C	34.1 °C	11.6 °C	31	15
February	32.3 °C	18.6 °C	25.2 °C	37.0 °C	12.0 °C	28	26
March	35.1 °C	21.0 °C	27.6 °C	39.6 °C	13.2 °C	31	30
April	36.2 °C	22.5 °C	28.6 °C	41.0 °C	16.6 °C	30	30
May	34.7 °C	23.1 °C	27.9 °C	40.4 °C	19.9 °C	31	30
June	28.2 °C	22.7 °C	24.8 °C	38.1 °C	20.3 °C	26	7
July	25.5 °C	21.9 °C	23.2 °C	30.4 °C	20.4 °C	20	0
August	25.6 °C	21.6 °C	23.1 °C	30.3 °C	20.2 °C	20	0
September	27.2 °C	21.3 °C	23.6 °C	33.3 °C	16.5 °C	27	2
October	29.1 °C	20.9 °C	24.6 °C	35.3 °C	16.8 °C	30	10
November	29.7 °C	19.3 °C	24.3 °C	34.2 °C	13.9 °C	30	13
December	29.4 °C	17.4 °C	23.1 °C	34.4 °C	12.3 °C	31	10

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	2 mm	0	11 h/day	21 %	50 %	12 km/h
February	under 1 mm	0	12 h/day	15 %	45 %	13 km/h
March	5 mm	1	12 h/day	18 %	46 %	16 km/h
April	16 mm	4	13 h/day	24 %	55 %	17 km/h
May	30 mm	6	13 h/day	40 %	66 %	19 km/h
June	193 mm	21	13 h/day	85 %	84 %	21 km/h
July	256 mm	27	13 h/day	95 %	90 %	23 km/h
August	176 mm	24	13 h/day	93 %	89 %	22 km/h
September	118 mm	17	12 h/day	81 %	86 %	16 km/h
October	88 mm	11	12 h/day	58 %	76 %	13 km/h
November	21 mm	3	11 h/day	40 %	61 %	14 km/h
December	6 mm	1	11 h/day	30 %	53 %	14 km/h

How Kolhāpur 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
Kolhāpur	36 °C	17 °C	912 mm	335
Ichalkaranji · India	37 °C	16 °C	784 mm	345
Shahuwadi · India	35 °C	16 °C	1,740 mm	312
Sāngli · India	37 °C	16 °C	772 mm	350
Belagavi · India	34 °C	16 °C	1,416 mm	300

Where Kolhāpur ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in Asia in February	5th of 50	0.4 mm
The driest places in the world in February	45th of 50	0.4 mm

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Kolhāpur’s climate

When is the best time to visit Kolhāpur?

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

How hot does Kolhāpur get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 36 °C. About 172 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 41 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 17 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Kolhāpur?

July, averaging 256 mm over 27 days with rain. The driest month is February with 0 mm. The year as a whole averages 912 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 Kolhāpur 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: 16.696°, 74.232° (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.