Ratlām climate

Name: Ratlām
Address: IN

Ratlām is warmest in May, with average highs of 39 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 12 °C. July is the wettest month (342 mm) and April the driest (2.5 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Ratlām averages 984 mm of rain and 332 days above 25 °C.

India · population 264,914 · 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 January 12 °C
Driest month April 3 mm
Wettest month July 342 mm
Least cloud May 12 % cloud
Hottest on record May 45 °C
Coldest on record January 6.1 °C

What to expectRatlām through the year

Ratlām has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 25 °C in January to 39 °C in May, a swing of 14 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 332 days a year reach 25 °C, 175 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 45 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 342 mm against 3 mm in April — 137 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	25.5 °C	4 mm	16 %
February	28.3 °C	3 mm	13 %
March	33.1 °C	3 mm	15 %
April	37.3 °C	3 mm	16 %
May	38.7 °C	4 mm	12 %
June	34.7 °C	115 mm	55 %
July	28.5 °C	342 mm	91 %
August	27.2 °C	331 mm	91 %
September	29.0 °C	144 mm	60 %
October	31.4 °C	21 mm	23 %
November	29.4 °C	6 mm	18 %
December	26.5 °C	8 mm	18 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	25.5 °C	12.1 °C	18.5 °C	32.5 °C	6.1 °C	18	1
February	28.3 °C	14.3 °C	21.2 °C	35.2 °C	7.0 °C	25	9
March	33.1 °C	18.6 °C	26.0 °C	39.4 °C	10.9 °C	31	26
April	37.3 °C	22.9 °C	30.4 °C	42.5 °C	16.4 °C	30	30
May	38.7 °C	25.5 °C	32.2 °C	44.6 °C	21.0 °C	31	31
June	34.7 °C	25.2 °C	29.7 °C	43.9 °C	20.7 °C	30	26
July	28.5 °C	23.3 °C	25.5 °C	36.8 °C	20.7 °C	28	7
August	27.2 °C	22.6 °C	24.5 °C	32.1 °C	19.5 °C	27	1
September	29.0 °C	21.9 °C	25.1 °C	35.5 °C	17.3 °C	29	9
October	31.4 °C	19.8 °C	25.5 °C	35.9 °C	13.8 °C	31	24
November	29.4 °C	16.8 °C	22.9 °C	34.5 °C	10.4 °C	30	11
December	26.5 °C	13.3 °C	19.6 °C	31.6 °C	7.1 °C	24	1

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	4 mm	1	11 h/day	16 %	49 %	14 km/h
February	3 mm	1	11 h/day	13 %	41 %	15 km/h
March	3 mm	1	12 h/day	15 %	31 %	16 km/h
April	3 mm	1	13 h/day	16 %	26 %	17 km/h
May	4 mm	1	13 h/day	12 %	36 %	20 km/h
June	115 mm	10	14 h/day	55 %	61 %	20 km/h
July	342 mm	23	13 h/day	91 %	84 %	20 km/h
August	331 mm	24	13 h/day	91 %	88 %	18 km/h
September	144 mm	13	12 h/day	60 %	81 %	15 km/h
October	21 mm	3	12 h/day	23 %	55 %	12 km/h
November	6 mm	1	11 h/day	18 %	46 %	12 km/h
December	8 mm	1	11 h/day	18 %	48 %	13 km/h

How Ratlām 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
Ratlām	39 °C	12 °C	984 mm	332
Ujjain · India	39 °C	11 °C	933 mm	329
Indore · India	39 °C	12 °C	1,008 mm	333
Dewas · India	39 °C	11 °C	976 mm	327

Where Ratlām ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in Asia in April	39thof 50	2.5 mm
The driest places in Asia in March	41stof 50	3.1 mm

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Ratlām’s climate

When is the best time to visit Ratlām?

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

How hot does Ratlām get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 39 °C. About 175 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 45 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 12 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Ratlām?

July, averaging 342 mm over 23 days with rain. The driest month is April with 3 mm. The year as a whole averages 984 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 Ratlām 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
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.