Kota climate

Name: Kota
Address: IN

Kota is warmest in May, with average highs of 42 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 10 °C. July is the wettest month (281 mm) and April the driest (3.8 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Kota averages 746 mm of rain and 324 days above 25 °C.

India · population 1,001,694 · 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 42 °C
Coldest month January 10 °C
Driest month April 4 mm
Wettest month July 281 mm
Least cloud November 15 % cloud
Hottest on record May 48 °C
Coldest on record January 3.7 °C

What to expectKota through the year

Kota has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 24 °C in January to 42 °C in May, a swing of 19 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 324 days a year reach 25 °C, 238 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 48 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 281 mm against 4 mm in April — 75 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	23.9 °C	8 mm	18 %
February	27.7 °C	6 mm	16 %
March	33.4 °C	5 mm	19 %
April	39.0 °C	4 mm	21 %
May	42.0 °C	5 mm	15 %
June	39.3 °C	73 mm	43 %
July	32.8 °C	281 mm	82 %
August	30.5 °C	251 mm	82 %
September	32.0 °C	90 mm	45 %
October	33.5 °C	13 mm	15 %
November	29.7 °C	7 mm	15 %
December	25.4 °C	4 mm	17 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	23.9 °C	10.2 °C	16.9 °C	32.4 °C	3.7 °C	11	1
February	27.7 °C	12.9 °C	20.3 °C	36.4 °C	5.0 °C	22	7
March	33.4 °C	18.1 °C	26.0 °C	41.6 °C	8.9 °C	31	25
April	39.0 °C	23.8 °C	31.8 °C	45.3 °C	14.9 °C	30	30
May	42.0 °C	28.7 °C	35.5 °C	47.8 °C	21.9 °C	31	31
June	39.3 °C	29.0 °C	34.0 °C	46.3 °C	23.9 °C	30	30
July	32.8 °C	26.2 °C	29.1 °C	43.6 °C	23.1 °C	31	25
August	30.5 °C	24.9 °C	27.4 °C	38.2 °C	22.6 °C	31	20
September	32.0 °C	23.9 °C	27.7 °C	39.2 °C	18.1 °C	30	24
October	33.5 °C	20.8 °C	27.1 °C	39.0 °C	14.8 °C	31	29
November	29.7 °C	16.3 °C	22.9 °C	36.2 °C	9.0 °C	29	14
December	25.4 °C	11.9 °C	18.4 °C	32.7 °C	3.9 °C	18	1

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	8 mm	1	11 h/day	18 %	55 %	11 km/h
February	6 mm	1	11 h/day	16 %	45 %	12 km/h
March	5 mm	1	12 h/day	19 %	32 %	13 km/h
April	4 mm	1	13 h/day	21 %	23 %	15 km/h
May	5 mm	2	13 h/day	15 %	25 %	19 km/h
June	73 mm	8	14 h/day	43 %	46 %	19 km/h
July	281 mm	19	14 h/day	82 %	73 %	17 km/h
August	251 mm	19	13 h/day	82 %	80 %	15 km/h
September	90 mm	9	12 h/day	45 %	71 %	13 km/h
October	13 mm	2	12 h/day	15 %	48 %	11 km/h
November	7 mm	1	11 h/day	15 %	47 %	10 km/h
December	4 mm	1	11 h/day	17 %	53 %	10 km/h

How Kota 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
Kota	42 °C	10 °C	746 mm	324
Tonk · India	41 °C	8.2 °C	596 mm	305
Bhilwara · India	40 °C	8.9 °C	621 mm	313
Guna · India	40 °C	10 °C	906 mm	310
Beāwar · India	39 °C	8.9 °C	468 mm	311

Where Kota ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in Asia in May	7th of 50	42 °C
The warmest places in the world in May	7th of 50	42 °C
Places with the best weather in Asia in January	16th of 50	96/100
The warmest places in Asia in April	20th of 50	39 °C
Places with the best weather in the world in January	25th of 50	96/100
The warmest places in the world in April	42nd of 50	39 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Kota’s climate

When is the best time to visit Kota?

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

How hot does Kota get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 42 °C. About 238 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 48 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 10 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Kota?

July, averaging 281 mm over 19 days with rain. The driest month is April with 4 mm. The year as a whole averages 746 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 Kota 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: 25.183°, 75.839° (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.