Nagpur climate

Name: Nagpur
Address: IN

Nagpur is warmest in May, with average highs of 42 °C, and coldest in December, when nights average 14 °C. July is the wettest month (356 mm) and December the driest (4.9 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Nagpur averages 1,119 mm of rain and 353 days above 25 °C.

India · population 2,405,665 · 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 May 42 °C
Coldest month December 14 °C
Driest month December 5 mm
Wettest month July 356 mm
Least cloud February 16 % cloud
Hottest on record May 47 °C
Coldest on record December 7.7 °C

What to expectNagpur through the year

Nagpur has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 27 °C in December to 42 °C in May, a swing of 15 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 353 days a year reach 25 °C, 217 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 47 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 356 mm against 5 mm in December — 73 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	27.4 °C	16 mm	20 %
February	30.8 °C	12 mm	16 %
March	35.3 °C	17 mm	18 %
April	39.6 °C	7 mm	20 %
May	41.7 °C	7 mm	24 %
June	35.9 °C	160 mm	69 %
July	29.9 °C	356 mm	93 %
August	28.9 °C	319 mm	92 %
September	30.4 °C	166 mm	73 %
October	31.1 °C	44 mm	36 %
November	29.4 °C	10 mm	23 %
December	27.4 °C	5 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	27.4 °C	14.3 °C	20.8 °C	34.4 °C	8.2 °C	26	4
February	30.8 °C	17.1 °C	23.9 °C	37.7 °C	9.9 °C	28	18
March	35.3 °C	21.1 °C	28.4 °C	41.8 °C	14.3 °C	31	30
April	39.6 °C	25.5 °C	32.8 °C	44.4 °C	18.8 °C	30	30
May	41.7 °C	29.4 °C	35.6 °C	46.7 °C	23.6 °C	31	31
June	35.9 °C	27.4 °C	31.4 °C	46.2 °C	22.9 °C	30	27
July	29.9 °C	24.5 °C	26.8 °C	39.0 °C	20.7 °C	30	16
August	28.9 °C	23.9 °C	26.0 °C	34.1 °C	21.1 °C	30	10
September	30.4 °C	23.5 °C	26.6 °C	36.0 °C	18.7 °C	30	18
October	31.1 °C	20.9 °C	25.9 °C	36.0 °C	15.2 °C	31	23
November	29.4 °C	17.3 °C	23.3 °C	33.3 °C	11.4 °C	30	10
December	27.4 °C	14.3 °C	20.8 °C	31.3 °C	7.7 °C	28	2

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	16 mm	2	11 h/day	20 %	53 %	11 km/h
February	12 mm	2	11 h/day	16 %	45 %	11 km/h
March	17 mm	2	12 h/day	18 %	36 %	12 km/h
April	7 mm	2	13 h/day	20 %	28 %	13 km/h
May	7 mm	2	13 h/day	24 %	27 %	17 km/h
June	160 mm	14	13 h/day	69 %	57 %	17 km/h
July	356 mm	24	13 h/day	93 %	80 %	17 km/h
August	319 mm	23	13 h/day	92 %	83 %	16 km/h
September	166 mm	16	12 h/day	73 %	79 %	12 km/h
October	44 mm	5	12 h/day	36 %	67 %	10 km/h
November	10 mm	2	11 h/day	23 %	58 %	9.7 km/h
December	5 mm	1	11 h/day	21 %	54 %	9.9 km/h

How Nagpur 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
Nagpur	42 °C	14 °C	1,119 mm	353
Chhindwāra · India	38 °C	12 °C	1,130 mm	312
Chānda · India	42 °C	16 °C	1,194 mm	361
Amravati · India	41 °C	14 °C	1,002 mm	354

Where Nagpur ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in Asia in April	5th of 50	40 °C
The warmest places in Asia in May	10th of 50	42 °C
The warmest places in the world in May	11th of 50	42 °C
The warmest places in the world in April	20th of 50	40 °C
The warmest places in Asia in March	48th of 50	35 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Nagpur’s climate

When is the best time to visit Nagpur?

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

How hot does Nagpur get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 42 °C. About 217 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 47 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 14 °C in December, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Nagpur?

July, averaging 356 mm over 24 days with rain. The driest month is December with 5 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,119 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 Nagpur 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: 21.146°, 79.085° (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.