Rourkela climate

Name: Rourkela
Address: IN

Rourkela is warmest in May, with average highs of 39 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 13 °C. July is the wettest month (365 mm) and November the driest (9.3 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Rourkela averages 1,389 mm of rain and 341 days above 25 °C.

India · population 273,317 · 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 13 °C
Driest month November 9 mm
Wettest month July 365 mm
Least cloud February 18 % cloud
Hottest on record May 45 °C
Coldest on record December 6.8 °C

What to expectRourkela through the year

Rourkela has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 26 °C in January to 39 °C in May, a swing of 13 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 341 days a year reach 25 °C, 202 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 45 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 365 mm against 9 mm in November — 39 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	25.9 °C	21 mm	20 %
February	29.7 °C	14 mm	18 %
March	34.7 °C	22 mm	19 %
April	38.3 °C	27 mm	24 %
May	39.1 °C	42 mm	30 %
June	34.4 °C	253 mm	75 %
July	30.2 °C	365 mm	93 %
August	29.9 °C	332 mm	93 %
September	30.3 °C	220 mm	78 %
October	30.1 °C	70 mm	41 %
November	28.2 °C	9 mm	25 %
December	25.8 °C	13 mm	20 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	25.9 °C	12.6 °C	19.2 °C	34.0 °C	7.2 °C	19	1
February	29.7 °C	15.9 °C	22.8 °C	36.9 °C	9.3 °C	26	13
March	34.7 °C	20.1 °C	27.4 °C	42.6 °C	13.3 °C	31	29
April	38.3 °C	24.2 °C	31.2 °C	44.3 °C	17.5 °C	30	30
May	39.1 °C	26.4 °C	32.5 °C	45.4 °C	21.6 °C	31	31
June	34.4 °C	26.3 °C	29.9 °C	44.4 °C	22.4 °C	30	25
July	30.2 °C	24.7 °C	27.0 °C	36.3 °C	22.3 °C	31	18
August	29.9 °C	24.4 °C	26.6 °C	34.2 °C	22.7 °C	31	16
September	30.3 °C	24.0 °C	26.6 °C	34.0 °C	20.0 °C	30	19
October	30.1 °C	21.4 °C	25.5 °C	33.9 °C	14.3 °C	31	16
November	28.2 °C	17.1 °C	22.5 °C	32.5 °C	11.7 °C	29	3
December	25.8 °C	13.1 °C	19.3 °C	30.9 °C	6.8 °C	22	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	21 mm	2	11 h/day	20 %	60 %	9.3 km/h
February	14 mm	2	11 h/day	18 %	52 %	10 km/h
March	22 mm	4	12 h/day	19 %	44 %	12 km/h
April	27 mm	4	13 h/day	24 %	44 %	13 km/h
May	42 mm	7	13 h/day	30 %	52 %	13 km/h
June	253 mm	19	13 h/day	75 %	72 %	14 km/h
July	365 mm	27	13 h/day	93 %	86 %	13 km/h
August	332 mm	27	13 h/day	93 %	87 %	12 km/h
September	220 mm	21	12 h/day	78 %	85 %	10 km/h
October	70 mm	8	12 h/day	41 %	76 %	9.0 km/h
November	9 mm	1	11 h/day	25 %	66 %	8.7 km/h
December	13 mm	1	11 h/day	20 %	62 %	8.6 km/h

How Rourkela 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
Rourkela	39 °C	13 °C	1,389 mm	341
Sambalpur · India	40 °C	14 °C	1,478 mm	353
Ranchi · India	36 °C	9.9 °C	1,325 mm	276
Jamshedpur · India	38 °C	12 °C	1,255 mm	329
Raigarh · India	41 °C	13 °C	1,521 mm	350

Where Rourkela ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in Asia in April	47th of 50	38 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Rourkela’s climate

When is the best time to visit Rourkela?

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

How hot does Rourkela get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 39 °C. About 202 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 13 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Rourkela?

July, averaging 365 mm over 27 days with rain. The driest month is November with 9 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,389 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 Rourkela 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: 22.225°, 84.864° (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.