Rajpur Sonarpur climate

Name: Rajpur Sonarpur
Address: IN

Rajpur Sonarpur is warmest in April, with average highs of 35 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 13 °C. July is the wettest month (361 mm) and December the driest (11 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Rajpur Sonarpur averages 1,665 mm of rain and 340 days above 25 °C.

India · 9 m elevation · population 424,368 · 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 35 °C
Coldest month January 13 °C
Driest month December 11 mm
Wettest month July 361 mm
Least cloud January 20 % cloud
Hottest on record May 41 °C
Coldest on record January 8.5 °C

What to expectRajpur Sonarpur through the year

Rajpur Sonarpur has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 25 °C in January to 35 °C in April, a swing of 11 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 340 days a year reach 25 °C, 214 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 41 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 361 mm against 11 mm in December — 32 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	25.2 °C	13 mm	20 %
February	28.8 °C	22 mm	21 %
March	33.2 °C	33 mm	25 %
April	35.1 °C	81 mm	34 %
May	34.8 °C	130 mm	48 %
June	32.6 °C	277 mm	82 %
July	31.0 °C	361 mm	94 %
August	30.8 °C	314 mm	93 %
September	30.7 °C	252 mm	83 %
October	30.2 °C	138 mm	49 %
November	28.5 °C	33 mm	29 %
December	25.9 °C	11 mm	22 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	25.2 °C	13.3 °C	19.1 °C	31.1 °C	8.5 °C	17	0
February	28.8 °C	16.8 °C	22.7 °C	36.7 °C	9.4 °C	26	9
March	33.2 °C	21.8 °C	27.2 °C	39.1 °C	13.9 °C	31	28
April	35.1 °C	25.4 °C	29.6 °C	41.0 °C	18.3 °C	30	29
May	34.8 °C	27.0 °C	30.3 °C	41.3 °C	22.1 °C	31	30
June	32.6 °C	26.9 °C	29.4 °C	40.8 °C	23.5 °C	30	26
July	31.0 °C	26.1 °C	28.1 °C	35.8 °C	24.1 °C	31	24
August	30.8 °C	25.8 °C	27.8 °C	34.1 °C	24.1 °C	31	23
September	30.7 °C	25.3 °C	27.6 °C	34.2 °C	20.8 °C	30	21
October	30.2 °C	23.1 °C	26.4 °C	33.6 °C	17.4 °C	31	19
November	28.5 °C	18.6 °C	23.5 °C	33.1 °C	12.3 °C	29	5
December	25.9 °C	14.5 °C	20.1 °C	30.4 °C	9.3 °C	23	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	13 mm	2	11 h/day	20 %	67 %	11 km/h
February	22 mm	3	11 h/day	21 %	66 %	11 km/h
March	33 mm	4	12 h/day	25 %	66 %	13 km/h
April	81 mm	9	13 h/day	34 %	72 %	16 km/h
May	130 mm	12	13 h/day	48 %	76 %	17 km/h
June	277 mm	22	14 h/day	82 %	83 %	17 km/h
July	361 mm	29	13 h/day	94 %	86 %	16 km/h
August	314 mm	29	13 h/day	93 %	87 %	15 km/h
September	252 mm	25	12 h/day	83 %	87 %	13 km/h
October	138 mm	13	12 h/day	49 %	83 %	9.8 km/h
November	33 mm	2	11 h/day	29 %	73 %	9.6 km/h
December	11 mm	1	11 h/day	22 %	68 %	10 km/h

How Rajpur Sonarpur 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
Rajpur Sonarpur	35 °C	13 °C	1,665 mm	340
Kolkata · India	35 °C	13 °C	1,616 mm	337
Uluberiya · India	36 °C	13 °C	1,542 mm	340
Shyamnagar · India	35 °C	13 °C	1,592 mm	335
Bhātpāra · India	36 °C	12 °C	1,613 mm	334
Naihāti · India	36 °C	12 °C	1,605 mm	334
Haldia · India	34 °C	14 °C	1,610 mm	339

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Rajpur Sonarpur.

QuestionsCommon questions about Rajpur Sonarpur’s climate

When is the best time to visit Rajpur Sonarpur?

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, April is the warmest month and December the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Rajpur Sonarpur get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 35 °C. About 214 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 41 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 13 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Rajpur Sonarpur?

July, averaging 361 mm over 29 days with rain. The driest month is December with 11 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,665 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 Rajpur Sonarpur 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: 22.438°, 88.432° , 9 m above sea level (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.