Rājkot climate

Name: Rājkot
Address: IN

Rājkot is warmest in May, with average highs of 40 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 14 °C. July is the wettest month (213 mm) and December the driest (0.5 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Rājkot averages 655 mm of rain and 357 days above 25 °C.

India · population 1,390,640 · 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 40 °C
Coldest month January 14 °C
Driest month December 0 mm
Wettest month July 213 mm
Least cloud February 12 % cloud
Hottest on record May 44 °C
Coldest on record February 6.7 °C

What to expectRājkot through the year

Rājkot has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 27 °C in January to 40 °C in May, a swing of 11 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 357 days a year reach 25 °C, 262 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 44 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 213 mm against 0 mm in December — 463 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	27.3 °C	1 mm	13 %
February	30.0 °C	1 mm	12 %
March	34.4 °C	1 mm	14 %
April	38.0 °C	1 mm	15 %
May	39.5 °C	2 mm	15 %
June	36.4 °C	99 mm	54 %
July	31.4 °C	213 mm	86 %
August	30.1 °C	194 mm	85 %
September	31.4 °C	122 mm	56 %
October	33.9 °C	17 mm	22 %
November	31.9 °C	4 mm	16 %
December	28.6 °C	under 1 mm	16 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	27.3 °C	13.6 °C	20.1 °C	34.4 °C	7.1 °C	26	4
February	30.0 °C	15.3 °C	22.4 °C	36.8 °C	6.7 °C	27	13
March	34.4 °C	18.9 °C	26.4 °C	41.4 °C	12.3 °C	31	29
April	38.0 °C	22.1 °C	29.6 °C	43.2 °C	17.2 °C	30	30
May	39.5 °C	24.8 °C	31.3 °C	43.6 °C	19.4 °C	31	31
June	36.4 °C	26.5 °C	30.6 °C	42.8 °C	23.2 °C	30	29
July	31.4 °C	25.6 °C	28.0 °C	39.5 °C	23.4 °C	31	23
August	30.1 °C	24.7 °C	26.9 °C	35.5 °C	22.4 °C	31	17
September	31.4 °C	23.6 °C	27.1 °C	37.5 °C	19.6 °C	30	22
October	33.9 °C	22.1 °C	27.7 °C	39.3 °C	17.6 °C	31	30
November	31.9 °C	19.1 °C	25.2 °C	35.8 °C	13.6 °C	30	25
December	28.6 °C	15.2 °C	21.5 °C	33.5 °C	8.4 °C	29	8

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	1 mm	0	11 h/day	13 %	46 %	13 km/h
February	1 mm	0	11 h/day	12 %	44 %	13 km/h
March	1 mm	0	12 h/day	14 %	42 %	15 km/h
April	1 mm	0	13 h/day	15 %	47 %	17 km/h
May	2 mm	0	13 h/day	15 %	55 %	21 km/h
June	99 mm	7	13 h/day	54 %	66 %	21 km/h
July	213 mm	15	13 h/day	86 %	78 %	21 km/h
August	194 mm	15	13 h/day	85 %	81 %	19 km/h
September	122 mm	8	12 h/day	56 %	77 %	15 km/h
October	17 mm	3	12 h/day	22 %	57 %	12 km/h
November	4 mm	1	11 h/day	16 %	44 %	12 km/h
December	under 1 mm	0	11 h/day	16 %	45 %	12 km/h

How Rājkot 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
Rājkot	40 °C	14 °C	655 mm	357
Morvi · India	39 °C	13 °C	606 mm	357
Jamnagar · India	36 °C	15 °C	645 mm	354
Jūnāgadh · India	38 °C	14 °C	715 mm	360
Surendranagar · India	41 °C	14 °C	648 mm	359
Gāndhīdhām · India	38 °C	14 °C	511 mm	353

Where Rājkot ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in Asia in December	5th of 50	0.5 mm
The driest places in Asia in January	5th of 50	0.6 mm
The driest places in Asia in March	10th of 50	0.7 mm
The driest places in Asia in April	16th of 50	0.8 mm
The driest places in Asia in February	16th of 50	0.6 mm
The warmest places in Asia in November	20th of 50	32 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Rājkot’s climate

When is the best time to visit Rājkot?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. January, February, 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 Rājkot get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 40 °C. About 262 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 44 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

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

Which month is wettest in Rājkot?

July, averaging 213 mm over 15 days with rain. The driest month is December with 0 mm. The year as a whole averages 655 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 Rājkot 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: 22.292°, 70.793° (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.