Rāichūr climate

Name: Rāichūr
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Rāichūr is warmest in May, with average highs of 39 °C, and coldest in December, when nights average 18 °C. September is the wettest month (143 mm) and February the driest (3.9 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Rāichūr averages 730 mm of rain and 362 days above 25 °C.

India · population 234,073 · 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 39 °C
Coldest month December 18 °C
Driest month February 4 mm
Wettest month September 143 mm
Least cloud February 18 % cloud
Hottest on record May 43 °C
Coldest on record December 12 °C

What to expectRāichūr through the year

Rāichūr has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 29 °C in December to 39 °C in May, a swing of 9.2 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 362 days a year reach 25 °C, 260 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 43 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. September averages 143 mm against 4 mm in February — 37 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	30.2 °C	7 mm	25 %
February	32.8 °C	4 mm	18 %
March	36.0 °C	7 mm	20 %
April	38.0 °C	12 mm	28 %
May	38.5 °C	27 mm	44 %
June	33.5 °C	115 mm	82 %
July	30.9 °C	136 mm	93 %
August	30.0 °C	143 mm	92 %
September	30.3 °C	143 mm	82 %
October	30.4 °C	106 mm	61 %
November	30.0 °C	24 mm	45 %
December	29.5 °C	6 mm	34 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	30.2 °C	17.9 °C	23.9 °C	34.1 °C	12.4 °C	31	17
February	32.8 °C	19.8 °C	26.2 °C	37.4 °C	14.1 °C	28	27
March	36.0 °C	23.1 °C	29.6 °C	40.3 °C	15.7 °C	31	31
April	38.0 °C	26.0 °C	32.0 °C	42.2 °C	18.6 °C	30	30
May	38.5 °C	27.3 °C	32.7 °C	43.0 °C	21.6 °C	31	31
June	33.5 °C	24.9 °C	28.7 °C	42.8 °C	22.0 °C	30	27
July	30.9 °C	23.8 °C	26.8 °C	37.4 °C	21.8 °C	31	21
August	30.0 °C	23.3 °C	26.2 °C	36.0 °C	21.3 °C	30	17
September	30.3 °C	23.0 °C	26.3 °C	36.5 °C	20.6 °C	30	16
October	30.4 °C	21.7 °C	25.8 °C	36.9 °C	15.9 °C	31	18
November	30.0 °C	19.6 °C	24.8 °C	34.6 °C	13.4 °C	29	15
December	29.5 °C	17.6 °C	23.4 °C	34.4 °C	12.1 °C	31	10

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	7 mm	1	11 h/day	25 %	52 %	13 km/h
February	4 mm	0	12 h/day	18 %	44 %	13 km/h
March	7 mm	1	12 h/day	20 %	38 %	14 km/h
April	12 mm	2	13 h/day	28 %	38 %	15 km/h
May	27 mm	5	13 h/day	44 %	42 %	19 km/h
June	115 mm	16	13 h/day	82 %	64 %	22 km/h
July	136 mm	19	13 h/day	93 %	70 %	23 km/h
August	143 mm	18	13 h/day	92 %	73 %	21 km/h
September	143 mm	15	12 h/day	82 %	73 %	16 km/h
October	106 mm	11	12 h/day	61 %	71 %	13 km/h
November	24 mm	4	11 h/day	45 %	62 %	13 km/h
December	6 mm	1	11 h/day	34 %	56 %	13 km/h

How Rāichūr 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
Rāichūr	39 °C	18 °C	730 mm	362
Adoni · India	38 °C	18 °C	661 mm	363
Kurnool · India	39 °C	18 °C	684 mm	364
Mahbūbnagar · India	38 °C	17 °C	789 mm	358
Ballari · India	38 °C	17 °C	582 mm	362

Where Rāichūr ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in Asia in March	21st of 50	36 °C
The warmest places in Asia in February	31st of 50	33 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Rāichūr’s climate

When is the best time to visit Rāichūr?

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

How hot does Rāichūr get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 39 °C. About 260 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 43 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 18 °C in December, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Rāichūr?

September, averaging 143 mm over 15 days with rain. The driest month is February with 4 mm. The year as a whole averages 730 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 Rāichūr 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: 16.205°, 77.356° (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.