Mangaluru climate

Name: Mangaluru
Address: IN

Mangaluru is warmest in April, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 22 °C. July is the wettest month (651 mm) and February the driest (1.7 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Mangaluru averages 2,539 mm of rain and 363 days above 25 °C.

India · population 499,487 · 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 32 °C
Coldest month January 22 °C
Driest month February 2 mm
Wettest month July 651 mm
Least cloud February 22 % cloud
Hottest on record February 37 °C
Coldest on record January 18 °C
Warmest sea May 30 °C

What to expectMangaluru through the year

Mangaluru has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 31 °C in January to 32 °C in April, a swing of 3.8 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 363 days a year reach 25 °C, 176 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C, in February.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 651 mm against 2 mm in February — 388 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Mangaluru is warmest in May at 30 °C and coldest in August at 27 °C. Sea temperature lags the air by a month or two, which is why late summer swims warmer than early summer at the same air temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	31.0 °C	2 mm	27 %
February	31.5 °C	2 mm	22 %
March	32.1 °C	17 mm	29 %
April	32.3 °C	49 mm	46 %
May	31.2 °C	176 mm	70 %
June	27.8 °C	619 mm	92 %
July	26.9 °C	651 mm	95 %
August	26.9 °C	464 mm	92 %
September	27.7 °C	237 mm	84 %
October	28.7 °C	234 mm	74 %
November	30.0 °C	70 mm	58 %
December	30.8 °C	17 mm	40 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	31.0 °C	21.9 °C	26.2 °C	35.4 °C	17.6 °C	31	24
February	31.5 °C	22.9 °C	27.0 °C	37.3 °C	19.2 °C	28	26
March	32.1 °C	24.7 °C	28.2 °C	37.2 °C	20.1 °C	31	30
April	32.3 °C	26.1 °C	28.9 °C	34.9 °C	22.8 °C	30	29
May	31.2 °C	26.1 °C	28.4 °C	35.0 °C	23.5 °C	31	25
June	27.8 °C	24.8 °C	26.0 °C	33.3 °C	22.4 °C	30	2
July	26.9 °C	24.2 °C	25.2 °C	29.3 °C	22.4 °C	30	0
August	26.9 °C	23.9 °C	25.1 °C	29.5 °C	22.1 °C	30	0
September	27.7 °C	23.8 °C	25.6 °C	30.5 °C	21.9 °C	30	0
October	28.7 °C	23.9 °C	26.1 °C	33.1 °C	19.8 °C	31	4
November	30.0 °C	23.4 °C	26.5 °C	34.9 °C	18.5 °C	30	13
December	30.8 °C	22.2 °C	26.3 °C	35.1 °C	18.0 °C	31	23

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	2 mm	1	11 h/day	27 %	70 %	17 km/h	28.3 °C
February	2 mm	0	12 h/day	22 %	70 %	18 km/h	28.5 °C
March	17 mm	3	12 h/day	29 %	72 %	18 km/h	29.2 °C
April	49 mm	9	12 h/day	46 %	74 %	17 km/h	29.8 °C
May	176 mm	17	13 h/day	70 %	79 %	18 km/h	30.0 °C
June	619 mm	29	13 h/day	92 %	89 %	19 km/h	29.0 °C
July	651 mm	31	13 h/day	95 %	91 %	20 km/h	27.7 °C
August	464 mm	30	13 h/day	92 %	90 %	18 km/h	26.7 °C
September	237 mm	24	12 h/day	84 %	88 %	16 km/h	27.2 °C
October	234 mm	22	12 h/day	74 %	86 %	14 km/h	28.4 °C
November	70 mm	10	12 h/day	58 %	80 %	13 km/h	29.0 °C
December	17 mm	3	11 h/day	40 %	72 %	15 km/h	28.7 °C

How Mangaluru 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
Mangaluru	32 °C	22 °C	2,539 mm	363
Udupi · India	33 °C	21 °C	2,933 mm	362
Hassan · India	32 °C	14 °C	1,157 mm	257
Shivamogga · India	34 °C	17 °C	1,010 mm	329
Bhadrāvati · India	35 °C	18 °C	996 mm	329

Where Mangaluru ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in Asia in December	12th of 50	31 °C
The warmest places in Asia in January	27th of 50	31 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in Asia in March	35th of 50	29 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in Asia in April	37th of 50	30 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in the world in April	37th of 50	30 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in the world in March	44th of 50	29 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Mangaluru’s climate

When is the best time to visit Mangaluru?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. July, August, September 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 Mangaluru get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 176 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 22 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Mangaluru?

July, averaging 651 mm over 31 days with rain. The driest month is February with 2 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,539 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 Mangaluru 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: 12.917°, 74.856° (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.